Chords for Words Of Love Guitar Lesson Preview - Buddy Holly
Tempo:
128 bpm
Chords used:
A
D
E
G#m
C#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[A]
[D] [A]
[D] [A]
[D] [A] [G]
[A] [D] [A]
[D] [E] [A]
[E] [D] [E] [A]
[D] [E] [A]
[E] [D] [A] [E]
[A] Another [E] classic from Buddy Holly.
This is Words of Love that came [N] out really on his
second album in 1958 called Buddy Holly.
He was of course playing with his band, The Crickets,
who inspired The Beatles a few years later.
Actually, right around this time, John Lennon
was listening to this cool stuff.
It was new at the time.
And by the time The Beatles put
out their fourth album for sale, they had to cover this.
And John wanted to do it exactly
like Buddy.
So if that sounded familiar and you haven't heard much of Buddy Holly, The
Beatles did this exactly, well, as close as they could to the way Buddy did it.
Which
is what I just did there.
As close as I could to the way Buddy did it.
So what we have is
a very, a relatively simple song.
A couple of chords.
It's a three chord song.
A very
popular thing here at Total Guitars.
Keep the chords, keep the songs to, don't play
more than three chords.
You don't need them.
Some songs only have one or two.
Anyway, in
Words of Love we have a very [A] simple chord progression.
A, [D] D, [E] E.
[A] Four beats of A, [D] two
[E] beats of D, [A] two beats of E.
One, two, three, four.
With [N] just some nice little embellishments.
The D chord is picked out with a little [D] arpeggio.
Or, [B] or, [D] just, [E] it kind of doesn't matter too,
too much.
And the E chord, when it's played instrumentally, is done a couple of different
ways.
It's also done sometimes with a little [C#m] run rather than arpeggio.
[E] [A] If you get a little
more [D] sound.
[E] [A]
[D] [E] Now I never quite did that because I was trying to, [G#m] when I played it through
just a couple minutes ago, I was trying to keep it as sparse as Buddy played it.
But
you could get a little bit more rhythm in it since we're doing this without bass [N] and
drums and sometimes without a second guitar, which he was doing as well.
So, anyway.
And
then there's a [A] short little lead that [D]
[E] [A] [F#m] we'll also take a look at.
[G#m] So, you probably already
have the lesson down by now, or the [N] song, but I'm going to talk about a few of the things
a little bit more specifically in the next section or two.
I don't think we need much
of a left hand look or much of a right hand look, so we're really just going to break
it down talking about the chord progression first and then taking a little more specific
look at the tabs.
So coming up, some segments on Buddy Holly's Words of Love.
That was the first segment in a short lesson I put together [G] on Buddy Holly's tune, [N] of course,
Words of Love from 1958.
And of course, covered by the Beatles.
Oh, I mentioned all that.
Never mind.
You don't want to hear it again.
But it's up now as a lesson as part of our
Target program at Totally Guitars, and this song is [C#] really simple.
So, [A] you just need to
play an A chord for four beats [D] and a D chord [E] for two and an E chord for [Bm] two, and you can
get through the whole song.
You can dress it up a little [N] bit and play the D to E change
the way Buddy really did it, but you can barely hear this, and that is when he went
to the D chord [A] of the fourth fret, sorry, on the second fret [E] in the second measure,
he slid [A] into it from a fret below, in the first fret, [C#] [D] and then did the same thing sliding
from the third to [B] the fourth to get the E chord.
[E]
Now, if that's all you hear, it [A] seems
weird.
[C#]
[D] [D#] [E] [A] [N] But, if there were, especially if there were a bass player behind me and I was singing
and this was a little [A] softer, [C#] [D] [D#] [C#m]
[A] [N] you'd barely notice it.
So, that's what's happening.
That's
the way he really plays it, and of course he plays this cool little [D] run later.
[A] [E] [A] [N] So, anyway,
in the lesson we take a look at all of that.
There is a tablature and a chart that comes
with it.
[G#m] You don't really need the chart because I just told you it goes A for four beats,
D for two, and E for two.
But, also in the tab, we've got the lead written out.
We go
into pretty great detail as far as [D] how, [E]
[A] [C#m] [Em] as to what's happening [G#m] there and why those pairs
of notes are important [G#] and how he came up with them and how they're related to the chords.
Gets a little theoretical, maybe a bit much for a song this simple, but it works for me.
Anyway, along with great songs like this and a bunch of, and a few other Buddy Holly tunes
and all kinds of other great things, there are some easy free lessons.
Not all of them
are free lessons.
So, to get you started, if you're not quite sure what all is happening
in the Target program, I think there's over 50 now in the free lesson section.
So, be
sure to check that out.
They're also here at YouTube in our TG Free Lessons channel.
But if there's tablature or charts that come along with them, you've got to come to the
site to pick those up because that's where we had to attach them.
Anyway, right now though,
Words of Love is up and available at Totally Guitarist.
[D] [A]
[D] [A]
[D] [A] [G]
[A] [D] [A]
[D] [E] [A]
[E] [D] [E] [A]
[D] [E] [A]
[E] [D] [A] [E]
[A] Another [E] classic from Buddy Holly.
This is Words of Love that came [N] out really on his
second album in 1958 called Buddy Holly.
He was of course playing with his band, The Crickets,
who inspired The Beatles a few years later.
Actually, right around this time, John Lennon
was listening to this cool stuff.
It was new at the time.
And by the time The Beatles put
out their fourth album for sale, they had to cover this.
And John wanted to do it exactly
like Buddy.
So if that sounded familiar and you haven't heard much of Buddy Holly, The
Beatles did this exactly, well, as close as they could to the way Buddy did it.
Which
is what I just did there.
As close as I could to the way Buddy did it.
So what we have is
a very, a relatively simple song.
A couple of chords.
It's a three chord song.
A very
popular thing here at Total Guitars.
Keep the chords, keep the songs to, don't play
more than three chords.
You don't need them.
Some songs only have one or two.
Anyway, in
Words of Love we have a very [A] simple chord progression.
A, [D] D, [E] E.
[A] Four beats of A, [D] two
[E] beats of D, [A] two beats of E.
One, two, three, four.
With [N] just some nice little embellishments.
The D chord is picked out with a little [D] arpeggio.
Or, [B] or, [D] just, [E] it kind of doesn't matter too,
too much.
And the E chord, when it's played instrumentally, is done a couple of different
ways.
It's also done sometimes with a little [C#m] run rather than arpeggio.
[E] [A] If you get a little
more [D] sound.
[E] [A]
[D] [E] Now I never quite did that because I was trying to, [G#m] when I played it through
just a couple minutes ago, I was trying to keep it as sparse as Buddy played it.
But
you could get a little bit more rhythm in it since we're doing this without bass [N] and
drums and sometimes without a second guitar, which he was doing as well.
So, anyway.
And
then there's a [A] short little lead that [D]
[E] [A] [F#m] we'll also take a look at.
[G#m] So, you probably already
have the lesson down by now, or the [N] song, but I'm going to talk about a few of the things
a little bit more specifically in the next section or two.
I don't think we need much
of a left hand look or much of a right hand look, so we're really just going to break
it down talking about the chord progression first and then taking a little more specific
look at the tabs.
So coming up, some segments on Buddy Holly's Words of Love.
That was the first segment in a short lesson I put together [G] on Buddy Holly's tune, [N] of course,
Words of Love from 1958.
And of course, covered by the Beatles.
Oh, I mentioned all that.
Never mind.
You don't want to hear it again.
But it's up now as a lesson as part of our
Target program at Totally Guitars, and this song is [C#] really simple.
So, [A] you just need to
play an A chord for four beats [D] and a D chord [E] for two and an E chord for [Bm] two, and you can
get through the whole song.
You can dress it up a little [N] bit and play the D to E change
the way Buddy really did it, but you can barely hear this, and that is when he went
to the D chord [A] of the fourth fret, sorry, on the second fret [E] in the second measure,
he slid [A] into it from a fret below, in the first fret, [C#] [D] and then did the same thing sliding
from the third to [B] the fourth to get the E chord.
[E]
Now, if that's all you hear, it [A] seems
weird.
[C#]
[D] [D#] [E] [A] [N] But, if there were, especially if there were a bass player behind me and I was singing
and this was a little [A] softer, [C#] [D] [D#] [C#m]
[A] [N] you'd barely notice it.
So, that's what's happening.
That's
the way he really plays it, and of course he plays this cool little [D] run later.
[A] [E] [A] [N] So, anyway,
in the lesson we take a look at all of that.
There is a tablature and a chart that comes
with it.
[G#m] You don't really need the chart because I just told you it goes A for four beats,
D for two, and E for two.
But, also in the tab, we've got the lead written out.
We go
into pretty great detail as far as [D] how, [E]
[A] [C#m] [Em] as to what's happening [G#m] there and why those pairs
of notes are important [G#] and how he came up with them and how they're related to the chords.
Gets a little theoretical, maybe a bit much for a song this simple, but it works for me.
Anyway, along with great songs like this and a bunch of, and a few other Buddy Holly tunes
and all kinds of other great things, there are some easy free lessons.
Not all of them
are free lessons.
So, to get you started, if you're not quite sure what all is happening
in the Target program, I think there's over 50 now in the free lesson section.
So, be
sure to check that out.
They're also here at YouTube in our TG Free Lessons channel.
But if there's tablature or charts that come along with them, you've got to come to the
site to pick those up because that's where we had to attach them.
Anyway, right now though,
Words of Love is up and available at Totally Guitarist.
Key:
A
D
E
G#m
C#
A
D
E
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _
_ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
_ _ [E] _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
_ _ [E] _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
[A] _ _ _ _ Another [E] classic from Buddy Holly.
This is Words of Love that came [N] out really on his
second album in 1958 called Buddy Holly.
He was of course playing with his band, The Crickets,
who inspired The Beatles a few years later.
Actually, right around this time, John Lennon
was listening to this cool stuff.
It was new at the time.
And by the time The Beatles put
out their fourth album for sale, they had to cover this.
And John wanted to do it exactly
like Buddy.
So if that sounded familiar and you haven't heard much of Buddy Holly, The
Beatles did this exactly, well, as close as they could to the way Buddy did it.
Which
is what I just did there.
As close as I could to the way Buddy did it.
So what we have is
a very, a relatively simple song.
A couple of chords.
It's a three chord song.
A very
popular thing here at Total Guitars.
Keep the chords, keep the songs to, _ don't play
more than three chords.
You don't need them.
Some songs only have one or two.
Anyway, in
Words of Love we have a very [A] simple chord progression.
A, _ _ [D] D, [E] E.
[A] Four beats of A, [D] two
[E] beats of D, [A] two beats of E.
One, two, three, four.
With [N] just some nice little _ embellishments.
The D chord is picked out with a little [D] arpeggio.
_ _ Or, _ _ [B] or, [D] _ just, [E] it kind of doesn't matter too,
too much.
And the E chord, when it's played instrumentally, is done a couple of different
ways.
It's also done sometimes with a little [C#m] run rather than arpeggio.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ If you get a little
more [D] sound.
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [E] _ Now I never quite did that because I was trying to, [G#m] when I played it through
just a couple minutes ago, I was trying to keep it as sparse as Buddy played it.
But
you could get a little bit more rhythm in it since we're doing this without bass [N] and
drums and sometimes without a second guitar, which he was doing as well.
So, anyway.
And
then there's a [A] short little lead that [D] _ _
_ [E] _ [A] _ _ [F#m] we'll also take a look at.
[G#m] So, you probably already
have the lesson down by now, or the [N] song, but I'm going to talk about a few of the things
a little bit more specifically in the next section or two.
I don't think we need much
of a left hand look or much of a right hand look, so we're really just going to break
it down talking about the chord progression first and then taking a little more specific
look at the tabs.
So coming up, some segments on Buddy Holly's Words of Love.
_ _ That was the first segment in a short lesson I put together [G] on Buddy Holly's tune, [N] of course,
Words of Love from 1958.
And of course, covered by the Beatles.
Oh, I mentioned all that.
Never mind.
You don't want to hear it again.
But it's up now as a lesson as part of our
Target program at Totally Guitars, and this song is [C#] really simple.
So, [A] you just need to
play an A chord for four beats [D] and a D chord [E] for two and an E chord for [Bm] two, and you can
get through the whole song.
You can dress it up a little [N] bit and play the D to E change
the way Buddy really did it, but you can barely hear this, and that is when he went
to the D chord [A] of the fourth fret, _ _ _ sorry, on the second fret [E] in the second measure,
he slid [A] into it from a fret below, in the first fret, [C#] _ [D] _ and then did the same thing sliding
from the third to [B] the fourth to get the E chord.
[E] _ _
Now, if that's all you hear, it [A] seems
weird.
_ _ _ [C#] _
[D] _ [D#] _ [E] _ _ [A] _ [N] But, if there were, especially if there were a bass player behind me and I was singing
and this was a little [A] softer, _ _ _ [C#] _ [D] _ [D#] _ [C#m] _
_ [A] _ [N] you'd barely notice it.
So, that's what's happening.
That's
the way he really plays it, and of course he plays this cool little [D] run later.
_ [A] _ [E] _ [A] _ [N] So, anyway,
in the lesson we take a look at all of that.
There is a tablature and a chart that comes
with it.
[G#m] You don't really need the chart because I just told you it goes A for four beats,
D for two, and E for two.
But, also in the tab, we've got the lead written out.
We go
into pretty great detail as far as [D] how, _ [E] _ _
[A] _ [C#m] _ _ _ [Em] as to what's happening [G#m] there and why those pairs
of notes are important [G#] and how he came up with them and how they're related to the chords.
Gets a little theoretical, maybe a bit much for a song this simple, but it works for me.
Anyway, along with great songs like this and a bunch of, and a few other Buddy Holly tunes
and all kinds of other great things, there are some easy free lessons.
Not all of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ them
are free lessons.
So, to get you started, if you're not quite sure what all is happening
in the Target program, I think there's over 50 now in the free lesson section.
So, be
sure to check that out.
They're also here at YouTube in our TG Free Lessons channel.
_ But if there's tablature or charts that come along with them, you've got to come to the
site to pick those up because that's where we had to attach them.
Anyway, right now though,
Words of Love is up and available at Totally Guitarist. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _
_ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
_ _ [E] _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
_ _ [E] _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
[A] _ _ _ _ Another [E] classic from Buddy Holly.
This is Words of Love that came [N] out really on his
second album in 1958 called Buddy Holly.
He was of course playing with his band, The Crickets,
who inspired The Beatles a few years later.
Actually, right around this time, John Lennon
was listening to this cool stuff.
It was new at the time.
And by the time The Beatles put
out their fourth album for sale, they had to cover this.
And John wanted to do it exactly
like Buddy.
So if that sounded familiar and you haven't heard much of Buddy Holly, The
Beatles did this exactly, well, as close as they could to the way Buddy did it.
Which
is what I just did there.
As close as I could to the way Buddy did it.
So what we have is
a very, a relatively simple song.
A couple of chords.
It's a three chord song.
A very
popular thing here at Total Guitars.
Keep the chords, keep the songs to, _ don't play
more than three chords.
You don't need them.
Some songs only have one or two.
Anyway, in
Words of Love we have a very [A] simple chord progression.
A, _ _ [D] D, [E] E.
[A] Four beats of A, [D] two
[E] beats of D, [A] two beats of E.
One, two, three, four.
With [N] just some nice little _ embellishments.
The D chord is picked out with a little [D] arpeggio.
_ _ Or, _ _ [B] or, [D] _ just, [E] it kind of doesn't matter too,
too much.
And the E chord, when it's played instrumentally, is done a couple of different
ways.
It's also done sometimes with a little [C#m] run rather than arpeggio.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ If you get a little
more [D] sound.
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [E] _ Now I never quite did that because I was trying to, [G#m] when I played it through
just a couple minutes ago, I was trying to keep it as sparse as Buddy played it.
But
you could get a little bit more rhythm in it since we're doing this without bass [N] and
drums and sometimes without a second guitar, which he was doing as well.
So, anyway.
And
then there's a [A] short little lead that [D] _ _
_ [E] _ [A] _ _ [F#m] we'll also take a look at.
[G#m] So, you probably already
have the lesson down by now, or the [N] song, but I'm going to talk about a few of the things
a little bit more specifically in the next section or two.
I don't think we need much
of a left hand look or much of a right hand look, so we're really just going to break
it down talking about the chord progression first and then taking a little more specific
look at the tabs.
So coming up, some segments on Buddy Holly's Words of Love.
_ _ That was the first segment in a short lesson I put together [G] on Buddy Holly's tune, [N] of course,
Words of Love from 1958.
And of course, covered by the Beatles.
Oh, I mentioned all that.
Never mind.
You don't want to hear it again.
But it's up now as a lesson as part of our
Target program at Totally Guitars, and this song is [C#] really simple.
So, [A] you just need to
play an A chord for four beats [D] and a D chord [E] for two and an E chord for [Bm] two, and you can
get through the whole song.
You can dress it up a little [N] bit and play the D to E change
the way Buddy really did it, but you can barely hear this, and that is when he went
to the D chord [A] of the fourth fret, _ _ _ sorry, on the second fret [E] in the second measure,
he slid [A] into it from a fret below, in the first fret, [C#] _ [D] _ and then did the same thing sliding
from the third to [B] the fourth to get the E chord.
[E] _ _
Now, if that's all you hear, it [A] seems
weird.
_ _ _ [C#] _
[D] _ [D#] _ [E] _ _ [A] _ [N] But, if there were, especially if there were a bass player behind me and I was singing
and this was a little [A] softer, _ _ _ [C#] _ [D] _ [D#] _ [C#m] _
_ [A] _ [N] you'd barely notice it.
So, that's what's happening.
That's
the way he really plays it, and of course he plays this cool little [D] run later.
_ [A] _ [E] _ [A] _ [N] So, anyway,
in the lesson we take a look at all of that.
There is a tablature and a chart that comes
with it.
[G#m] You don't really need the chart because I just told you it goes A for four beats,
D for two, and E for two.
But, also in the tab, we've got the lead written out.
We go
into pretty great detail as far as [D] how, _ [E] _ _
[A] _ [C#m] _ _ _ [Em] as to what's happening [G#m] there and why those pairs
of notes are important [G#] and how he came up with them and how they're related to the chords.
Gets a little theoretical, maybe a bit much for a song this simple, but it works for me.
Anyway, along with great songs like this and a bunch of, and a few other Buddy Holly tunes
and all kinds of other great things, there are some easy free lessons.
Not all of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ them
are free lessons.
So, to get you started, if you're not quite sure what all is happening
in the Target program, I think there's over 50 now in the free lesson section.
So, be
sure to check that out.
They're also here at YouTube in our TG Free Lessons channel.
_ But if there's tablature or charts that come along with them, you've got to come to the
site to pick those up because that's where we had to attach them.
Anyway, right now though,
Words of Love is up and available at Totally Guitarist. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _