so this is a song by Benny King called stand by me and we're gonna do this song
in the key of a which means the chords were going to need are a D E and F sharp
minor now if you don't know Barre chords I mean this is supposed to be a simple song and
Barre chords sometimes are not that simple so if you don't know the F sharp
minor Barre chord hey that's not a problem if you know an a major chord I
can give you a simple solution to that so that you can play this song from the
beginning to the end because that's what goal with these simple songs playing
from the beginning to the end all the way through so if you know an a major
chord that's the one where all the fingers sit on the second fret all you
have to do is move all three of those fingers to the bottom three strings so
you're gonna have a finger on the 3rd 2nd and 1st strings at the 1st fret and
I just want you to play the bottom three strings
it's not as nice as the full bar chord but it's gonna work for now to get you
through the songs so that's an easy fix for an F sharp minor chord if you don't
know what it is or you can't play bar chords yeah so take an E major chord
which is this board right here and move everything down to the first so sorry
third second in 1st strings at the second fret you've got an f-sharp minor
chord so this song is fairly repetitive it has an eighth measure chord
progression so what's that mean well that means we're gonna play eight
measures of music some of those chords are gonna play twice some of they're
going to play once so the first two measures of this song are a major
the next two measures of this cord aren't f-sharp minor it's pretty easy so
two measures of A two measures of f-sharp minor followed by a measure of D
that's D as in dog e and then two more measures of it so we're gonna be playing
a lot of A's in this song so if I go through the whole thing so if you want
to write that down the intro the verse the chorus all of them are two days two
best shot minors one D chord one e chord and two A's at the end so I'm gonna play
this for you we're gonna do four strums per chord keep it simple it's gonna
sound like this so we've got
your F sharp minor too jacques rynhard
four and eight
me
I'm sure minor two three four
in two three four and A two
that's it that's the entire saw the entire song from beginning to end is
made up of eight measures of music that just keep repeating over and over again
so it's gonna sound like this if we if I start with the verse I'm gonna skip the
intro I'll start with the verse here so I'm gonna do a verse and chorus for you
just four strums per chord we're gonna start with that double a at the
beginning at the first measure so here it is two three four when the bags
like we
and then just keeps repeating that over and over again until you get to the end
at the end of the Sun you're gonna want to the song is in the key of a so there
you go that's stand by me by Benny King another one of my simple songs that I
like to teach guitar students and the reason is again it's very repetitive
it's something that's easy to memorize so you'll have to keep your eyes on the
paper unless of course you want to sing and you don't know the lyrics but for
the most part you can watch your guitar and what you're doing and make
improvements to your playing that way so there you go
Benny King stand by me practice hard and I hope that you pick it up quickly and
just in case you want a little bit more of an intricate strumming pattern for
this you can use let's see we could do like a sixteenth note rhythm pattern
down down down
down
that's my way or you can just have a few extra up strums or you can also do the
very fun and down-up up-down-up
maybe some of the streamers very much
a very common strumming pattern so the rhythm is 1 2 and + 4 and if that sounds
like French to you don't worry about it but that is another strength having you
can use
down down
so there you go there's a couple extra little starting patterns if you want to
spice things up and make it a little bit more complicated