![]() Plain White T’s are a power pop band from Chicago. Plus there are a few tricky chord changes that, once you’ve gotten them into your fingers, can give you a lot of confidence for trickier ones that you’ll undoubtedly come across at some point in your guitar lives. ![]() As a song lesson, this tune gives us a chance to develop some picking techniques that will be very helpful to beginners whether they use fingers or picks. As long as one doesn’t get frustrated in the attempt, it almost always yields positive results, although those results may be a bit down the road.Īnd that bring us to this Guitar Noise song lesson, Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T’s. This is one reason why I always encourage students to reach out and try songs and techniques that might be currently beyond their levels. There’s a cool flip side to this – when you start playing what some of you may consider to be “Intermediates” songs, they may prove to be nowhere near as difficult as you may have thought them to be. And some that may seem beyond one’s grasp may come fairly quickly with a little bit of (gasp!) practice and work. Some people pick up on some techniques and ideas faster than others it stands to reason that some “Beginners” lessons will be harder for some people than others. I guess the upshot of all this, big surprise, is that some things a beginner goes through are going to be harder than others. The songs are usually, in fact, delivery vehicles for the use of music theory or various guitar techniques that you are encouraged to use in all your playing. In other words, what distinguishes one beginner from another is often a matter of personality rather than of the label of “beginner.” Further ReadingĪnd if you have read any of our “Easy Songs for Beginners” lessons here at Guitar Noise, you have hopefully learned (or at least strongly suspected) that we would like you to learn things besides the songs being taught in these lessons. Others will take a single basic principle and then come up with all sorts of insights on their own. Some beginners need to be shown everything. And each one learns to play in his or her own particular way. ![]() So aside from that, there’s not much else to this song.There are, literally, millions if not hundreds of millions of people who at one point in time are beginners at musical instruments, say, like the guitar. If you’d like more help with fingerstyle, I have an entire course dedicated to it. And at the same time, we’re doing upstrokes with our forefinger. We’re hitting bass notes with our thumb, keeping a solid beat going. Speaking of the fingerpicking pattern, it’s a really unique one. There are a couple of spots where we adjust the bass notes on the chords, but that has more to do with the picking pattern than the actual shapes. The chords used in this one are D, G, A and Bm. ![]() you’ll see what I mean □ Hey There Delilah Chords: ![]() It’s halfway between strumming and plucking. Aside from that, it’s smooth sailing! The fingerpicking is really cool, too. The chords are pretty simple – if you watch the music video you can see the only difficult chord he plays is the B minor barre chord. Welcome to my Hey There Delilah Guitar Tutorial, by Plain White T’s. ![]()
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