Chords for 🎸 Remember Me • Easy fingerstyle cover w/ tabs ("Coco" duet / reunion)

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Hey friends, how's it going here?
This is David Potts with SongNotes.
In _ [N]
this video, a little bit of a lesson, a little bit of a talkthrough, a little bit
of just a cover here.
So what I did was play the fantastic song, Remember Me.
This is from the movie Coco, which if you haven't seen and you like music and like guitar,
I totally recommend if you like movies.
_ Great stuff, really great music in it.
And this song in particular is fantastic.
There's really like three different versions of this song on the soundtrack, played by
different characters with different _ vibes, so to speak.
And what I just played there, the tabs I just did, are sort of an arrangement that I put
together based on a lot of different versions that I watched people play on YouTube.
It's also based on me listening to the soundtrack versions many, many times.
And it's also based on my skill level.
And what I mean by that is there's some definite riffs and flourishes that you hear in the
actual soundtrack version of this that I just [Gb] can't play with my current skill set, at least
with, you know, not without weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and
weeks of practice, which, you know, maybe I'll come back to this song.
But I really wanted to sort of put this video together and the version I just did to sort
of show like, here's sort of my skill right now.
And [N] here's a version that sort of fits what I can do right now in a semi-comfortable way.
You know, I still think there are parts of this arrangement that are sort of, I'm kind
of like faking my way through, if you know what I mean.
Other parts I feel more comfortable with.
But I wanted to put this out there.
I _ probably, you know, I've been playing this last couple weeks.
In reality, I'm not going to be playing this song forever.
I'm probably, you know, going to put it down and make way for some other stuff.
But before I did that, I wanted to record this and get this sort of tab out there, get
this video out there to show you how I did it.
Now, I'm not going to really walk through and teach this right now.
If you do want me to do that, please let me know.
And I will take that into account and maybe do a video one day where I sort of break down
everything I do in this sort of version and talk about how to practice it.
But just a few high-level notes, okay?
Look online.
If you want to learn this song, look online, watch people's covers of it, and watch people's
lessons of it.
Watch a lot of them.
See how they do it.
Keep track of the ones that, you know, speak to you and resonate with you and that sound
good to you and just sort of use those as references.
That's what I did.
I made a notes file.
I saved the YouTube videos that I really enjoyed.
This one in particular, this one guy made a fantastic _ PDF _ fingerstyle tab.
That's probably the closest _ reference point that I'm using to my version here.
Some of the stuff he's doing, I just can't do.
For example, a lot of the versions of this will have this chord where you have your pinky
on the fourth _ fret of the sixth [G] string and then you're kind of barring the [Ab] second, third,
and fourth strings. _ _
_ _ Okay?
They're doing that for the second [Db] chord in the song, right?
So remember [C] me, _ though [Ab] I have to say goodbye.
[Bb] And I can technically [Gm] play that, but it's just like, it's really hard for me.
It's not comfortable to do.
And there's also some [D] flourish notes, like _ _ _ [Gb] hitting that note with that chord and having
that down there.
It's just kind of hard, right?
So I kind of faked it and made this version up here where I'm going like, [D] _ _ _ okay.
Now that's like [C] a very sort of _ sneaky kind of creeping around the _ way that it's properly
played [Gb] version of it.
I'm not pretending this is how it's played on [Abm] the soundtrack.
[D] _ _ _ That's my sort of way of having [Ab] that G sharp be [Bm] the first note you play and blah, blah,
blah, blah, right?
So I've seen [C] some folks use this chord for that second [Fm] chord of the song, for [Ab] example.
You know, fourth fret, fifth fret, sixth fret, fifth fret.
This is a chord too where I could technically [Gb] play it, but like [C] switching from a C to that
chord and back to a C, really difficult for me.
And it also just like the sound it gives wasn't, [D] I don't know, it's not what I really want
when I play this on fingerstyle.
So that's sort of the story of that first couple [C] measures, right?
Where you go from the C [Gb] _
to _ [D] my sort of like, just bastardized little finger picking [F] pattern
there [N] to make it sort of fake my way around it, right?
There's a few other things like that.
I mean, that I'm sort of doing.
There's a lot of times where you [F] have the, [B] play in a low bass note and then you're [Cm] sliding
up to the [Bm] eighth and tenth [E] fret.
[Gbm] Those slides I [Fm] have trouble with, so I basically [C] omitted some of those key bass notes.
And especially in the last couple measures, you'll notice that _ some of those characteristic
bass notes are missing from my version.
So again, I'm not pretending this is the most correct version and I'm not pretending this
is, you know, sort of note for note what you [Bb] hear in either of the soundtrack versions.
But again, if you're watching this [N] far, I trust you found this somewhat helpful.
And again, this is not the typical style of video I do.
Usually I will give very, you know, detailed lessons where I break things down very carefully.
But for this one, I just wanted to be very honest and talk about how _ this is sort of,
you know, me stretching myself into a realm of a style of play that I'm not used to.
And it was fun to do that.
But _ _ yeah, I'm not really sure I want to do a lesson for where I am with it just yet.
But enough talk.
I'm going to leave you here.
Thank you very much for watching.
Let me know in the comment, you know, how you're doing, what questions you have, any
challenges you have with this song.
I would love to learn more of this style of music.
It makes me want to buy a classical guitar with nylon strings.
It makes me want to learn some other songs from this album and some other songs of this style.
And I can't wait to watch the movie again.
But it's going to be it for today.
Check out my website, playsongnotes.com.
You can find the tabs for what I played earlier in this video on the website.
You can print them out and all kinds of resources there for all my other lessons.
But this has been David Potts.
Thank you very much for watching.
I want you to pick up that guitar and play.
Have fun with it.
Try new things.
Learn.
And, you know, it's a great thing, music [Gb] and playing it.
So I'll leave it at that.
Have a great night.
Bye bye.
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