Chords for "LIKE REAL PEOPLE DO" HOZIER - Acoustic Guitar Tutorial (Part 1) W/TABS!

because I had to watch two videos to see how he pronounced it.
So here.
I'm losing you.
I'm losing you.
This song is like real people do.
And this is a very interesting fingerstyle song.
If you watched the song, if you watched any of the videos,
you will see a very unusual technique.
He plays most of the song with these two fingers.
We would call that in fingerstyle your P and your M finger,
or your thumb and middle.
And he leaves his index finger out.
_ _ [E] _ So he strikes the strings in this unusual manner,
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ which is unlike anything I've ever seen before.
I am fairly tolerant of students when they play certain right and left hand fingerings,
unless I feel it's going to interfere with their technique.
On first glance, I would think that this [C] finger position would,
but for him it doesn't.
And I feel that, you know, if you want to play it that way, that's fine.
I may do a little [F] of both.
I'll try to do the whole thing his way if [G] I can.
If not, I'll do the traditional.
[D] My thumb middle, and then [C] go to my ring finger or A finger.
This song is not capo.
Of course, it's a somewhat [Ab] lower voice,
so if you are a female, you're going to want to learn the song,
and then [A] eventually play it capo.
I think a good middle ground for [Bb] capo would be fret 3.
_ _ [Cm] _ [Bb] _ _ [Fm] But for now, [Bb] just for the sake of learning,
I'm going to [G] stay in an open position. _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] Okay, so I'm going to leave my index finger out, like I said earlier,
[N] and see if that works for me.
I don't think I've played it yet that way, the whole way.
Being that the intro is a little tricky,
I'm actually going to start with the verse. _ _ _ _
A very unusual thing about this song is
there's really only one bass note played the whole way,
until we get to the end.
[G] It's going to be a G,
which is 3rd fret 6th string,
and it's going to repeat like this throughout just about the entire song. _ _ _ _
Now, make sure that when you're striking with your thumb,
that you're getting a positive contact with the string.
Do not do rest stroke, which would be_
you don't want the bass to be [G] too loud.
What you're going to do, _ _ like that.
The guitar melody part happens to follow the melody of the song,
so I should say easier to play.
[Bb] So the first thing [Em] we have,
get used to playing two notes at a time.
Remember, if you want to do _ thumb and index, it's fine.
I'm doing thumb and middle.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
For every melody note, there's one bass note.
[Em] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ One thing I did not do, if you notice on my left hand,
I did [F] not go to more traditional old school [E] G fingering.
I went to 2nd position and put my 2nd finger on the lower G,
so that you can play all of the licks in a more comfortable position.
Especially once we get to the [A] intro, _
[G] and start doing the slurs.
Then it's going to be easier to slur that way,
than it [Gb] would be like this.
You don't want to deal with this, believe me.
For the melody, we have on the top,
I'm just going to use my middle finger.
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[E] It's a very simple melody, it's almost folk-like.
Now if [Em] you add the bass to it,
[G] _
_ _ _ _ _ I'm going to stop there,
[C] because there's a little tricky rhythm in there.
_ _ _ You're hitting a G, and then an upper G, 3rd string open. _ _ _
_ It's syncopated.
_ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [F] So let me play the first half of the verse.
[G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] Let me do it again.
[G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] The ending's a little tricky.
[G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gb] If we want to go to the last 4 sounds we have,
[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] _ I think these are things that are at the very, very core of these ideas,
that undermines what it is to be a human being. _ _
_ I'm Josue, and_
I recommend that you take this song in small pieces and memorize it.
And the only way you're going to memorize it,
and sometimes students don't want to do this,
is to repeat, or loop, sections over and over and over.
One or two times is not a loop.
A loop needs to be done over and over and over again,
until you have it memorized.
So let's just take the very beginning.
[G] _ _
[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ Then you can start to add a little bit of velocity, or speed. _
_ What you can do is, after the [G] first 4 [Em] sounds,
[G] 1, 2, 3, [E] 4,
then you [G] can do the little_
[E] Then you have about 1 4th of the first half of the verse.
Make sense?
1 half.
Wait, 1 4th of the first half.
I'm Josue.
_ [G] _ _
_ _ [Am] Okay, now let's move on.
[G] _ _
_ _ _ _ You can do it over and over again.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _