Chords for BEATLES' YESTERDAY Jazz Fingerstyle Guitar Arrangement Lesson Demo

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_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _
_ [B] _ [Db] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [F] _ _ _ [D] _ [F] _ _ [G] _
_ [C] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [E] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [G] _
_ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
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_ [Eb] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [F] _ _
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[Ab] _ _ [Db] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Ab] _
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[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ [Em] _
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_ [Am] _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] _
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_ [Abm] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ [Em] _ _ [Dm] _ [Db] _ _ _ [C] _
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[F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
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[Fm] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
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_ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [C] Hi there.
I want to [E] show you my arrangement of Yesterday.
Now this [Am] song needs no introduction.
Everybody in the world has heard [Em] it several times.
[Db] I've heard it's the [C] Beatles' most [Ab] [Am] valuable copyright.
[D] _ _ _ [F]
Now the song [C] is just a beautiful song, you know, it was just [E] guitar.
Paul did it in the key of F, although he tuned his guitar down a whole step so [Am] he could use G [E] chords.
[Db] I think that's how [D] it goes.
_ [F] That's the story.
_ [C] But you [Db] know, [C] F didn't seem to work [Ab] out [B] in _ reharmonizing it and [Bm] playing it on [Am] solo guitar.
[Fm] So I'm putting, at [C] least for me anyways, so I put [E] it in the key of_
C.
Now if you can do [Em] some of it in [Am] F it'd be wonderful [Em] to go [G] back and forth between
the [F] two keys.
[G] _ _ _ [C] _ I found though, when I was arranging [Bm] this that, and I've [E] played this song for years,
[Am]
and [G] there's certain [C] things I ended up doing to [G] it just over the years and I thought I'd
better write them [Ab] down sometime.
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But one of the things [Em] is there's a fine line [C] between [C] playing it [E] _ _ _ straight and jazzing it up.
It's so easy to jazz it up [Am] and it's like a little too much, it [Db] doesn't sound right.
[Dm] You want to keep [G] that original [Em] beauty [Db] too.
[C] But on the other hand, [Ab] when it's [Am] not jazzed up I [D] kind of find it's a little [C] boring.
_ I hear other guitar arrangements [E] of it and it's like, [Am] boy I'd like to hear some other [Em] chords here.
[C] So that's what [G] I did, [C] kind of a reharmonization, but I don't think it's too [B] _ [E] over the top.
_ [Am] _
[G] _ _ [C] But anyway, it's a fun [G] arrangement and I think it'll [Dm] take your listeners [B] by ear [Ab] and it's
just a good [Bb] tune to know, you've got to know it.
So let's get into [Abm] the first measure.
[C] Here we go.
We're starting off the first measure with a C major 9, _ _
_ [E] _ _ [C] _ _ just like [E] that.
_ Coming [C] down here and grabbing that C and then we've got a [Am] C6.
_ [E] And this second finger [A] is barring across these [C] two. _ _ _
And then we're playing a little [B] riff here.
So it's a [A] B hammer to [G] an A, _ [F] G, F, hammer, [E] _ pull off.
So it's like, you want to play it real fast.
_ _ _ _ And then _ next for measure two [B] we've got an E _ _ sus4, so I've got a B and an A, _ _
_ [E] a B _ and
an E. _
_ _ [B] _ _ And that little finger comes up and grabs that F [E] sharp.
_ [Bm] _ [E] Then to a G [F] sharp diminished, _ little [E] finger moves up, _ _ _ _ _ B diminished on the seventh fret,
little finger [E] comes up. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ Let's play that in time. _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
Measure three, [Am] we're up here in the fifth fret, A minor 9.
_ _ _ And then I've got an A.
_ Then I'm going to play that open there.
[A] _
Now this little finger is going to come up here on the ninth fret of the D string [Am] and
I've got this C here and we're just going to go like this.
_ [C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
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