Chords for Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are [EASY Ukulele Tutorial] - Chords - How To Play

Hey there, welcome to Uke and Uke and today I'm going to teach you how to play the song
Just the Way You Are by Bruno Mars.
So grab your ukulele, make sure it's in the standard tuning of
[Eb] GCEA, [C] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ and let's get cracking.
So today we're going to actually play the song in the original key of
the recording, which is F major.
So in order to play Just the Way You Are, we need to know three
chords, and those chords are F major, [F] _ _ D minor, _ [Bb] _ and Bb major. _
_ Now if you already know how to play
these chords, that's awesome, and what I would do is skip ahead to the later portion of this video.
Now the [Ab] first chord that we're going to learn is F major.
To play that, you're going to take your
first finger and press on the second string of the first fret, then take your second finger and
press down on the fourth string of the second fret.
This is F [F] major.
_ _ The next chord we're going
to learn is D minor.
Now to play D minor, it's just [Dm] like playing the F major chord, but now you're
going to add your third finger onto the third string of the second fret.
This is D minor. _
_ And the third chord is going to be Bb major.
What you're going to do is you're going to take
your first finger, press down on the second string of the first fret, take your second finger,
press down on the first string of the [G] first fret, then take your third [Bb] finger, press down on the
third string of the second fret, and finally your fourth finger is going to press down on the fourth
string of the third fret.
This is Bb. _ _ _ _
[F] Now the chord progression for this song is actually really
simple because it repeats through the entire song.
So the chord progression is F for eight
counts, D minor for eight [Bb] counts, Bb for eight counts, and [F] then F major again for another eight
counts.
Let's try it, shall we?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, [Dm] 8.
N1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
N2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
[F] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ [Am] _
_ _ _ 1, 2, [Bb] 3, 4, 5, _ _ 6, 7, 8.
1, 2, 3, [Eb] 4, [D] 5, 6, [F] 7, 8.
1, 2, [D] 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Now let's learn the strumming pattern for this song.
It's just down, tap, down, tap.
Down, tap, down, tap.
Down, tap, down, tap.
Down, tap, down, tap.
And here's what it [F] sounds like with the chord.
Down, tap, down, tap.
Down, tap, down, tap.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Down, tap, down, tap.
Down, tap, down, tap.
Tap, down, tap, down, tap, down, tap, down, tap.
[G] Now if you struggle to switch chords, especially in this chord progression, you're going to
have an easy time with this strumming pattern because on every fourth [Eb] tap, you're going
to switch the chord.
[F] It should look something like this.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, [Dm] switch.
One, [Bb] two, three, four, five, six, seven, switch.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, [F] switch.
One, two, three, four, five, stay on the F.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, [Dm] switch.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, switch.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, [F] switch.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Great.
Let's take everything that we've learned now and let's try and play and sing just the way you are _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I think the stars look like they're [Dm] not shining her hair her hair falls perfectly without [Bb] her trying
She's so beautiful
_ And I tell [F] her every day _
_ _ _ Yeah, I know I know when I compliment her she [Dm] won't believe me
It's so it's so sad to think that she don't see [Bb] what I see but every time she asked me do I look okay [F] I say _ _ _
When I see your face _ _
_ There's [Dm] not a thing that I would change
Cuz [Bb] you're amazing _
Just the way [F] you are _ _
_ And when you _ smile _
_ Oh, [Dm] what stops it stands for wow cuz [Bb] you're amazing _
Just the way [F] you are _ _
_ The way you are _ _
The [Dm] way you are _ _ _
_ [Bb] Cuz you're _ amazing _
Just the way you [F] _ are _ _
Yeah
_ _ Obviously I didn't play through the whole song for [N] two reasons one because it's pretty repetitive in nature and two because I personally think
I don't have the greatest falsetto voice in the world and I don't make you suffer through that
But that's okay
If you want to play through the entire song of just the way you are
Then I would suggest to go into the description box below
Click on the link and you'll have access to the whole chord chart.
There you have it
That's how you play just the way you are by Bruin and Lars again.
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