Chords for Easy Guitar Songs For Beginners - Stand By Me

Hey everyone, welcome back to Swift Guitar Lessons.
Today I'm putting together a quick
demonstration of Stand By Me played in the key of G.
This has been transposed to this
key just to [G] make it a little bit more beginner friendly, but it can easily be put back into
the original key of A by putting the capo up on the second fret.
Let's get started.
Okay so this song is very easy, just four chords.
We need a G, that's our I chord.
We
need [Em] an E minor, _ which is our VI.
_ [C] We need a C chord, which we can call IV, okay, four
notes away from the I.
[D] And then we need a D major, our V.
And this represents thousands
[Eb] of really popular songs.
Our strumming pattern, we're going to do strum, [G] chuck, strum, chuck.
Okay, and by the chuck I mean a little slap of the strings.
So we're going to do, strum,
slap, strum, slap, strum, slap, strum, [Em] slap, twice on the G chord, then the E minor, strum,
slap, strum, slap, strum, slap, strum, slap.
[C] Now we're going to cut that in half on the
D chord, so only one set of strum, slap, strum, slap. _ _ _
Move it on [D] the D, _ _ [G] and back to
the G chord. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
And that's the progression in its entirety.
Notice how it begins with G
and ends with G.
Okay, then looping back around, we're going to have to do another set of G
chords, so it's going to seem like you're on G for a long time, actually 16 beats.
So
let's give that a try. _
Here _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ we go.
G, _ _ _ _ _ to the G minor, [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ to the [C] C chord, _ _ D [D] chord, _ back
to G.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _
Alright, so that's a very popular guitar rhythm, one that we call the R&B strumming
pattern.
Now that you've got your chords down, and your strumming pattern, we're ready to
play this song.
Let's get started.
_ Alright, here we go, nice and slow.
One, two, three.
When the night _ has come, _
_ _ [Em] _ and the land is dark, and the wind is blowing, and the stars are
blue, _ [C] and the moon _ [D] is the only _ [G] light to see, _ _ _ no I won't _ be afraid, no [Em] I won't be afraid,
_ [C] just as long [D] as you stand, stand [G] by me.
Chorus.
So darling, darling, stand _ by me, oh now,
[Em] _ _ stand by me, _ _ [C] stand now, _ [D] _
stand by [G] me, stand by me.
_ If the sky _ that we look upon _ [Em] _ should
tumble and fall, [C] and the mountains, [D] they should crumble [G] unto the sea, _ _ _ _ I won't cry, I won't
_ cry, no [Em] I won't shed a tear, just [C] as long _ [D] as you stand, stand [G] by me.
Chorus.
So darling,
darling, stand _ by me, oh [Em] now, now, _ stand by me, _ [C] stand now, _ _ [D] _
stand by [G] me, stand by me.
If
the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall, and the mountains, they should crumble
unto the sea, I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand, _ stand by _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ me.
Chorus.
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