Chords for How To Play AFRICA Toto On Guitar Lesson COMPLETE Song Tutorial @EricBlackmonGuitar

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ _ _ [B] I hear the [D#m] drum, [G#] drum.
Hi, and welcome to my tutorial on how to play Africa by Toto.
We're in standard tuning and we're not using a capo for this one.
_ If you need to learn the chords, go to chord tutorial number 134 on this channel and I'll
show you the chords with tabs.
_ We're going to start the song by repeating this little chord progression.
[A] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _
_ _ _ _ Now what's going to have to happen there is we're [A] going to have to go to an A and _ _ _ [G#]
then
to an _ [G#m] Abm7 and _ then [F] a [C#m] Dbm7, _ _ like that. _
Now the funny thing about this is when we get to [F#] the Dbm7, we're going to have to play
that for five beats.
[Fm] So it's like this.
[A] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ _ Three, four, [A] five.
_ _ _ [C#m] _ _ Two, three, four, [A] five. _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ Two, three, four, [G#] five.
We're going to play that for four times and then we're going to move into the song.
[B] And we're going to start [A] with a B chord.
_ [C#m] _
_ _ _ _ [B] I hear the drum, drum.
When [G#] we move into the verses, most of the chords are going to be strummed for two beats.
But we're only going to strum each chord just once. _ _
The first chord is B.
_ [B] _ _ _ [F#] Then we're going to go to Gb _ and then [G#m]
Abm7.
_ _ _ _ [A] Then we'll move to A at the fifth fret, _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [C#m] Dbm7 and then back [G] to Abm7 [G#m] _ and then [C] back into the
intro verse part.
[A] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [C#m] _ _
[B] _ _ Into the verse again.
[N] So what we've got there is _ B for two beats, _ [F#]
Gb for two beats, _ [G#m] _ Abm7 for four beats.
_ [A] A, two [C#m] beats, _ Dbm7 for two beats, _ _ Abm7 for two beats [A] and then start _ _ [C#m] _ _
[B] _ _ _ that [F] verse again.
So it goes something like this.
_ _ [B] One, two, [F#]
three, four.
[G#m] One, two, three, [A] four.
One, two, [C#m] three, [G#m] four.
One, [A] two, one. _ _ _
[B] _ And that will be repeated [G] until we go to the chorus.
Just before we go into the chorus, the last verse is going to go like this.
[B] She turned to me as [G#] if to [G#m] say, hurry [A] boy, it's raining after [C#m] you.
_ _ _ Just [D] before we go into the chorus, the last verse [B] will go like this.
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ [G#m] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G#m] _ _ Hurry boy, [A] _ she's_
[C#m] _ _ _ Three, four, [F#m] five.
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ Which [E] _ _ [G#] is [F#m] going to be F sharp minor, [D] D, [A] _ A, [E] E.
We're going to play that [G#] three times.
Okay, so [F#m] it goes like this.
F sharp minor, [D] D, _ [A] A, _ [E]
E.
[F#m] F sharp minor, [D] _ _ [A] _
A, [E] D.
_ [F#m] _ _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ _ [E] On the fourth time [F#m] around, [D] F sharp minor, D, _ [A] A, [G#m] C sharp minor, _
[E] E, [F#m] F sharp minor, [G#] G sharp [A] and then A. You _ [C#m] _ _ _ see?
[G#] So we did the same progression three times.
On the fourth time around, we went to F sharp minor, _ [D] D, _ [A] _ A, [C#m] C sharp minor seven, [E] _ E, _ [F#m] F sharp minor seven, G sharp, [A] then A.
_ _ [C#m] _ _ _
Just like that.
[E] So what we had to do to get out of that was [F#m]
went_
[G#] _ _ [A] _ And that was [F#m] F sharp minor seven to that G sharp fourth fret, [F#] low E string.
So when we got to the F sharp [G] minor, you have to strike the chord [F#m] and [A#] then go [G#] to G sharp, fourth fret, low E string and [A] then to your A to get back into your_
_ _ _ [G#m] _
[C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[N] _ Alright, if you can get these parts nailed down, you can play that song.
That's Africa by Toto.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day. _ _ _ _