Chords for How to play 'One' by U2

[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ Hi guys, Shane here with you.
This is Guitar at Work.
Welcome back.
This is our song One
by U2.
Beautiful piece, beautiful piece indeed.
_ All we're going to need to do on this is a
strumming pattern.
There's not a whole lot to that, assuming you're okay with your chords
here.
Let's sketch these chords here first.
We've got A minor, _ guy there.
We've done a
few songs with him in it, that's for sure.
_ Now Dsus2, I'll call it a little specialty
chord here.
It's D minus your second finger, so that high E string is [D] open.
So I like to
finger that just like it's a D and just really remove that finger.
I don't have a specialty
fingering for that.
You don't want one of those, so that would be D minus the second
finger.
There you go.
And F [Am] major 7th, I think you'll like this.
If you've been struggling
with your F chord, which a lot of us do in the very beginning, F, you don't have to bar
him, you stand him up.
It's starting to resemble a C there, just on a couple of different strings.
So here, F major 7th like that.
Just an F, you don't have to bar that top string. _
_ We
you go.
And so in case you don't notice this, the A minor, the top voice in the A minor,
the top string here, top note here _ is that open E.
And when you go to [D] Dsus2, _ [Am] _ it's the
same note.
F major _ 7th _ like that.
It's the same note, so that same note is being reharmonized
with those three chords.
It kind of glues it together.
It's beautiful.
[G] Head into a G
at that point, no problem there.
And we're going to see a C chord [C] later on.
_ [Cm] And I believe
that is it.
That's it for chords in there.
_ [A] I'm going to sit on the A minor chord and
talk about our strumming pattern here.
You're seeing that on the right hand side of your
first page.
Bass, down, and then a bracket of stuff, up down, up down, another bracket,
up down, up.
So what is that?
It's going bass.
Now when I say bass, I'm referring to the
lowest available note in the chord.
You'll remember that A minor has no, excuse me, A
minor has one X in there, one X.
So this guy is out of bounds.
So we start our strum here
on the A string.
So I'm going to isolate him.
Call it a bass note, bass, _ then a [Am] downstroke.
_ Now when you do isolate bass like we're doing here, you don't [A] generally hit him again when
you're doing [Am] a strum.
It's not the end of the world if you do, [A] but you try to avoid
it.
It keeps it clean, keeps it separate.
So your bass note and a [Am] strum like that, and
then up, down, up, down, a little pause, up, down, up.
We try to group those brackets in
a certain way where you'll recognize [A] where the pauses will be.
So I'm going to go, here's
the whole thing, A minor, three, four, bass, _ [Am] down, up, down, up, down, and then up, down,
up.
So in time a little quicker, so go three, four, going bass, down, up, down, up, down,
up, down, up, bass, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, bass, down, up, down, up, down,
up, down.
It's got a nice sort of swing to it.
[A] You're noticing probably that my right
hand can't help but go down.
It has to do something in those rests, meaning when you're
waiting after the bass note, you've got a significant amount of time there to waste
waiting.
You don't just want to sit there [Am] like that and then hit.
It doesn't feel musical.
So I'm [Abm] trying to feel this _ all the time, bass, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, bass,
down, up, down, up, down, up, down.
[A] But I'm not hitting the guitar on all those.
It looks
this way.
Bass, [Am] down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, bass, down, up, down, up, down,
up, down.
And it used to help me to do things like this, bass, down, up, down, up, down,
a chick, up, down, a bass.
Chick, down, up, down, up, down, chick, up, down.
So chick
being a down, a being an up.
So bass, chicka, down, up, down, up, down, chicka, up, down,
up.
Bass, chicka, down, up, down, up, down, chicka, up, down, up.
That feels infinitely
more musical than waiting.
Bass, _ down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up.
Yeah, we've
all [A] got a good sense of rhythm.
It's just a matter of you feeling those subdivisions
that you're not actually attacking on, meaning hitting the guitar.
That can be the [N] tricky
part.
But this guy, as so often does, he just going down, up, down, up, down, up,
and then when do we actually activate or hit that guitar there.
[F] So if I take it through
those chords really slowly here, three, [Em] four, A minor, [A] bass, [Am] chicka, down, _ _ Dsus2 coming,
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ F major 7, [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
G, [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
A minor, _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] Dsus2, _ _ _ _ _ F major [F] 7, _ _ _ _ _ G.
[G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Great, there we go.
So I guess I'll just
[Em] call that the verse section chorus coming our way here now, which is that we're going
to have a C chord going on, same right hand pattern.
And I should mention too, that prominently
in the guitar, the electric guitarist featured that electric guitar.
If we're kind of trying
to emulate that, it wouldn't hold up very well just on the acoustic all alone.
So we're
kind of backing up that electric player here.
Here's a C chord, three and a [Eb] four [C] going,
bass, chicka, down, up, down, up, down, A minor, [Am] _
_ _ down, _ F major 7, [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
C, [C] _ _ _ _ 9, Dsus2, F major
7, another C coming, _ _ bass, chicka, down, A minor here, _ [Am] _ _ _ down, up, down, up, down, F major
7, [F] _ down, _ C here.
_ [C] _ _ _ _
Now back to the main riff, [Am] A minor, _ _ _ _ _ _ Dsus2, [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ F major [F] 7, _ _ _ there's a G coming,
[G] _ _ _ _
_ there we go.
And I [A] should mention, like I have in previous songs that do this bass thing
here, it's not the end of the world if you hit a couple of strings.
You don't have to
just isolate that one [Am] note, that you could hit a couple, it just means not a full strum.
_ _ That _ sounds a little bit stiff maybe is a good way to put it.
So with that in mind,
just kind of stab it at those bass notes, not trying to be surgical.
That doesn't feel
musical so I'm just going to stab at it.
_ _ D, [D] _ _
_ _ _ F major [F] 7, _ _ _ G, [G] _ _ _ _ _
and certainly if you feel
a flourish at the end of the bar, if you feel [Am] one coming on, feel _ _ [D] _ _
free _ _ _ to throw that in.
Depends what the singer is doing, try not to step on that singer, [A] they hate that.
So
always fun, that was one by you too, I hope it helped and keep on practicing.
The guitar
is very much in the right hand so try to nail that pattern down and we'll see you for the
next video.
Cheers, bye bye [Am] now. _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
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