Chords for How to play Simple Man - easy chords version!

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[G] _ _ _ _ I'm breaking down an easy version of the song Simple Man by Leonard Stannard, covered
a little more recently by Shinedown.
We're only going to have three chords.
They're going to be [Bb] a G, so a 3-2-open-open-3-3, or an O-3 at the bottom, high strings if you
want that, but that's the G I'm using.
A D with an [A] F-sharp root, so it'll be [F] a 2-open-open-2-3-2, and [G] then an E minor chord, so it'll be an open-2 [Gm]-2-open-open-open.
_ [D] Capo on the third fret.
And I kind of put together this version a few years ago when I started [Db] doing covers
and stuff and playing gigs, but I didn't really have the vocal range for this.
So this is like a really good, kind of like easy, sort of lazy way to play this song.
I like it a lot.
I still do it, even though I can kind of sing the original.
I like this version better.
It's just easier to play.
So those are the chords.
[Bb] We're going to have a pattern, just going to be a G to [F] the D, [Gm] _ E minor. _ _
_ [Bb] That just repeats, [F] _ really the whole [Gm] song.
_ _ [Bb] And the strumming pattern is just going to be a down, down-up [F]-down-up-down, down [Gm]-up-down-up-down,
_ _ down-up-down-up-down, [Bb] down-up-down-up-down, down-up [F]-down-up-down, down [Gm]-up-down-up-down,
down-up-down-up-down.
[D] Something like that works perfectly fine.
Really simple stuff.
For the intro, all I'm doing is arpeggiating each chord.
So I'm just like playing them individually.
And this is optional.
You don't have to do this.
You [G] can just jump right into chords and play chords the whole time, but I use this for
the intro and then kind of the fillers for like between the verses and choruses and stuff.
So what I'm doing is I'm walking up for the beginning.
I'm walking up to the G root on your D chord
from a low E, from the open E.
So [A] open, [Bb] two, three.
I'm gonna lay my finger down [B] on the second fret
of the A [G] string, but I'm gonna play the D string.
[A] _ [Bb] _ _
_ Then come back down on each string.
And then I'm gonna go up to the G, _
_ _ grab that, come back up, and then go [G] down again.
[A] _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ That picking pattern, I use that for each chord.
[G] So [A]
[Bb] I'm gonna walk up. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And then for the D chord, all I really do for the D
is I just put down the _ second fret on the low E
and [D] the second fret on the G [G] string
because I don't need the rest of the chord.
So from the G, _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
same picking pattern.
So I'm [Cm] starting with the lowest note [A] again.
And then I'm going right to [F] the D string,
skipping the A, coming back to the A, low E.
G string, D, A, D. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] And then the E chord, same thing for the E minor. _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ Except when we get to this part,
I have to kind of pull it out
because this chord lasts twice as long
as the other two chords.
So what I end up doing is I go to [C] the next string down,
which is the B string, and I use the whole guitar
for the E minor chord because it lasts longer.
And in the intro, the original kind of sounds more like
he's playing around with different notes [G] in there.
So what I do to compensate for that
is I use the whole guitar.
So here it is in its entirety.
_ _ _ [Gm] _ Going down to the B string, coming back up,
stay here, and then grab the high E.
_ And then it would walk back in [Bb] to [Ab] the G string,
to the G chord.
So the E minor, [G] once again, open,
_ same picking [Gm] pattern we did before.
_ But now I grab the B string and come back down
and dance on the G and the D. _
And then grab the high E, B string, and walk back in.
[Bb] _ _ _ [F] That's it right there.
So that's the intro.
And you can throw that in between the verses
and the choruses and stuff too.
And that's really it for this song.
I mean, it's really simple.
This is kind of an addendum to my last video
where I break down like three super easy
acoustic guitar covers.
Click here if you haven't seen that.
This is basically the fourth in that list
because it kind of follows all the same criteria
as those songs.
But yeah, that's really it.
So you play the intro in the introduction
[G] of the song, obviously.
And then you can stick it between the verses
and the choruses and stuff.
So that's really it.
Just have fun with the song.
Let me know what you think.
If you need me to clear up anything,
I can maybe talk to you in the comments.
Thanks for watching and