Chords for How to Play "Yellow" by Coldplay on Guitar

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_ Hey, what's up you guys Marty Schwartz here with Marty music.
Thanks for hanging out for another lesson
I'm gonna break down Coldplay song yellow, and it's really a fun song to play
It's not as hard as it seems so I hope you enjoy it also Marty music's my site
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This isn't quite a beginner song, but it's actually easier to play than it sounds
It's actually a great song if you're starting to try and get your bar chords because there's no bar chords in it
But it kind of forms the shape, _ [E] but what's cool is you don't have to bar it down
Now there's another little secret secret tip or a secret tuning trick in this song
You take the high E
You _ _ _ _ [G] take this high E, and you tune it down a half step which on a tuner
It would be D sharp or D and the hashtag symbol there, so you got to do that
you can also do it by ear by taking your [D#] index finger and
Playing the pitch that you want, [E] _ [Cm] and I [G#m] like to go below the pitch that I'm trying to get to and _ _ _ _ [D#] then bring it up _ _ _ _ _
Okay
So that is the little secret sauce in this song now
we're gonna go to this B major chord, which would be like a bar chord, but
all you have to do is just take the tip of your finger and hit the seventh fret of the [B] low E string there and
Then I'm just going with this E major shape _ _ _ _
So that'd be ninth fret with the ring finger on the a string ninth fret with the pinky on the D
Eight fret on the G with the middle finger and then the open B and high E
Which is tuned to D sharp those strum out or ring out or chime out open, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ so we'll call that B
Now it he adds a little [G#] sus4 to it, and there's a few different ways to do it
I found the easiest way
I think to do it would be to take think of the ring finger and the pinky is just kind of glued together and
You just scoot them over
You can leave your middle finger down even though we're gonna be in front of it
but you just scoot them over to [B] where your ring finger would be on the nine of of
That D and pinky would be on nine of [E] the G and what's happening is your index finger?
_ _ Mutes that a string it's not barred.
It's just touching it enough to mute it so you get [B] this kind of thing _ _
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_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _
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_ [E] And then a good rhythm pattern you know I like to just feel these rhythms out, but a good rhythm a good rhythm pattern
That's my patois my Jamaican patois a good rhythm a conscious rhythm for you to play would be _
_ _ _ Down down down down down [B] down down down down down down down down down down down _ down down down
Down down down down down down down down down down down
Now [E] in that intro.
There's a couple of open
Places where he doesn't do it, but to get you [B] going
So _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ [B] _ [F#] _ that second [B] chord which is really fun about it is you just take that exact same shape and scoot it down to where your
Index finger is on the second fret and those open strings are still [D#m] ringing out
[B] Give this one _ _ _ _ _ _
[G#] We'll call that f-sharp and then now check [F#] this out exact same shape
[B] All _ [E] you have to do it's an e, but since we're already using the shape you can just slide it down
To where you play the e chord with the ring pinky and middle finger
_ _ When you get that little secret sauce in there it plays this really pretty e chord _
[B] All right, so back from the top first it starts with that sus just on that first chord
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_ _ _ _ now the strumming pattern
Now _ _ _ down [F#] to the second fret and then the opening
[E] Now _ _ _ back to the first chord you [B] slide it up _ _ _ and just keeps doing that [F#] pattern and _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ then
[B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] And you can add that sus really anytime you want, but it does take place kind of in those intros and when it holds out
now
the other section there's one new chord shape and this chord shape I
First learned in the song sweet Melissa by the Allman Brothers
_ So here's the next section.
It's that e chord _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ [G#m] _ _ [F#] _ [Em] _ [E]
So
You've got the e chord
_ _ _ _ And so we call this [G#m] a
G [G#]-Sharp minor chord well you can still let those open strings ring out, so I just think of it this way I _
Locate that sixth fret on the a string with my ring finger, and then I hit the sixth fret with my pinky _ and
[E] Maybe a little tricky, but it's really not too bad
_ It's the fourth fret on the G instead of that e shape
it's that and _ _ _
_ _ Then that f-sharp so you can keep these on the train tracks [F#] Oh, [E] _ _ sorry
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] [E] So _ _ _ _ you can just literally keep the ring and pinky as kind of your locator point _ _ _
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_ _ _ You
These [F#] chords ring [E] out on e _ for you
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_ _ _ there was lesson.
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