Chords for ISN'T IT A PITY GUITAR LESSON - How To Play ISN'T IT A PITY By George Harrison

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_ _ _ _ Hey guys, Howard here again [N] with another George Harrison song.
I had several people ask me
if I would do Isn't It a Pity?
And I thought, yeah, of course, I'll go ahead and do Isn't
It a Pity.
This is not a lesson on his slide guitar work in the song.
I've done a few lessons
now on his slide guitar work, My Sweet Lord, Beware of Darkness, The Bluest Blues, stuff
like that.
So if I do the slide part for this one, I will do it as a follow-up video,
okay?
But I think basically what it is was some people just wanted to know how to play
the chord changes on guitar.
It's a really beautiful song, of course.
It also happens
to be incredibly simple to play.
So I think it's a great beginner song, okay?
I am capoed
at the fifth fret and I'm in standard tuning, okay?
So you can look at the song like this.
It [F#] has four sets of four chords, so to speak.
So the chord cycle is four [C#] chords and then he's got
four different cycles of that that he plays.
Really, it's three, but you'll see what I mean
when we get into it.
[G] So the first one is a D chord _ and then we move the first finger to the
first fret on [C#] the G string _ and then finally that [G] comes off _ and then resolves back to the D.
There's
your first set of four chords, so to speak.
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_ So what I'm [E] doing is I'm strumming the G, the B,
and the E string at the same [G] time and then picking the D string by itself.
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_ _ _ Now [F#] you play
that one time as an intro to the song and then we start what I call the four sets of four [G] chords,
okay?
So starting from the verse, you will play what I just played.
So starting with the second
go-around now, we will start with the D chord again.
_ We'll move [A] to the diminished chord, _ _ [C] finally
open and [G] back to D with the exact same strumming that we did on the first go-around. _
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_ [E] And that is
the second go-around.
Now for the third go-around, we will start with the D [G] chord again, [F#] but then
we're going to go to an [A] E7 and then from the E7 we will move to a [C] G.
And you can do it like that
if you want [G#] to or you can just go like that.
Either way is fine.
But when you play the [E] G,
be sure [G#] not to connect with the first E string, all right?
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_ _ _ _ [D#] Okay, so the third go-around is played
like [G] so. _
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[F#] So on the E7 then, we're strumming [Gm] from the [A] A string down, swinging up to hit the top
string and _ _ _ _ the exact same thing for the G chord except once again, _ avoid [F#] the first E [C] string. _
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Then
for the fourth go-around, you revert back to [G] the second go-around, okay? _
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the whole thing again.
And a quick mention on these go-arounds, at the tail end of some of
them you'll hear on the original recording, Harrison will, you know, do the classic adding
the pinky to the [G#] bottom string at the third fret on the D chord or sometimes even taking the middle
finger [Fm] off.
It's not consistent, it's just kind of an ad-libbed or improvised random sort of thing
but that's kind of nice to [G] add if you want to. _
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You know, just things like that.
[B] Once again,
it's kind of random and just ad-libbed on the recording but it's nice to add in there if you
like that.
So that is the whole song.
As I said, you just loop it around and around and around. _ _
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