Chords for Lily Was Here - Guitar Lesson

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_ _ _ _ Hey folks, I'm HP [Em] and today I'm going to talk about [N] an old song from the end of the 80s.
It reminds me of my first big love, Lily von Wiel.
_ If she didn't know till now and she watches my channel, now she knows.
_ [Em] So you already assume that it didn't really work out the way it should, _ unfortunately.
That's why I started to play guitar, by the way. _ _ _
[N] Lily was here, performed by David A.
Stewart and Kandi Dolfer.
I like that version most.
So I'm going to play it for you.
I think most of you know the song and then show how it's played.
It's very easy.
_ _ _ I reproduced the track in the original [Em] way, with 80s drums and stuff like that. _ _
_ Okay, now it starts really very easy. _
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_ _ Yeah, and then the saxophone starts.
So that's the song.
I'm first going to _ talk about the chords.
Very easy.
E minor.
[E] _ Later on A minor with E in the [Am] bass.
_ And later on B minor with E in the bass.
We can do this [E] probably like this.
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Yeah.
[Em] So let's see when you play those chords.
_ This song starts with a long sequence with E minor.
Four bars. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Three, four, one, two, three, four. A minor.
[Am] _ _ _ _
And B minor with A in the [Bm] bass. _ _ _
One, two, three, [Em] four, one, two.
And then it starts to repeat itself.
I do it once again.
E minor.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three. A minor.
[C] _ _ [Am] With E in the bass.
One, two, three, [Bm] four.
B minor with E in the bass.
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_ _ Yeah, that was it [B] already.
The song is played in E minor.
So the first theme part is this one here.
Open B string, open G string.
[G] _ _
[A] Then second bar, second fret, G [E] string and second fret, D [G] string.
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_ [E] That's the [B] first melody.
_ [G] _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [G] And then comes the sax.
Then you do this again.
_ And now you [A] make [F#] two, four, [F#m] four, [F#] two, four, _ five, [E] four, two.
So [B] one, two, three, four, one, [G] two.
[A] _ _ [B] Starts on one and one, [N] two, three, four.
[B] One and two.
One, two, three, four.
One, [G] _ [A] _ _
two, [E] three, four.
[G] _ One.
[A] And the sax comes.
[Em] I just continue, otherwise we wait too long.
One, two, [B] three, four.
One, [G] _ _ [A] _
_ two, three, four.
[B] One.
[G] _ _
[F#] _ _ _ Then a slider.
[E] _ _
_ _ That's the first part.
Second part, you move up here in the _ _ position four [Em] pentatonics.
_ _ _ You know it by [F] now, but you don't really need to know it, because it goes like this.
[E] Nine [G] fret, eight fret, ten [Em] fret, _ nine, eight.
_ _ [G] _ _ It goes like this.
Then sax comes again.
Then you [Em] do it again. _ _
[Dm] _ _ [G] And then from [Am] eight to ten, slide up to [N] twelve, and then it's finished.
That was the second part.
So one, two, three, [G] four, one.
_ Same rhythm as before.
_ One.
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[Em] _ _ And that's the whole thing.
Yeah.
And last but not least, we go up in the high position of the E minor pentatonics.
_ You don't really need to know this.
It goes like this.
Twelve, fifteen, [B] _ fourteen, twelve.
B string and E [D#] string.
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And second time you make _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[G] then, _ fifteen and then bend. _ _
_ And that's the whole thing.
So let's play it to the entire song.
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Wait four bars.
Now the person starts four bars.
_ _ _ And now, _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] two, three, four, [C] that's [Am] _ one, two, three, [Bm] four.
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_ _ _ _ And same thing again. _
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[C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ Then comes the next part. _ _
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_ And the last part. _ _ _
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_ _ _ Yeah, that was _ _ [Am] the song, Lily was here.
_ [C] I wish she were there at [G] that time.
Yeah.
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