Chords for MATT MAHER - Because He Lives (Amen): Tutorial

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[Bbm] _ _ [Db] _ Hey everybody, what's up?
This is Matt Maher, and this is just a quick [F] tutorial on how to play because he lives
You know this song is kind of a
[Ab] layered song instrumentally and a lot of the newer songs [F] that worshippers are writing sometimes if you're just a
Guitar player at a Bible study or at [G] a small church [Db] sometimes you feel overwhelmed
So I [Ab] just want to show you like here's how you can play the song in very [Eb] simple straightforward way
So I thought I'd first start on the acoustic guitar.
It's in the key of C
[Gb] And the [G] chord shapes for the verses and the courses up are super easy, it's just you know [Am] the verses a minor
[F] F [C] C, okay, so you could go [Am] I believe [F] in the sun
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[Am] I
believe [F] in the [C] risen one [Am] I
believe I [C] overcome
[F] goes by the power [Am] four to the [G] six to the five and
That that's that's the verse and then the chorus is just and I usually when I'm playing it on acoustic
I'd play like I like a bar chord with the top strings muted, so [F] it's like
so
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[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ That right there part looks maybe it looks [Bb] tricky, but [G] basically once again
That's all I'm doing is I'm not playing the whole chord because typically when you're with a band or even with your by yourself
You don't necessarily always have to play every note of a chord, so I'm playing like the
It's like a G chord, but I kind of don't play the bass so [B] it has the third on the bottom _ _ _
[C] _ _ [F] _ [G] Right it's just that simple okay, so that's kind of the the Queen power chord moment of the song so _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] Super simple all right now if you have you're with a band
And _ you want to kind of play closer to the recording
There's this like rhythmic note that repeats over and over again.
They call that an Austin auto say that was me Austin auto
Okay, so Austin our basically just means the repeating [Gb] rhythmic pattern [G] and you just on the G string
What is that fifth fret okay?
You would kind of pick back and forth this way so a double stroke not like a single stroke
But you would [C] go _ _ _ so if you have a guitar player.
They could do that
Okay, or even if you're an acoustic player you could just go _ _ _ _
And while [B] the guitar players doing that
If you're if you're a [Abm] piano player you could just simply outline the [Am] chords you could go
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_ _ [Am] _ _ [F] _ _ Once again, it doesn't [N] have to be real fancy
You know you just you saw an acoustic or single performance of me playing piano by myself and singing
And there's a lot of different kind of stuff.
You don't have to do that.
You could just go
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_ _ [C] And now if [B] you're if you're in a more advanced player, and you want to try you can do the off sonata thing
[Bb] Just simply with one hand you just kind of play [C] one note and _ _ [A] _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ _
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[C] _ _ _ [F] then on the course.
It's the same thing you don't have to play
_ _ [G] _ [Am] _ _ Which is by the [F] way, that's just
Taking a chord, and I'm outlining it playing what they call an arpeggio so _
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] If you practice your arpeggios when you took piano lessons, you'd be able to do
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And even if you're [Abm] self-taught on the piano you don't have to like I said you don't play all that stuff a lot of times
[A] If you have a an acoustic guitar player who's strumming
He's kind of doing all the rhythm stuff so [F] you can just go
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_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ [Ab] So those are just a couple of quick [Db] tips on how to play the song.
I hope you enjoyed it and
We'll see you next time _
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