Riptide - Vance Joy (Ukulele Tutorial) Chords

Hello, it's me the ukulele teacher here to teach you how to play a Riptide by Vance Joy.
So grab your uke
Okay, very funny.
Grab your uke
_ Make sure it's in tune
There's a video in the corner of the screen to help [C] you with that _ [N] and get ready to play Riptide by Vance Joy
This is a really simple song because there's only four chords in the whole song and most of the way through there's only three chords
So let me show you what they are.
The first chord you will need is the chord of A minor
it's a really easy chord because all you have to do is take your first finger and put it on the second fret of
The fourth string up and leave the other three strings open the A minor chord [Am] should sound like this
The second chord you'll need is the [G] chord of G
For G move your first finger from the second fret of the fourth string to the second fret of the third string
put your second finger on the second fret of the first string and
Put your third finger on the third fret of the second string and that should sound like this
_ And the third chord you'll need is the chord of C.
For C
Just take your third finger put it on the third fret of the first string and leave the other three strings open
That should sound like [C] this _ and the fourth and final chord
Which you will barely need is [Bbm] the chord of F for the chord of F
put your first finger on the first fret of the second string and
Your second finger on the second fret of the fourth string and leave the other two [F] strings open.
That should sound like this
_ So those are the four chords you'll need the three chords
You'll need for 99% of the song are A minor G and C in that order that includes the intro
Which we're gonna start with 99% of the way through the song
He plays A minor G and two bars of C
The strumming pattern that I'm gonna use for the intro is down down [Am] up down up like this once on A minor
_ _ _ [G] once on G and _
[C] Then twice on C _ _ _ _
[N] Let's play that twice for the [F] intro.
_ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ Have you [N] managed to play that?
Well, then you've pretty much got 99% of the song down because that's all there is to most of the song play it six times
More through and you've got the verse and on that sixth and final time just play one down stroke on the [C] C and hold it
[Am] Let me show you what I mean
[G] And _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ that's how to play the intro and the verse and hey, guess what?
It's pretty much how you play the chorus as well
But to stop it all from sounding exactly the same at this point
You might want to jazz up the strumming pattern a little bit
So at this point I go from playing down down up [Am] down up to [G] _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ [Am] down down up up down up like this
_ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _
But guess what?
It's still just a minor G C
So with the new strumming pattern you're playing a minor G C four times for the chorus like [Am] this _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ So [Dm] after the intro and the verse and the chorus you play verse two [Em] and the chorus again and after the second chorus
There's a little bit of finger picking but it's nothing too difficult.
Here's how I play it on the uke
_ _ _ _ _ _ Now it sounds pretty cool, but it's very easy
I have my first finger on the second fret of the third string up now that doesn't move all the way through the pattern
I'm doing what's called hammering on I put my first finger on the second fret of the third string
I play that note and then I hammer on my third finger to the fourth fret without playing it with my right hand
Let me show you _
_ That's called hammering on I hammer on from the second fret to the fourth fret on the third string
_ [C] Then I hammer on from the open string to the third fret of the second string
_ then I just go back and play the second fret one more time [Dm] on the third string and
[E] The open again one more time on the second string.
[D] Let me show you that really slowly hammer on two to four _
[Em] then hammer on open to three [G] and then second fret on the third string _ [E] and
Open on the second string.
[G] Let's put it all together
_ _ _ _ Play that four times and you've got the finger picking part.
Let me show you _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Now it might sound complicated
But as always with these things just start off really slowly and then when you're comfortable playing it slowly you can speed it up _ _ _ _ _ _
[N] Then after that finger picking bit is the only part of the song that actually has a different chord in it
That's for the bit that goes.
I just wanna I just wanna know it's a minor G C F
Here you play the strumming pattern twice on each chord and remember on the final time you play the F the second time around
Just play one down stroke and hold it.
[Am] Let me show you _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [F] _ And [Am] if you enjoyed that down stroke, then you're in luck because we go back to the a minor G C pattern
But before we play the chorus three times to finish we play a down stroke on each of those chords twice.
I swear [G] she's
destined [C] for the screen
_ [Am] The closest thing [G] to Michelle Pfeiffer [C] that I've ever seen [N] and then we go back to the full
Strumming pattern for the chorus three times to finish.
So that's how to play Riptide by Vance Joy
I've been the ukulele teacher.
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