Learn the Guitar – Easy Chords Progression
Hi, welcome back to my blog! Today we are going to learn an easy song from the Beatles called ‘In My Life’. I used to learn the guitar chords from their songs a lot during my initial guitar journey. Here we go!
The main riff guitar tab below is showing your fingers position on the guitar fretboard for the first three strings, each number represents the fret number of the corresponding string.
In My Life
This song is written in A major. Can you find the pattern or the chords progression used here?
If you remember previously we had talked about the chords family in the guitar chord progression post. The chords belong to the A major family are A, Bm, C#m, D, E and F#m. This is a pretty generic formula but as you can see we use them all except the C#m. In addition to these chords we also add G major and D minor. Adding ‘unusual’ chords like this is very common and if you practice a lot using different songs you will have enough experience to read the variation of the guitar chord progression. To learn the guitar chord progression faster you have to be able to remember the pattern in numbers instead of keys. For example, the generic chords used in this song is I, IIm, IV, V, VIm plus 2 additional chords IVm and VI#. This method will help especially if you can’t sing this song in the original chords and have to shift them higher or lower to meet your vocal’s range.
Should you need other songs from the Beatles please drop me a comment. I’ll be glad to share the chords if I have them in my collection.
To Your Guitar Success,
-TJ-
Beginner Guitar Lessons Admin
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