How to Play "More Than Words" by Extreme Part 1 - Guitar Lesson - Tutorial

Hey guys, Marty Schwartz here and I'm very happy to be here teaching you a

lesson

right now, real quick, the

guitar

is tuned to E flat, so it's half a step down that way it matches the original and it's a sound great, I like it and I also appreciate your support by subscribing to this channel, liking the video, leaving comments, all of that is greatly appreciated, but enough of that, let's get closer and start getting into this right now, here we go, okay, Let's jump into this. The acoustic magic of Wonderland and to start with we have to tune our

guitar

to E flat, so it's tuned half a step and you know it's nice to be able to do that, it's authentic to the recording, but there are a lot of other songs too. that's going to be an E flat, so it's always nice to be able to do that and then we start with a G chord, but we have the ring finger on the third fret of B and the pinky on the third fret of E high, so it's still an sun. older voice but different than this one and we're going to start with the thumb on the low E string, then I pinch the top three strings, then I hit with my hand like this and then I pinch the A string of that G chord with the first three at the same time, put that together and then pinch, slap, so put it all together and then I do a double in the sea at nine, which is like that G chord, these have gone back to the third of a second from the D, so put that together like the previous chord, but then we go after it, now very slowly, then I move on to an A minor 7 chord, it's like a minor, but with the ring finger removed and I pinch those very similar rhythms with the Quartier. so that was the same rhythm as the previous chord, okay, so let's go to the beginning and so on, I'm going to use a minor chord, which is the pinky on the third fret of the high E while I pinch the whole chord.

CC DD and then if the bass is on the A string with the D, the bass is on the D string. I'm pinching the chord, so now let me try to break it down very slowly and what happens is it does that. time and then on the second, you know, when it repeats, it does everything the same, but then it goes to E minor, so I'll show you that in a second, but let's go back to the beginning, make sure we have it and I'll do it. try it very slowly, so now we repeat E minor and so with E minor the bass alternates, so the first time in E minor the same rhythm as before, the same rhythm is the first chord, but what we are doing is what we are doing. once like this and then it's still minor here, but then we hit the a string with the thumb like this, so from the top we repeat now C D E minor one string, then E, one string, then it goes to a minor seven and it's exactly like before.

So from the top repeat C D E minor one minor string to the right, so from C D to E minor then we're going to go to a D chord, but I like the d7 that we'll need later, so I'm going to

play

. a d7 here, if you hit a normal D at any time there's a d7, okay. I'll do it on a d7 so my index finger is on the first fret of the B string and then on the second middle ring like a reverse D. chord we have the C D minor E minor seven and then on the d chord it's the same rhythm as the previous chord and you'll hear those kinda damned rhythms that did du-de du-de du-de du-de do that deb-deb do that dude and every click I made there is pretty funny when you would be falling like this C D E minor one string a minor 7 d ma d7 and then what happens is you do g d d but with your thumb on the f-sharp, so if you call D on F sharp and we're

play

ing that bass note, so GG D/F sharp E minor and every time we play an E minor in the song it's the same way with the thumb on the e and then with the thumb. on the a like this, I hope that helped and what's going to happen from there, so we have C C D D D minor, then the A string then a minor seven D seven G gee over F sharp E minor one string a minor 7 D7 g7 to C Basically, this is a new

part

where we go from GG and V to F sharp E minor, then a string and a minor seven, D seven, then G seven and that note right there that likes to play a chord of G but with the first fret lit. the high E, so the ring finger, the middle finger, index finger on the first of the high E and then a normal C chord, so d7 g7 to see, so let's do it, let's play everything up to that point here we go now E minor , so we still need There's a string that you saw me do the bar chord, it's really our only bar chord in the song and it goes from C major to C minor and I'm playing C minor 7 and the Beatles.

Actually, you know, there is also a Yes. minor 7 in the song too, but it's just this halftone chord, so we go from C to C minor 7, which excludes the third fret, and then that a7 shape is seen in the middle of the fourth B ring on the D fifth aji and we play it that way and then we go, we do a quick little walk down and we play E minor seven, which is actually just this in minor while we're still holding that

part

of the G chord, so give it a look, let's see here here. let's go to E minor, oh, you gotta g7 to C, then C minor seven to G, walk to E minor seven, A minor seven, D seven to the top of Qi, here we go to C, E minor, A minor, D seven, a minor seven, again now. d7 to g7 to C then the C minor 7 to G came in for that because I love it so it's the first half or you know most of the song and then there's him in that falsetto how would you say the photos were like that? from a different part and let me touch it here so that you