How to play OLIVIA RODRIGO - 1 STEP FORWARD, 3 STEPS BACK - Acoustic Guitar Lesson -Tutorial

Alright boys and girls, welcome

back

to Gordon Guitar, so Olivia Rodrigo with her song called One Step Forward, Three Steps Back, it's a very easy song to

play

, so let's start here. We need to place our capo on the second fret and it takes four chords. let's start with those c here so third on a second on d open g first b and open e and the second chord and it's very similar, you're just going to add this note here on the third e and the rest will look like this to c and that gives us a c with a G in the bass, so we don't need to go through this a c with this third in E in the bass and in the third chord here this is the F major seven, so third in D second in G first in b and open e and the chord final and fourth is the e, so open e second a second d first g open b and open e yeah, so for the verse here's this rhythm that we're going to follow right now because We're not going to use any strumming pattern for this song, it's just based on this, uh, plucking the different chords here, so let's start with the verse here, it goes from C to G to F major seven, it's based on those chords, so first you.

I'm going to

play

the third here on the a string and it's based on the c, so I'm going to keep the c chord here, so third a and you're going to play D, g and b together twice, so once again a on the base there. and D G B together twice, so you go up here, you can place your ring finger here on the E third and that gives you a sort of C with the G chord here, so you'll play this note here, the E string here. third on the E string as a base and here you will play D, G and B again together once and then just b oh, sorry, open G, so if we come

back

here from the C from the beginning, so slowly until now.

We've gone through the C chord and the Cg chord and then you're just going to keep the F major seven as it is and you're just going to play these strings here, the D, the B and the G once and you're going to play the open G, so you're going to lift Take your finger off. middle here as a bridge to play this rhythm over and over again, so the F major seven will just keep it as it is and you lift your middle finger and play the open G and then one more time and the tempo will play. so and this open g here is optional maybe it's not played every round here but most of them are played so yeah it works like a bridge to make it twist and turn so this continues throughout the verse and for the In the first verse here you're going to play eight rounds of this and then we get to the chorus here and the rhythm will change here, so the first of the chords will be from c to e to f major seven and to c, that's one round, like this that c e f major seven c and then c e f major z about four rounds of this for the course and here you're going to play in a different way you don't need to pluck anything extra here uh so you're just going to keep the chords as they are uh so let's start from C here you are going to play with your right hand here first the A string and then the G string and then B E together they will sound like this the next chord will be E and for E you are going to play play first E then the D and G together for the F major 7 and for C you can play them in different ways one way is to play them D first if we start with the F major seven first the D string and the G string together or you can just play the chord as it is that means, yeah, D , G and B, all these three strings together at the same time, like that and the same with C, yes, you can feel it here too so you can play them all. these four strings together mean a D G and B or you can split them up to play like the bass here which is the A and then play that D G and B so that the last two chords here the F major seven and A C uh you can play them and they alternate in different ways there , but the first C and E are usually played here this way as I showed.

Yeah, this way and that's the feel of the rhythm here in the cycle, so you can see that you can play the F major. seven with just a touch like that or split it, it's up to you as long as you follow the rhythm here and make the changes at the right time, it's up to you to play them and also after the last C here, so from F major seven you can play some extra notes in there to also serve as a bridge for the next round again in the sea, uh, to make it more lively, but pretty much the entire song is playing the first C and the first in either. it's played the same way so you'll play four rounds of this c e f major seven and the c four rounds and in the fifth round you'll just play the f major seven and c so the last one will be f major seven and c there, that's how it goes this song and the second verse here only has four rounds instead of eight like the first verse and the chorus eight times and then it comes out there uh like this the same way it's played like the The chorus is pretty much the same in this song, If you know the verse and chorus then you are ready, you can play this song.

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