Olivia Rodrigo 1 Step Forward 3 Steps Back Acoustic Guitar Tutorial BEGINNER CHORDS // Nena Shelby

because it's always do you love me? you want you to hate me boy I don't understand I don't understand hello guys welcome

back

to the channel I'm Nina if you're new here welcome I'm very happy that you're here and if you're not new, how are you doing? Thanks for coming

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today. We're back to

olivia

rodriguez's album sour and it's been almost a year since this album came out. I showed a bunch of songs last year and recently she released a documentary on disney plus called driving home to you and in this movie she does live performances of all the songs and she likes different arrangements and stuff so when I saw her Playing this song

acoustic

ally on

guitar

I thought, oh, I never taught that one.

Do it today, so we'll learn one

step

forward

and three

step

s back and I think the version she plays in the documentary is slightly different than the studio version, but it's cool because she only uses three

chords

and the strumming is pretty. easy and it's great for

beginner

s if you want to see the tablature I wrote for the song that has all the chord lyrics strumming everything you need that link will be below you can download it as a pdf and if you want I want to practice playing this song after you're done here. I post a full demo of playlong slash on my other channel and that link will be below as well.

Okay, let's get into it, so for this song you're going to wire it. on the second fret and the

chords

we're going to need are C E minor F and that's it um in the video Olivia plays the bar f chord but if you just want to play the cheater f go ahead and do it, it's just as good as me . I'm going to play the cheat f because I don't like bar chords, so everyone knows that this song is an interpolation of Taylor Swift's New Year's Day song and that the verses sound almost identical to the piano part, but in the Olivia's version is slightly different chords and I think the way she plays it live is different from how it sounds on the studio version because I think on the studio version the strumming would be a little different so the progression of chords for the intro and verses will be c e minor f and if you were playing the strum like it sounds on the recording it would sound more like that but i think the way he plays it in the documentary is a little easier to understand timing wise , so the way

olivia

plays these chords live is like this, so it'll start on c, down, down, down, up and it'll be like a quiet strumming, especially on the verses here, so down, down, down, up and then she do that for E minor two down down down down up and then when you get to f, you're going to play that strum pattern twice, so you're going to get a full measure of strum here, so you're going to do it down, down, down, up and then again so all together we got c down down down down up and then to e minor down down down down up and then to f down down down down down up down down down down up so that's going to be your intro and the verses for the introduction You can do it twice in the documentary.

She starts from the second verse, so she doesn't sing the first half of the song, but you can also find out how she played the first half of the song, so let's do it all. along with um for an intro, let's do it twice, we have c so you can see the time in the rhythm there, so what you can do is do like um short strums for the first part, so one, two, three, so short, meaning you mainly play the bass strings here and you don't play the high strings, so you can strum down right there and then on the third strum down, I like to play all the strings very short, short, long and then down, so that's just a small interpretation.

The thing to keep in mind is that we get to the verse and this can be a little difficult with the singing knowing that you know when to start singing because the timing of this is strange, just like New Year's Day, so what What's going to happen is that you start playing. c and right before you change to E minor is when you start singing, so I'm going to demo this real quick here, so go ahead and ask how you were. All I did was talk normally, somehow it still caught my attention. a nerve and then I have the next half of the song here, but I hope you guys are understanding the rhythm and the strumming here, now she's going a little bit faster than this, so let's try to speed up the pace a little bit.

I'm going to sing the second verse like he does in the movie just so you can compare it and watch it and see if you can lower that beat so we have c and maybe in some masochistic way I can't find it all that exciting. What lover will I have? So at the end of that part you can do like a down strum for the chorus, basically most of this is a down strum, which is pretty easy because it's consistent and full, but I think the timing is what only thing you should like, make sure you have it, so let's jump to this chorus and skip verse two, but for the chorus you'll have C E minor f back to C and for the jump from F to C it's a little bit fast there, so that C and E minor will be the same strum, so down, down, down, up and then to E minor, down, down, down, up and then this part is a little different because it kind of goes with the words: you go a strum three times for f one two three and then it goes straight to c after that, so one two three and then to c and then when you switch to c, you just go to Do the normal strumming pattern down, down, down, up and then we start it again, so you'll stay on C for two bars and since the progression starts and ends on C, it will sound like you're on C for two bars. but the second time you're just starting the next line so I'm going to show you this all together so you can see it and then we'll go back and do it slowly so we have c so we have c down down down down up and then e minor down down down down up and then to f down down down change to c down down down down up so let's sing it slowly with the words so you can see the time, I know It usually makes more sense if you see it with the words, then we have c, is that I don't understand, so in the last line you just repeat that from f to c again, so I don't understand, I don't understand, yeah and Then the last thing we have is the bridge, which will simply be the continuation of the chorus, so everything will stay the same .

The chords strum everything you know goes in this bridge, so let's demonstrate that together, guys, something's right anyway. this is how it will be, you can play as much or as little as you want, as you can see, you could just make it louder, you can strum lower, you can do a little strum, whatever you want to do to make it more dramatic and then the final chorus will be the same and then when you finish it, it will just repeat the last line again where it says: Yeah, I hope this isn't too confusing if you have any questions you want me to ask you.

Answer for you. I'll try to do that in the comments below, but I think it would really help you if you went to the playback video and played with me in real time because I laid down the chords and the strumming. the screen to make it easier for you to practice and I think playing it over and over again is the best thing you can do if you want to learn this song. Thank you all very much for watching this video. Let me know what other

tutorial

s you want. I do and I'll see you in the next one.

Goodbye, give me power. Okay, how am I going to sing that part? It's moments like these that I like. I have no idea what I'm playing and I'm trying really hard to understand it. find out what I'm playing what I'm playing