Common People - Pulp (Easy Songs Beginner Guitar Lesson BS-110) How to play

Justin's Completely Free Beginners Song Guitar Lessons, Stage 1, Lesson BS-110

In this super easy play song guitar lesson I show you how to play the chords and the strumming for this great simple pop tune, it's only got 3 chords. This song is in the Justin Guitar Beginners Songbook.

This is a Stage 1 song for those doing the Beginners Course on the web site - and you'll find it on Page ??? (sorry I've not got a copy here with me, I'm home typing this on my bed at midnight!!) of the Songbook.

Find the related course notes on the following link:
http://justinguitar.com/en/BS-110-CommonPeople-Pulp.php

The Justin Guitar Beginners Songbook contains 100 songs specifically structured for beginners and there are 10 songs for each stage of the Beginners Course. See the web site for the beginner lessons and more info including full song list, sample songs and order details.

Taught by Justin Sandercoe.

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She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge

She studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College

That's where I...

...caught her eye

She told me that her Dad was loaded

I said "In that case I'll have rhum and Coca-Cola." She said "Fine."

And in thirty

seconds time she said

I want to live like common people

I want to do whatever common people do

I want to sleep with common people

I want to sleep with common people like you

What else could I do? I said "I'll see what I can do."

Hi, how're you doing?

Justin here. Welcome to this easy song from Stage 1

of the Justinguitar Begginer's Songbook

The first thing is we're on page 26 and we have

a capo on the third fret. That's the third fret

if you want to play along with record but if you don't have a capo it's completely cool to play the song

without a capo at all and just use the open chords

Now being that this is a Stage 1 song we only have 3 chords and that will be

A, D and E. So hopefully you're familiar with the chords.

I'm not going to go through how to play the chords in this lesson

And if you're doing Stage 1 properly you probably know as well that at this point we should really only be

thinking about doing very basic "4 down strums in the bar" strumming

So I'm going to show you that first and we'll go through the song and make sure

you got the right number of bars and all that sort of stuff and then I'll take you through the kind of strumming I was using just then in that little intro part

which is called pumping eighth notes really

So first the really important thing is how many times do you play each chord

Now as you know in this book we write the chord once for each one

bar that you should play the chord unless there's little bar lines there so,

if you look at this you'll see that the first A chord there

is written 4 times so that means we're going to play it 4

strums per bar 4 bars, total of 16 strums

Now what I'd recommend you do when you start off with these tunes

is just to play the 4 down strums for each chord

and kind of look at the chord and play them

So let's go throught the actual kind of form because once you've got the form right it's repeated through all of the verses there so

We're starting with an A chord

The intro is just an A chord by the way, you just want to

strum it for a couple of bars. If you play along with the record just stay on the A until the singing starts

Then we've got this A chord so...

...it's A-2-3-4 A

-2-3-4 A-2

-3-4 Saint Martin's College

Then we're changing to E...2...3...

...4...Second time to E...

...there's a third time the E is written, and a fourth time

the E is written. And then it's back to A...

...2...3...4. And a second time...2...3...

...4. And the third time the E is written

And the four strums on each one. That's the fourth time

and then to E again. (Moving my head around like a metronome)