Hi everyone!
Welcome back to another video lesson with Liberty Park Music.
My name is Ze and today we'll be learning how to play "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay.
If you have any questions throughout this video, please feel it as a comment down below
and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.
So, let's jump right into the lesson!
So the song structure follows your typical English pop song.
It begins with an intro, then the verse then the chorus then another verse, a chorus again
and then there's this interlude part and then the bridge section where he's going "oh oh"
you know.
And then finally it ends with the last chorus.
Okay, so first things first, before you wanna play this song.
If you want to play this song in the same key as the original recording, you will need
to have a capo on the first fret.
Now this entire song uses only four chords: your C major, your D major, G major and E minor.
I wanna point out the way I'm playing G major for now.
A lot of times, when I'm playing a song with key of C, I like to play my G major using
just one finger, my ring finger.
Instead of the usual like that or like that.
I like to do this instead.
So, if you look at the chord diagram which is somewhere around here, you will find that
I'm just using one finger, my ring finger to press on to the first fret, or in this case
with the capo, the fourth fret of the sixth string.
Now, according to the chord diagram, you need to mute the fifth string and the first string.
And I accomplish that by using...
Well, the fifth string I'm using this part of my ring finger.
So when I place my finger down I just kind of tip a little so that I'm slightly touching
the fifth string.
As long as you slightly touching the fifth string, it will be muted.
Now, the first string is being muted, this one is a bit trickier.
The first string is being muted by this part of my ring finger.
So on finger is muting two different strings and it's also pressing down on the sixth string.
So, as you can see, my first string is muted as well because I'm just slightly touching
it with this part of my ring finger.
Alright, so now let's look at our strumming technique.
If you haven't noticed yet, for the verses I'm actually doing a palm mute.
If you don't know how to do a palm mute yet it's quite simple: you're just gonna use this
part of your right palm and you're gonna contact the strings right at the saddle.
You don't wanna have your palm too high because if it's too high, this is what it's gonna
sound like.
But once you bring it closer to the saddle which is around here...
Then you get a proper palm mute.
If you wanna try play that palm mute as well, I'm kind of bouncing up and down.
So you wanna work your way up to this way, bouncing like that.
Start by just placing your palm down and moving your wrist and then you can start to work
your way up to bouncing up and down the strings.
When you're bouncing up and down the strings like that, it kind of gives it a bit more
bite to the technique.
Now, the next thing is the strumming pattern.
The strumming pattern more or less is consistent throughout the entire song just like how there
are more or less only 4 chords, the entire song.
So, it's very simple, it's just...
On the first bar, it goes down down down down up.
But when you do that "up" on the four-and-count, you wanna change chords.
So that D major that's supposed to come on the second bar, it comes on the four-and of
the first chord.
So, what I mean by that is: 1,2,3, 4 and...
You see what I mean?
I switched to the D major, right on the four-and, and during the up strum, I play the D major as well.
Next thing is the strumming pattern changes every other bar.
So on the first bar, it's "down - down - down - down - up"
And then the second bar it goes "up - up -up - up - down - up"
And then the third bar it goes back to the same down strum kind of pattern: "down - down - down - down - up"
Notice how when I switched the E minor, I switched it on the four-and of the third bar as well.
And that's pretty much the strumming pattern for the entire song.
How I differenciate the verse from the chorus is: for the verse I'll do my palm mute, so like...
And then when I get to the chorus and I wanna make it sound a bit bigger, I forget about
the palm mute and I just strum.
Yeah, so that's how you make it sound different from the verse...
Between the verses and the choruses.
And that's all we have for today!
Again, if you have any questions please leave them as a comment down below and I'll get
back to you as soon as possible.
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