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“You Are My Sunshine” (basic)

“You Are My Sunshine” (basic)

From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 1 Picking, Fretting, & Chords

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“You Are My Sunshine” (basic)

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- We're gonna play some music now. We've covered lots of basic fundamentals about playing, an approach to playing acoustic guitar and playing bluegrass rhythm. And so now, we're going to play some tunes. And I found some three chord songs that I think that are melodies that a lot of people will know. And the first one is "You Are My Sunshine," and it'll be in the key of G. And just follow along. I'm gonna play it through twice. What I've done is record a lead track, me playing guitar playing the lead. And so I'll play it through twice. You can play along to learn the changes, and then you can download the file and you can have it for your practice. And so again, we're gonna work on making chords as full as possible. We're gonna use the boom chuck and chord change and all that kind of stuff, have both hands working, and in rhythm here. So we're gonna play the tune. Here we go. One, two, three. ("You Are My Sunshine," by Anonymous) That's "You Are My Sunshine". If you want to, you can…

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