so [Music] bye so [Music] hallelujah by ryan bingham is going to be played in standard tuning and then capoed on the fourth fret of the guitar from this point forward i'll speak of these chord shapes and fret numbers as though the capo is the nut of the guitar and call them frets one two three and four as opposed to the real frets of five six seven eight etcetera okay so um this song is using a lot of just kind of very individual there's a lot of individual plucking picking rather of strings that happens in the song within the chord progression but the first chord that you need to know is going to be with your first finger on the fourth string two fret and your ring finger on the two string three fret you'll be strumming from the open five string down here everything else that's not fretted is open you want to avoid the open sixth string here but um sometimes playing live you can hear ryan being accidentally hit the sixth string so it doesn't really like kill the feel of the song but you definitely want to avoid the open six in this first chord as much as possible so you're going to strike that down and then you're going to pick up one two three and then also just the feel of this song is that after the initial down straw there's a rolling picking pattern that happens in the upper registers of the string so like down down up up up up one two three one two three on the strings so after you do that it's actually going one two three one two and then down on the open four string because you lift your first finger to move to the next chord the next chord is to move with your first finger to the five string two fret do the same down [Music] but here instead of starting the picking on the first string you'll start on the second string and go two three four one two three and then you'll strike down again on that five string two fret and let the fourth string ring out behind it before moving into the next chord so we've got so far [Music] and then so that was [Music] the last down is on the five string two fret then move with your second finger to the five string three fret [Music] so here we're going down on the five string and it's okay if the open four rings out a little beneath it and you're going two three two three four one two and then back down again on the five string three fret so we've got [Music] and then you hit you when you hit that five string three fret where your second finger is again and immediately slide your second finger up to the five string relative five fret right there after that slide you're going to pick up again on strings two three and four [Music] and then go with your second finger to the sixth string three fret strike that down and then right behind it hit the open five string so that you get [Music] so something about the rhythm there that i hear happening and i'm playing it right there is the slide up up up down up down on the so down on the six string three fret about on strings just like two and three up here and then the open five string and then you get back in that same riff [Music] sometimes right there sometimes it emphasizes the open five string and goes like slide slide two three four five six two fret five so listen that subtle difference there sometimes it's [Music] and sometimes it's [Music] and then it just repeats that now whenever the vocals come in a lot of times whenever the vocals come in instead of instead of once you move okay so this first kind of a chord is the one that i said begins the up picking on the first string open and these other chords the b the c and the d the picking tended to start on the two string whenever the singing comes in basically all the up strums just begin on the open one string so it doesn't get that um alternating starting place from open one threaded two open two it's just open one open one so one two three one two three one two three [Music] also whenever the lyrics come in this little slide kind of gets a bit more sloppy and it's just kind of like a down up down up down up down up with your right hand but with your left hand doing the same thing that slide so that's like a down knot then down up with an open five second finger the sixth string three fret down up and then land back on that kind of open five [Music] etc um what's the last thing to mention here so midway through the song you have a chord change [Music] the way that e minor gets played is an open second string second finger on the five string two fret ring finger on the fourth string two fret open three open [Music] up [Music] you can hear how in this e minor before going to the g i really kind of just pressed my uh my hand down onto the strings to mute them down [Music] and then it goes back into [Music] so those are the chords and the movements to hallelujah by ryan bingham hopefully this gives you an idea of how to approach the song