Something just happened to me that I was not emotionally prepared for today. As I was getting set up, I broke my tripod. Like the plastic part that holds the camera, it's my phone. The plastic part that holds my phone just broke off completely.
So I just like, there's this little hole and I just jammed it in the hole as hard and deep as I could. And then it kind of stayed. So we're just gonna pretend that life is okay.
And I don't want the world to see me. And I want you to know you're just fine. Oh!
Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls. My name is Stuart Alexander Lehman Brown. People of the world, friends and relatives, broken tripods, everything is fine, we're perfectly happy. Iris is the song. It's in the worst tuning I've ever heard of in my entire life.
I refuse to do it, so we're doing it in standard tuning. Guys, literally completely normal standard tuning. No capo.
No, I am afraid to say it because it's potentially a touchy subject, but I do indeed not have shoes or socks on today, and I did just drop the capo. On to my toe, exactly. Standard tuning, no capo, no bar chords. It's honestly gonna be pretty fun. And it doesn't sound exactly like when the guy does it, but it sounds pretty good.
It sounds like the song. Let's start with the introduction. The introduction, we're gonna go like this.
You're gonna put your ring finger on the third fret of the second string from the bottom. Put your middle finger on the second fret of the third string from the bottom. Put your pointer finger on the second fret.
of the second string from the top. And then you would like to have your thumb come up and just mute the top string. Guys, this is known as a B minor seven chord. You can hear, like, it sounds kind of like the song Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls.
It doesn't have the exact same open ringiness because we're in standard tuning, but it's gonna get the job done. You're gonna go like this. You're gonna go bow, bow. You're gonna play that twice.
Then. you're just gonna slide your ring finger into the second fret. So now you have pointer finger and middle finger in the exact same spots, but ring finger is on the second fret of the second string from the bottom. You're gonna play this once, and then there's a tiny little pause, and then you go boom boom. So we've got pow pow pow pow pow.
One, two, pow pow power wheels. Bop bop fantastic. This by the way is called a B minor 9 chord.
So we have B minor 7, B minor 9. This won't be on the test, but there will be an extra credit assignment that involves knowing the names of these chords. Then we're gonna go to a G major 7 chord. Go ahead and lift up your pointer finger and your middle finger. Move your ring finger into the third fret of the second string from the bottom.
Middle finger place 3 on the top string. and then your pointer finger is gonna play two on the bottom string. The chords for the verse and the chorus are easier than this. I'm gonna tell you that.
The intro and the bridge, a little bit tricky. Verse, chorus, pretty easy. My name is Stuart Alexander Lehman Brown. As I've said at least one or two times before, this would be the time where you would say, this guy's great. I like the way that he talks about his tripod being broken, and then you subscribe to the channel.
Also, As I said, no bar chords in this video, but if you would like to improve your bar chord skills, go to marinemusic.com and go sign up for my free bar chord course. It's great. You're going to love it.
Link in the description. My name is Stuart Alexander, Lama Brown. On this G major seven chord, you're going to strum one, two, then get rid of your pointer finger.
Now it's a G six chord. Strum that. And then go ahead and put your pinky on the third fret of the bottom string and strum it twice.
So that part there was Bow, bow, bow, bow, bow. One, two, just play that little part. Pointer, pointer, open, pinky, pinky.
One more time with all of your heart. Bow, bow, open, pinky, pinky. Let's play the entire intro. It goes like this. It goes...
Switch! Ah! I messed up a little bit, but you know what I'm gonna nail it on this next one You're gonna mess up this time, but then you're gonna nail it on the next one Let's do that introduction those times in a row that's Spanish for two surprised.
You didn't know that one To get right. I'll give you yes, so the first chord I'll remind you is ring finger middle finger pointer finger. You got it B minor seven one two three four One, two, switch!
Then again! Ah! I keep messing up there. Guys, I nailed it the time when I said I was gonna nail it. I hammered it when you hammered it, and we both hammered it at the same time.
It was very, very romantic. What do you think? Should I cut that out of the video?
Okay, so that was the introduction. You just do that twice, done, easy. Piece of pie, piece of cake, lemon squeezy time. Now we're gonna learn the verse to the song, which goes, let me play you the verse once through, and then we'll learn it.
One, two, three, here I go. That's it. Let's do it. All right.
So guys, you're going to do a D. It's like a D5 chord. Here's what I'm going to have you do. I'm going to have you put your ring finger on the third fret of the second string from the bottom. Pointer finger, second fret, third string from the bottom.
Thumb mutes the top string. Thumb is going to be doing a lot of muting on this song, you guys. This is a D5 chord.
Something I didn't mention is you would really like your ring finger to just lean down and mute the bottom string. All right? I don't know why I'm... I'm not showing you anything.
I'm trying to show you how my pointer finger... There we go. See how my pointer finger's not like this.
It's kind of leaning down, muting the bottom string. Fantastic. What an intimate moment we just shared with that muted string. The language I'm using today, I said romantic earlier. I just said intimate.
It's the Goo Goo Dolls bring it out of me. They're a very sensual band, you guys. All right, so...
On this D5 chord, you're gonna strum down, down, up, down, up. Here we go. Down, down, up, down, up. That was fine.
Down, down, up, down, up. One more time. Down, down, up, down, up. That's the strumming for the entire verse for the entire chorus.
Just down, down, up, down, up. Then we switch chords. So we go down, down, up, down, up on that D5 chord.
Then you're gonna go to an E minor seven. Keep your ring finger in the same spot. but lift up your pointer finger, put your pointer finger on the second fret of the second string from the top, middle finger, second fret, third string from the top, and strum down, down, up, down, up. Notice my thumb just hinged up and got away from that top string because now we want the top string open. So we've got D, E. One, two, three, here we go.
Don't want the blank. Don't want the blank. Beautiful lyrics. Guys, you might notice that if you're new to playing chords like this, it can be a little tricky to switch from the D to the E minor. Here's what you do.
When you're strumming the D, you go down, down, up, down, but then on your last strum up, lift up your pointer finger and just strum the open strings as you get ready for the E minor. So in super hyper slow motion, it's Down, down, up, down, and down. See that?
Let's do that together very slowly with that little lift up the fingers, getting ready to put down. One, two, three, very slow. Down, down, up, down, lift.
E minor, down, up, down, lift. We lift up again, getting ready for the next chord, which happens to be a G chord, you guys. Keep your ring finger in the same spot.
Put your middle finger on the third fret of the top string. Put your pointer finger on the second fret of the second string from the top. If you want, you can put your pinky on the third fret of the bottom string, but I don't for this song. I just don't do it. So now you're going to do the strumming pattern twice on the G.
So it's down, down, up, down, up, down, down, up, down, up. Let's play that all the way through. D, E minor, G, very slowly. Ooh, notice when you go from E minor to G, you don't have to move your pointer finger up. or your ring finger.
I didn't even notice that. Very special. One, two, three, start with D.
D, E minor, G, G again. That's the first half of the verse. We're already like, we're already just cruising through it. Second half of the verse, you play the B minor seven. I said something about an extra credit assignment if you remember the names of the chords.
Your extra credit assignment is can you figure out how to play the B minor 7 chord right now without me reminding you how to play it. I will give you to the count of four. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
8, 9, 10. Time's up. Let's see how you did. No, that's not it.
You don't get any extra credit points. Ring finger stays on the third fret of the second string from the bottom. Middle finger plays two, third string from the bottom. Pointer finger plays two, second string from the top. Thumb meets the top string.
Remember now? We do down, down, up, down, up, regular strumming. Then we're going to switch to an A sus chord. To play A sus, all you have to do is take your...
pointer finger and move it down to the third string from the top. Everything else stays the same. So we have B minor seven to A sus.
Then we're going to go to the G chord again and you do G twice again. Let's play that little section starting from the B minor seven. One, two, three, here we go. Down, down, up, down, up, A, down, up, down, up, G, down, up, down, up. We finished the verse.
Let's play the verse all the way through. D, E minor, G, G. B minor, A, G, G. One, two, three. Here we go.
Let's do it again! Uncle Stewart, I did okay, but I could have done a lot better if you just slowed down a little bit. That was too fast for me. You're asking too much of us. Well, how do you think it looks if I just...
Because here's what I'm worried about. I'm worried that, like, right now my tripod is set up fine, but I'm going to do more recording later, and am I going to be able to get it in the same place? Let's see what the camera on my computer looks like. Oh, no, that's not gonna work at all.
Okay. Well, I'm gonna I'll figure that out later. Don't worry I'll figure it out when I'm not in the middle of recording video guys For the verse the first verse you just play that pattern Four times in a row. You just play that whole eight chord progression quatra times Spanish for four Did you know that?
Then we go to the chorus. I'm not even joking. The chorus is just the second half of the verse four times in a row. You just go like this. You just go B minor seven, A, G. Then you do it again.
And you just, you do that four times in a row. We might as well practice it. We might as well practice it. So just B minor seven, A, G, G four times.
One, two, three. Here's the verse. Don't want the world to see me. And I don't even want them to.
to know cause when everyone's going to school i'm going to go to the show why is this song called iris is it just because he's looking through a telescope in the music video my name is stewart alexander layman brown and now i would like to tell you that we go to the interlude of the song the interlude is just you play the intro That's all it is. You just go... That's it.
Then we do the verse. The second verse, exactly the same as the first verse. Then we do the second chorus. Second chorus, exactly the same as the first chorus. Then we go to the bridge.
The bridge is pretty fun. You can also skip it if you want, because it's kind of more like the just like big instrumental orchestra violin breakdown part. But here's what you do. You go to the B minor. Remember the B minor?
And B minor 7. And you go down, up, down, up. Can you do that with me? One. One, two, three, may you do it with me. Then slide your ring finger over, so now you're doing the B minor nine and go down, down, down.
Great. Then you're going to strum the B minor nine one more time and then strum the regular B minor one more time. So it's down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, boom, bam.
One, two, here we go. One more time. Here we go.
Then you're going to go to G. Middle finger, third fret, top string. Pointer finger, second fret, second string from the top. Ring finger, third fret, second string from the bottom. Pinky, third fret.
Bottom string. You're gonna strum down down then it's a little bit tricky get rid of your pinky Remember I said the interlude. No, what did I say? I said the intro and the bridge were a little tricky and it's turning out to be true So you get rid of your pinky and your pointer finger jumps down to the second fret on the bottom string and you're gonna strum down down So we just went At this point in time, you're gonna put your pinky back on three, strum this, get rid of your pinky, strum up, and then get rid of your pointer finger and strum down.
So we went... Binky bang guys take a look at this we go bang wait we go big goody boo big goody boo big bang gee gee whoop whoop banky bong and then you start the whole thing over again I don't I'm not thrilled with the way I'm demonstrating this also I'm not thrilled with this bit of hair that's sticking out right here One, two, here we go. Bickety bang, bickety bang, bing bang. Gee, gee, whoop, whoop, binky bang. Start it over.
Bickety bang, bickety bang, bing bang. Bang, bang, bang, bang, binky bang. You play that.
I wrote down three times, but I don't think that's true. I think they do it more than three times. Maybe it's only three.
I don't know you play that play honestly. There's no singing during this part Just play that as many times as you want Then you go back to the chorus you do the chorus Exactly the same as we did the other time and then at the very very very end of the song you have what's called a tag Ending it's just where you take the last little line and you play it like one or two or three more times in this case We're gonna play it two more times. So what that means Is we're gonna play those three chorus chords the B minor A G We just do that an extra two times Let's go ahead and play that an extra two times right now and we're gonna end on the G one two three.
Here we go So, I don't know do we need to play through I really don't want to play through yeah, I think we're good Go ahead, practice it, sing it for your crush. You're gonna get married within the hour, I promise. And I don't want the world to see me.