I've heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord but you don't really care for music it goes like this the fourth the fifth the minor fall and the major lift the baffled King composing hallelujah oh yeah and oh yeah hi how you doing Justin here in this lesson today we are checking out Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah absolutely fantastic fantastic song I love this tune it's a really fun one to play as well covered of course by loads of people KD Lang Rufus Wainwright probably my favorite cover of it they've got the Leonard Cohen ones great Jeff Buckley's version of course very famous as well and fantastic some really really good fairly simple chords I guess the most important thing to note at this point is the strumming because it's in a slightly different feel to the other songs that we've kind of looked at really and it's in 6/8 now 6/8 is really two groups of three so one two three four five six one two three four five six and it's really important that you get that right now if you are struggling with the strumming later on and you wanted to play this tune probably the best way to do it would just be to be doing two strums for a bar so in this case if you've got the songbook there you'd be playing two strums on each chord except for this little F and G that happens occasionally won't be just one strum on each so be something like there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased along so just really simple now if you want to play 6/8 I would recommend that you use all down strum so you be going one two three four five six and that's the one I'm gonna use for the basic kind of look at the chord sequence now is just as basic strumming in six right so we'd start with a C for a whole hour before going to a minor then it's back to C and then a minor to F and to G impaired to seek or then to G and C and then we got half of our of F and half of our F G whole world a minor and then a whole bar of F then a whole of our G and a whole worthy then mm a minor then it's too cold to turns then it's to a monocle and in fact 2n for two bars then one bar C one party of RC again and back to G and that's the whole Chu right so it's just repeating the verse in the chorus person of course now couple of things to point out before people who start going hang on you were doing different chords anyone that kind of watch closely at the intro instead of an e at the end at the end of every verse instead of playing it here I'm playing an e with the G sharp bass it's a lot harder chord and I just played that chord because I've always played it and I get this nice bass now it's tricky it's beyond the beginner stuff I'll put it on the website though I'll put a little call box fill it for the for that chord for those of you who want to do it a little later on right but I just stick with the regular E when you're playing it now when you're learning it and I also do a little walk up to the G I will take you through that as well toward the input let's go back through that little chord sequence again now and I'll just play it through actually once through and I'll just sing without the chords we've just done the chord a really good idea you don't do this already is to write the chords down you know even if it's not with the words I think most people find it really helpful just to write the chords out so you can start to see the pattern of the chords the patterns a little more elusive in this song than some other songs but it's still there so worth writing the quartet so the little intro is usually just played C from one bar and a minor one and he taught you often that's enough see there was a name on cold let's see core plate are they they man at the Lord but F don't merely G for music see you touch it it seems like this from F to G be a minor fall and the F chord left the G chord came said come highlight a minor I'll not a monocle so let me do it explain that little runoff it's always when it's going from C to G at the air in the middle of the verse and at the end of the chorus so we'd have the C chord one two three four five six so it's just taking over the last part of the C chord C two three four five six and it's open thickest a string F first fret thickest string an NGO G chord C two three four five six one two three one more time C two three four five six now so far we've just kept the struming real simple right so one two three four five six but I'm sure you noticed I'm putting in extra strums as well now you can kind of vary that up a little bit there's not so much a particular pattern I deliver and three and four five six one two and three and four five six one two and three and four five six one two and three and four five six one two and three and four five six five and six and one if you stick with the gist the down strums and you're feeling that pulse you can start to put in I I'm not really sticking with a crumber cat so long as you keep that stronger pulse on the one on the four one two three four five six because that's really that's what gives that kind of the groove kind of keeps it moving along you know so experiment a little bit of that yourself you know play about the other thing that's really important with a song like this is thinking about the dynamics a little bit if you keep the dynamic the same the strumming pattern the same the way you played the volume that you play it throughout the whole song it may get a little bit boring it depends on the singer a little bit as well I guess but you might want to try one of the verses you know I like either the very last verse first for all verse three just to bring it down a little bit and make it a little bit quieter and a bit more intimate it just seems to kind of add a little dynamic otherwise that you're in danger of getting a bit boring so I think we're about there for this so it can also be fingerstyle sorry that's the other thing I was going to mention and if you want to play it finger style one two three four five six it works really well with the basic finger style pumps that you learn later on in the beginners course where your thumb is playing the bass note you're just doing this pattern thumb 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 2 3 finish the fingers 1 2 & 3 just go on the thinnest three strings all the way through I sounds like heard there was a secret Col David played and it pleased the Lord but you don't really care for music do you you know you get it feel free to experiment of course for that kind of finger style thing too but you know have they in in the burner when you come to doing the finger style stuff later in this course this might be a good song to revisit so uh hope you have a lot of fun playing that and I'll see you for another lesson or song very soon take care of yourselves buh-bye I've heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord but you don't really care for music it goes like this the fourth the fifth the minor fall and the major lift the baffled King composing hallelujah oh yeah oh yeah your faith was strong but you needed proof you saw her bathing on the roof her beauty and she tied you to her kitchen chair she broke your throne she cut your hair and from your lips she drew the hell yeah Oh you say I took the name in vain but I'd only know the name but if I did well really watch it - yeah the blazing light and every word it doesn't matter what you heard the holy hell ah Oh oh yeah I love I didn't my best it wasn't much I couldn't feel so tried to touch up to all the truths I didn't come and healing Lou it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of song with nothing but my tongue Oh whoa you