🎸 You Are My Sunshine • Easy guitar lesson w/ melody tab

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Hey friends! Here's my new video lesson teaching you how to play the traditional classic You Are My Sunshine. I'm basing this on the 2003 version by Johnny Cash, which is played using only 3 chords (A, D, and E) -- making it great for absolute beginners. In the second half of the lesson, I'll show how you can dial up the difficulty a bit if you want to add more complex strumming (e.g. alternating bass notes). I'll also show two different ways to play the melody riff, tabs included.

0:00 Preview & Lesson Summary
1:49 Chord Shapes
3:31 Chord Progression
5:27 Strumming: Basics
7:05 Strumming: Adding Bass Notes
12:12 Melody Riff w/ Tabs
22:03 Full Playthrough

Remember, if you didn't see my previous lesson showing the process of working out the melody notes for this song, check it out here! I've gotten a ton of great feedback expressing how helpful this video was, which makes me so glad. https://songnotes.net/lessons/411/

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