Summer of 69
Bryan Adams Classic Rock Song
Summer of 69 Guitar Lesson
Video Time: 5:59
This is an old video I did many years ago and it has since been viewed 1.5 Million times.
The time stamps below go with the live stream that is found at the bottom of this page
10:15
Summer of 69 starts
10:25 - 10:54
Begin by hitting the D chord or D5 (shown in fretboard graph to the right). Try to avoid hitting the low E string. I have the 5th string A showing an x on the fretboard but it doesn't sound bad if you accidentally hit it so I wouldn't get overly concerned with that. Just try to avoid the low E.
After you play the chord on beat 1, play your open D string twice then your chord again on the "&" of beat 2. If you can you may want to slightly palm mute the D string when playing it by itself. No worries if you can't, it will still sound great!
D5
10:55 - 11:26
Next we will play that open D string a total of 12 times. 4 to complete measure 1 and then 8 times in measure 2.
D5
11:27 - 11:37
Now we move to our open A chord but essentially play the same thing however the open A string is played instead of D.
11:38 - 11:55
Now we put it together for this 4 measure verse pattern.
11:56 - 12:37
Pre-Chorus is comprised of 4 chords: Bm, A, D and G. Held for 4 beats each. The strum pattern below could also be used.
12:38 - 14:48
Cool arpeggiated riff that is played underneath the first chord progression we learned.
14:49 - 15:26
This is similar to part above but uses Asus2, A and Asus4
15:30 - 15:45
Bridge using F, Bb and C chords
July 1st, 2017 Live Stream
Video Time: 53:30
This song is taught in a live stream from July 1, 2017. It starts at 10:15 mark. The next video button below will take you to the material to go along with the Shawn Mendez song called Treat You Better which is also taught in the same stream!