It Ain't Me Guitar Lesson
This Selena Gomez song is a lot of fun to play and has a great fingerpicking pattern!
Don't worry about reading music, this beat by beat breakdown will have you understanding music notation quickly.
0:00 - 1:45
Chord is played with fingers on beat 1 and then we drop our strum hand on to strings for a percussive sound on beat 2.
The low A (on 6th string) is played with your thumb (p)
Index finger (i) plays your 3rd string
Middle finger (m) plays your 2nd string
Am
1:46 - 2:15
We play the 3rd string again with our index on the '&' of beat 2.
2:16 - 2:38
We come back to the low string with our thumb for beat 3.
2:39 - 3:35
Middle finger will play the 2nd string on the '&' of beat 3.
3:36 - 4:21
Drop the strum across the strings on beat 4 for a percussive sound.
Next up is the chord progression. We keep the rhythm the same with one slight change in the second half of the last measure.
C
F
G
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