Can’t Buy Me Love Tab
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We will study the first half or the Introduction and the Part A portion of the song Can’t Buy Me Love in this lesson. We will finish up this song in the second lesson in this finger-style lesson series.
The introduction of the piece should be played with feeling – just listen to the CD. The chord forms should be brushed with the right hand thumb.
Not only should you hold your left hand fingers in place for the brushed chords in the introduction, but for the most part, hold them for the notes that follow as well. This will create a smooth, effortless mood for the introduction.
Rhythm Chords For The Song
The correct rhythm chords are also placed in the TAB and notation for your convenience. The chord diagrams are located above the notation score. Not only can you refer to these diagrams for the rhythm portion of the song, they can also be very useful for giving you “clues” as the chords you will need to form for your finger-style melody.
Obviously, for those of you interested in only the rhythm chords, these will come in very handy. As with many finger-style songs, this arrangement uses the standard alternating bass for the majority of the lesson. This is accomplished with the thumb of the right hand.
Also, the lead or “melody” notes for the piece are picked with the index, middle and ring finger of the right hand. You should attempt to hold the left hand fingering for the chord forms wherever possible and only adjust fingering as needed to play certain melody notes.
This will allow you to more easily play the melody line and it will additionally keep you aware of your position within the score. When absolutely necessary lift your left hand finger from the indicated chord forms.
-Notes On The F Chord – Cant’ Buy Me Love
One of the hardest chords for any finger-style guitar player to play with absolute clarity is the barred F Major chord in the first position. There certainly more ways to skin this cat in fingering this chord. This lesson depicts the use of the left hand thumb to play the F note on the 6th bass string in lieu of the more difficult bar chord across all 6 of the strings.
You can choose as to which method works for you and which makes transitions easier to make and work on that system for your F chord.
Can’t Buy Me Love – The Syncopated Notes
If you play any arrangements by Chet Atkins at all, you soon realize that he uses quite a bit of syncopation in his playing style. What is syncopation? This means that certain melody notes are moved out of their normally played location, which creates a break or pause in an unexpected location.
If you view the 1st note in the Part A lesson tab, which is after the introduction, you will see a syncopated note. Look at the lesson tab and in particular, the last note in the 7th measure of the lesson.
Ordinarily this note would be placed as the first note in the 8th measure, but to bring syncopation to the piece it is moved “backward” in the music by 1/2 beat to the 7th measure. You will more examples of this technique in not only this piece, but in many other finger-style TAB’s.
For the complete lesson material, including free TAB, Guitar Pro files and much more be sure to visit our article: Cant Buy Me Love TAB. We also offer many other finger-style guitar lessons, free tab and guitar advice at our site, Ultimate Guitar OnLine.
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