Lesson 14 of 25Acoustic GuitarBeginner

Everywhere I Go - The chords

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Lissie teaches the chords to her song Everywhere I Go, working through the verse and chorus with G, B minor, C, D and E minor, plus an optional picked intro.

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    • 01. Everywhere I Go - Background & memories

      7:18

    • 02. Everywhere I Go - The chords

      You are here

      3:16

    • 03. Everywhere I Go - The bridge

      3:35

    • 04. Everywhere I Go - Solo

      1:41

    • 05. Everywhere I Go - Picked out intro

      4:51

    • 06. Everywhere I Go - Performance (With Chords)

      4:03

    • 07. Everywhere I Go - Performance (single-cam)

      4:03

Lesson transcript

How to Play "Everywhere I Go"

Introduction

So, I am going to teach you how to play "Everywhere I Go." If you have zero guitar experience, I would recommend that you study the chord chart we mentioned, it will be attached. It's got some pretty basic chords in it.

Playing Methods

I'm going to show you a couple of ways to play it:

  • Chords Only: I'll demonstrate this method first.
  • Picked Intro: If you're feeling adventurous, there's another way to start the intro with a kind of picked out bit that I can show you as well.

Basic Chords

The basic chords in this song are:

  • G
  • B minor
  • C
  • D

I'll get to the picked out intro here shortly, but let's start with the chords you need.

Verse Chords

In the verse, you'll play:

  • G: "I'll fall on my knees"
  • B minor: "Tell me how's"
  • C: "Show me all that I could be."

So, that's basically what happens in the verse. You're playing G, B minor, C, and D.

Chorus Chords

Now, let's go into the chorus. The chorus chords are:

  • C
  • D

These we've already played, but there is a new one to check out:

  • E minor
  • Back to C

This happens twice in the choruses. Hold on the C for a little tag at the end of the chorus:

  • "Miss Tired Mind"
  • C: "Just wants to"
  • B minor: "Lead home."
  • D

Then we'd go back to the verse:

  • G
  • B minor

Tempo

Let's talk about tempo.

You know, if I'm playing this solo, I could play it at any BPM (beats per minute) that I want. It's a tender song, and the recording of it is quite slow. So, you can really do whatever you want, but I wouldn't say this is like a song you would rush through. There's a lot of emotion in it, and for me that means kind of having it feel tender and a little slower.

When I play it with the various bands I've played with, it's always a little different. You have to gauge the mood and the crowd; sometimes we speed it up and sometimes it's really slow, creating a quiet, special moment.

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Lissie is a folk-rocker who grew up in Rock Island, Illinois, near the Mississippi River, speaking her mind and writing songs from an early age. Fans first fell in love with her voice on the five-song EP 'Why You Runnin'', produced by Bill Reynolds of Band of Horses, which Paste Magazine ranked among its Eight Most Auspicious Musical Debuts.

In 2010, her first full-length album 'Catching A Tiger' unassumingly established Lissie as a global voice. Stateside praise was matched in the UK with acclaim from the BBC, Evening Standard, Uncut and The Independent, who described it as "as refreshing a slice of pop as these jaded ears have heard in years." The album went on to sell 300,000 copies worldwide - 100,000 of them in the UK, where it was certified Gold.

Highlights along the way:

  • Nominated for Best Breakthrough Act at the Q Awards, and tapped by VH1 as a "You Oughta Know" artist
  • Festival sets at Glastonbury, Hard Rock Calling, Latitude, Secret Garden Party and Bestival
  • TV appearances including Later with Jools Holland and Sunday Brunch
  • Screen roles in Loudermilk and David Lynch's Twin Peaks, where NME praised her "intense" performance closing the episode with the Stevie Nicks-esque 'Wild West': "Rock Island's most exciting troubadour more than earned her Lynch-commissioned screen time."
  • 'Carving Canyons' (out September 16), her first full-length album since the UK Top 10 'Castles' in 2018

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