When I'm Alone - Bridge
Lesson time: (2min 23sec)
Learn the bridge (middle eight) of Lissie's "When I'm Alone" - the chord shapes and changes that take you back into the chorus.
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Lesson transcript:
Music Lesson: Understanding the Bridge and Chord Progressions
Okay, so now we're going to move into another section, which I call the bridge, also known as the middle eight.
Chord Shapes Needed
For this part, we're going to need:
- G Shape
- D Minor Shape
Verse Progression
- "Remind me of home when you're around me"
- D Minor Shape
- "Next time you leave"
- G
- "Don't go without that"
- D Minor Shape
- E
- F Shape
- No F. F Shape.
- G Shape
- A Minor Shape
- "Hang on that"
- F Shape
- Yeah. G, A Minor.
Chorus Transition
- "Cause you make me feel."
Returning to the Chorus
So you're going back to the chorus:
- "And when I'm alone with you, you are the one."
- "You are the..."
- Another double chorus:
- "And when I'm alone with you"
- "And you made me feel."
- "And you made me feel."
- "I am alone with you."
- "You are the world."
- "Oh, oh, oh, yeah."
- "No, no. When I'm alone."
Tips for the Chorus
- The thing with that chorus is, you're going to get the hang of it.
- Regardless of whether you want to move your capo up or down, you really get into that flow:
- F, G, A Minor Shape.
- It's F, G, A Minor, back to G to F.
- It's like a little triangle almost.
Conclusion
I hope this makes sense to you a little bit in this lesson about changing the key and using a capo.
Final Thoughts
Another way to do it is to transcribe and do it all that way, but I find that the capo is just a quick, helpful tool to change the key of a song so that you feel comfortable and confident singing it.
About the instructor
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 In her guitar course, Lissie shares the chords, strumming and songwriting instincts behind her songs - everything you need to start playing like Rock Island's finest troubadour. read more