Applying vibrato to your guitar playing will add an expressive, vocal quality that’s easy and can greatly enhance a chord progression. Beginners should look out for guitar tabs with curved arrows indicating upward-bent strings as an indicator.
Let’s learn to play Passenger’s hit single, “Let Her Go”, using mostly open chords and a straightforward fingerpicking pattern.
Chorus
Let Her Go is an acoustic guitar song made famous by singer-songwriter Passenger. Its beautiful ballad melody and soothing acoustic accompaniment provided a welcome respite from today’s vibrant charts.
This song begins with an intricate fingerpicking intro that requires patience to learn, then chords strummed in both straightforward and syncopated rhythms – it is important to practice both patterns to find which best fits you!
This song is performed in the key of G, yet uses chords from the C family with a capo at the 7th fret to transpose to another key more suitable to most vocalists while creating an excitingly dramatic atmosphere.
Verse
Starting off the song with a fingerstyle guitar introduction is an excellent way to start learning this tune. Although newcomers might find it challenging combining melody and chords at first, with this video lesson it should become easy!
Passenger employs two forms of rhythms during its strumming pattern: an easily identifiable steady strumming rhythm, as well as one where accented beats (known as accented strums ) appear unexpectedly within each measure.
After the second verse, the song returns to a fingerstyle intro before moving directly into its chorus progression. Before continuing on with any part of the song, make sure you use a capo at seventh fret to alter chord keys from C to G for easier singing by singers.
Bridge
Passenger’s 2012 hit song ‘Let Her Go’ was an enormous success for an acoustic singer-songwriter, featuring this fingerstyle intro. It is easy to learn and can become part of any acoustic guitar player’s repertoire; using chords from the C family (recorded in G major). To play this song in its original key of G major you will need a capo on the 7th fret and break down each note four at a time into four note phrases before trying fingerpicking patterns four notes at a time until finally getting it down pat; in addition this song requires tuning the sixth string up a semitone (G major to F).
Outro
Passenger’s hit acoustic track ‘Let Her Go’ can be learned on guitar with this free lesson from E-Chords. This free guitar lesson shows how to do so in G major with a capo on the 7th fret and fingerpicking intro, complete with its moody chord shapes broken down four notes at a time and fingerpicking patterns that require less practice overall than others. Good luck and may all rights remain with E-Chords. All rights are reserved by them for commercial and non-commercial use only. All E-Chords materials belong solely and all rights are reserved by E-Chords for educational use only and/or all rights are reserved for personal/educational/commercial/scholarly use/credit. All rights are retained by E-Chords/ All rights are reserved by E-Chords/All rights are retained by E-Chords/All rights are retained by E-chords/All rights are retained by E-Chords/All rights are reserved by E-Chords/All rights are retained by E-Chords/All rights are reserved by E-Chords/All rights are reserved by E-Chords/All rights are retained by E-Chords/all rights are retained by eChords/ All rights are reserved by E-Chords for E-chords/All rights Reserveds All rights are retained by E-Chords/All rights ares/All rights Reserveds for E-Chords for E/All rights Reserve/All rights reserves/Chords All rights and are All rights s/All rights All rights/All rights All/Chords All/All/Chords for/All rights Reserveds all rights from/All/CHOR/ All/All rights are all Rights reserved by E/All/ords all/All/All rights are All/All All/All All