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Everybody Hurts Chords | How To Everybody Hurts On Guitar By R.E.M
Everybody Hurts By R.E.M Overview
Difficulty: Beginner
Video Time: 15:28
Description: In this guitar lesson your going to learn the Everybody Hurts chords, chord changes and picking patterns
Performance Notes For Everybody Hurts Chords
In this lesson our lead guitar tutor James Mulligan is going to be teaching one of R.E.M’s must famous songs and was released in 1992…taken from the album “Automatic For The People”. The song Everybody hurts involves 4 chords D Major,G Major, E Minorand A Major. Although there is more difficult chords later on (which won’t be covered in this guitar lesson), the majority of the song is based around these 4 chords.
The intro of everybody hurts starts with two main sequences of chords D Major and G Major, which is quite easy. The difficult part is actually changing between one chord to the next.
The picking pattern for this section is Down Down Down Up Up Up. Make sure you really focus the correct picking pattern for this section.
Everybody Hurts Chords
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- Everybody Hurts Guitar Tab
To play everybody hurts like James teaches on the video, download the guitar tablature for the song…
Everybody Hurts Chords/Lyrics
Everybody hurts Chords/Lyrics | Verse
D G
When the day is long
D
And the night,
G
The night is yours a-lone
D G
And you’re sure you’ve had e-nough of this
D G
life, well hang on
Everybody Hurts Chords/Lyrics | Chorus
Em A
Don’t let yourself go,
Em A
everybody cries
Em A
everybody hurts
D G
sometimes
Everybody Hurts Chords/Lyrics | Verse 2
D G D
Sometimes everything is wrong, now it’s time to sing a-long
G D
When your day is night a-lone (hold on, hold on)
G D
If you feel like letting go (hold on)
G D G
When you think you’ve had too much of this life, well hang on
Everybody Hurts Chords/Lyrics | Chorus 2
Em A Em A Em
Everybody hurts, take comfort in your friends
A
Everybody hurts
Everybody Hurts Chords/Lyrics | Bridge
F# Bm F# Bm F# Bm C
Don’t throw your hand, oh no, don’t throw your hand
G C Am
when you feel like you’re alone, no, no, no, you are not alone
D G D G
If you’re on your own in this life, the days and nights are long
D G D G
When you think you’ve had too much, of this life, to hang on
Everybody Hurts chords/Lyrics | Outro
Em A Em A
Well everybody hurts, some – times everybody cries,
Em A D G
everybody hurts, sometimes
D G
But everybody hurts some – times
D G D
So hold on, hold on, hold on,
G D G D G
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
Teacher’s advice for practicing and playing everybody hurts chords
“This is very basic guitar lesson on a great song, make sure you play the everybody hurts chords cleanly when playing the picking pattern down-down-down-up-up-up…
Watch the video to get the best way on how to play the everybody hurts chords and chord changes, as well as the picking.
That’s all the parts of this classic song by R.E.M, We hope you’ve gotten a lot from this guitar lesson…and have improved your strumming, picking and chord changes”- Your Guitar Success
The finger hand shows what left hand finger you should fret when playing chords. Match up the your fretting hand with the colour-coded-diagrams.
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