This video guitar lesson goes over how to play the song “The Only Exception” by, Paramore. We recommend you blow it up and make it full screen on your monitor so it is easy to see the chord diagrams that we put on the video for you. Good luck and if you like it please remember to share it with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or anything really… it all will be much appreciated.
We had a request to do this song by one of the students on Pick Strum Play so we decided to give it a go. It actually came out quite well and is a great beginner guitar lesson. There are really only three chords in the song (two have different shapes, but there are three true different chords).
The image of me (Jeff) on the right is a picture of me playing the g chord. From there I play a “d minor” chord and a “c major 7″.
If you have been looking for a song to help you work on your bar chords, this song is great because the intro has two of them. The D minor and C major 7 are both played using a bar chord. It may be a difficult switch for many of you going from the D minor bar chord to the C major 7 bar chord but with practice you will get the hang of it. Don’t get frustrated if you don’t get it right at first. Be persistent.
The way I would recommend learning this song is to play and learn the second set of chords in the song (g major, d minor, and c major 7) but using the easier fingering. At least until you get the rhythm and finger transitions down. Once you get that then try playing the intro.
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