Basic Guitar Chords For "Working Class Hero"

Video Transcript

"Hey guys, it's Jerimae Yoder with Expert Village. Today I'm talking about popular acoustic songs that you can play. The next song was recently redone by Green Day. It was originally written by John Lennon. It's called "Working Class Hero" I'm going to give you the chords as they would appear in root to not confuse you guys, because you can do them without the capo obviously. It's A minor, a lot of A minor, and a G, and a G, back to A minor. That's the basic chords but they’re used a little bit differently. So you have to hear how they go in the contexts of the song to really understand how they go. As you can see, it starts 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3. There's a little lift off of the A minor every once in a while. Again, these songs are basically to teach you to get out there and play in front of your friends and your family or your girlfriend to start to learn how to play some of these simple songs."