How to Play Happy Birthday on Guitar (With Bluesy Ending)

👉JAM THE BLUES ANYWHERE ON THE NECK! Discover the 5 easiest and fastest ways to play the blues scale with this FREE PDF GUIDE→ https://www.jonmaclennan.com/bluesscales How to Play Happy Birthday on Guitar (With Bluesy Ending) Today I want to share with you how to play “Happy Birthday” on guitar. Plus as a bonus at the end I will also share how to add a cool bluesy ending to it. Playing “Happy Birthday” for your friends and family can mean a lot to them. Therefore, it’s a great one to know. You want to be able to pull it off at the drop of a hat. So in this lesson, I am going to cover everything you need to know to do exactly that. So get tuned up, and let’s get started! What are the chords for Happy Birthday? To play “Happy Birthday” on guitar you will only need to know 3 chords. The chords we are going to play are G, C, and D. Let’s next talk about the chord progression. This is going to be the order of the chords, and how long we stay on each chord. Each “/” below represents one strum or one beat. Chord Progression: G / / / D / / / D / / / G / / / G / / / C / (hold and then cue) G D / / / G / Important tip: When you sing and play “Happy Birthday” the guitar isn’t going to come in at the same time as the vocal. The vocal is going to sing a pickup with the word “Happy” and then the first guitar chord should come in on ”Birthday”. The vocal starting note is the note D and can be played as the open 4th string to give yourself the starting pitch. 6th string 5th string 4th string = 0 (starting note) 3rd string 2nd string 1st string Happy Birthday Lyrics and Chords G D Happy Birthday to You G Happy Birthday to You C Happy Birthday Dear (name) G D G Happy Birthday to You. 👉Read the full blog here: https://www.jonmaclennan.com/blog/how... 👉JAM THE BLUES ANYWHERE ON THE NECK! Discover the 5 easiest and fastest ways to play the blues scale with this FREE PDF GUIDE→ https://www.jonmaclennan.com/bluesscales