You've Got a Friend in Me • Easy guitar lesson w/ lyrics, chords, and intro tab

Get my print-friendly sheet music for this song: https://www.musicnotes.com/l/DHFMS BONUS for Patreon supporters: save 50% when buying the sheet music! Get the discount code here @ https://songnotes.net/discount Support me on Patreon and get access to my entire library of (non-song) instructional PDFs, plus get a monthly discount code (50% off) when buying any of my song sheet music. Learn more @ https://songnotes.net/join View my additional notes for this lesson: https://songnotes.net/lessons/338/ *** Hey friends! New lesson here teaching you how to play a strum-friendly campfire version of "You've Got a Friend In Me", from start to finish (by Randy Newman / from Toy Story). This is a song I first learned the intro to last year (see my lesson #246), but knew I needed to return and teach the entire song after several of you requested I do so. As such, I put together this lesson teaching you basic chord shapes, progressions, and strumming patterns needed -- and also show you two new ways to play the intro (one very simple, the other my "secret stash" personal version). This one has been a blast to learn, I hope you enjoy learning it as much as I did! This version is largely inspired by the Claire Ryann (and her dad) cover that's on YouTube, which is fantastic and I recommend watching. Note, I don't get into the complexities of his fingerstyle technique -- just because they raise the bar of difficulty quite a bit. Where possible, I'm opting for easy / familiar chords, especially during the bridge which I keep as simple as possible. Video timestamps: 0:00 Preview & lesson overview 2:25 Chord shapes needed 6:20 Chord progressions 9:48 Strumming patterns 13:21 Rhythm tip: pushing the C7 chord 15:40 Intro tab: simple version 19:06 Intro tab: my secret stash version 21:47 Full play-along cover w/ lyrics If you want to view more of my lessons, visit songnotes.net which is my personal collection of lessons, tabs, and notes -- all created with care by me (David Potsiadlo). 🎸 Browse all my lessons https://songnotes.net 📝 View all my PDFs & song sheets https://songnotes.net/printables 🎟️ Unlock all my courses & premium content https://songnotes.net/join