Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by Eurythmics Tutorial/Lesson
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Am, F/C, E, Dm, D
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Hey everyone, my name is Ellen and today I'm going to be showing you guys how to play Sweet Dreams Are Made of This by Uriics on the guitar. And today I am featuring my Journey Instruments OF660 [music] guitar, which is one of the coolest guitars that I own because you can collapse it and fold it in half and take it with you wherever you go. So if you are interested in this model or any of their other travel guitars, I will make sure to link them in the description box down below. Here's a quick overview of everything I'll be covering in this tutorial today. And with that being said, let's go ahead and get started. All right, guys. So, you only need to know five different chord shapes to play through this entire song. And we're going to start with our A minor, which looks like this, and sounds like this. And by the way, if you don't know how to read these chord charts you're seeing on screen, I do cover how to do that, my free beginner series right here on YouTube. So, make sure check that out right here. The next chord shape is our F over C. >> [music] >> We also have our E major. Next is our D minor. And the last chord shape is our D major. And by the way, that F over C chord shape, I'm only teaching this way because I wanted to keep this tutorial beginner friendly. And this is a non-bard way to play F. However, if you prefer, you can actually just switch out your F over C for your full bar chord F. [music] All right. Um, but those are the chords you need to know to play through the song. So, go ahead and pause the video and take as much time as you need to really look over these chord shapes, get them memorized, and also practice transitioning [music] back and forth between them, cuz it'll make learning the rest of the song so much easier for you. And if this is a skill you're currently struggling with, I do have a practice with me chord transitions playlist on my channel here where we go through this skill and build it up in real time together. So, I'll make sure to link that in the corner for those of you who need it. But once you have these chords under your belt, then we can go ahead and talk about the strumming that I would suggest for this song. All right, guys. So, for strumming today, as you can see, we're going to be counting this in an eighth note count. So, it's going to sound like this. We have one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and down up up down up down up down up down up. All right. And this is the only pattern you need to know to play through this entire song. And what we're going to do is we're going to go back and forth between playing the whole thing one time per chord. And sometimes we're also going to have to split this in half. Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and add a vertical line here after the second downstrum. And what this represents is where we want to change chords. Now, throughout the song, there are going to be quite a few places where we want to play two chords within one strumming measure. So, basically what that's going to look like is we're going to play one chord on the left half and then our second chord on the right half. You can see here we're starting on our A minor chord. For a minor, you would play through this entire pattern one time through. So, we have down, up, down, up, Then on these next two chords, F over C and E, you can see this little hash mark that I have here on my guide. That represents that these are split measures. So we want to play both of these chords within the one measure. So on our F over C, we do the left half. Down, up, [singing] down. Do a [music] really quick switch to your E major and finish it out. Up, up, down, [music] up. All right. So without stopping, we have down, up, [singing and music] down, up, down, up. All right. So, we're gonna go down, up, down, up, up, down, [music] up to F, down, up, down to [singing] E, up, up, down, up. All right. [music] Great. And this basic strumming rhythm is what you can use to play through the entire song. But one thing I wanted to show you if you wanted to add it in there is you can add some chucking into this pattern to make it sound a little bit more rhythmic, a little more drummy like the original version. So what I'm going to do here is on the second beat and the fourth beat, I'm going to add a little X. And what that represents is where I want you to chuck your strings. So with chucking, basically whenever you're strumming with your right hand, instead of like just a [music] regular downstrum, I want you to take the side of your palm and as you strum the strings down, I kind of want you to kind of follow it through with the side of your palm touching the strings. Okay? It's going to be similar to a palm mute, but when you do it faster, you should hear kind of more of a crunchy like dead note sound. Like you shouldn't really hear a note. All right? So if you do that on beats two and four, we can kind of create more of a drummy rhythm. So we have down, up, chuck, up, chuck, [music] up. All right. And you'll really hear the chucking be more prominent the faster you can play through this pattern. And you want to do this with your split measures, too. So we have F down, up, chuck. Switch to E and finish it out. Up, up, [music] chuck, up. All right. So that exact same phrase with the chucking in there is going to sound like this. We have a minor F E. [music] All right. And the checking again is totally optional, but if you can add it in there, I do think it kind of dresses up the guitar part and just makes it sound a little bit more drumy like the original song. We've got a minor F. And this is more at full tempo here. So, make sure to practice until you can get [singing] everything going at this tempo and then you can sing. Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the [music and singing] world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something. All right. And you'll play it like that throughout most of the song. When we get to the chorus, the only thing that I do different is I like to let the whole thing ring out. So I'll take the chucking out. So we've got F [music and singing] A minor for a whole measure. D minor F [singing] D. All right. And that's when all of the little background vocals and everything are going. And then the only other part of this song that's a little bit different is that bridge there. So let's go ahead and bring that up here. You can see we're starting on our A minor. What I would recommend doing is just single downrums for the first half of the bridge. So we have hold your head up. Keep [music] your head up moving on. Hold your [singing] head up moving on. Keep your head up moving on. Then for the second half I would go back to the full strumming pattern. Hold your head [singing] up. Keep your head up moving on. Hold your head up. [music] And then on the last D, just a double downstrum and then mute your strings. Keep your head up. All right. And then that goes back into the rest of the instrumentals and everything. And that would be played just like we practiced. So again, this strumming rhythm is just my suggestion, but I do think it's fairly simple and you can use it to play through the entire song. All right, guys. So again, go ahead and pause the video and take as much time as you need to really look over this strumming rhythm. And if you want to, you can add those chucks in there. You don't have to, but I do [music] think it kind of dresses up the song if you can. But once you have this down, we can go ahead and put everything we've learned in this tutorial together to play to the song. One, two, ready, go. Sweet dreams [music and singing] are made of things. Who am I to disappree? Travel [music] the world and the seven seas. Everybody's [singing] looking for something. >> Want to have fun? Can you do the rest of the song with me? Yeah, >> make sure to check out my Patreon page where you can unlock access to this as well as all my other fast track and playalong guitar tutorials. I'll make sure to leave a link for it in the description box down below. If you enjoyed learning this song with me, then you should definitely [music] check out this video. Not only does it have a super similar vibe and feel, but it's just as fun and easy to play. So, see you over there. Bye.