Welcome to day 3 of this 10 day Beatles guitar challenge, where today we're looking at Eleanor Rigby. This can be played as a simple two chord version, but we're gonna be looking at some simple chord embellishments. There will be some bonus material on the website, including how to play the melody. The link to that is at the top of the description, but grab your guitar, join me, let's learn this fantastic song. Eleanor Rigby can be played with two simple chords, C major and E minor. And that is how the intro is played. Look at all the lonely people. I look at all the lonely people. Remember for that C major chord, place your fingers down 123, but have them on an angle, not like this, it's an easier stretch. Keep your elbow into the side, fingers really curled over, 123, and you can keep the middle finger down when we go to the E minor. And there are two chords to be able to play the bulk of this song. There are 3 sections to this song that each repeat one after the other. We can do a different strumming pattern for each section to jazz this up a little bit, so that intro can be played with on the beat strumming, 1234, nice and easy, or down, down. Up, up, down, the most common strumming pattern ever. So if you haven't got this one yet, here's the trick. Keep your arm moving, 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and but strum, down, down, up, up, down. It sounds more natural if you hit the thicker strings on the down strums and the thinner strings on the up strums. So this is really just a slight movement or a slight twist of the wrist, and this starts to happen naturally, but only very slightly. It sounds like this. And that is that intro. But if you struggle, just 1234 on the beat is absolutely fine. It's 2 bars of the C, 2 bars of the E minor for that intro section or lonely people section. Verse 1, Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where the wedding has been, starts on E minor, then goes to C and then goes back to E minor. We may wish to keep that strumming pattern going. Lives in a dream. The tricky bit is that last part where we have uh 2 beats per chord, so lives in a dream. As the vibe, Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in a church where the wedding has been. Lives in a dream. We may want to, especially from there, do just strummings on the beat. But with a mute. Strum, and then silence waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in the jar by the door. Who is it for? And then we get to the chorus section. This can be played all on E minor. Lonely people. Where do they all come from? Lonely people. Where do they all belo? However, the chord embellishments that we can add to this, if we play the E minor with middle two fingers like this, where we can play a rock hand, the devil horns, we can add in the little finger. For an E minus 7. Little finger slides to the 2nd fret. And then to the first. And then the 2nd, so what's happening is we're holding down an E minor, but the 2nd string is playing fret 3. 210. all come The strumming for that section can again be down, down. Down or just on the beat 4 strums. Or Let's play this through nice and slowly together. If you struggle at all, just go for one strum per chord and follow the chord sheet that I'll link to in the description below. Or just go on the beat. Anytime I'm doing any fancier strumming, just stick to 1234, on the beat and add the embellishments as you come back to this, as you practise, and as you feel ready. Let's go from the very top, which starts on a C major chord. Ready from the C major chord in 1. 21234. Uh, keep that going. And we stay on E minor now for verse one. Picks up the rice in the church where the wet C major. the wind. The face that she keeps in the jar by the door. Who is it for? Will be long. Back to the verse. See, Major And And that's how to play Eleanor Rigby. I hope that went well for you. If not, you can always revisit this in your later days of practise. When you're ready, you can go onto the website and find some free bonus videos, including how to play some embellishments for this one, how to play the melody and other parts of this fantastic song. But in the next video. This series, we'll be looking at day 4, well, we'll be looking at another great Beatles song that we can play on acoustic guitar. When that video's up, I'll leave a link just here, more helpful links in the description below. Hope this course is going really well for you guys. Let me know how this course is going in the comments below, and I'll see you in the next video.