Welcome to day 7 of Beatles guitar. Today we're looking at the song Come Together. Now I've looked at how to play this before in standard tuning in a more beginner version, and I'll leave that video directly below this one on the. Website. Um, to give you a heads up what's in that video, that shows you how to play this with basic open chords, uh, D major, A major, G, and also different options to do the B minor or B power chord, or B minor 7 that we have as a solution to how to play that song in standard tuning. In this video, I wanna dig into how to play this in something called drop D tuning, cos it actually makes everything a lot easier, especially to do a couple of the fancier bits, the bass riff, the blues riff. This is a real, it can really open up people's world when they start to look into. To a simple, uh, open or drop tuning, and all we're gonna do is take the thickest Estring down a whole step. To do that, we will need some kind of tuner to be able to do it well. I'm gonna use my TC electronic polytune tuner, which I really love because if I just strum all six. When everything is green. Which that one isn't weirdly. I When everything is green, It shows me that I'm in tune. How great is that? If I just strum all the open strings and they're all green, I know I'm in tune, and if one of them's out, like that thick as these strings says it's a tiny bit out, it just tells me like that. But what we're gonna do is play string 6, and we're gonna take it down clockwise, about a quarter turn. So I'm gonna turn this towards me and I'm gonna keep picking about once a second. So about there And then the effect of this is that I can now play a D major chord, but play all six strings, and it sounds. Wonderful and booming in the low end. Compared to the standard tuning one, which sounds like that. But the advantage of this beyond that is that we can play the main bass riff on guitar. And we can play all the blues riffs. Like with one finger. And even the harder B power chord. It all just becomes One finger chords, or we can play the. So that is what we're gonna focus on in this lesson, you'll find more help with how to do that in the description below. Now you're in. Drop de-tuning, let's have a look at how we can play this bass riff and the rest of the song. So here's how to play. Essentially 4 notes. The open D string, string 6, cos we've retuned it to D. For at 7 on string 6, we play that with the middle finger so that we can hit. The 8th fret, fret 8 with the 3rd finger. And then the first finger at fret 5, and that's on string 5. So 12. 34. To then play the riff, we play 00. 7 85. But we had a slide from around about 3. So that 7th fret dot. Like that. Now if you're uncomfortable doing that, maybe from fret 5 and doing a shorter bend. But the real part of this song is a real. You know, really hearing that slide, and I love this kind of thing, we can slide up, we can slide down on our guitars, I really love going. I think it's a er Bob Dylan song actually. Fixing to die does that. Really, really cool stuff to get into if you uh want to bring some life into, you know, basics of acoustic guitar. This. Is one of the best ways into it, slide with that middle finger. And we want to do 2 mutes, so. And we want to make that first one really short and staccato. 1212, just do that by muting. Slide to 7. 8, and holding it with the middle finger and third finger, can really help there. And then to first finger. A little bit of a bend down. Sounds really cool, that sounds a bit. It's a very balloosy thing to do. We can't really bend that one out of tune. What we don't want to do is bend the D out of tune, otherwise that will sound wrong for the song. But doing this. Just sounds very bluesy, that's a good thing, that sounds like the song. 30. And then for the verse, we just play the thickest three strings, 65, and 4 together. And we play 1 and 2 and in a repetition, the blues shuffle riff. Palm muted outside of the palm of the hand, just here on the inside of where the bridge is, the white part of my guitar. And if you like this kind of thing. We do a lot more of this at level 6, beginner acoustic and beyond, but level 6 is where we really dig in, uh, to beginner blues. There's more of it in the intermediate acoustic course as well. But that's pretty much the easiest thing we can do. So it's like on that string 500220022, but we're also hitting string six and it's fine to hit string 4 as well, we just want them to sound. Together. Just a little movement of the wrist. you All he want Holy roll. Go, then we go to fret 7. If you want the really easy way to do this, just bar fret 7. Strings 65, and 4 together. Keep going in that palm muted fashion. And then it's It again an easy thing to do. Give it the open strings to allow you to move to give you time. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and. 23, he just do what he please. So head down to his knees where we're at fret 7, which is an A chord in this tuning. And we can also do. With the 3rd or even little finger if the stretch is hard for you, but keep that elbow into your side, flat 1st finger and make sure your fingers are not on this angle, they want to be on this angle, so we, hey, this 3rd finger can stretch there easily. Most people try and do this stretch like this when they first try it. You want that index finger this side, and again elbowing to the side allows that to be possible, and then all these big stretches are much more comfortable. And then we're back to the riff. When that riff happens, it tends to happen 4 times. We go into this until that 3rd line of the verse. I Be a joke curry, just do Ay please. Then it would be back to the riff. When it says come together, it is always 9th fret. Come together. Then it's 7, always on the dots. 7 555 57 over me, and you know it goes back to the riff then. So come together is always fret 9. Come together. 155557. Let's do that one more time. Come together. 755557 over the riff. So let's have a playthrough now, let's have a go together. Pause the video if you need to take a few moments just to practise any individual part of that, but if you've followed this course already, and especially if you've checked out level 6 beginner acoustic, you should have no problem with all the riffs that we're looking at here. More help can be found there, including with the slides and little lead techniques and the blues riff. Let's have a go at this full playthrough, let's go. Ready from the main riff in 1234. Come all flat top, he come grooving up slowly. He got juju eyeball, he won, holy roller, he got hair down. his name Got to be a joker. He just do what he please, riff. He wore no shoeshine, he got door jam football, he got monkey finger, he chewed Coca-Cola, he said, I know you. You know me. One thing I can tell you is you got to be free, come together. now Oh, the me. Bag production. He got wore a gumboot. He got. no side, but he won spinal cracker. He got feet. Down below his knee. Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease come together. Now. Over me. And that is how to play, come together. There will be some more helpful videos to get you started with this kind of blues style and even drop D tuning down on the lesson page below. But when you're ready, get on to day 8, as soon as you're ready, when we'll look at another great Beatles song that we can play on acoustic guitar. Thank you so much for watching, I'll see you over there. Bye bye.