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This song was written by C Stevens, and the version here is from the Best of Rod Stewart Album.

This lesson will add another song to your list with a few basic chord tricks thrown in to help relieve the boredom of normal strumming and give you something to play around with.

Here are the chords you’ll need:

 

 

You only need to know two chord progressions for this song, so its fairly easy, these are:

Intro

C    2    F     4

G    2     3    4

Verse

C    2    G     4

F    2    G    4

Apart from those two parts the only other thing of note is that the G chord in the Intro part is sustained at the end of some parts for a count of four longer.

The layout of the song is as follows:

Time	Song Part	Bars	Guitar chord part
0:00	Intro	8	Intro x 4
0:24	Verse 1	10	Verse x 4, Intro x 1
0:55	Chorus	8	Verse x 3, Intro x 1
1:18	Sustain G	1	Extra G for count of 4
1:22	Verse 2	10	Verse x 4, Intro x 1
1:52	Chorus	8	Verse x 3, Intro x 1
2:15	Solo	8	Intro x 4
2:39	Verse 3	10	Verse x 4, Intro x 1
3:08	Sustain G	1	Extra G for count of 4
3:11	Chorus	8	Verse x 3, Intro x 1
3:34	End	8	Intro x 2

You should know the drill by now, try each part slowly at first working up your speed as you get better. Try different types of strumming and picking to see what suits you best.

So lets spice it up a bit with a few tricks. These are just general chord embellishments that can be used with the chords in other songs as well.

The first, in this case, is applicable to the F chord in the intro riff. It is best to try the embellishment on its own, before incorporating it into the song. You need to play an F major with a  partial bar, not a full bar, to do this. Hold an F chord on the neck, and try the following:

• strum once down
• lift the middle finger, which should have been holding the second fret of the G string, play an up strum
• put the finger back and strum once more down.

 

(use this partial bar F Major for the chord embellishment).

The second embellishment that can be added is on the G chord. For this you need to be fretting the chord with the middle, ring and pinkie fingers and hence have your index finger free. On the same riff, for the G chord part, we will this time add an extra C note (1st fret on B string) to the chord using the index finger.

• down strum
• pick the low E string
• down strum
• pick low E string
• put on extra note, down strum
• take extra note off, pick low E string
• and one final down strum.

The riff has been broken down, because that’s the way you should learn it, by breaking the movement down into its component parts and then reconstructing it slowly to form the required riff.

For further practice, both of these embellishments can be incorporated into the learning to fly chord sequence. The F part can be played exactly like it is in "the first cut is the deepest" and the G would be played the same way as the F, downward strum, add note, upward strum, remove note, downward strum.

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