Easy Guitar Lesson: The Verve Pipe - The Freshmen

Master all parts of this song in ten minutes. Easy way to do picking with bar chords. No Capo. Also teaches full chords of song. Tabs are included on-screen throughout.
Give it a try and give me some feedback.
Please don't bitch about my singing, it's not a vox lesson.


Keep in mind this lesson is for beginners by a beginner so constructed criticism is good, because I already know i'm not perfect..

VIDEO TABS:
TABS

1st Chord
E}-------------------
B}----------7--------
G}------9-----9------
D}----9---9-----9----
A}--7-------------9--
E}-------------------

2nd Chord
E}------------------
B}------------2-----
G}--------2---------
D}------2---2-------
A}----0-------------
E}------------------

3rd Chord
E}-------------------
B}----------6--------
G}------6-----6------
D}----6---6----------
A}--4----------------
E}-------------------

4th Chord
E}-----------------------
B}----------------2-----
G}-----------2----------
D}----4---2---2--------
A}--2----0--------------
E}----------------------


LYRICS:
When I was young I knew everything
And she a punk who rarely ever took advice
Now I'm guilt stricken, sobbin' with my head on the floor
Stop a Baby's Breath and a shoe full of rice, no...

I can't be held responsible
'Cause she was touching her face
I won't be held responsible
She fell in love in the first place

For the life of me I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise
For the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins
We were merely freshmen

My best friend took a week's vacation to forget her
His girl took a week's worth of valium and slept
And now he's guilt stricken sobbin' with his head on the floor
Thinks about her now and how he never really wept he says

I can't be held responsible
'Cause she was touching her face
I won't be held responsible
She fell in love in the first place

For the life of me I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise
For the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins
We were merely freshmen
hey yay e yay e yay e yay e yay hey yay e yay e

We've tried to wash our hands of all of this
We never talk of our lack in relationships
And how we're guilt stricken sobbin' with our heads on the floor
We fell through the ice when we tried not to slip, we'd say

I can't be held responsible
'Cause she was touching her face
And I won't be held responsible
She fell in love in the first place

For the life of me I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise
For the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins
We were merely freshmen

For the life of me I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise
For the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins
We were merely freshmen
We were only freshmen

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• verve pipe
• freshmen
• guitar lesson
• guitar tutorial
• no capo
• verve pipe guitar lesson
• tabs
• tablature
• chords

[michaelcl123]

thanks swemba that was a nice vid ur teaching styles are really good and you really no what ur doin unlike a lot of other youtube vids put up by random kids

[Swemba]

@michaelcl123 Haha I actually had no idea what I was doing, I was just learning guitar and was frustrated trying to follow other lesson vids so I made my own. Thank you though.

[Swemba]

Thanks for the love all. I'll get off my ass and do more lessons soon!

[garbruce]

Thank you so much, I have been waiting for someone to post a video on this song, I sing it all the time, and now I can play it too, sounds pretty close to the original, but I'm not a pro and an no it all like some of these other people, let's see them post a video and do better, YOU ROCK!!!!

[Swemba]

No prob thanks man

[eric188125]

basically ,my favorite guitar teaching vid of all time :) thanks so much for making this simple!!

[jostaful]

Dude, lil mistake.... Make sure the tabs on screen match your fingers, cause I saw it say 5 and you were on fret 4 :p

[Maxsgcrew]

u will enjoy this trying it without the pick ;)

[ivanhulkcabrido]

thanks man!

[dipsettt18]

thank you for this much appreciated

[Sirius1y]

Man, I can do all but the very first part. My left wrist is aching now. I can't barre and hold the ring and pinky at the same time. :( 7th fret is kicking my butt!

[zeppelinfanatic100]

@Swemba Ok....I deleted my nasty comment, I appreciate your response. Oh and I don't have little feelings I have big ones ;-). Seriously, thanx for the vid.