How to Play the Lazy Song by Bruno Mars on Acoustic Guitar

(0:03)- VERSE (0:21)- PICK STRUMMING (0:45)- FINGER PICKING (1:27)- PRE-CHORUS (2:04)- CHORUS (2:23)- BRIDGE (2:59)- SONG ORDER
This song is pretty easy, you could either strum it with a pick or by finger picking. Either way sounds fine to me. The chords that are used are bar chords: C#, F#, B and D# and Power chords: F# and E. Make sure to pause on the charts if you need to and good luck.

I'm a lefty, so I left the video the way it actually looks. However, if this makes the song a little more difficult to figure out, let me know and I could make it look righty.

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[dogongood]

how do you mute your notes?



[MrGitar11]

@dogongood Sorry, I didn't realize I didn't put an annotation in there. You basically keep your chord hand in the position of whatever chord is being played, but you just release the pressure so that your fingers are just lightly touching the strings and you don't hear any notes when you strum, you just hear a "muted" sound. At (0:39-0:44) notice how I press down the chord and then release the pressure every other strum. Hope this helps.

[rhedz0zero]

thumbs up for a lefthanded guitar :D

[ar1odante]

are you rocking a lefty?



[ZephyrusSmiles]

the shirt changes and sinister guitar threw me off at first, but nice job man, thanks!

[Dragonbreath02]

@ar1odante i rock a lefty to

[dropkick14murphys]

Wooo dropkick murphys!! xDD

[ISeeFlashingLights]

Who noticed that he changed shirts..?

[iGuitar7]

Please check my cover :D! You play awesome :D

[XxAnimexheartzxX]

Thank you, thank you for this(:

[BadassEwok95]

hey, great video... but how comes your guitar sounds much higher pitch than mine? what have you tuned it to?

[s1expressdual]

yeah Dropkick Murphys