How To Save A Life Acoustic Guitar Lesson The Fray

Here is an acoustic guitar lesson on how to play "How To Save a Life" originally by The Fray. This guitar lesson has been done by James from the acoustic covers duo "Handsome Alvin", please check out our covers of this and other songs at:

http://www.youtube.com/aushandsomealvin

Capo 3rd Fret

Intro/Verse Chord Progression:

G; Dsus4/F#; Em; D; (1 or 4 times)

Strumming for Entire Song:

D DU UDU

Chorus Chord Progression:

C; D; Em; G; (2 or 4 times)

G; Dsus4/F#; Em; D;

Lyrics:

Intro (0:00)

Verse 1 (0:08)
Step one you say we need to talk
He walks, you say sit down its just a
Talk, He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on
Through, Some sort of window to your
Right, As he goes left and you stay
Right, Between the lines of fear and
Blame, And you begin to wonder why you came

Chorus (0:42)
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all
Night, Had I known how to save a life

Verse 2 (1:04)
Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defence
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things youve told him all along
And pray to God he hears you
And pray to God he hears you and

Chorus (1:35)
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all
Night, Had I known how to save a life

Verse 3 (1:59)
As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones youve followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or hell say hes just not the same
And youll begin to wonder why you came

Out Chorus (2:31)
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all
Night, Had I known how to save a life
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all
Night, Had I known how to save a life
How to save a life
How to save a life
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all
Night, Had I known how to save a life
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all
Night, Had I known how to save a life
How to save a life
How to save a life

Enjoy

James from Handsome Alvin

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[uglen45]

Is it a Fender? I got Fender CD 60 NAT. Mine is very like yours :p

[educationalmaterials]

Nope it's a Maton EM225C

[diogotomediogo]

thank you for this mate keep it up!

[educationalmaterials]

No problem and will do, hopfully more videos to come in a few weeks.

[xWhocaresxX]

can you put up the rhythmic notes too like in the acoustic version? itd be very helpful if you could plz :D

[educationalmaterials]

Not sure what you mean here, all the strumming patterns are already included, do you mean the counting???

[AshandRyanMusic]

How much is this guitar approximatly mate?

[izzya13pllbieber]

Awesome thanks :)

[indieRPF]

@educationalmaterials wow nice guitar =] (Y)

[wolfgirlrachie]

I dont know how i didnt see the things at the beginnign forget i made the last comment :') great tutorial (i spelt it right this time!) thanks helped a lot :)

[wolfgirlrachie]

its a great torturial but it would help if i could see where you place your fngers as i dont know all the chords :)

[DatTranRulz]

this is decent