 Hi guys, so let's learn Wake Me Up by Avicii, well the chords sound very similar, it's pretty much a 6-4-1-5 progression, you could sort of simplify it as a lot of lessons on YouTube are already probably doing, but what I thought of doing is bring out some of the smaller intricacies of the song which I am able to hear, so thus I have divided the song into three sections, so there are three sections which are quite unique musically, however the verse and the chorus where they go Wake Me Up is pretty much consistent and then of course you have the hook which I will teach you at the end of the lesson, so let's first start with the chords and I am going to start from the chorus Wake Me Up because it's very very popular and then we'll come, we'll move up and do the verse etc, so let me first play you the chorus of Wake Me Up and so on, so let's break that down, so that's one for the first chord is B minor for two counts, one two G major for two counts, D major for two counts, then D major again and then one count of D major and one count of A major, so let's count that again, one two three four, one two three four, remember one two three four, you may be tempted to play one two three four, it's not that it's one two three four, so the A comes in at the four right and the second bar, D, D, F sharp, so I suggest to go through my chords B, G, D, D, A, B, G, D, F sharp minor and you play these bass notes in the left hand Wake Me Up when it's all over that F sharp minor is really nice sounding right and coming to the rhythm well sort of what the guitarist is playing is a rhythm which I've evolved to this so I'll just play you the rhythm and then try to teach you guys in a slower manner right so that's your rhythm and the way I'm doing it is if I break it down first left hand so that's B fifth B fifth and I'm just toggling it in a very very disco like manner and when I'm doing G and D I've just preferred to play octaves there I think it sounds nicer so let's see how it goes B G D major D A B minor G D F sharp Wake Me Up when it's all over D D A B minor D D D F sharp so while you do that it's quite easy in the right hand now to fill in so this is a very consistent thing I'd suggest you practice this first just the shifting and so on and the right hand will go so it's basically two hits in the right hand one E and one E and one E and two E and one E so the and of the one one E and two E and one E so you don't hit it at the one you're tempted to play it at the one so one E and one E except for the D and the A part in the D and the F sharp except for the ending where you just hit the ans these three chords B minor G and D have it at the end of the one and the E of the two so let's show that again one right it's probably easier to just get both the hands together you'll you'll probably enjoy the process a lot more right so that's quite a that's quite the the rhythm if you ask me which you can implement on your instrument if you're not able to play that perhaps you could try something a bit more simpler like this perhaps so basically just play the ans in the right hand one and two and three and and continue the same rhythm in the left hand so it's a slight modification but it'll work completely fine I think the original one though was it's at the E of the two so instead of just playing and and and and you're doing and E and E one E and two E and three and four E and one E and that's your right hand okay let's now do the verse the verse is pretty much the same chords but there's basically what we call as a slash chord which I'm going to show you all here so B minor going to G going to D slash A and another D slash A so what that basically means is you play D major in your right hand and A bass that's also what the bass guitar is playing however in this song it's more or less the guitar so you go G so it creates a little bit of tension right D with A or an anticipation so you stay on D with A and every alternate time as I've marked out here B A G you just play bass A taking you to the G B A G let's see how that sounds B A G D so first time you don't do it second time you you do it so it's like an alternate you heard that that's where I got the A if you if you can't do it there's no problem at all anyway your bassist is going to do it in the band so the bass part so you you need to just play that additionally otherwise you can just go and if you can't do the 16th note accents you can just stick with eighth notes right try to not play the right hand at the one at the on beats try to play it at the off beats and yeah that's pretty much it you have an intro which is the same as the chorus chords which I've written down with the slash chords D slash A which is there only in the intro not in the chorus and then finally we have the tune right where I've written it down I'll just play you the tune once I'm sure you've all heard that tune so let's do it try to follow my fingers as well as I'm playing I'm just doing a little trill here little faster and so on now along with that you can just play the bass as well so it's essentially octaves staccato D A B G D D F sharp basically the same chorus chords wake where they sing wake me up we'll go with the tune so let's do it slowly D that was an F sharp in the bass right so it's a very cool piece to play if you're a piano player right so have fun playing this song and as always I'll see you in the next one and share the lesson with your musician friends if you found it useful cheers