If your looking for a good beginners song to play on guitar the following is a guide for how to play Bubbly by Colbie Caillat. It’s a great radio pop song.

Luckily with most popular guitar songs you have the possibility to make them easier or harder depending on how good you are on guitar. To play Bubbly does not require a high degree of technical difficulty.

In the video I’ve made for how to play Bubbly I’ve selected an easy version of the song to teach with beginners on guitar in mind. Part of this process involves using a Capo to make the chords appear in open position thus avoiding any need for Barre Chords.

There are just 4 chords in the progression and most of them are very common except for one which has been modified in keeping with the tonal character of the song. Its actually a very pretty chord in the context of the progression.

Often it’s the case that tutorials for how to play Bubbly concentrate too much on the chords and not enough on the strum which is equally important for playing the song successfully. In Guitar in a Nutshell we refer to the strum used as a Shuffle Strum, it has a very distinctive feel and it’s crucial to the delivery of the song.

Fortunately, the strum never changes throughout the song so once you have it, it never changes. Thats good news for beginners on guitar.

The idea for this how to play bubbly video is that you should isolate the two main requirements. The first is the chord progression and the second is the strum pattern. With each of those mastered individually youll be in a great position to play the song.

Follow the video step by step, pausing the video to practice. Its very important as in that way youll learn how to play Bubbly just as if it were a real 1-1 lesson.

So good luck, it make take you a few days to learn how to play Bubbly especially if your learning the strum for the first time so be patient.

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