How To Play "Love Yourself" Exactly Like The Recording PART I - Justin Bieber, Easy Guitar Lesson

 

In this video we show you how to play the verse from Love Yourself by Justin Bieber (written by Ed Sheeran). This easy fingerstyle song uses a special 2-finger shape (the same one found in Blackbird) and a strum slap technique. It sounds great on electric or acoustic guitar. If you can play Love Yourself, you can play these. Grab my FREE songbook — 15 iconic classics you can play starting with just 2 chords, with diagrams, strumming patterns, and a video lesson for each → https://goodguitarist.com/iconic-songbook/ "Love Yourself" Sheet Music/TAB no longer available due to copyright issues, but I have something even better! ► FULL PLAY-THROUGH (entire song, start to finish) available on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/posts/love-yourself-58832937 --- A percussive slap technique is used to make that "smack" sound on the guitar. Here is a video where we go over this technique in detail, along with practice tracks and diagrams: http://goodguitarist.com/the-strum-slap-add-some-percussion-to-your-strumming/ This is Part I, where we show the verse. If you want to learn to play the pre-chorus (My mama don't like...) and Chorus (so if you like the way...) check out Part II: https://youtu.be/n5LIfflFpa0 --- https://goodguitarist.com/love-yourself-guitar-tutorial-justin-bieber/