[Music] if I could save time in a bottle the first thing that I’d like to do is to save every day till eternity passes by just to spend them with you if I could make days last forever if dreams could make wishes come true i’d save every day like a treasure and then again I would spend them with you but there never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find [Music] them i’ve looked around enough to know that you’re the one I want to go through time with [Music] if I had a box just full of wishes dreams that it never come true the box would be empty except for the memory of how they were answered by you but there never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find [Music] them i’ve looked around enough to know that you’re the one I want to go through time with [Music] hey guitar fam and friends welcome to this cover song lesson we’re going to take a look at Time in a Bottle it’s the most requested song from this year’s Guitar Fam survey speaking of Guitar Fam if you haven’t gone there and created your complimentary account do that you’ll be able to access the first module of all of our premium courses and you’ll get one private personal complimentary one-on-one video guitar lesson with me you can schedule that on the site um also there you’ll be able to get all the resources for this lesson i have jam tracks with and without the singing for you and all the tab that you need to get through the song okay this one was a little bit more challenging i remember my dad uh when I was probably 11 11 or 12 something like that he played this at my uncle’s wedding and I was like "Oh that’s a pretty song doesn’t sound that hard until you try to dig into it then you realize this is like a classical piece." So it took me three weeks of study practice to get this down to where it was ready for this video so that’ll give you an idea yeah it is a commitment but it’s worth it this is a really classic song and is a good workout too really useful for getting your finger style to the next level this song is in D minor and there are two guitars playing through the entire song one is playing open D minor chords the other one is capo on the fifth fret playing a minor shapes kind of like this right and it sounds really cool but I thought the most useful version of this to do a video on so it wouldn’t be two hour long video would be the open D minor chord so you don’t have to fiddle with the co and if there’s enough demand if people want if you guys in the Guitar Fam community want the other video on the A minor version I will be happy to do that let me know i’m also doing the little theme at the beginning i’m doing both parts just because it sounds so cool and iconic let’s go and get into [Music] this okay we’re in the key of D minor and we mutate back and forth between D minor and D major on the courses and verses so normally I go over the chords but there are a lot of chords in here and a lot of quasi shapes that aren’t you know aren’t identifiable as chords so we’re just going to go through this as it’s written so start with a D minor and for the intro you have this rolling pattern with your right hand you just start on the D string with your thumb and roll up all the way to the high E string then back down to the G string so one and two and three and and I should also mention here that we’re in three four times so that’s one measure one and two and three and one measure and three four time now um there are multiple ways you could finger this next little passage the intro i’m just going to show you the way that I settled on that I found the easiest so do that and then your bass note moves down to the A string pinky on the fourth fret of the A string that’s a big stretch i had a It took me a while to get this down cuz I’m not used to doing that and from here same pattern right roll up roll back down then I switch my third and fourth fingers pinky comes and grabs uh the third fret of the B string third finger grabs the third fret of the A string so you have this chromatic descending baseline same finger picking pattern and then uh your from there your uh middle finger has to go to the second fret of the A string and your first and fourth finger stay where they are your third finger comes off and you can see the chords written here on the sheet and it’s the same uh picking pattern there but I don’t even think about the chords i just think about the pattern right so D minor then ends up being a D minor over C# sharp then D minor 7 over C and then we call a G7 over B and the last one everything but your pinky comes off on the third fret of the B string and your first finger gets the first fret of the A string and you maintain the same pattern [Music] so so that first [Music] part and from here it goes to more of a classical or even um like Blackbird feeling kind of passage where you play those notes on one of the A string and three of the B string just pinch them with your thumb and I use my middle finger here and then I go open A second fret of the B with my second finger and then I come over to the third fret of the low E and the G strings with my third and fourth fingers kind of feels like a G chord almost but that uh changer want to isolate [Music] so okay and this next little lick this is the one that I think of when I think of time in a bottle right so if we have this reach back with your middle finger on the second fret of the B string and the open A string then the open G string through your index finger so these two fingers thumb and middle open G string and then I move up to two and three of the A and B strings pinch them again with thumb in middle then move that same shape keep it intact and move up to three or sorry four on the A string and five on the the B string there so that little classical sounding bit those two measures so [Music] far and from here you have to make kind of a leap up to the eighth fret and your third finger is your guide on this one you leave your third finger on the B string slide up to the eighth fret on the B string and then your uh second finger comes down on the eighth fret also of the D string pinch them thumb and middle finger then open G string from there my middle finger is my anchor now and it backs down to the seventh fret first finger on the sixth fret and then my middle finger is still Yeah i pinch those in the open G then my middle finger is still the anchor i slide down to the fifth fret and my third finger comes down on the B string and pinch those or and you have to hammer on to the sixth fret and pull off to the fifth so with your pinky and this is just the best fingering that I found there are lots of different ways you can do it but one thing you have to watch out for is when you do this not to have that high E string ring out one thing I do two well two things I do i either mute it the high E string with this third finger over here or I just let my third finger kind of lean over and mute that high E string as I play so let me play the little theme there little classical theme all three measures of it real slow for you because this is probably one of the tougher parts of the song here you go 1 2 [Music] 3 and you might want to isolate that and just do that a lot because it takes a some strength and coordination to be able to hold those notes down without bending them and perform that uh that hammer on and pull off here so let me play just the whole intro for you [Music] okay and one thing that I should mention here there’s a big slow down once you do this there’s a big retardando there you just slow down and in the jam track for you I have the click going it slows down and then you hear 1 two 3 and then you know you’re ready to come into the next part the verse [Music] if I could save time in a bottle the first thing that I’d like to do is to save every day till eternity passes by just to spend them with you if I could make days last forever if dreams could make wishes come true i’d save every day like a treasure and then again I would spend them with you but and uh from there the verses are very very similar to the intro so that’s a good thing the picking pattern changes a little bit but the basic chord structure for at least a good chunk of the verses stays the same so still D minor and instead of just rolling up and down here’s the pattern thumb on the D string index finger and then both the third second and third fingers on the high B and E strings so and then back to your index finger on the G string thumb on the D string then index finger on the G string and that’s your basic pattern the only thing that really changes is uh your bass note moves down so your thumb’s moving a little bit your fingers stay the same so thumb index two index thumb index so just work on that slowly i’d recommend just isolating that 1 and 2 and 3 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 1 and then just walk through the same uh chord progression uh with your baseline moving down same chords the only difference is you only play the bass note once pattern and then you alternate to the open D string throughout this entire little sequence for the next few measures so bass note changes back to open D bass note changes open D right then you have the same little classical [Music] pattern this time you don’t have the trill though the little you just have okay all right let me play that uh verse for you slowly just remember to isolate these parts like just work on a few measures at a time it took me probably three weeks to memorize this whole song and get it to where I can perform it so it takes a little bit of time here you go one two [Music] three okay there’s no slowdown that time you just go right back into the next part of the verse the chords are similar but uh it changes a little bit you start off the same way it’s actually um it kind of skips what it ends up doing is skipping instead of going what you do is you go to the next one you skip that one with the pinky way up here and go right to that one so D minor D minor 7 over C and then uh the G minor 6 over B flat right and now here’s where it changes a little bit you go to a regular old uh G like what would be a four finger G but I’m only using these two fingers on it but the pattern here is where it changes a little bit it’s a little bit irregular so low E string with your thumb index on the G string middle on the B string back to the G with your index D open D with your thumb and then G string and so you just have to memorize this one commit to memory so okay and from here this chord was a bit unusual i found here it is it’s index finger on uh it’s basically a D minor over F index finger on the first fret of the low E string for that F and then I’m getting the you can see the the D up here but I’m not I’m playing the high E string so I’m not worried about it i’m going middle finger second fret of the G string pinky third fret of the B string so the pattern there is uh it’s the same as it was for the last chord so thumb index on the G B middle finger G string with your index finger again thumb on the D and then finish off with a middle finger on the B again okay and from there you go to this uh G minor and this is an unusual chord if you’ve never played it before it’s just a G on the low E string and then third fret of the G and B strings with your third and fourth fingers thumb on the low E G index finger middle finger B back to the G and then open D and here’s where the pattern kind of breaks as far as rhythm too you go one and two and three it’s kind of a nice little landmarker it’s a quarter note it’s first quarter note and you’ve seen in quite a while for this so it’s a nice little landmarker that helps you kind of remember where you are in the song and then you have a little bit of a variation on the little theme a little turnaround [Music] so we’ll come to that in a second let me just play that whole uh like second half of the verse progression for you one and two and three [Music] and from here from this G minor shaped chord you just drop back second fret of the B string open A string pinch them open G string with your index finger move up with your first finger and third finger to the Second part of the A third part of the B pinch them open G and then open high E string and G string so that little bit from there you drop back to the second fret of the B string and the open A hit those two pinch them little trill so hammer on to three pull off to two and then open B and then pinch A and the B strings again open A and second fret of the B and you just have to memorize this that it’s all there is to it i’m not really thinking about shapes so much as just you know programming and painting by the numbers right all right the good news is uh the verse at this point is a double verse so it just kind of repeats itself you just play all of that [Music] again then the other [Music] part so the verse here is a double verse and I look at this as an A section and a B section they’re a little bit different from each other so I would work on those the A section of the verse the B section of verse the intro on its own and then once you play through those A and B sections of the verse you just repeat them and that’ll lead you into the chorus of the song but there you find [Music] them i’ve looked around enough to know that you’re the one I want to go through time with okay so from here I slide my second finger up and to get into the chorus to the sec third fret of the B string i come down with my index finger across all three strings high E B and G strings for a bar and it’s just a D chord but there’s a good reason I need my other fingers to the to do the baseline that’s coming this is the same the same uh finger style pattern that was in the first part of the verse right so thumb on the D string index on the G two fingers on the top two strings and then back to my index finger D string with my thumb G same pattern okay from there I have to reach out with my third finger on the fourth fret of the uh A string to play a what would be a D major over C sharp right so I need that C [Music] sharp and the top notes remain the same and then here’s the thing like your thumb doesn’t alternate on the chorus like you normally expect it to do something like this to the D string it doesn’t it stays on the root or whatever root note you’re playing so whatever bass note you’re playing and from here I need the second fret of the A string as my bass note so what I do is I let off with my third finger leave my second finger intact and then make a bar across five strings there so I can get that bass note in there so it’ be a D over a B from there I go back to my little mini bar D shape and I have a A and a bass and this rhythm changes here a little bit to 1 and 2 3 so thumb index top two thumb quarter [Music] note okay so that little um kind of cascading D part again open fourth fret of the A second fret of the A open A from there I just go to a G and I’m I let off on everything except the third fret of the low E string so it’s a little bit of a break for you and the rhythmic changes here too so it’s quarter note quarter note two eights and that’s low E string open B with my middle finger D G two notes thumb and first finger okay and from there I go to this is a bit of a change in the pattern here too but it’s basically an F kind of F# minor 7 thing going on here i’m just grabbing the low F sharp low E string with my thumb second fret of the G string with my index finger and I play low E string G string high E string B string G string D string and my three fingers are set up on the high three strings and they really don’t move from there unless they have to okay and then from there it’s an E minor 7 but the only note and the pattern changes to the only note that I really need to press down is the third fret of the B string so the pattern is thumb index on the G string high E string with my third finger back to the G string with my index middle finger with my B back to the G [Music] so so we play up to that point for you in the course and we have another classical to throw in one and two and [Music] [Music] three and then from there we’ve already seen this before so it’s just open A and the B string with your middle finger pinch them open G then second fret of the A third fret of the B pinch them and you’re just letting this that G ring out as you go and then four of the A five of the B okay so that’s pretty much the whole chorus you just play that phrase twice so you just came off of this just play it again [Music] and from there you have an interlude which is similar to the intro but it’s not quite the same thing it’s kind of a mix of some patterns but the chords are the same so let’s just go through that uh real quick so D minor just roll up and down just like you did with the intro so nothing changes here and the pattern changes here a little bit but the chord stays the same so pinky out for that will be D minor over C sharp but instead of just rolling up and down what you have here is thumb on the A string G string B string G string D string G string [Music] so right so those two together then go to your uh with the C in the bass pattern changes there a little bit thumb index on the G B G high E B so from there the next pattern stays the same as the one we just played just change the chords to that G7 over B okay and then you move to this uh G minor over B flat and just roll up and down it and and then you get into the exact same um little classical lick as in the intro exact same thing with a little slow down and everything so I’ll play the whole thing for you again this one’s a little bit different this one probably took me the most time to get down because I was I had the intro programmed in so much already that it was kind of uh just cemented in my brain [Music] so okay it’s a little bit different you know if you play the exact same intro there nobody’s going to know i was going to know the difference uh so from there you get into verse two which thank God is the exact same thing as verse one but it’s only half as long so you play the verse again 1 2 3 and [Music] Now normally that’s where you’d repeat the verse or do a double verse but it goes right into a chorus from there so nothing different in here exact same thing just do a chorus again [Music] it’s a double you just repeat that same thing [Music] again okay so there’s nothing changes as far as verses of course the second time through you just do a single verse instead of a double verse [Music] uh from there you go to the outer which is a little bit different um so let’s see so you have to get set up on the seventh fret of the G string with your third finger and the sixth fret of the B string with your second finger that’s kind of my base of operation for this last little intro and it’s thumb on the open D and then I just roll backwards through high E B G and then high E and B [Music] again and then I have two harmonics on the fifth fret of the D and the A string and then freted uh fifth fret of the E string and low E string if you’ve never done a harmonic before what you have to do is just barely touch the string don’t fret it down just right over the fret just barely touch it and hit it and then fret the fifth fret of the low E string so this whole thing will [Music] be and then you kind of start over again but the pattern changes just a little bit the first the picking part stays the same but then you just have two harmonics on the D and uh A strings and you leave out the low E this time on the fifth fret then you do it again then harmonic on the fifth fret of the D then just the freted uh fifth fret of the low E string and then the open D string and then you just play the top four strings to finish okay so that’s a little bit tricky but that’s the fingering that I found works best for me so I would first off memorize [Music] this and then everything like every alternate measure there changes but this measure always stays the same so [Music] Okay now like I mentioned you could play this entire song capo fifth fret and playing a minor shapes i found it a little bit easier and useful to play the D minor open chord shapes and I figured most people would too so if there’s enough demand and if people want it I’ll do a video for the other part of this capable fifth fret but I wanted to include the little intro section uh for this because it’s kind of a essential part of the song it really gives the song it’s sound and that’s the other part you’ll hear in the jam track i actually put that in there but I didn’t play both guitar parts so um if you’re capable of fifth fret it feels like you’re on the fifth fret so 1 2 3 four five and I just play both of those with uh my third and fourth fingers and I just alternate back and forth between them 1 and 2 and 3 and and then drop the note on the high E string by one fret so it would be like the fourth fret one and two and three and and then drop it again to the third fret one and two and three and I slide back my index finger to the second fret one and two and three and so play [Music] that from there I slide back my index finger to the first fret and my third finger comes to the third fret of the B string and I play index finger stays planted open high E string first fret high E string and then back to the third fret and then I walk it back down first fret open so and from here you have a little change i put my middle finger over to the G string and the open high E string i pinch those slide up second and third fingers on those both the second frets of the high E and G strings slide up to the fourth fret seventh fret fifth fret fourth fret okay let me play that whole thing for you [Music] slowly okay and that’s the other part that I thought was kind of critical to getting the sound of the song down okay that’s it for this one uh this one took me longer than I anticipated which is always the case with every finger style song that I do unless it’s just you know straight up pattern based so if you need help with this one go to guitarfam.com schedule your personal private one-on-one lesson with me the first one is complimentary we can either work on a song like this or iron out a practice plan for success for you and don’t forget to go there also and download the resources for this one let me know in the comments below what other songs you’d like to see here on the YouTube channel see you
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