How To Play My Life
On Guitar By Billy Joel!
Welcome to this lesson on how to play My Life on guitar. This is one of many great Billy Joel songs I intend to cover.
Billy Joel music is still very popular because thru the years he has developed a huge following. The video tutorial below will explain how I play this great tune. Always remember there can be many ways to play a song so stay flexible in your approach.
Read thru the text here on this page to enhance the video explaination and watch the tutorial in full before trying to learn this song. It may be easier to see the full version first.
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Chords For My Life By Billy Joel
Note - this song is played with drop D tuning.
The chords for this song are ... (not including the intro)
D - C7 - A# - D/Gb - G - A - Bm - Gb - D7 - E7 - Gb/A - Esus
The Strumming Pattern
This song is mostly performed using downstrokes with the exception of the intro riff pattern (see below).
There are a few spots as you'll notice in the video where rhythm takes a quick jump. ie: before the line "go ahead with your own life" there is a G, Gb, G, Gb , A , walk pattern on the top string. This will occur later in the song.
Again while on the E7 chord there is a quick jump on the top string Gb note to the G chord.
Intro Riff Pattern For My Life
Here is what is happening in the beginning pattern ... we start of with the
Repeat this pattern.
Repeat this pattern.
This pattern above will be used throughout the song. On the first 0-10-9-10-10-10 you'll stay there and do a bit of a shuffle strum as in the video. And the last 8-8-7-6-6 which is an A# chord, you may want to play that with an upstroke.
Main Picking Pattern For My Life
This is simply following the melody of the song by playing around with the D chord by playing it like this:
And that is how to play My Life on guitar ... Kirby style. A great tune and simple to play.
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