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Take Birds of a Feather: four shapes behind a capo on 2, one strum, one picking pattern. Guitar Pal walks it from a sentence to the shapes, the neck, the strum and the picking. Press play, and every step below follows along.

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Billie Eilish · 2024 · 4/4 · ♩ = 100 · sounds in D major

Birds of a Feather

Chords after GuitarZero2Hero's tutorial · YouTube
Capo 2Shapes as you hold them, the sounding chord under each
  1. Csounds D
  2. Csounds D
  3. Am7sounds Bm7
  4. Am7sounds Bm7
  5. Dm7sounds Em7
  6. Dm7sounds Em7
  7. Gsounds A
  8. Gsounds A

Play the song

Eight bars, strummed · loops

  1. 1Assistant

    Say it.

    Type the song the way you would text a friend. The assistant reads the chords, the strokes, the tempo and the capo, and sets the song up in Strum.
    What the assistant reads

    C C Am7 Am7 Dm7 Dm7 G G, D--UDUD--UDUD-DU at 100 bpm capo 2

  2. 2Chords

    Learn the four shapes.

    C, Am7, Dm7 and G — all open shapes. With the capo on 2 they sound as D, Bm7, Em7 and A. The shape playing is the one outlined.
    Open Chords
    Capo 2Chords after GuitarZero2Hero's tutorial · YouTube
    • Csounds D×○×○3×○2×○×○1×○EADGBe
    • Am7sounds Bm7×○×○×○2×○×○1×○EADGBe
    • Dm7sounds Em7×○×○×○×○2×○1×○1EADGBe
    • Gsounds A×○2×○1×○×○×○×○3EADGBe
  3. 3Fretboard

    See why they fit.

    Count frets from the capo and the song is in C major: C, Am7, Dm7 and G are its I, vi, ii and V, so every chord tone sits inside the scale. The capo lifts the whole thing a whole step, into D.
    Open Fretboard

    Frets counted from the capo · C major, C on top

    0123456789101112EFGABCDEABCDEFGADEFGABCDGABCDEFGBCDEFGABEFGABCDE
  4. 4Strum

    Strum it.

    The birds of a feather pattern: sixteenth notes, the same rhythm under every chord. Play the song strummed and the grid follows.
    Open Strum

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  5. 5Tab

    Then pick it.

    Guitar Pal's own arrangement, a bar for each chord above: thumb on the bass, fingers on the top strings. Switch the player to Pick and the cursor follows the note that is sounding.
    Open Tab
    Capo 2

    A silent walk-through — press play on the song to hear it.

  6. 6BooksPreview

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    An exercise cropped from page 3 of the sample book
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