Learn to play Closer by The Chain Smokers on guitar.
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You can listen to the song here on Spotify while you play along!
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This video is a basic step-by-step lesson tutorial on how to play The Chainsmoker’s track “Closer” on guitar featuring Halsey.
What a pop banger this song is! Will be stuck in your head for days on end!
00:00 LESSON PREVIEW
00:51 GENRAL CHORD PROGRESSION
01:10 INTRO/CHORUS CHORDS
01:52 VERSE CHORDS
02:55 PRECHORUS CHORDS
04:00 PRECHORUS LEAD RIFF
04:57 DANCE RIFF
07:00 SONG DEMONSTRATION PLAYTHROUGH
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In this lesson we learn how to strum “Closer” by The Chainsmokers.
The song is just 3 chords played over and over, which makes it a great song to perfect your chord switching and work on your rhythm.
Don’t forget to slap that Capo on the 1st fret! Rather than play C, D and Em, we’re going to use Cadd9, D and Em7.
These chords are actually easier to switch between and sound CLOSER to what they’re doing on the recording so it’s win-win as far as that goes.
The strumming is also pretty simple – at the start – but if you’re up to the challenge we also have a more active strumming pattern for you guys to learn that incorporates the beat and makes the song groove.
Finally, we show you how to “substitute” the D chord for a D6 during the instrumental part. This helps define each separate section of the song and, once again, emulates the original recording more closely.