I’m here with bringing you this video lesson and we’re looking at How To Play Hallelujah On Guitar and I’m going to show you how to play the chords through the entire song and I’m also going to show you how to play the melody as well so you could do your own sort of instrumental version if you wanted too. We’re going to repeat this chorus section over and over again so you can practice your chord changes and strumming.Hey how’s it going? My name is Jon MacLennan hope you’re having a great day. In the jam, I recommend starting off using the simple down strum pattern I presented above.įor this jam, the chorus of “Hallelujah” is an 8-bar chord progression. To play a G major chord, place the index finger on the 2nd fret of the C-string, ring finger on the 3rd fret of the E-string, and middle finger on the 2nd fret of the bottom A-string. To play a C major chord, place the ring finger on the 3rd fret of the bottom A-string and let the top three strings ring open. To play an Am chord, place the middle finger on the 2nd fret of the top g-string and let the bottom three strings ring open. Let the C-string and bottom A-string ring open. To play an F major chord, place the middle finger on the 2nd fret of the top g-string and the index finger on the 1st fret of the E-string.

The chorus of “Hallelujah” uses just four beginner-friendly chords.

However, as you play along with me, you might want to spice things up, which is why you can add in up strums to the pattern, like so.īe sure to watch the video lesson above to hear exactly how this sounds. I happen to like a simple pattern like this for this particular song because it allows the vocal melody to shine through. And when I switch to the strumming, I’m keeping it really simple with just down strums played to a count of six. If you watch my performance, I start off fingerpicking, but later in the song, I switch to strumming. In the early days of Ukulele Tricks, I covered Leonhard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” on ukulele.

A lot of us can fall into the trap of thinking we need a super fancy, “secret” strumming pattern to play our favorite songs.

Hallelujah guitar picking