"Buddy Holly" Chorus- Rhythm Guitar

Weezer

  • Lesson Type

    song

  • Instructor

    Dan Ellis

  • Time to Finish

    6:52

During the choruses of Weezer’s “Buddy Holly,” the rhythm guitar plays a lot of downstrummed power chords. In this lesson, we’ll show you how to play these sections like they sound on the record.

By the end of this lesson you will have played:

  • Chords: F#5, A5, D/A, E5/B and A5/E
  • Eighth note strumming
  • 16th note strumming
  • Downstroke strumming