How to play This is the Life by Amy MacDonald - Guitar Lesson Tutorial

In this guitar lesson tutorial, we look at how to play 'This is the life' by singer-songwriter Amy MacDonald. This song appeared on her first album which was also titled 'This is the life' and was released as a single in the UK in December 2007.

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Lesson by Paul Campion

[carloscarlos]

Capo 4th fret : Am F C Em
No capo : C#m A E G#m
Stumming pattern: D DU D DU D D U U DU
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
[Chorus] X2
[Instrumental]
[Verse 2]
[Chorus] X2
[Instrumental] X2
[Chorus] X4
[Outro]

TAB solo:

[MulSurati]

This is simply amazing. I just cant thank you enough. Please do more videos. you rock!!!

[davidrobert]

That's exactly what i needed to know. Very clear and clean. I was doing the solo bit (the catchy 'lead') in the wrong place, on the lower 2 strings, just eyeballing it, and then thought, it's probably a good idea to check this and learn the rest!
thanks

[viniciusmgabriel]

Man! You helped me a lot! I'm learning to play the guitar in this quarantine, and I'm really thankful to you! Greetings from Brazil!

[Dobrosibakter]

The last chord I think is minor, not major

[zofiawinnicka]

Thank you! Finally found what i've been looking for so long!

[paulhely]

Superb. couldn't have been clearer, Thank you. Paul.

[carlheinxmarx]

Hey Mate. Thanks a lot sharing this video and tutorial. I really love this song, so it was very valuable to me as an aspiring guitarist. Cheers.

[giannislymperopoylos]

thank u especially for the strumming pattern!!

[BwanaGM]

Nice clear and concise. One comment is that there is an off beat in Amy's rendition.

By the way, is there any chance that you can do a tutorial on a wonderful song by Mark Knopfler called Monteleone. Some nice finger picking there and it has a wonderful melody. Thanks for the rest of your good efforts. Best wishes for a happy Christmas. Graham

[josephroger]

I like the way u exlplain it
thank u :D

[stevo]

Very cool, thanks great easy explanation. I do love her style

[jonasmoerman]

Hey, q: on minute 6:12 u say 3 times on G-string 9 fret, but u play 4 times?

[guillermoperez]

Liked and subscribed mate! Please keep on doing more videos and of songs like this one!

[thecoolestdudeintheentirew]

HELP I CANT DO C#MINOR OR G# HELP HELP HELP

[alfrinkc]

thank you very much. one of the more usefull and accurate lessons on youtube.

[mrlucas]

Please Tell me more about the Aoustic your playing, that's

[alinam]

Thank you very much)) Very understandably

[andrasnak]

the last cord is an E minor, not a major!

[lilywoods]

i know im 6 years to late but my fingers dont bend enough to be able to do the first chord. i cant press the bar hard enough and then have my other fingers pushing down on the strings lmao