Luis Fonsi – Despacito (Chords)
I’m about five billion views late to this one but with Fonsi’s latest includes a bit of ukulele and this track having a few tasty licks it’s still worth doing.
Update: Well, I can now pretend I’m being hyper topical rather five billion views late. YouTube had to take down the Despacito video today after it was hacked.
To keep the chords dead easy, I use a capo on the second fret. If you want to play without a capo you can use the chords Bm – G – D – A.
Suggested Strumming
If you want to keep things very simple you can just follow the keyboard stabs and do short down-strums on the off-beats (four per chord). For something a little more involved you could do this once per chord:
d – x u – u d u
Which sounds like this:
Or you can go all out and do this once per chord:
Twiddly Bits
The video version of the song starts out with two very nice picking patterns. I’m using one finger per string picking for my version. And it sounds like this:
The intro proper starts out with a tasty lick flowing into the picking pattern under the woah’s and wails.
Ok…imagining (and appreciating indeed) your music culture through your choices of adaptation, I know this is not that “deep”.
BUT I must thank you for this one that may make me a hero in those fan girls eyes !
(well …maybe hero and fan are not the right words, they simply just enjoy to have any excuse to dance and sing in spanish like stupid teenagers)