{"id":1840,"date":"2022-08-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2022-09-08T10:46:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:46:40","slug":"harry-styles-as-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/harry-styles-as-it-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning a Pop Song on Guitar (Harry Styles &#8211; As It Was)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many of the rhythm techniques touched on in this lesson are explored in-depth inside Sami\u2019s full course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/rhythm-and-groove\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rhythm &amp; Groove<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this video, Ayla Tesler-Mabe and Sami Ghawi will attempt to learn a pop song on the fly. The Guitareo Team has secretly chosen a song that neither of the two has ever played before. Ayla and Sami will have to listen to the song and decipher the chord changes, the melody, and the lyrics so they can perform it together at the end of the video. The song that we chose was \u201cAs It Was\u201d by Harry Styles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: As It Was\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/4LRPiXqCikLlN15c3yImP7?si=77f7137ba5c5468a&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just like in many other pop songs, \u201cAs It Was\u201d uses solely diatonic chords and can be played with a variety of standard strumming patterns. The chords used in this song are D major, B minor, E major, and A major, all of which belong to the key of A major.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more free guitar lessons featuring Sami Ghawi, check these out: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/5-bad-habits-ruining-your-rhythm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5 Bad Habits Ruining Your Rhythm on Guitar<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/most-versatile-fingerstyle-pattern\/\"><strong>The Most Versatile Fingerstyle Guitar Pattern<\/strong><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/the-most-basic-fingerstyle-guitar-rhythm\/\"><strong>The Most Basic Fingerstyle Guitar Rhythm<\/strong><\/a><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/the-power-of-rhythm-guitar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Power of Rhythm Guitar<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the rhythm techniques touched on in this lesson are explored in-depth inside Sami\u2019s full course, Rhythm &amp; Groove. In this video, Ayla Tesler-Mabe and Sami Ghawi will attempt to learn a pop song on the fly. The Guitareo Team has secretly chosen a song that neither of the two has ever played before. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[407,9,331,87,270,408,380,406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}