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Love Yourself Guitar Tutorial (Just Like The Recording)

Artist: Justin Bieber
Genres: Pop
Decades: 2010's

Love Yourself Chords:

Strumming Pattern (8th note counting):

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

Strumming Pattern (16th note counting):

1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a

Time Signature

100 bpm

Difficulty: Intermediate

Love Yourself Guitar Tutorial

Welcome to my Love Yourself Guitar Tutorial by Justin Bieber (written by Ed Sheeran). This easy fingerstyle song uses a special 2-finger shape (the same one found in Blackbird) and a strum slap technique. It sounds great on electric or acoustic guitar.

Love Yourself Chords: They are all 2-finger chords and the symbols look really crazy (F#m, B/D#) but the chords themselves couldn’t be any easier!

Love Yourself TAB no longer available due to copyright issues, but I have something even better!

FULL PLAY-THROUGH (entire song, start to finish) available on my Patreon page:

Click here

A percussive slap technique is used to make that “smack” sound on the guitar. Here is a video where we go over this technique in detail, along with practice tracks and diagrams.

This is Part I, where we show the verse. If you want to learn to play the pre-chorus (My mama don’t like…) and Chorus (so if you like the way…) check out Part II