Tonight You Belong with Me
by Eddie Vedder • Lesson #3 • Nov 10, 2013
Lesson Description
In today’s lesson I’ll teach you guitar arrangement of Tonight You Belong With Me, inspired by the Eddie Vedder cover from his Ukulele Songs album (2011).
This arrangement will also mostly work for the Steve Martin cover from the film The Jerk, the video clip of which is linked below. While Eddie and Steve play this on a ukulele (no capo), you can imitate their exact sound by adding capo 5th fret to your guitar – and using the chord shapes I show, which are from Key of D family. This is a fun one – enjoy!
Quick Links
- Recommended lyric & chord sheet
- Eddie Vedder’s Album Recording on YouTube
- Steve Martin’s Performance from The Jerk on YouTube
- Song Wikipedia Page
Related Lessons
If you’re curious how to translate guitar chords to a ukulele (and vice versa), check out the following video!
If you need help getting that D-riff under your belt (where you add and remove your pinky in the intro strumming), this lesson may help out. Being able to seamlessly go between D and Dsus4 (and Dsus2) is an incredibly helpful and often-used technique.
If you need help playing the G minor chord, I suggest this lesson. It focuses on the F#m chord, but this “shape” works 100% for Gm if you move everything up one fret (e.g. 3xx333). No barring required! I don’t include this in my main song tutorial above, but I wanted to add it here just the same.
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