Girl - Beatles

Here's another song from the Beatles' Rubber Soul period. Some tabs show different chords with the capo on the 8th fret, but I find playing up that far on the neck, and the chords concerned, to be a bit more difficult for the beginning guitarist. Hopefully, you will find this just as satisfying.

Capo: 3rd fret to play with recording

Strum Pattern:

Lot's of options here. I use several variations throughout the song. I'll pull out sections of the song to give some examples:

" . . . anybody goin' to listen . . ." D UDU (Using a little bit of a shuffle rhythm);

" . . . to my stoo-ry . . . ." D DU D D (downstroke on each syllable);

" . . . all about the girl who . . . " D UDU (Back to the shuffle rhythm)

" . . . makes you sor-ry . . ." D DU D D (downstroke on each syllable again);

" . . . day . . ." D D D D (straight downstrokes this time);

". . . Oh, Girl . . . " DUDU (for each chord in the C-Em-Dm-G7 progression);

" . . . think of all the times . . ." D UDU (back to the basic shuffle rhythm)

and so on;

oh yeah on " . . . and she promises . . ." A quick and emphatic DUD stroke on the word "promises" is a nice change of pace for emphasis; Same goes later on for the E7 that occurs on ". . .that a [man]"

". . . She's the kind of girl . . . you feel a . . ." DUDUDUDU;

" . . . fool . . ." D D UDU then rapidly strum A Chord DUDDUDD D

This isn't nearly as hard as I probably made it sound. Just listen to the CD recording. Like I said, there are several variations that can be used.

Finally, on picking the notes in the outro, you may find it helpful to mini-bar the 1st fret of e&B strings with the index finger and the 3rd fret with the ring finger. (Sounds best on a 12-string)


Girl - The Beatles

Am
e ---3-3---0-0---5-5---3-3---1-1---5-5---3-3---1-1---0-0---1-1---0-0--------0----
B --------------------------------------------------------------------3-3---1----
G --------------------------------------------------------------------------2----
D ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2----
A --------------------------------------------------------------------------0----
E -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

p.s. Cynthia Lennon, when asked if she felt John wrote any particular song about her, answered "Girl".