American singer and songwriter Bruno Mars recorded When I Was Your Man for his second studio album Unorthodox Jukebox released in 2012. The song was the third promotional single and second official single, taken from the album, to hit mainstream radio in the U.S. Today, we’ll learn an easy version of the When I Was Your Man chords for guitar.
As a kid, Bruno Mars loved impersonating Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson and Little Richard. He shared his father’s love for doo-wop and has referred to that music as “simple four-chord songs that got straight to the point”. Bruno Mars was also influenced by Jerry Lee Lewis, Frankie Lymon and the hip-hop productions of The Neptunes and Timbaland that he constantly heard on the radio.
Here are some helpful tips to keep in mind that will help you learn the tune faster while giving you some ideas for how to approach performing it. I provided some useful links above and I’ll take you through the When I Was Your Man chords, accompaniment patterns, song form, and a chord chart. Everything you need to get started playing this tune.
Your Man Intro Interactive Tab By Josh Turner @ Ultimate Guitar.com
When I Was Your Man is an emotional piano ballad. The lyrics speak to the broken heart and regret of lost love. This song features Mars on piano and vocals.
This song is in the key of Am. But, because it was written and performed on piano, the subtle changes in chords, while easy on the piano, are not that easy on guitar. A one-finger adjustment on the piano translates into a three- or four-finger adjustment on guitar. However, this tune provides us with an opportunity to increase our chord vocabulary.
We’re also gonna approach this from a finger-plucking and finger-strumming standpoint. Using a pick would take away from the atmosphere that we’re trying to create. However, I do encourage you to approach the song however you see fit. These are just my suggestions.
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I’ve broken down my approach to this tune into four basic techniques. I use a fingerstyle technique that I’ll describe below. But, the basic idea is that my thumb plays the bass note (as the left hand of the piano would) and my index, middle, and ring fingers pluck or brush the top part of the chord (as the right hand of the piano would).
I find that using a pick to strum the chords can be a little too harsh sounding for the mood of this tune. For that reason, I suggest using your fingers to pluck and strum the chords. Let’s begin by assigning the right-hand fingers to certain strings:
This is the essence of fingerstyle playing, assigning fingers to specific strings. This way, you don’t need to look at the right hand while playing. Once you get used to it, you can “feel” where you are.
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I suggest using the block chords for the intro and the verse. Then, add arpeggios to the verse as well. Use the bass-chord technique for the refrain and finger-strumming technique for the chorus. I explain this in more detail in the video.
If you don’t read music, please don’t be intimidated. This is a cheat sheet that can help you get through the tune quickly and easily. I find it indispensable for learning songs and I can also hand it to a seasoned musician and they can follow along without any problems.
Once you become familiar with chord charts, you’ll never want to go back. It’s just easier to see where you’re going when you have a map. And, it’s especially helpful when you’re not familiar with the song or there’s a section of the song that you don’t remember (Bridges and Interludes are notorious for surprising players and derailing a song’s performance). So, heads up, this tune has a Bridge and not only is there a progression change but the texture of the tune and the accompaniment pattern also changes.
I Wanna Be Your Man Interactive Tab By L.a. Guns @ Ultimate Guitar.com
I hope that you’ve enjoyed learning the When I Was Your Man chords as much as I did in preparing this lesson for you. During the intro for this piece I mentioned Bruno Mars’s influences. I encourage you to listen to those artists and discover where Mars got his inspiration from. This tune is a beautiful piece of songwriting that has moments that seem, to me at least, to be inspired by The Beatles.
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Ed L. is a professional guitarist, instructor, producer and published author. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and lives in the Andes mountains. He is a general contributor to the Musika Blog.
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I suggest using the block chords for the intro and the verse. Then, add arpeggios to the verse as well. Use the bass-chord technique for the refrain and finger-strumming technique for the chorus. I explain this in more detail in the video.
If you don’t read music, please don’t be intimidated. This is a cheat sheet that can help you get through the tune quickly and easily. I find it indispensable for learning songs and I can also hand it to a seasoned musician and they can follow along without any problems.
Once you become familiar with chord charts, you’ll never want to go back. It’s just easier to see where you’re going when you have a map. And, it’s especially helpful when you’re not familiar with the song or there’s a section of the song that you don’t remember (Bridges and Interludes are notorious for surprising players and derailing a song’s performance). So, heads up, this tune has a Bridge and not only is there a progression change but the texture of the tune and the accompaniment pattern also changes.
I Wanna Be Your Man Interactive Tab By L.a. Guns @ Ultimate Guitar.com
I hope that you’ve enjoyed learning the When I Was Your Man chords as much as I did in preparing this lesson for you. During the intro for this piece I mentioned Bruno Mars’s influences. I encourage you to listen to those artists and discover where Mars got his inspiration from. This tune is a beautiful piece of songwriting that has moments that seem, to me at least, to be inspired by The Beatles.
Love Yourself Chords for Beginner Guitar (Justin Bieber) Thinking Out Loud Chords for Beginner Guitar (Ed Sheeran) Stay With Me Chords for Beginner Guitar (Sam Smith) Viva la Vida Chords for Beginner Guitar (Coldplay) I’m Not the Only One Chords for Beginning Guitar (Sam Smith) Hey There Delilah Chords for Acoustic Guitar (Plain White T’s) Heart of Gold Chords Arranged for Beginning Guitar (Neil Young)
Ed L. is a professional guitarist, instructor, producer and published author. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and lives in the Andes mountains. He is a general contributor to the Musika Blog.
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