Hey there, we're ready to learn The
Wonder of You. A song made famous by Elvis
Presley. I'll show you an easy version
and then I'll show you some ways we can
spice it up a bit. Let's do this. When no-one else can understand me
When everything
I do is wrong
You give me hope and consolation
You give me strength to carry on
And you're always there to lend a hand
In everything I do
That's the wonder
The wonder of you
Hey there, I'm Tomas Michaud from Real
Guitar Success. The Wonder of You is one of
those all-time Elvis classics. Now i like
to use this song with guitar students
because it's a great example of a common
chord progression. Most of the song
consists of 4 chords in this order G,
E minor, A minor and D. In music speak
this is a 1 2 6 5 chord progression. I'm
gonna start out by showing you the
chords then I'll go ahead and strum
through the chords and give you an idea
how the words and the chords fit
together. Well add a little strum and
then put it all together. Now  the first
chord we'll be using is a G chord and
I'm gonna use a version that's a
3 finger with my pinky. Now that's
my second favorite form of G. My first
favorite form is this fourth finger
version but you'll see in a minute why
I'm using this version. It has to do with
switching to the other chords. The second
chord is an E minor and you'll see it's
a nice easy switch from this G to the E
minor.
I can even leave my second finger there
and just put the third figure right next
to it on that 4th string 2nd fret. So
from G 3rd finger on the 6th string 3rd
fret, second finger on the 2nd fret 2nd
string and the pinky is over here on the
1st string 3rd fret. Now I leave the 2nd
finger there and just put the third
finger on the fourth string 2nd fret
right next to it. The next chord is A
minor and this again is a nice easy
switch because I'm just gonna move these
2  fingers over a string. When I say
over actually to the higher strings
closer to the 1st string. Now I'm on the
4th and 3rd strings and then put the
first finger down on the 1st fret of the
2nd string and finally we're going to a
D chord. I am going to switch around a
bit to make the D chord and this is a
typical folk style D chord. So these are
the 4 chords that make up this common
chord progression. We go from the G,
to the E minor, now to the A minor and
then to the D chord. Now try that with me. This is a great exercise to practice so
strum your G chord. If you want to do a
different version of G that's perfectly
fine, now to E minor. Notice my second
finger stayed right where it was.
Now to the A minor move over - first finger down and to the
D chord.
Again, one more G, E minor, A minor and
to D.
Okay,  that's the basic progression. Now
let's put it together with the words. I'm
gonna call this an easy version because
I'm not gonna use that G7 that you saw
in the beginning. Also I'm going to show
you a couple other little things to
spice it up after we do this.
Start with your G chord. Strum 2 times
to start. You'll see later on we're gonna
do one strum on some of the chords. Here
we go, hit it. When no-one else can understand me - A minor
Now the A minor - And everything I do is to D
now repeat that. Back to G. You give me
and consolation. E minor, same progression. A minor.  You give me strength to
carry on.
Now we're gonna do a few measures of G
Stay on G. Again. Okay, now there's a couple more
chords that we're going to include in
the basic or easy version. There is a C
chord in there and you'll see this C
chord is very easy especially from the
A  minor. You just move your third finger
over here to the fifth string third fret.
So you might want to practice just going
from A minor to C. The other two chords
are pretty easy. We've got that E minor
already. Now we're gonna change at one
point to E7. To do that, you put your
first finger down on the first fret of
the third string and you take your third
finger off the fourth string. That
makes an E7 chord. So you've got the C
chord. You've got your E7 chord
along with the G, E minor, A minor and D. Now
I'm going to go ahead and map it out for
you with the words. You can follow along
or you can watch and then come back and
try it later. That means I'm just going
to strum the chords and sing along a
little bit with it so you can hear where
the words fall with the chords. Start
with the G and I'll do 2 strums to
start with on each chord. Later it'll be
one strum  a chord you'll see. Here we go.
When no one else can understand me
A minor - and everything I do is wrong. Now we're gonna do that progression
again G. You give me love and consolation. A minor 
You give me
strength to carry on. Now we're gonna do a bunch
of G. Here we go.  And you're always there to again - G
Now its 1 C. 1D and E minor and E7. That's the - back to C - the wonder, strum to D. That's the wonder, the wonder of you.
That's the entire song except for the little
parts in between that connect one verse
chorus to the other. So it's hard to
distinguish on this song the verse and
the chorus. They are kinda all together and it
repeats that same pattern over again
from the beginning. Let's add some
strumming to it.  Now there's nothing
wrong with that straight down strum. As a
matter of fact, if you're just learning
the song that's what I would do.
Map out the chords and sing along with it
and get the hang of where the chords 
change. But when you're ready, we're gonna
add a little more spice to the strum.
Instead of straight down twice I'm going
to go three little strums in place of
each of those one down strum so it
sounds like this - 1 2 3
I often count it like this 1 da da - 2 da da - 3 da da 4 da da and so on. Now you want
to hit kind of lightly. You don't want to
bang away like that
and I'm putting a little extra emphasis
on the very first one so of each of the
three just like this 1 2 3 buts its subtle.
Don't worry if you don't get that first
I would encourage you just to go
straight down and over time add a little
more feeling to it. We we call it
accent on the 1and the 2
da 2. Try it with me just make your G
chord anyway you want for now. We're
gonna `1 da da - 2 da da like that.
Ready hit it 1 da da, 2 da da, 3 da da 4 dada. Okay, yeah. You can do this.
I wanna give you the option to add a few
upgrades, These are fairly simple and
completely optional, Please do not stress
over this. I'm doing D chord but
occasionally when I plays a song. There's
a place to add a d7 and I'm gonna show
you exactly what they do right now but
I'll show you when we go to play the
whole song. A D7 looks like a D only its kinda up side down in a way
instead of this note it's this note here
to make that I have to put the first
finger on the second string first fret
now the second and third fingers can go
on each side on that second fret like
the D. Here's the D chord and the D7. Now
you'll notice it actually is even a
little easier  to follow the
progression with the D7 because
the first thing you can stay right there and just move
these 2 fingers over.  If you decide to
use D7 all the time instead of D it
works, it sounds great or you can vary it
a little bit and add some variety to it.
The other changes I'm doing the G chord
but there's a place where I do a long G
where I do half a regular G and half a
G7. The G7 makes it feel like
it's getting ready to go to the next
chord that's some tension I like that.
Now this G7 is a bit of a stretch and
for some people it's really hard. You can
also make a usable chord by just taking
off that third finger and leaving the
second finger right there on the second
fret fifth string and the first finger
on the first string first fret. That
actually makes a G7/B. It means the
B's in the bass note. Now I don't want
this open note to sound here so I'm
actually just slightly touching it with
my second finger deadening it out. Sounds
complicated but it's actually it's kind
of hard not to deaden it out really. I'll
leave it up to you if you want to try
that
G7, the G7/B  or just stick with G
the whole time. Okay, it's time to put it
all together now. If you haven't already
be sure to download the lyrics and the
chords. There'll be a link that you can
get over to my blog page and do that. Go
ahead and get your guitar out. Make a G
chord to start. You'll see where I add
the G7, the D7 and you'll also be able to
follow along on the music. When no one else
can understand me
When everything I do is wrong
You give me hope and consolation
You give me strength to carry on
And you're always there to lend a hand
In everything I do
That's the wonder
The wonder of you
Into the next verse, here we go. And when you smile the world is brighter
You touch my hand and I'm a king
Your kiss to me is worth a fortune
Your love
for me is everything. I guess I'll never
know the reason why
You love me as you do
That's the wonder
The wonder of you
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gonna turn it over to you. Which of those
forms of the G chord are you gonna use
for this song? Do you like that 3 finger
G with the pinky that I'm using? Or do
you prefer a different form? And how
about that strum did that seem easy or
does it  seem like it was pretty tough? Or
do you prefer a different strum
altogether? Let me know in the comments
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