Eagles Hotel California Guitar Lesson Easy Strum Version for Beginners
This guitar lesson for beginners will show how to play an easy strum version of ’Hotel California’ by Eagles. Along with strum patterns, chord diagrams, and practice rhythm tracks, we’ll cover it all with a step by step approach!
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Eagles Hotel California Guitar Lesson [Easy Strum Version for Beginners]
00:00 Lesson Intro
0:18 Verse 1
2:42 Strum Pattern
5:51 Verse Review
6:33 Chorus
9:00 Chorus Review
9:40 Arrangement/Ending
11:22 Strumming Variations
12:20 Lesson Review
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Eagles Hotel California Easy Strum Chords and Lyrics
Eagles Hotel California Easy Strum Acoustic Guitar Lesson for Beginners
This basic strum-along arrangement of ‘Hotel California’ by Eagles is for beginners and singers who will sing and perform ’Hotel California’ by Eagles unaccompanied. On the original recording of Hotel California by Eagles, there are various arpeggios and strum patterns played on both acoustic and electric guitars as the song progresses. For this Eagles ’Hotel California’ acoustic cover version, one strum pattern will be used that allows for a slower, less-challenging version of ’Hotel California’ to play that remains steady and consistent throughout the song.
Eagles ’Hotel California’ Easy Strum Guitar Chords
[Key of ’Bm’ Minor] ’Bm’, ’F#7’, ’A’, ’E’, ’G’, ’D’, ’Em’
Eagles ’Hotel California’ Easy Strum Pattern for Beginners
For this Eagles ’Hotel California’ guitar lesson, the strum pattern remains the same throughout the song, using a:
‘down... down-up-down down-up-up-down down-up-down’ strum.
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’Hotel California’ by Eagles Acoustic Guitar Cover Version
This Eagles Hotel California guitar lesson features an easy strum rhythm for beginners. This acoustic guitar cover version of ’Hotel California’ by Eagles is played in the Key of ’B’ Minor - the same key used on the famous recording by Eagles on the album ’Hotel California’.
Eagles Hotel California Easy Strumming Pattern for Beginners
Starting off learning how to play Hotel California with a strum pattern that remains consistent for each chord. Once the complete arrangement is memorized, variations can be made to the Hotel California strum pattern. With all of the guitars and various fingerstyle and strumming techniques used on the original recording of Hotel California by Eagles, the actual arrangement of ‘Hotel California’ is a relatively basic, simply alternating between Verse & Chorus sections.
Easy Strum for Hotel California
On the original recording of Hotel California by Eagles, the song ends with a guitar solo ‘fade-out’. A suggested ending when playing an acoustic cover version of Hotel California live is to simply strum a ‘Bm’ chord at any point after a verse or chorus.
Hotel California Easy Guitar Lesson for Beginners
This guitar lesson for ‘Hotel California’ is designed for beginners and for singers who wish to accompany themselves with a basic ‘strum-along’ performance. Several guitars are used on the original recording of Hotel California, including a capoed twelve-string acoustic guitar, a six-string acoustic, and various electrics. For this easy strum cover version of Hotel California, a steel-string acoustic strummed with a pick will work best.
Eagles Hotel California Song Facts
“Hotel California“ is the title track from the Eagles’ album of the same name and was released in February 1977. Writing credits for Hotel California are shared by Don Felder (music), Don Henley, and Glenn Frey (lyrics). Joe Walsh came up with the dual-guitar descending arpeggio part that ends ’Hotel California’. The Eagles’ original recording of ’Hotel California’ features Henley singing the lead vocals, and concludes with an electric guitar solo performed by both Walsh and Felder, in which they both take turns of playing lead before harmonizing and playing the aforementioned arpeggio towards the ’Hotel California’ fade out.
’Hotel California’ by Eagles is about materialism and excess. California is used as the setting, but Hotel California could relate to anywhere in America.
Felder says the Eagles group recorded Hotel California about a year after he did the original Hotel California demo, and in the Hotel California session, he started to improvise the guitar part at the end. Henley stopped him and demanded that he do it exactly like the Hotel California demo.
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