Guitar Lesson: How To Play I'd Love To Change The World

Here is a little more info on the Ten Years After classic. It looks like I will establishing an unfortunate pattern here- correcting mistakes I make in the videos I post for lessons here. It happened with Scarborough Fair and now with I'd Love To Change The World. It seems I am in the habit of playing songs and altering them slightly over the years, never going back to the original to check accuracy before I put it on video.

The tab has the correct notes, the video is a little less than accurate but the main sections are the intro/chorus and verse/solo. The intro is played in an arpeggio style, alternating down and up strokes consistently, with the downs on the beats and the ups between the beats (the "ands"). The verse is just played by strumming full open chords, Em, G, Am, C, and B7.

Download the TAB from our blog and drop some comments there when you can.

Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity
Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more

I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you

Population keeps on breeding
Nation bleeding, still more feeding economy
Life is funny, skies are sunny
Bees make honey, who needs money, monopoly

I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you

World pollution, there's no solution
Institution, electrocution
Just black and white, rich or poor
Them and us, stop the war

I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you