Beginner Acoustic, Beginner Electric, Songbook + TAB

Blurred Lines (Robin Thicke & T.I. & Pharell Williams) Guitar Lesson with Backing Tracks + TAB

In this guitar lesson, we start with the bass, turn that into a guitar part, and then begin incorporating the keys part. By the end, you’ll be able to play Blurred Lines on just one guitar, and find a part that works in a band as you play with the Backing Tracks!

Blurred Lines | TAB

This tune is a lot of fun to play! Start by learning the bass line (play along with the original to get the feel), then gradually layer in more elements.

Bass line

We need to play that G high, or the descending movement starting on D (D – C – B – A) won’t come from below. I didn’t indicate this as chords; the same applies to the C in bar 2, which feels more like Gsus4.

Now, we turn this bass line into a full guitar part. You could even play it on one acoustic guitar if you have a rhythm loop.

If you’re in a band without a keyboard player, you can incorporate the keys part with the bass like this:

Stops

In verse 3, the stop looks like this:

Notice the start on beat 4. In verse 7, we play slightly differently, stopping on beat 1 and not on beat 4:

Chorus 3 features another subtle stop:

In the breakdown, we stop for nearly half the section:

Alternative chord shapes

On the original recording, the keyboards play a full G triad (with the 3rd in the middle) and a full D chord (with the 3rd far down). On guitar, this translates to an E shape for G and a C shape for D. This can replace the previous shapes if you prefer.