Lovely Day (Bill Withers) Guitar Lesson with TAB

In this guitar lesson, we look at how to play Lovely Day using TAB for all sections, we do this for both the acoustic and electric guitar!

Lovely Day | TAB

Let’s look at how to play Lovely Day on both the acoustic and electric, play along with the original recording to make sure it’s working.

As the bass is the prominent instrument, let’s start with learning the verse on the bass first, looks like this in TAB.

Play this along with the original recording, especially the intro so you get the right feel.

Next, let’s play the verse on the electric guitar, looks like this:

Here’s the verse on the acoustic.

Here’s the bridge for the electric guitar.

As C is the same as Am7, and D is the same as Bm7, we highlight this by playing the same thing twice, play along with the original recording to make sure you can feel this.

Here’s the bridge on the acoustic.

Clearly, this was much more complicated as the bass needed to be involved and we want to highlight the difference between C and Am7, rather than the similarities.

Here’s the chorus on the electric.