Señorita (Camila Cabello) Guitar Lesson with TAB

In this guitar lesson, you get TAB examples for both one acoustic guitar parts and how to play the melody!

Señorita | TAB

Let’s look at some TAB to discover how Señorita’s chords and melody can work on the guitar and teach us more about music.

Here’s idea 1, this is a basic, straightforward way to play it using the classic clave rhythm.

Señorita TAB, one acoustic guitar idea 1.

Let’s pick apart what’s going on here.

The rhythm is a clave where we go on the beat in bar one, and off the beat in bar two. This is maintained throughout. Most Latin music uses this rhythm as its foundation.

The bass line is varied by using an open string which makes complete sense for the Am as it’s the 5th. For the Cmaj7 it’s not perfect, an A is the 6th but it seems to work.

The Fmaj7 bass variation is the 3rd. The E7#9 bass variation is a 4th, which makes no sense. The final G chord uses a different rhythm.

The chord progression is VI – I – IV – IIIx – V. Play idea 1 until it feels natural, don’t change it.

Here’s idea 2.

Señorita TAB, one acoustic guitar idea 2.

In this example, loads of things have changed:

The first note is longer
The bass line is reversed going root – variation note
In bar 2 we now play a held note on beat 1
The bass note is again longer

Play this example exactly as written until it feels natural. Do this along with the original recording and on your own.

When you can play both ideas, stop staring at the TAB and see if you can naturally mix them up.

If you have a loop pedal, record yourself so you have a backing track for what’s coming up.

Next, let’s look at that melody, here’s example 1, we start in the Em shape for the Am chord.

It would be best if you looked at all intervals in relation to each chord now.

For Am, we start on the m3rd and go down the chord. In bar 2, we use the 9th and b7 to create a little bit of tension.
For C, we use almost the same notes, only adjust the second note to a 5th from the chord, make sure you can see it. Also, the final note is different in order to move towards the next chord.
F is a simple root to 5th, but the rhythm is disruptive with quarter note triplets.
The last two bars are almost identical but the intervals change in relation to each chord, make sure you see what they are, for example, the 4th and 3rd for the G chord.

Here’s the challenge, thinking in intervals, can you now move this melody to another area of the neck? If you can see the chord shape and target the intervals, you can.

Here it is, starting in a Dm shape.

To master the guitar fretboard, do this in as many areas as you can think of every time you play a new melody, make Senorita the first one!

Señorita TAB | Related Pages

Señorita | Chords + Lyrics

You can learn to play Señorita by Camila Cabello using chords, lyrics, chord analysis, a chord chart, and the original recording.

| Am7 | Am7 |
I love it when you call me señorita…

Five similar tunes | Chords + Lyrics

When you can play the TAB for Señorita, try these five tunes from the songbook.

Camila Cabello tunes

Following in Harry Styles’s footsteps, Camila Cabello came to fame through the TV show X Factor and the girl band Fifth Harmony.

Her best tunes include Crying In The Club, Havana, Sangria Wine, Señorita, and Bam Bam.

Camila Cabello on the web

About me | Dan Lundholm

Dan Lundholm wrote this guitar lesson and TAB for Señorita.

This guitar lesson by Dan Lundholm features TAB and covers Señorita. Discover more about him and how you can learn guitar with Spytunes.

Most importantly, find out why you should learn guitar through playing tunes, not practising scales, and studying theory in isolation.