Please Please Please

How to play Please Please Please by Sabrina Carpenter on guitar

This song is a great pick if you want a modern pop feel with a tight, driving groove. At about 120 BPM, it sits in a lively pocket that rewards clean changes and steady time, so it feels energetic without being overly busy.

You can lean on open shapes for E, A, and D, but the harder moves come from the barre chords like F#, Bm, F#m, C#m, and C#. The change to watch most closely is the opening move from E to A to F# to Bm, since it asks you to switch from open chords into barre shapes smoothly.

Start by looping the opening progression slowly and making each shape ring clearly. Then practice the barre chords on their own until they feel solid, and finally put the whole sequence together at tempo, keeping your right hand relaxed and even.

Use the play-along above to follow each chord change in time with the music, or learn the shapes first with the chord diagrams below.