Zara Zara

How to play Zara Zara by Bombay Jayashri on guitar

These are the sounding chords. With a capo on fret 2 you play G, Em, Am, F, C, Dm and more, the shapes the player above shows.

Zara Zara is a great song to learn if you want a smooth, expressive feel at a moderate pace. At about 84 BPM, it gives you room to shape each change cleanly, and the progression has a calm, flowing quality that rewards steady timing and light dynamics.

You can lean on the open shapes A, G, D, Em, and E, but the harder part comes from F#m, Bm, and F#. The main change to watch is the opening move from A to F#m and then into Bm, since that shift asks you to stay relaxed while moving between open and barre shapes without breaking the pulse.

Start by looping the opening progression slowly until your fingers land cleanly every time. Then practice the barre shapes on their own, add the open chords back in, and only after that bring the full sequence up to tempo. Keep the rhythm even, and let the changes feel automatic before you push speed.

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.