Lizzy McAlpine - Staying

How to play Lizzy McAlpine - Staying by LizzyMcAlpine on guitar

This song is a good one to learn if you want a steady, emotional groove that sits nicely at a moderate tempo. It feels calm and controlled, so you can focus on clean changes and even timing instead of speed.

You’ll move between open shapes and barre shapes, so the main challenge is keeping your fretting hand relaxed while you switch. The opening progression B - G - G#m - C#m puts the harder shapes right up front, and the change from G to G#m is one to watch closely.

Start by looping the opening progression slowly until each chord rings clearly. Then practice the barre shapes on their own, add the open shapes back in, and only after that bring it up to full tempo. When the changes feel smooth, play along with the track and keep your strums 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.