La Bamba | Ritchie Valens | Los Lobos | How to Play Guitar Chords

Welcome to a Chord Savvy® guitar lesson on how to play "La Bamba," originally made popular by Ritchie Valens (1958) and famously covered by Los Lobos (1987). This guitar lesson shows chords, TAB, strumming, and song structure. LINKED OUTLINE below...
0:19... Chords Summary
0:23... Valens original compared to Los Lobos cover
1:07... Intro TAB
2:10... Intro TAB (easier version)
2:52... Chord progression
3:18... Strum pattern
4:41... Chorus with Vocals
5:05... Chorus TAB (optional)
5:41... Closing Comments
6:08... Outtakes
Chord Savvy® guitar lessons are all about quality content, straight to the point! You value your time, and we do too. Although these guitar tutorials are geared towards intermediate to advanced guitar players that need to learn how to play a song (fast!), we welcome beginners to dive in and share any questions or suggestions on how best to learn a song or play chords and TAB...
ROCK ON!! 🤘🏻
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[@pichibomb475]

Works just as well with electric 👌

[@mike04574]

Lobos has solo too

[@gabrielbojanini639]

Percussive sound is one of my favorites! The way you explained how that sound is made was great! Thank you Bobby!

[@ChordSavvy]

Gabriel Bojanini you are most welcome! Glad it was helpful... Rock On!!

[@elviadiaz80]

man i really wanna learn to play this for my dad since when he used to have a guitar he never really got the chance to play it and it’s his favorite song so i just wanna make him proud and play for him :) this helped i’ll keep practicing for him

[@ChordSavvy]

Stick with it, and you will get there! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@carphone9385]

GOOD GRIEF - that singing - I literally shat myself. Like my inside dog suddenly barking at a passerby

[@wthjavi]

2:19

[@howard5093]

You teach the song in authentic fashion, thx

[@chrispann5274]

Thank you so much for your rendition of LA Bamba. I've studied a dozen different versions of this and Its taken me 2 months just to work out the intro which was by far the toughest part to learn. I love your percussive touch and also the different versions you demonstrate from Ritchie 's original to Los. Yours is the best take and so informative! I also wanted to learn to bring the intro into the mix and thank you to you I can now learn this too! Also took it on board to learn the song in Spanish and I am proud I have. Actually I recently found out that Ritchie had to learn to speak in Spanish too as he couldn't originally which inspired me to do so too!!!

[@ChordSavvy]

So awesome to see how you connected with this song! Keep up the good work and rock on! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@rodrigoalbes1385]

Se escucha bien ese español 👌

[@HZelf]

thank you

[@ChordSavvy]

You are very welcome! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@joanlambour]

I really like how you organize everything 👌🏻

[@ChordSavvy]

Happy to help!! 🤘🏻🤗

[@sunilchacko9874]

This is simply amazing. Made into really small chunks.

[@ChordSavvy]

Sunil Chacko you are welcome!!! Glad it was helpful. 🤘🏻

[@user-rm3ml6pk8k]

this deserves a sub

[@lewisoliver5212]

I guess I'm quite off topic but does anyone know a good site to stream newly released series online?

[@asakellen3564]

@Lewis Oliver I use FlixZone. Just search on google for it =)

[@justusjaziel2340]

@Lewis Oliver i watch on FlixZone. You can find it on google :)

[@user-pc7hz5tc3w]

I am a korean This video is fucking good and very useful to guitar player I subscribed

[@ChordSavvy]

Happy to help you rock on!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@123iloveugaming3]

Nice easy to learn here😁

[@ChordSavvy]

LAX ONE ACC you are welcome! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@valentinamunoz6325]

Can you show the riff on how to strum . The last riff of your video.

[@philyevans6357]

The intro doesn't sound accurate to me 🤔

[@kevinportillo5580]

I'm playing the same chords but my guitar sounds so different

[@ChordSavvy]

Double check to make sure you are in standard tuning (instead of another tuning). You may also have different strings (gauge or vinyl). Hope that helps! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@juanolivarez773]

The Valens cover and Los Lobos both are very wrong. The lyrics are 99% missing. La Bamba is a Huasteca, and lyrics are many and very different from anything white culture can dream of.