Sweater Weather chords

How to play Sweater Weather

Play Sweater Weather by The Neighbourhood with capo 3, using C, Am, Em, G and D shapes in standard tuning. The accompaniment sounds in G minor. The verse exercise leaves out Am; the pre-chorus and chorus add it. Learn that change in the harmony before treating the whole song as one repeating four-chord loop.

Match the artist, key and capo version

Musicnotes’ original-key edition lists G minor, 4/4 and 124 BPM. A transposed copy can show another key, so check the original-key selection when comparing charts. Easy 2 Play Music’s own guitar tutorial specifies capo 3 and the C, Am, Em, G and D shape set used for this easier guitar approach.

At capo 3, C sounds as Eb, Am as Cm, Em as Gm, G as Bb and D as F. The key field names the sounding G minor, not the first shape in a list. Put the capo behind fret 3, check the tuning, and read the diagrams relative to that position. Without the capo the same shapes sound three semitones lower.

Distinguish the verse from the chorus

GuitarTuna’s simplified chart shows Eb–Gm–Bb in the verse, and Eb–Cm–Gm–Bb for the pre-chorus and chorus. Transposed down three semitones for the capo shapes, these become C–Em–G and C–Am–Em–G. The added Am is therefore a section change, not an optional extra to scatter into every verse.

The boxes here expand each chord entry to one four-beat practice bar at 80 BPM. The three-box verse exercise and four-box chorus exercise are change drills; their lengths are not a claim about the recording’s complete phrase lengths. Count aloud through each box and restart the selected drill deliberately, rather than trying to fit a vocal line over the expanded bars.

Give the bridge its own D chord

The simplified bridge in GuitarTuna moves through Cm, Bb and F, which become Am, G and D at capo 3. Practise that three-chord order separately. The source includes longer holds and repetitions; the exercise below isolates the hand changes without reconstructing all those bar counts. Its D is not present in the chorus’s four-chord set, so prepare it before reaching the bridge.

Start D on the fourth string, leaving the fifth and sixth strings silent. Its printed high F# sounds as A with the capo, completing the sounding F-major chord. If you accidentally keep the high-string third fret from the preceding G shape, you make Dsus4 instead. Listen to the top note as well as checking that the hand has roughly the right outline.

Keep the five open shapes clear at practice speed

C and Am both start on string 5. Em and G can use all six strings, while D starts on string 4. With the printed C and Am fingerings, the index finger can stay on B-string fret 1 and the middle finger on D-string fret 2; move the remaining finger between A-string fret 3 and G-string fret 2. Release those anchors when moving to Em, whose B string is open.

All three practice grids use four quarter-note downstrokes per bar at 80 BPM. The space between strokes helps you hear muted strings and prepare the next grip. Keep the return motion loose and leave time for the chord to ring. Once the changes are reliable, study the chosen tutorial’s section-specific strumming and recording timing; a faster, busier pattern should preserve the distinction between verse, chorus and bridge.