Adele - Easy on Me - Guitar Cover

About Easy on Me

Piano is the heart of this song, but a fingerpicked acoustic arrangement sits beautifully underneath the vocal and rewards guitarists who lean into a gentle, expressive touch. The challenge is not technical speed but dynamics: keeping your picking hand soft and consistent so the notes breathe rather than crowd the melody. A simple open-chord approach in a standard tuning works well, though a capo can help you match the key to a vocalist or to the original recording. Focus on even, flowing arpeggios rather than strumming, since the whole feel of the track depends on space between the notes. If your picking pattern feels uneven, use the Practice Toolbar to loop a single bar slowed down until your right-hand rhythm is steady. Adele writes with a lot of emotional swell, so learning to swell your dynamics in the final chorus is really the payoff skill here. This sits comfortably in the Pop world but plays closer to a stripped-back ballad.

• The arrangement calls for delicate fingerpicking rather than strumming, so right-hand control and consistent touch are the core skills to develop.
• A capo is useful for matching the original key to your voice or to play along with the recording without retuning.
• Practise the arpeggio pattern at a reduced tempo using looping it slowed down before bringing it up to the full emotional pace of the track.