Zedd - Beautiful Now - Guitar Cover

About Beautiful Now

At 128 BPM in F# minor, "Beautiful Now" by Zedd sits in the Pop Rock world in an interesting way: the song's DNA is electronic, but its chord progressions and melodic lines translate cleanly to guitar and reward careful attention to phrasing. The core harmonic movement in F# minor gives you a lot to work with, whether you are playing rhythm parts under the vocal or lifting the synth melody onto a single-note lead line. That lead melody is the centrepiece for guitar players: it sits in a singable register and benefits from smooth legato technique to mimic the synth's sustained, flowing tone. Getting the phrasing right at 128 BPM is trickier than it looks because the rhythmic placement is very precise. Use the Practice Toolbar to loop the melodic sections slowed down until each note lands exactly where it should before you bring the tempo back up. A clean-toned electric or even an acoustic works well here.

• The main melodic line adapts well to guitar as a single-note lead, favouring legato fretting to replicate the smooth, sustained synth tone.
• Playing in F# minor means the natural minor scale and its relative major, A, cover most of the harmonic movement you will encounter.
• At exactly 128 BPM, rhythmic precision matters a lot, so isolating short phrases with the Practice Toolbar slowed down is the most effective way to drill them.