The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun - Interlude & Ending - Guitar Lesson

About Here Comes The Sun - Interlude & Ending

The interlude and ending sections of "Here Comes The Sun" are where the song's most rhythmically tricky guitar work lives. George Harrison navigates a series of unusual meter shifts through the interlude, moving between time signatures in a way that feels natural to the ear but demands real counting discipline from the player. The fingerpicking pattern that carries the song sits in A major, which means open-string resonance is your friend, but you need clean left-hand fretting to let those strings ring properly without buzz. The ending brings a reprise of that fingerpicked feel, so locking in the right-hand pattern early pays off across the whole arrangement. Use the Practice Toolbar to loop the interlude slowed down until the meter shifts feel automatic rather than something you have to think through. The Beatles recorded the track with a capo, so check the tab on this page for the correct fret position before you start.

• The interlude moves through irregular time signatures, so isolating those bars and looping them slowed down is the most efficient way to build confidence.
• A capo is used in the original recording, shifting the open-chord fingerpicking shapes into the correct concert pitch for the arrangement.
• Clean fingerpicking technique matters throughout: every open string in A major needs to ring freely, so slow practice with deliberate left-hand placement is essential.