Summer Breeze Chords & Guitar Lesson

Welcome to my Summer Breeze chords and guitar lesson by Seals and Croft. This is a great classic and something that will really help you work on your strumming skills.

While I think there is likely a lot of improvisation going on throughout the song, I will give you a few strumming frameworks to worth within.

There are a couple of interesting chords including the Bm7 as well as the B7sus4 chord, both of which are barre chords.

Summer Breeze Guitar Chords:

Summer Breeze Strumming Patterns:

You can always simplify if you need to, but I think this song really comes alive with some 16th note strumming patterns. Below are a few suggestions.

Easy Pattern:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
D   DU D    DU

Verse Strumming Option 1:
1  2 +a  3 e + a  4 e + a
D DDU    U    U  DU DU

Verse Strumming Option 2:
1 2 +a 3e +a 4+a
D DDU DUDU DDU

Chorus:
1  2 + a  3 e +  4 + a
D D   U  DUD   DDU

Summer Breeze Guitar Lesson:

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Summer Breeze Chord Chart:

Intro:
|Em Am7| X4
1 + 2   +

Verse:
|E                                        G|
      See the curtains hanging in the window
|D                                            A|      |E      Am7|
      In the evening on a Friday night
|E                                 G|
     A little light a shinin' through the window
|D                                           A|                 E
    Lets me know everything is all right

Chorus:
Am7                                Bm7
    Summer breeze, makes me feel fine
Am7                                                               G    (riff1)
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind
Am7                            Bm7
  Summer breeze, makes me feel fine
Am7                                                                 G   (riff1)
  Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

Intro: 4 times

Verse:|
||E                                 G|
      See the paper laying on the sidewalk
|D                                                 A|                  |E  Am7|
    A little music from the house next door
|E                     G|
  So I walk on up to the doorstep
|D                                                     A |            E
  Through the screen and across the floor

Chorus:
Am7                                Bm7
    Summer breeze, makes me feel fine
Am7                                                               G    (riff1)
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind
Am7                            Bm7
  Summer breeze, makes me feel fine
Am7                                                                 G   (riff1)
  Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

Bridge: (Intro played over)
|Em                           Am7|                |Em                     Am7|
  Sweet days of summer, the jasmines in bloom
|Em               Am7|                 |Em                 Am7|
  July is dressed up and playing her tune.
                               Am7             Bm7
  And I come home from a hard days work
                             Am7                        Bm7         B7sus4
  And you're waiting there not a care in the world

Verse:
|E                                 G|
    See the smile waitin in the kitchen
|D                                          A|              |E  Am7|
    Food cooking and plates for two
|E                                        G|
  Feel the arms that reach out to hold me
|D                                                    A|            E
    In the evening when the day is through

Chorus:
Am7                                Bm7
    Summer breeze, makes me feel fine
Am7                                                               G    (riff1)
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind
Am7                            Bm7
  Summer breeze, makes me feel fine
Am7                                                                 G   (riff1)
  Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

Intro: Play 4 times

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