Tell me why: it's 1999, you have a butterfly clip in your hair, and now, decades later, your brain has decided the only acceptable thing to do is play the entire Backstreet Boys hook on one guitar. No band, no five-part harmony, no wind machine — just you and six strings and a hook so sticky it should legally be classified as an adhesive.
This clip is a MelodyChords fingerstyle arrangement of "I Want It That Way," where a single guitar handles the vocal melody AND the chords at the same time. It's the boy-band classic, minus the boys, plus a free tab so you can annoy your own neighbours with it.
How this MelodyChords arrangement works
The whole trick of playing melody and chords together is voicing your chord shapes so the sung note is always the highest string ringing. Your thumb parks on the bass note of each chord — the song leans on that classic F#m–D–A–E kind of motion in A major — while your fingers pick out the "you are, my fire" melody on top. Because the melody note doubles as the top note of the chord, your ear fuses the two into one part, and suddenly you sound like three people.
Concrete takeaway: don't grab the "full" chord and then hunt for the melody inside it. Do the opposite — find the melody note first, then build the smallest chord fragment underneath it that still spells the harmony. Two or three notes are plenty. Half of fingerstyle is knowing which strings to not play, which is also, coincidentally, half of being in a boy band.
Grab the tab, put your right-hand thumb to work, and if you want the Guitar Pro files and the original videos, they live on my Patreon — because I want it that way, and also rent exists.