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Index
Bar chords Carey
Chords explained Chords that are good to know
Clocks
El Condor Pasa
Eleanor Rigby
Finger picking
First chords Give Peace a Chance
Good Riddance
Green Eyes Hey jude
House of the Rising Sun I Hung My Head I.P.Ms.
John B. Sails
One Redemption Song Scarborough Fair Simple Twist of Fate
Strums
Teach Your Children
Tom Dooley Tuning Wonderful Tonight Wonderwall 21
13
6
10
16
8
9
22
3
4
26
20
25
30
28
14
17
15
29
18
12
27
5
2
24
19
11
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John Lennon
- Give Peace A Chance
(Two, one, two, three, four ):
G
Ev'rybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism,
Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, That-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m
G
D7
G
All we are saying is give piece a chance,
G
D7
G
All we are saying is give piece a chance
G
G
C'mon : Ev'rybody's talking about ministers,
Sinister, Banisters
And canisters, Bishops, Fishops,
Rabbis, and Pop eyes, Bye, bye, bye byes
G
D7
G
All we are saying is give peace a chance,
G
D7
G
All we are saying is give peace a chance
D7
Let me tell you now: Ev'rybody's talking about
Revoluton, evolution, masturbation,
Flagellation, regulation, integrations,
Meditations, United Nations, Congratulations
G
D7
G
All we are saying is give peace a chance,
G
D7
G
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Ev'rybody's talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary,
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper,
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Hare Krishna,
Hare Krishna
G
D7
G
All we are saying is give peace a chance,
G
D7
G
All we are saying is give peace a chance
keep repeating
Strum D
D
D
D
or
D
D
D
U
D
U
Chord structure ( theory)
How does all this hang together,
chords and melodies?
G
A basic chord consists of three notes. This is called a
“Triad”. Mostly when you strum a chord on the guitar
there are more notes , one per string, but thats
because you have more than one of some. In a basic G
chord there are , from bass to treble, the note G on the
6th string, third fret. Then you will get a B on the 5th, a
D on the 4th, another G on the 3rd, a B again on the
2nd and yet another G on the 1st string.
Fact is when you think of notes it
often helps to thing of the piano
keyboard layout to give you a visual
aid.
#= sharp, b= flat
The notes in our western scale are
these:
C C# ( or Db, depending on the scale ,
more on this soon), D , D# or Eb, E, F
( notice on the keyboard how there
isnt a black key here. ), F# or Gb, G,
G# or Ab, A, A# or Bb, and B. No black
key (half step) between B and C either.
Something that helps immensely is to figure
out how to express the scale in half and
whole steps. This will give you the template
to a major scale , or minor. The C major
scale looks like this:
C D E F G A B C
If you take away the C scale you end
up with this:
Only 7 of these make a scale. But it is
which ones you use that determine the
scale.
A C-scale looks like this:
C D E F G A B C and so on. All the white
keys, in fact.
Expressed in words then the Major scale
template consists of :
whole step, whole, half, whole, whole,
whole, half.
A whole step is the distance between C
and D, a half step between C and C#
Try to make your own scales by starting
on any random note and follow the
template.
Heavy Stuff!
Chord construction.
The scale is what makes up a key. All the
chords in a key contains only notes from the
scale that make up that key. So the chords in
the key of C are made up of notes from the C
scale only.
Each key has three Major chords and three
minor chords. There is also a half diminished
chord. This makes seven different chords, one
for each of the notes in the scale.
The note that gives the chord its name is
called “the Root” . A C chord has C for a root.
Each chord also contain a 3rd and a 5th. The
3rd determines whether its a Major or minor
chord. ( In a Major chord there is a Major 3rd
and in a minor a minor 3rd). If you add the third
note from C in the scale you get the 3rd. This is
the note E. ( C D E - one, two, three ). To
figure out if its a Major or minor 3rd we have to
count half steps; 1 for C, 2 for C#, 3 for D, 4 for
D#, and 5 for E. This is a Major third, so the C
being built is a Major chord. We add the 5th for a fuller sound- and that is it. The 5th is the
G. ( CDEFG, 12345). No half steps needed
here.
To find a chord with a minor 3rd we start on
note 2 in the C scale, D. So the root is D and
three up for the 3rd is F. Counting half steps
between D and F goes like this; D is 1, D# is 2,
E is 3, F is 4. So only four steps to the 3rd
here. D is therefore a minor chord. We add the
5th, A and we have a Dm ( D minor).
Going through the scale like this will yield C,
Dm, Em, F, G ,Am, and Bmb5. Bmb5 is the
mystery chord called a half diminished chord.
The way it works is that usually the 5th is the
eight half step from the root, but in this case it
is the seventh. So we end up with a diminished
5th. Hence Bmb5. Chord “template”:
C = Major
Dm = minor
Em = minor
F = Major
G = Major
Am = minor
Bmb5= minor flat 5
So substitute another scale for the C
scale and you will get an entirely
different list of chords;
Major
minor
minor
Major
Major
minor
minor flat 5
Now you also might
notice where the famous
expression ”three chord
song” comes from. You
get this by using only the
Major chords in any key,
known as I, IV, V. ( one
four five)
El Condor Pasa
( If I could)
|Em
|
|G
|
I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail.
|
|
|
|
Yes I would.
If I could,
| Em
|
I surely would.
|Em
|
|G
|
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.
|
|
|
|
Yes I would.
If I only could,
|Em
|
I surely would.
Simon and Garfunkel
Em
G
CHORUS
|C
|
|
|
Away, I'd rather sail away
|G |
|
|
Like a swan that's here and gone
|C
|
|
|
A man gets tied up to the ground
|G
|
|
|
He gives the world
Its saddest sound,
|Em
|
|
|
||
Its saddest sound.
A- a- a- ah…
2
I'd rather be a forest than a street.
Yes I would.
If I could,
I surely would.
I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet,
Yes I would.
If I only could,
I surely would.
CHORUS
C
A couple of strums!
The rule is to strum in the direction of the beat. The
down beat ( which is when a tapping foot hits the floor)
should be strummed downwards. You will hit the bass
strings first on a downbeat.
The up beat ( which is when a tapping foot is at its
furthest from the floor) is then strummed as an up
strum, where you will hit the treble strings first.
When one is using a pick this is fairly simple, just touch
the pick to the strings and move your hand up and
down. With some small wrist adjustments this should
come fairly easily. Without a pick the choices arent as
obvious. One can strum down on the back of ones
fingers, mostly with the nails, and then up just using the
back of the thumb. This works fine as well.
Its simplest to strum on the beats. But strumming just on the down beats, down down down
down etc... gets boring so using the up beat is the way to fix that. You can strum on all the
upbeats too and that is fairly interesting. Even more interesting is when you leave a few up
strums out here and there. This pattern; D DUDUDU leaves the first up beat out. That way you
can really hear beat one in every bar quite well.
Strum: D
D
U
D
U
D
U
There are many other combinations you can strum that are similar by taking out other up strums. D D
D DU is one that is quite simple, but if you do it fast it is nevertheless exciting. Combine different
versions to make two bar patterns too!
A way that is a little more difficult, it turns out , is to leave out a down strum. This following example
leaves out the strum on the third beat. You have to keep your right hand moving though because
next is an up strum. If you need to, tap the guitar lightly below the strings on
the third beat to bring your hand down wards.
By the way: Ive called the
strum D
D
U
U
D
U
strumming hand the right and
fretting hand left, which would be
all wrong if youre left handed. I
know this is probably bad, but it
makes the point more quickly
than having to interject every
time something like; “or the left
hand if youre a left handed
player”. My apologies.
The chord in the first strum is a
Dm, the second a G.
A word on I.P.Ms
I.P.M. stands for “intense practice moments”. Ive
completely made this up for the benefit of finding time
and space to practice. When one is learning the guitar,
or just about anything, there are things that have to be
practiced over and over to seem to get better. This is
problematic and sometimes quite boring. You know, to
play a song you have to be able to get from the chord
G to the chord C relatively quickly as not to break the
momentum and maybe sing on top of it all. This isnt
just going to happen without some hard work. But if
you spent and I.P.M. doing this every day for a week ,
or twice a day or whatever you can muster, then , yes,
you can swap back and forth between G and C very
well thank you. An I.P.M. should be 2 minutes by the
way. Or whatever you decide. A commercial break
when youre watching T.V.
Make a list of things you need to practice, say:
1) G change to C
2) strum D D U U D U
3) learn A minor (Am)
There , you have 3 I.P.Ms. Do them every day and
youll see that you get better.
Another tool is to use “flash
cards” for chords. Write the
name of the chord on one
side and then draw the
fingering ( chord diagram)
on the other side. When
you have a few you can
just randomly select two or
three and then spend an
I.P.M. practicing your new
chord progression.
Mostly though; HAVE FUN!
Redemption song
Bob Marley
|G
| Em
|
G
Em
Old pirates yes they rob I
C
| Am
|
Sold I to the merchant ships
G
| Em
|
Minutes after they took I
C
|D
Am
from the bottomless pit
|G
| Em
|
But my hand was made strong
C
| Am
|
By the hand of the almighty
G
| Em
|
We forward in this generation
C
|D
|
triumphantly
|G |C
D
|G
Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom
| C D | Em
|C D
|G
|C D
|G
|
Cause all I ever had
redemption songs, redemption songs
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book*
strum D
D
U
U
D
U
C
D
Clocks
Coldplay
Em
D
Am (2)
Lights go out and I can't be saved, tides that I tried to swim against
Em
D
Am (2)
Brought me down upon my knees, oh I beg I beg and plead -singing
Em
D
Am (2)
Come out of the things unsaid, shoot an apple off my head - and a
Em
D
Am (2)
trouble that can't be named, tigers waiting to be tamed - singing
w/Piano Riff:
D
Am (2)
ye hooooooooh
Em
aahh
D
Am (2)
ye hooooooooh
D
Em
aahh
w/Piano Riff:
/ D - - - / Am - - - / - - - - / Em - - - / (x2)
D
Am (2)
Em
Confusion never stops, closing walls and ticking clocks - gonna
Em
D
Am (2)
come back and take you home, I could not stop the tune now known - singing
Em
D
Am (2)
Come out upon my seas, curse missed opportunities - am I
Em
D
Am (2)
a part of the cure, or am I a part of the disease? - singing
w/Piano Riff:
D
Am (2)
ye hooooooooh
Em
aahh
D
Am (2)
ye hooooooooh
Em
aahh
Em
w/High Piano Riff:
/ D - - - / Am - - - / - - - - / Em - - - / (x2)
w/High Piano Riff:
Em
D
Am (2)
ye hooooooooh aahh
D
Am (2)
ye hooooooooh
Em
aahh
Bridge:
Fmaj7 (2)
C
G
and nothing else compares
C
G
Fmaj7 (2)
oh nothing else compares
C
G
Fmaj7 (2)
and nothing else compares
Fmaj7
F
(4)
Piano Riff x2
F
w/High Piano Riff:
/ D - - - / Am - - - / - - - - / Em - - - / (x2)
w/High Piano Riff:
D
Am (2)
ye hooooooooh
Em
aahh
D
Am (2)
ye hooooooooh
w/High Piano Riff:
D
Home,
D
Home,
D
Home,
D
Home,
Am (2)
home, where
Am (2)
home, where
Am (2)
home, where
Am (2)
home, where
High Piano Riff x2
Em
I wanted to go
Em
I wanted to go
Em
I wanted to go
Em
I wanted to go
End on D
Am
Em
aahh
Bob Dylan
18 SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE
|D
|
They sat together in the park
|Dmaj7
|
As the evening sky grew dark
|D7
|
She looked at him and he felt a spark
|G/B
|
Tingle to his bones
|Gm
|
'Twas then he felt alone
|D
| G/B
|
And wished that he'd gone straight
D
|Asus4
|D
|
And watched out for a simple twist of fate
4
He woke up, the room was bare
He didn't see her anywhere
He told himself he didn't care
Pushed the window open wide
Felt an emptiness inside
To which he just could not relate
Brought on by his simple twist of fate
|
2
They walked along the old canal
A little confused, I remember well
And stopped into a strange hotel
With the neon burning bright
He felt the heat of the night
Hit him like a freight
Train moving with a simple twist of fate
6
People tell me its a sin
To know and feel too much within
I still believe she was my twin
But I lost the ring
She was born in spring
But I was born too late
Blame it on a simple twist of fate
3
A saxaphone someplace far off played
As she was walking down by the arcade
As the light burst through a beat up shade
Where he was waking up
She dropped a coin into the cup
Of a blind man at the gate
And forgot about a simple twist of fate
D
Dmaj7
Strum: D D U D U D U
D7
5
He hears the ticking of the clocks
And walks along with a parrot that talks
Hunts her down by the waterfront docks
Were the saliors all come in
Maybe she'll pick him out again
How long must he wait?
One more time for his simple twist of fate
G/B
Gm
A7
Green Eyes
Coldplay
verse
A
E
Bm change mid measure: A
E
Bm
Honey you are a rock
Upon which I stand
A
E
Bm
And I come here to talk
Bm
The green eyes
Bm
And how could
A
E
Bm
I hope you understand
D
A
E
Yeah the spotlight
Shines upon you
D
A
E
Anybody
Deny you
Bm
D
I came here with a load
A
G
And it feels so much lighhhh..ter
D
Now I met you
Bm
D
A
G
Honey you should know
That I could never go .... on
D
Bm
Without you
Green eyes
verse
Honey you are the sea
And I came here to talk
Upon which I float
I think you should know
Bm
D
A
E
That green eyes
You're the one that I wanted to fi.......nd
Bm
D
A
E
And anyone who tried to deny you,
Must be out of their mi......nd
Bm
D
Because I came here with a load
D
since I met you
A
G
And it feels so much lighhhh..ter
Bm
D
A
G
And Honey you should know
That I could never go .... on
Bm
A
Bm
Green eyes, green eyes, ohohoh... ohohoh...
ohohoh...
A
E
Bm
Honey you are a rock
A
E
Bm
Upon which I stand.
Strum : D DU UDU (with “swing” feel)
A
E
Bm
D
D
Without you
Wonderful Tonight
by Eric Clapton
pick; T, i, m, a
G
D
Its late in the evening
C
D
Shes wondering what clothes to wear
G
D
She puts on her make up
C
D
And brushes her long blonde hair
C
D
G
Em
And then she asks me
Do I look alright
C
D
G
And I say yes, you look wonderful tonight
2
We go a party
And everyone turns to see
This beautiful lady
Thats walking around with me
And then she asks me
Do you feel alright
And I say yes, I feel wonderful tonight
C
I feel wonderful
D
G
Em
Because I see the love light in your eyes
C
D
And the wonder of it all
C
D
Is that you just dont realize
G
How much I love you
Melody riff:
G
D
C
Em
3
Its time to go home now
And Ive got an aching head
So I give her the car keys
She helps me to bed
And then I tell her
As I turn out the light
I say my darling, you were
wonderful tonight
Oh my darling, you were
wonderful tonight
Hey Jude
4/4 : strum down 8 times per bar
|G |
|D
|
|
|
|G
Hey Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
|C
|
|G
|
|D
|
|G
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better
|
|
|D
|
|
|
|G
|
Hey Jude, don't be afraid
You were made to go out and get her
|C
|
|G
|
|D |
|G
|
The minute you let her under your skin Then you begin to make it better
|
|
|C
| /
|
And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain
|
|D
|
|G
|
Don't carry the world upon your shoulders
|
|C
| /
|
For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool
|
|D
|
|G
|
By making his world a little colder
|
|
D
|
|
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
|
|
| G etc….
Hey Jude, don't let me down
You have found her, now go and get her
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better
So let it out and let it in, hey Jude, begin
You're waiting for someone to perform with
And don't you know that it's just you, hey Jude, you'll do
The movement you need is on your shoulder
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah yeah
Hey Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her under your skin
Then you'll begin to make it
Better better better better better better, oh
|
|_
Nah nah nah nah nah nah,
G
D
C
| _
|G
nah nah nah, hey Jude
G7
C/B
Am7
|
(repeat and fade)
F
Dsus4
The Circle of 5ths
C
F
G
Bb
D
A
Eb
Ab
E
Db
B
F#
Major scale template