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Index Bar chords 21 Carey13 Chords explained 6 Chords that are good to know 10 Clocks16 El Condor Pasa 8 Eleanor Rigby 9 Finger picking 22 First chords 3 Give Peace a Chance 4 Good Riddance 26 Green Eyes 20 Hey jude 25 House of the Rising Sun 30 I Hung My Head 28 I.P.Ms.14 John B. Sails11 One17 Redemption Song 15 Scarborough Fair 29 Simple Twist of Fate 18 Strums 12 Teach Your Children 27 Tom Dooley 5 Tuning 2 Wonderful Tonight 24 Wonderwall 19 4 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, G chords and melodies? 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, Only 7 of these make a scale. But it is G# or Ab, A, A# or Bb, and B. No black which ones you use that determine the key (half step) between B and C either. scale. A C-scale looks like this: C D E F G A B C and so on. All the white keys, in fact. Something that helps immensely is to figure out how to express the scale in half and whole steps. This will give you the template Expressed in words then the Major scale to a major scale , or minor. The C major template consists of : scale looks like this: whole step, whole, half, whole, whole, C D E F G A B C whole, half. A whole step is the distance between C and D, a half step between C and C# If you take away the C scale you end up with this: 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. Chord “template”: Each chord also contain a 3rd and a 5th. The 3rd determines whether its a Major or minor C = Major chord. ( In a Major chord there is a Major 3rd Dm = minor and in a minor a minor 3rd). If you add the third Em = minor note from C in the scale you get the 3rd. This is F = Major the note E. ( C D E - one, two, three ). To G = Major figure out if its a Major or minor 3rd we have to Am = minor count half steps; 1 for C, 2 for C#, 3 for D, 4 for Bmb5= minor flat 5 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 So substitute another scale for the C G. ( CDEFG, 12345). No half steps needed scale and you will get an entirely here. different list of chords; To find a chord with a minor 3rd we start on Major note 2 in the C scale, D. So the root is D and minor three up for the 3rd is F. Counting half steps minor between D and F goes like this; D is 1, D# is 2, Major E is 3, F is 4. So only four steps to the 3rd Major here. D is therefore a minor chord. We add the minor 5th, A and we have a Dm ( D minor). minor flat 5 Going through the scale like this will yield C, Now you also might Dm, Em, F, G ,Am, and Bmb5. Bmb5 is the notice where the famous mystery chord called a half diminished chord. expression ”three chord The way it works is that usually the 5th is the song” comes from. You eight half step from the root, but in this case it get this by using only the is the seventh. So we end up with a diminished Major chords in any key, 5th. Hence Bmb5. known as I, IV, V. ( one four five) El Condor Pasa ( If I could) Simon and Garfunkel |Em | |G | I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail. | | | | Yes I would. If I could, | Em | 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. 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 C |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 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 strumming hand the right and strum D D U U D U fretting hand left, which would be all wrong if youre left handed.