Chords for Caroline - How to Play the Intro on Guitar for Beginners

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Here's [Ebm] a great intro, especially for rock [G] guitarists [Db] playing electric [Gm] guitar.
But there's [Eb] no reason not [Db] to try it on your acoustic as [Bm] well, if you like.
I'm going to [Gb] show you the basis of the lead guitar [B] intro that Francis Rossi [G] plays.
_ Although it's [Gb] the lead [G] guitar part, I would say that for [Db] most beginners it's actually
easier to play than the [Bm] underlying rhythm [G] guitar part.
Here's [Dbm] what we'll cover in this lesson.
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_ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Gb] OK, let's take it one riff at a time.
Start with [Eb] your third finger on the third [Db] string at the [G] third fret.
_ _ Then play these three notes.
So that's three, [Bb] _ _ two, [Dm] _ and then three on [F] the D string _ _ with _ [G] [C] the third finger as well.
[Bb] _ _ _ [A] _ [F] _ _ So [Db] fingering [F] three, two, [Bb] three. _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ For this [G] riff, the same three notes [Ebm] are played twice, but with a shift of [Gm] accent like this. _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ [F] _ _ _ Notice [Gb] that I use a little vibrato technique the second time I arrive at this note to help [Bb] emphasise it. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] Now Francis [Gm] Rossi normally plays this riff about [Gb] eight times [Db] through, during the warm [C]-up
part of the intro.
[Gm] And then as the [Gb] drums kick in and the 12-bar [B] sequence starts, he keeps [Bb] that same riff going
over the first four bars of [Gb] F.
One, two, [Bb] three. _ _ _
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Then as the [Gb] underlying chord shifts to B [G]-flat, he responds [B] just by changing the riff [Ebm] by one note.
Instead of this note, we go down to this [Dbm] note under the [B] first finger on the [C] G string.
[G] The rhythm and the accenting [Db] stays exactly the [Eb] same.
So we put the vibrato accent every [Db] second time we hit [Bb] this [Fm] note. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gb] After playing through [G] that B-flat riff twice, it's back [Bb] to the F riff [D] for two bars.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ Then over a change [B] to a C chord, we play this riff that starts with a hammer-on [Gm] pull-off
lick _ [B] _ on [Eb] the G string from fret [Db] two to fret three and back.
[G] Like this.
_ [D] _ _ _
_ [G] So you're just [E] bouncing that third finger [G] off the string [B] at the third [G] fret, keeping
[Dbm] the second finger held [B] down here on the third string _ at [A] fret two. _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] Then to the [A] note at the first fret on the [C] B string, _ _ then [Eb] back down the third string,
[E] fingering three, two, [Bm] open.
Like [Bb] this.
_ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ And then back to fret [A] two _ _ [Gb] on the G string.
[G] So altogether [C] _ [Dm] _
that's, [C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [A] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
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_ [Gm] at full speed, that's [G] probably the trickiest [D] part of the whole intro.
So it may be a good idea [Bm] to [Db] pause the video at this [G] stage and work through what we've
covered so far. _
Here's the last bit.
[A] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [Gb] So that's two hits [Dbm] on fret two on the G string, [A] _ _ followed by three hits [Gb] on fret one,
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [Db] _
G string, [G] open. _ _ _
And then hit [E] once [G] at fret three on the D [F] string _ to complete that phrase.
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [F] _ And then there's a couple more notes, a [Gb] couple more hits on that same [F] note, _
just [B] to complete the bar really.
[A] _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gbm] And then we're back into [C] the F riff for [Bb] two bars, _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Db] before the whole thing starts again.
_ [G] Here's the [Gb] whole thing played through [B] nice and slow.
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And more or less at full [G] speed.
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[G] [Eb] I'll [G] tap that out for you and include a [Eb] printout of it with this [G] video.
_ Have [Gm] fun with that.
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