Chords for CSNY - Find The Cost Of Freedom Acoustic Guitar lesson

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_ _ _ _ Really neat song by Steve [F] Stills, Find the Cost of Freedom.
They kind of first brought it out on the four-way street tour when they wanted to bring everything
down at the end of the evening and do a nice little _ soft sort of protest [Dm] song.
_ But continued to play it later on, came out on Daylight Again, and a great example of
a [Eb] song that uses the double drop D tuning to create this great [G] _ bagpipe or droning effect.
Better to call it a droning effect.
[Bb] But [D] it's similar to how you get the sound you get with bagpipes because when I now [A] strum
this D chord in the double drop D tuning, [E] what I have is nothing but D's and [D] A's.
D, A, D, A, D, D.
So [F] you don't have a third in the chord, meaning it doesn't sound like
a major [D] chord _ or a minor chord.
[Dm] _ _ It [D] has this _ power chord sound, and that's what the D5 or [D] _ a chord that has only roots
and fifths in it is.
Now what's really going on in this song, though, is a very simple little melody, and it uses
the technique I call focused strumming, where sometimes [Eb] you're hitting individual strings.
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [G] _ Sometimes you're hitting more, [F] you're usually hitting, though, more than one string.
[D] _ _ _
_ Like right [D] there, when I hammer on that C, [Am] on the second string, first [D] fret, it's, you're
hearing about three notes there, but because that one's changing, it kind of cuts through.
[F] But I don't want to strum all six strings there.
You really lose it like this.
[D] _ _
So, [G] you're trying to hit just little areas of the neck.
[F] So I have much more extensive lessons on this idea of focused strumming over at Totally
Guitars, so visiting totallyguitars.com, you'll be able to find a lot more lessons like this
and very specific ways of doing it and songs that work on it that kind of, _ [E] you progress
up to being, _ to getting more proficient at it.
But in Find the Cost of Freedom, [Eb] you're just trying to pick out this little melody going
from the third [D] fret of the second string, so the note we're listening to there is the
D, then to the first fret of the same string, _ _ for a C, then [E] a hammer on on the third string, _ _
from G to A, second fret, [G] then opening up the G. _
So what we're [D] hearing there is D with the C, [Am] could even hammer it on from B, [A] like I
said the first time, then a hammer on maybe from G to A, _ then hitting an open G, _ _ [E] hitting
an [D] E, leading up to [F] F, _ hammer on from G [Gm] to A, _ _
[C] E, _ _ E, D, C, _ _ and back to [D] D, _ with a cool
little bounce _ _ [N] from A to C.
So you're trying to pick out that melody.
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