Chords for Donovan - Colours - Tutorial by Albert Romiel

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_ [N] Alright, what's up guys?
That's how you start a video.
What's up?
How you doin'?
How you doin'?
Alright, so I'm gonna try and teach you guys a little something real quick.
I wanna teach you guys how to play colors by Donovan.
_ He plays it in the key of E.
Originally, I'll show you how to play it originally, how he recorded it originally.
Then I'll show you how to play it the other way, that you don't have to tune the guitar differently to an open tuning.
So the first way, because I'm tuned in standard, _ and put my guitar capo on the fourth fret.
And [Ab] we're gonna play in the key of C, which is really [E] E. _ _ _
So you can see that.
Alright, so you can play the melody inside of this chord.
And he uses these [N] picks. _ _
Jim Dunlop, .73
millimeters.
So here we go.
[E] _
_ Alright, here we go. _ _ _
_ [Dbm] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [Gb] _ [A] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [Dbm] Something like that.
[E] I haven't played that in a while.
It's nice to play again.
So I'll try and sing it a little bit.
Yellow is the color of my true love's hair.
[A] In the morning, [E] when we ride.
[A] In the morning, _ [E] when we ride.
_ [B] That's the time, [A] that's the time, [E] I love the best. _
_ _ _ _ So that's that.
Now I'll tell you the chords.
[N] I'm gonna go from the one to the four, back to the one, back to the four, and the five, and the four, and the one.
_ _ But what that means is, _ so for capo at four, we're playing in C.
So we're gonna do C, oh, there's my [E] cat.
C, so.
Yellow is the color of my true love's hair.
[A] We're gonna go to F.
Morning, _ [E] when we rise.
In [A] the morning, _ [E] when we rise.
Back to C.
And you can see on C that I'm alternating the [B] bass [C] from fifth [B] string to the sixth [E] string.
So I'm hitting C, then G.
And then it [A] goes.
When we rise.
_ [E] _ _
Then G.
[B] That's the time.
_ [Gb] So I do that [Ab] little.
[B] _ _ On the [Dbm] fourth string.
[B] _ [A] That's the time.
_ You can just kind of [B] mess around in there, so like. _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [Gbm] _ [E] _ [B] _ [E] _ [B] _ [E] _ _
_ Or something like that.
Anyways, I wanna make this quick, so.
I'm gonna move on to.
_ Um.
[N] _ _
_ _ I'm gonna move on to showing you open tuning.
That's what it was.
Meow, meow.
Alright, alright.
[E] So we're gonna take off the capo.
And we're gonna tune the guitar to open D.
To do that.
I'm just gonna go.
Sixth string and [Am] fourth string playing at [E] the same time.
[D]
Tune [Eb] the sixth string down to [D] match the fourth string. _ _ _
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_ [G] _ _ _ [Gm] And tune [Bb] the [D] third string down.
_ _ [Bm] _ _ [Bb] _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ First string.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So _ the tuning should be dadgad.
D.
_ [A] A.
[D] D.
Oh, not dadgad, sorry.
D, A, D.
F sharp.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _
What is this?
This is _ A again.
[D] And this is D.
It's not perfectly in tune.
But you can kind of just mess around with it.
_ _ _ [E] _ [D] _ _
Nice, huh?
I think so too.
_ [Bb] Anyways, so.
Take our capo.
This is how Donovan originally plays it.
Put it on the second fret.
_ _ I'll put a link.
With the [A] video of Donovan playing this.
I think on _ _ [B] _ _ Rainbow's Quest.
[E] Pete Seeger show.
_ _ So you can see when I strum.
It's an open E chord.
So I tune it to open D.
And we put the capo on D.
D sharp or E flat.
And so we're gonna sort of. _
This is an [F] E chord.
But not when you're in open tuning.
[Am] But this is what we're [Ab] gonna pick the melody as we strum.
So like this.
[E] You can hear it's _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] a bit out of tune.
But _ _ _ _ _ that should be alright.
You can see how it sounds so [A] beautiful.
[E] Open tuning is amazing.
So we're just playing the same chords.
But we're playing them in a different way.
And it makes all the difference. _
It's hard to tune the guitar.
All the time during a show.
[Ab] To open tuning and back.
And then you might snap a string.
And it's like well I only have one guitar.
So you're kind of like [E] screwed.
Anyways, so. _ _
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_ We're gonna slide [A] down [E] to the fifth fret.
With our capo.
So it's the seventh fret.
And then this is your F.
[A] Or your A. _
_ [E] Back to open.
[A] [E] And then we're gonna do that.
Like little note.
[A] _ Slide down.
[E] That's the time. _
[B] That's the time.
Go to ninth.
[A] That's the time.
Seventh. _
[E] Lots _ of _ hammer ons.
So you start off the song like this. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Something like that.
I really like that.
Let's do that again.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Yeah.
I mean you do what you want.
_ [N] You do what you want.
[A]
You [E] can even finger pick too. _ _ _ _
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[Dbm] _ [E] _ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
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_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Then you can do. _ _ _
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[F] Push that back.
But don't snap the guitar neck.
Get that nice.
[E] _ _
Harmonics.
_ _ [Fm] Anyways, this has been a long video.
But I fixed it up.
So [F] it's not too long.
But I hope you enjoy it. _
Anyways, peace and love.
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