Chords for Fortunate Son Guitar Lesson - Creedence Clearwater Revival

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_ _ [G] _ _ [F] Hey guys, it's Karl Brown from _ GuitarLessons365.com.
Today we're going to learn how to play Fortunate Son by Credence Clearwater Revival.
So this is going to be kind of a short one, but first you need to get your guitar in the
same tuning that he did, which is D all the way across the guitar.
So it's kind of like a standard D tuning.
So basically every string on your guitar has to be tuned down a whole step.
So the tuning would then be, starting on the sixth string, a D, then a G, a C, an F, an
A and a D.
Alright, so get your guitar into that tuning and then we can be a little bit more authentic
with this and you can follow along with this lesson and the actual recording.
So this intro here, we're going to be sliding into the [Bm] _
sixth fret on the [G] G and then you're
going to grab the fifth fret on the high E.
Then do _ _ the exact same thing, two [F] frets lower. _
_ _ _ _ And now we're going to do a hammer-on from zero, the open G string, or it's an F now.
_ [G] _ Hammer-on to the second fret [Em] and then _ play the second fret on the high E string.
_ Let those two notes ring together.
And now you're going to hammer from zero to two [G] again and this time hit the open string,
the first string open.
So we have this all together.
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
And then you're going to [Dm] come down to the [Bb] third fret on the fifth string, _ slight bend,
[G] _ and then hit the string open.
And let that continue to ring while you continue that lick again.
_ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ Alright, so that's the whole intro there.
And then we have the chords to the song, which is pretty much an A major chord, but obviously
sounds like G now.
_ _ And [F] then we go to this G chord.
Now he likes to play it like this.
Instead of a full bar G, _ _ he likes to kind of do it the Hendrix way where he has this
bar up top here, [C] these two [A] strings, fourth fret on the [F] G, _ fifth fret here on the D [C] and
the A strings.
They're obviously not those strings anymore [F] since we're tuned down.
And then the low note is held with your thumb.
_ _ So you can do that with a full [Ab] bar chord if you [F] want.
So [G] we have this.
_ _ _ [F] _ _ Then to a [C] D chord and [G] back to the A.
Now when he gets to the A, he does a little lick that's
kind of random throughout the song. _
So _ it's kind of that little [Bb] bend there at the third fret _ [G] and then second [F] fret on the
G to fifth fret [G] on the D, back to that second fret [Bb] and [G] then end it with that third fret bend.
So _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ he's always doing some kind of variation [Bb] of [G] _ those kind of notes right there.
But you can really do whatever you want.
He doesn't really repeat himself exactly each time.
All right, from there we have the chorus. _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ We have a couple of different ways to play this.
We're going to start with the A, _ [D] then the E, _ [C] then the D and [G] then the A.
_ _ Now every time
he plays that D chord in the chorus, he does a little [Am] _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [G] fill in there.
So you could throw that in there if you want like this _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [A] _ [G] _ _ or you can just go straight to the A too.
It's _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ kind [E] of a nice way to do it.
So that fill is sliding into the fourth fret on [C] the D and then the third fret on the B,
then a half step [Bb] on the fourth fret on the G, then [A] playing [G] four double and then two.
And then [A] after he gets [G] down to two, _ he might do that again, a little bend again [D] or he'll
come down here to the fourth [C] string.
_ [G] It's really kind of a random treatment anyway there too.
So it kind of sounds cool to throw it in there and _ [D] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ [G] _ _ _
_ then start over with the chorus.
All right, all we have left is a solo.
Let me play through it real quick.
Here we go.
[Dm] _ _ _ [Dbm] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [Dbm] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ All right, so we have the same [Dm] _ _ little dyad here, those little double stops.
So we're sliding into the ninth fret on the G and the eighth fret on the B. _ _
Then go back
down one [Dbm] fret, _ _ pick that again [D] to slide it down to the third [Am] fret now, _ _ and pick that
[D] to slide it up to the fifth fret.
[Dm] So we have this.
_ _ _ _ _ [Dbm] _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm]
Then repeat it.
[Dm] _ _ _ [Dbm] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ And then you're back to the verse.
All right, pretty quick one today.
I'll see you again soon for GuitarLessons365.com.
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