Chords for George Thorogood - Who Do You Love? - Lesson Part 1

_ _ _ _ _ _ Now welcome to Vanderbilt calm this is in response to a request for a lesson on
basics of the bow diddly beat
_ especially as George Starr good did it in his cover of
Bo diddly's who do you love so?
I'm going to teach that song and use that as the basis for teaching the beat
_ I'm going to cover
all parts of the song so
Let's get started _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] okay the main thing you have to learn to play this song is the bow diddly beat bow diddly beat goes like this
_ _ _ _ on a guitar I play it as
two down [E] strokes two _ up strokes in a down stroke and _ _ _
_ [N] _ one up stroke and two [E] down strokes, _ _ _ so that's
slowly _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ and
Usually involves some palm muting so you're gonna have some of that in the _
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_ _ okay the song basically has two chords
I mean has an E and an A
_ Just plays in a lot of different positions and does some
variations around them, but first the intro starts out emphasizing
You know if you have it an open E chord you're going to play the E
the the E on the D string that's
the second fret of the D string and you're gonna play
[E] _ _ _ _ So
You're _ _ _ _ _ gonna play that part right around there and _ although it's fine to hit _ this
_ This G string you _ really want to be emphasizing the
You know that E on the D string
_ _ _ _ _ [C#] All right now for that _ _ _ _
[E] That downbeat
_ go down to the
low E string so it's and _ _ _ _
_ _ I'm [C] not muting this I'm not palm muting this as much as you should because I want you to be able to hear it's more
[E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] all right, and then
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [N]
All right, so the intro starts
doing that [E] once and
_ _ _ [F] Then the second time does the same thing except that after it plays this low string
It plays an A chord and then goes back to the E.
So [E] that's _ _ _ _
_ [C#m] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _
_ [E] _ All right, and then the third time he just plays the E and lets it ring
_ And then plays the A and the E
_ _ _ _ _ All right, and then he's into the verse and during the verse whenever he's singing he's always just playing
_ _ _ _ it's not using yay at all, it's just _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Occasionally he'll take off his
_ [N] his ring finger from the D string and
Hammer onto that and [D#] that goes from sort of an E7 to an E.
So that would be [E] like _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] So
_ Those are that's what he's doing when he's singing in the verse until he says
Who do you love and then when he says who do you love he plays?
_ full E chord
Like this and I'll try to get both [E] hands in there
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_ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [D] _ That's pretty much how the how the verses go _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Okay, everybody wants to learn the fun slide part after he's just [E] done
You know
And _ _ _ what he does is he takes a you know
What would be an open F form slides it up to the 12th fret which makes it an E again?
_ [N] and then slides down to the D [D] two frets down and
[E] back to the E
_ So the slide as slowly as they can it's kind of hard to slow these things down is and [D] _
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_ [E] _ _ _ [G] then he just takes his finger
On the E string 12th fret and just does just alternate picks all the way down
So he's just [C] doing _ _ [G] _ _
[E] _ [N] and you can you don't want to play any of the other strings
You can you can mute them if you want.
So it's kind of like _ _
_ _ _ And then when you get all the way to the bottom
_ _ [A] _ I'm sorry
That's what you don't want to do
_ _ _ [F] _ [N] then you play a
this e to a [E] figure
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ all right, and then
[N] You're back [E] into _ _ _ _
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