Chords for Get Together by The Youngbloods (with TAB)

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Hey gang, today I thought we'd do Get Together by the Youngbloods, a blast from the 60s.
Somebody asked me about this song, actually asked me about _ what modal tone it was in the beginning.
It's definitely, that intro is definitely a mixolydian type of sound.
_ _ _ _ However, I just really got hooked on the two guitar parts, how simple they are and how
they blend together.
It's just very satisfying, I think.
_ _ So I thought we'd play it.
The second thing is, I know this is really hippie and all that, but _ _ _ for those of us who
live in America and for those of us who aren't and who are looking at what's going on, it
must seem like everybody's angry at each other.
I really don't think that's the case, but we probably do have too much anger going on.
I'd like to see a lot of that kind of subside and we can decide to do it.
So anyway, _ _ if you at least learn this song, that'll maybe help you think that way.
I don't know.
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_ Alright gang, let's go through this note for note.
First things first, downloading the tab from the link in the description below might make
your life a little bit easier.
I don't know, this one's pretty straightforward.
_ _ So let's cover it.
We're going to start out with the first part.
There's two parts to this one, two guitar parts to this one _ that are kind of vital,
as is pretty obvious from [Gbm] that intro.
_ [G] _ [N] Alright, we're going to cape on the second fret.
Now I'm not sure why so many people are having an aversion to capos, but there are many people
who just don't want to use them.
Either they're beginners and they're afraid, or they're too good for a capo.
I know a few people like that.
_ _ Or they just don't have one around.
Anyway, buy a capo, don't be a cheapskate.
Alright, anyway, if you ever play bluegrass, you've got to get a capo anyway, because you
need that ringing tone.
And you never know when the singer's going to call out B or B flat, right?
So you've just got to do it.
Alright, _ anyway, this one is [A] like so.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _
Alright, very, very simple, but oh, so satisfying sound.
And you know that ringing sound is really where that capo helps.
Alright, _ so what we're going to do is imagine playing an [D] A triad on the first three strings.
Right?
It's just like your little guy D that you would play in the open position, which I can't
play now because I have a capo on.
But anyway, you know that little guy D, here I'll play it.
This.
_ _ _ [Em] Right?
That's the shape we're talking about, but just play in the first three [A] strings.
_ Now we're playing with the root note on the tenth on the second string, that's an A.
So just play that, but take off the top note on the first string, and you have [Gbm] this.
_ _ [N] Which is playing that F sharp.
Okay?
[A] So, _ that's the key to the sound.
Alright, so now we're just going to play that, and it's three, two, one, two, three, two,
one.
Three, two, one, two, three, two, one.
_ _ That's it.
Then you slide down and make the slide nice and pronounced.
[G] You slide down two frets. _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ Like _ [Ab] so.
So when we slide down, we have on the third string seven, on the second string eight,
and then open.
[G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] Then we're going to slide back up.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ [C] _ That's it.
You want to make that slide nice and pronounced.
That's the first part.
Now the second part, you take off the capo.
[B] _ Alright.
_ _ Alright, and we're going to simply play, there's only two chords, an A and a G, right?
But this time we're going to play the full triad.
So you know, it starts out with just the first chord.
Now I'm going to play without the capo because I don't have [A] it on right now.
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_ _ _ [Gb] _ [D] It goes like [G] this.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
So those are just playing the capo, the [Ab] triad, but now we are playing the top string.
So we're playing nine, [B] we're sliding up the first time from seven, [G] eight, seven.
_ [Gbm] _ _ [Ab] We're sliding up to nine, ten, nine on the three, two, one [A] strings.
_ _ [G] _
And then we're sliding back down.
_ _ [C] And now we play a nice open A.
Now you can either play it down here in the fifth [A] position,
_ _ [E] or the way that I like to do it up here in the ninth position.
[A] Try _ _ _ [B] not to hit that sixth string.
[Ab] Alright, so what I'm doing is [Am] I'm raking [E] back from the one, two, three, four, and five strings.
[A] _ _ There _ _ _ we go. _ _
Pretty chord, yeah?
[Ab] Alright, so what I'm [E] playing there with the left hand is first two strings are open, _ _ _ _ third
string is on the ninth fret, _ _ fourth [B] string is on the [Dbm] eleventh fret, _ and the [Em] fifth string is [Am] open.
And I'm raking back from the first string, second string, third string, fourth [D] string,
and finally the [E] fifth string.
_ [A] _
_ Now I like [Am] playing that one on this [C] one, on this particular tune, because it sets me up
for the lick, which is basically this.
[D] _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _
[D] _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So it starts off by playing this E on the first string, twelfth fret, _
[A] _ and then you play
an open and hammer on to the ninth fret. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Okay, and then we play this little triad walk down, we're playing on the first [G] string ten
and nine, [Eb] _ _
[A] _ _ [Bm] second string ten, and then third string nine.
[A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
And then on the second string we play ten, seven, [Gbm] ten, and then third string nine.
_ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ [Db] And [Eb] _ _ [Am] _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ that's it. _ _
Alright gang, there you have it.
_ _ Smile on your brother, everybody get together, try and love one another, and at least play this song.
Alright, we'll see you on down the road.