Chords for Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald Guitar Lesson

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_ _ _ _ _ This is the guitar lesson for Gordon Lightfoot's the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
_ _ The easy way and the correct way.
Alright, starting off, put your capo on the second fret.
Make sure you have a good capo, not one that's going to fall apart on you.
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_ And then also make sure your guitar's in standard [E] E tuning. _
_ Okay, [N] so we're going to put our capo on the second fret.
_ _ Alright, and this is how the song starts off.
There's the intro, which is used a couple times throughout the song.
And then there's the verse, which is the rest of the song.
It basically follows the same thing.
Okay, so watch me very carefully, okay?
This is the intro.
[B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] Alright, you [Em] can hear that when the song [G] first starts off.
Okay, so what we need to know is we need to know our Asus, our _ Asus 2 chord, okay?
And that's, I'm putting my pointer finger on the second fret D string,
my middle finger on the second [B] fret G string. _
_ Okay, [C#] the next chord we're going to, this is a weird variation of a chord.
_ _ We're going to [G] take our ring finger, put that up on the fifth fret right here, okay?
_ _ _ Let's see, so that's our ring finger's on the fifth fret D string,
our middle finger's going to be on the fourth [N] fret G string,
and our pointer finger's going to be on the _ _ _ third fret B [G#] string, okay?
And we're [A] strumming the four strings in the middle, okay?
So [B] that's the A string open, and then [A] the D, G, and B, okay?
So, _ _ alright, [C#] so we got Asus [B] 2, _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
that chord I just showed you,
and [E] then we go down to D, _ _ _ _ _ _ back to Asus [B] 2, _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
okay?
So those are the chords for the intro, alright?
[N] Listen to the intro, you'll figure out, you'll see what I mean. _
Okay, so the next part of the song, the second part and last part of the _ [G] strumming pattern
throughout the entire song is this, okay? _
It's Asus 2 once [B] again, _ _ _ _ _ _ then E [F#m] minor, _ _ _ _ _ _ then G, [A] _ _
_ [E] D, _ _ back to Asus [B] 2. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Na-na-na-na [F#m]-na-na-na-na-na [A]-na-na-na-na-na-na-na [E]-na-na [B]-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na _ _ _ _ -na
You get the idea, [N] okay?
The strumming pattern for both those chord progressions that I just showed you is the same thing, okay?
There's two different things he does, but it's basically the same thing.
All he's doing is [B] going _ _ _
_ So down down up down _
Okay on every course so down down down down down [F#m] down down down down down down down
[A] _ Down down up down [E] down down down [B] down down down _ down down down down
[C#] Watch [C] me play really slowly
[B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#] That's the verse of the song and then [N] we're the little _ _ _ _ _
_ That's [Em] where we play the intro okay, so the intro once again, which I just showed you a couple [B] minutes ago was _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] Okay, and [G#] one thing you can do instead [A#] of the downer down up down to kind of give it some flavor and switch it [B] up
Is you can go down down up down up down down up down up? _ _ _ _
[C] So instead of down up down it's down up down up you're adding one more up stroke in there, [B] so _ _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ Not [E] bad, okay
[N] so remember those two chord progressions in the song for the entire song and
Also, remember that you can do down down up down or down down up down up, okay?
So the last part I'll show you the little fill played through the entire song
And I'll give you some ideas to kind of mess around with it.
Let's go to the seventh [Em] fret _
all right, so
_ That's _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] the first part.
I want to show you so seventh [C#] fret
_ _ slide it to the ninth _ and _ then [Em] slide back to the seventh _ _ so _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] Slide back to the seventh and pluck _ and then we go to the [A] third fret
_ Pluck it once and then take your finger [F#] off and pluck it open _ _
Three [B] times okay, so
_ [C#] All _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ _ _ right [G] now.
We want to go to the what is that?
That's the one two three four five six seven fret [Fm] and go Ben.
We want to [C#m] bend it up a half step
[Dm] _ all right, [F#] so
_ _ Take _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ _ [N] it something like that.
You can kind of figure out the chords.
I forgot how that little part goes, but it goes _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm]
Something _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[A] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
like that okay, [E] it's very simple
_ This will be a good one for you guys [N] to kind of listen to and try to figure out by ear because after all we're trying
to figure these songs up out by ear so we don't have to rely on tabs or look online and
Figure out what somebody [C] else tried to tab out which is probably wrong, okay, [Em] so
_ Right there the first part
_ _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ [Em] _ [F#] _ _ [F] That's it
then
_ Bend back down [F#m] release _ [Gm] and then go [E] down to the third fret and then [F#] hit the fifth fret
With your ring [G] finger all right, and then it goes
_ _ [Em] _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ [G] That's the second part of that it's a bend with your ring finger on the fifth fret _ and
Then you pluck with your pinky the fifth fret [Em] E string _ so _ _ _ pull _ _ off
_ [F#] _ Bend and release [Em] that pull off
So you're on the third fret B string [A] and then come back [F#] to the fifth fret B string with your ring finger, okay?
_ [N] So that's the basics for you can mess around with it
But he does that a couple times throughout the entire song including the intro, okay?
Do you [Em] guys have any questions?
Please let me know [G]
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