Chords for Guitar Lesson - How to Play On Acoustic Guitar

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ Peace Train, Cat Stevens.
_ Most of my friends, _ you know, know me as kind of_
_ I have a soft spot for Cat Stevens.
I just haven't gotten a lot of requests for Cat. _ _
You know, so I've been, you know, trying to fulfill people's requests.
But anyway, here's Peace Train.
_ We're gonna need a C chord,
_ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ and we're gonna need a G [G] chord.
_ Now notice the way I'm playing G chord.
I'm playing it with my ring [E] finger here on the root, middle finger on the second fret, and pinky there.
It's really hard for people, but if you have a chord with lots of C's, F's, A minors, and G's,
my hand shape doesn't have to switch from a C to a G.
So I'm gonna play it this way.
You don't have to, but I highly recommend being able to play [G] G _
that way with both fingers for when it goes [B] to D.
_ _ _ You know, [G] one way, like that's the way people learn it at first,
but then also with these fingers.
[C] You [G] know, once you get used [C] to it, it makes
[G] _ _ the F's and C's [Am] with that and A minors [C] really easy.
So here's what we need.
We need C. _ _
We [G] need G. _ _ _ _ _
We also need an [F] F, _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] and
we need an A [Am] minor.
That's it. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Okay, so [C] the first part goes _
[G] C, G, [C] _ C,
down-up, down-up.
Check that out.
_ [G] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] C, [C] G, C, down-up, down-up.
_ [F] _ F, [C] C, [F] _
F, down-up, down-up.
[D] _ _
Here's what we [C] got.
_ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ [G] Same thing.
G, [Am] G, A minor, down-up, down-up.
[F] _ _ [G] F, G, _
[F] F, down-up, down-up.
[C] _ _
So [G] C, G, [C] C, _
_ _ [F] _ _ [C] F, [F] C, F,
_ _ [G] _ G, G, [Am] A minor, A minor.
_ [F] _
_ _ [G] F, G, [F] F, down-up, down-up.
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] And it just does that over and [F] over. _ _
And you know, there's
_ claps and female _ backup singers, and it's all, you know, early _ 70s,
_ loungy. _
_ _ _ _ But yeah, if you listen to the message, it's actually
_ pretty cool. _
[C] And I've seen this interview with Cat Siegmans where he said, you know, he was in,
_ he was actually embarrassed by [Am] the song, but it was a huge hit, and he actually wrote it on a train.
He just thought of it when he was on a train and started to write it.
So here [C] it is.
_ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [C] _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [A] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So there's, you know, [B] there's embellishing and stuff that you [C] can do, just
experimenting with pull-offs and hammer-ons on those chords if you've been playing for a while.
But if not, it's a nice, another easy beginner
_ tune that will [F#] work out your F, C's, and G's together.
[A#] And I know a lot of people have problems with [F] that F, so
work it out, work it out, work it out, alright?
So make your request by clicking the link to the right, and yeah, I'm reading them, so [N]