Chords for HONESTY by Billy Joel Acoustic Lesson

_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Db] _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] If you search [Eb] for tenderness
[C] It isn't [Dm] hard to find
_ [Eb] _ You can have [Gm] the love you need [Am] to live
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ Hi, this is Gaylord again this time.
[A] I thought I'd show you how to do honesty by Billy Joel
I like doing these Billy Joel tunes.
I [G] guess hey, [A] this is a pretty simple song and [Bb] the chords are pretty [Gm] simple
There's a couple of them that may be a little bit complicated if you're new
[E]
To playing guitar, but otherwise [N] it's the chords are fairly standard what I'm trying to do
I know there's a [Fm] lot of piano work in there
So I'm just trying to hit some of the [F] major notes to make it sound close [E] to what he's doing
[Em] So let me play this [Gb] one more time for him.
I'm going to show you how to [Bb] do this
This [F] is the intro
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[C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] Okay, and what you're doing there [G] is and it's really not [F] difficult.
It sounds a little more difficult than it is
Maybe not [Bb] but anyway, you got your third fret and by the way, you got a [G] capo on the third [D] fret on the guitar
[G] Okay, so you've got capo [Bb] three and then you got your third fret on a sixth string
open four open three open four so it's
_ _ It's your first [C] little riff the [Ab] second riff.
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[Ab] You got your first fret on the sixth
[F] Open four use your pinky to get the third [Bb] fret on the second string and then hit open three
so and _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
the last little riff [Db] there and
_ This is a different [C] note than he's hitting what he's doing.
[N] He's actually dropping down
He's going down to it.
I think a G, but I can't do that the way this is
The guitar setup, so I'm just going [Cm] to I guess that's an [Db] a sharp [Bb] and so
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_ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
Okay, [Db] what you're doing there first fret on five _
_ _ [Bb] Now I [F] lost it
[Bbm] _ _
_ _ _ [Db] actually
So it's first fret on [Ab] five
Use your ring finger to get the third fret on [F] four and your pinky to get the [Db] third fret on two
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_ Like that and then do a little [Eb] slide up [F] with your pinky
[Eb] _ _ Come down to a C chord and I just hit like the second and third _ _
Strings when I come down to that C.
So it's _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ [Eb] _
and end it [D] with a
_ [Bb] little [Eb] walk down
_ [C] _ [Gm] in a second on the fifth _
open [Bb] five
Hit a G chord _ _
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [Bb] _ _ If you search for [Eb] tenderness see
[F] _ D it isn't hard [Dm] to find that's a B minor seven
[Eb] _ You can get you can have the love.
Okay, that's a C.
You can [Gm] have love he minored
_ _ [Am] _ F sharp minor [Cm] all _ _ [Bb] _ [Cm] that is that's an a minor seven.
At least that's what I'm [D] calling it
[F] I'm sliding that up to so it's [Bbm] actually I call it a B minor [Eb] seven and then back down to that a [Gm] minor seven so [Eb] it's
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_ [Am] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ G
If you [C] look for truthfulness, that's a you might [F] just as [Dm] well be blind
Now that's a little [C] bit difficult or there [Bb] you've got if you search [C] for truthfulness a you might [F] just that's a D as [Gm] well
That's a they call that an [Cm] a sharp diminished [Db] seven
All [C] you're doing there is your index finger is first fret on [G] five
Then second fret [Bb] on four [E] open three second fret on two
_ [Bb] _
If you search for truthfulness
Might [Db] as well [Dm] be blind
B minor [Eb] is always [A] seems to be
That's an F sharp
seven [C] so hard to give
[D] _ B and then a B seven _ _ [Gm] _ your chorus as a C sharp
I'm sorry a C major seven and all you're doing there
You got their third fret [Eb] on six third fret on five second fret on four
_ _ _ [F] D seven
[D] _
_ _ _ B's
_ [Gm] _
E [F] minor
D
[Eb] _ C and that's just kind of little walk down [Gm] there on that but
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_ [D] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [F] _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ [F] That's a D [Bb] _
G
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[F] _ _ D
[D] _ _ [Gm] minor
[F] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [F] G
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ Okay, now when you go there, then you [F] want to hit that that do that riff again, [Gm] okay, so let me go through the chorus
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[D] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
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[G] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] _
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[Bb] I
Can [Eb] always find someone there you go [Abm] now?
[Gm] I'm gonna show you real quick the there's that I can find a lover.
That's just an E minor [D] and a B
_ _ _ [F] D seven _ _
_ [C] a
_ _ _ [Bb] _ [Eb] _
C
_ _ _ _ Seven C [Bb] and G [C] a _ _ _ a seven
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Seven
[Eb] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [Bb] _
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_ _ [Dm] _ _ If you'll [Ab] notice what I'm picking just to give it that [Bb] sound
I'm not just doing a strong like you're sitting [G] around a campfire what you want to [Bb] do and make that guitar sound good
_ [Eb] _ _
_ [F] _ I'm doing some up picks and just hitting the strings
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[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ There you go hey, I hope that [Abm] helps you a little bit
I know [Ab] this has gone on long again, but [F] anyway just hope that helps you.
This is Gaylord.
God bless you.
See you later
Bye. Bye