Chords for How to Play "Bad Company" by Bad Company on Guitar - Marty Schwartz

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Hey, [E] what's up you guys?
It's Marty Schwartz here from GuitarJams.com.
Happy to be giving you guys a nice classic rock lesson today. _
The guitar is tuned down a half step just to match up to a recording.
Hopefully that's not too bad for you.
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But anyway, let's zoom in and break this one down right now.
Here we go.
All right.
So I think the first part is really a piano part but I'm going to show it to you on guitar.
I've been having fun doing piano things on guitar.
It's going to just use this kind of E minor pentatonic.
Also the guitar is tuned down a half step.
So it's E flat tuning.
_ And we're just using this little vibe, the ninth fret on the A and [Bb] the D string _ _ [E] up to
the [Db] twelfth fret, _ _ _ [E] up to the fourteenth [Ebm] fret. _
[Abm] So that's like [Bbm] the vocal melody.
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_ [B] OK.
Then we're going to go up to the seventeenth fret on the A and D string [Gb] still.
_ Hit that.
But [B] then our index finger is going to go to the sixteenth fret of the D and then our middle
finger is staying on that seventeen.
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[Gb] So [Bbm] from _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ there you go to the [Db] twelfth fret again and _ then [Eb] slide it up _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [Fm] starting on the ninth,
[Db] nine, [Ebm]
twelve, fourteen, [Gb] _ _ [Bbm] seventeen. _
This move, [Db] twelve, _ up _ [Eb]
to fourteen.
_ _ Now here's the fun part.
That low E, really it's tuned down to E flat but that low E string, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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little technique there where you get that open drone. _ _ _
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_ _ In between the singing part, it holds on that.
It goes back and forth there.
Then finally again. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ So that's your melody.
Then we've got _ an E note which I'm playing right here on the seventh fret of the A string. _
_ _ Then I'm hitting a low G note and this is what is supposed to be with [Db] distortion or
like a fuzz kind of thing.
[Eb] So _ [Gb] _ [Db] _ _ _ [Ab] then a D power [Db] chord which you can play right here.
I'm using the open D string.
So it's [B] just like a D chord but that high E I'm muting.
You're not hearing that.
You're [Db] just hearing. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] Then I'm doing an A power [Ab] chord.
_ _ _ _ [Abm] Then this E power chord [Eb] up here.
_ _ _ Seven, nine, nine.
_ _ _ Then [Db] you can get that [Eb] note in there [Db] but _ [Eb] _ _ [Bbm] _ it's really [Eb] the piano doing that.
_ So I'm taking my pinky off of that super power chord [Db] to _ get that note [Abm] in there.
So you've [Bb] got – [Db] [Eb] so _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ it alternates.
So you've got [Gb] E, [Db] G, D, _ _ [Ab] _
A, [Eb] E power chord. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gb] G.
[Abm] So [Eb] E, E, [Gb] G.
You can do a G power chord _ _ [Ab] up to an A power chord.
I just [E] like that open [Ab] A power chord.
[Abm] It's a great chord [Gb] for guitar but so you got G, [Ab] then the A, _ [Eb] then the E power chord. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ It just pretty [Db] much alternates between those things.
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_ [Ab] _ [B] so then finally near the end, it just instead of G to A, it does A down to G near
the end there.
That's one little weird thing that it does.
But yeah, it's just a real fun little [Abm] technique there that I thought I would point [C] out to
you guys with this [Bbm] kind of vibe.
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[Db] _ [B] All right.
There was a lesson.
Hope that was good for you.
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Anyway, thanks for hanging out and hope to see you again real soon.