Chords for How to Play "Blue Ridge Mountains" by Fleet Foxes
Tempo:
97.3 bpm
Chords used:
Gb
Abm
Dbm
Eb
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret

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I'm drone diamond and this is how you play Blue Ridge Mountains by Flea Foxes from their
Debut album I I made this video a long time ago
I thought I had it up, but I didn't and now I can't even find it
So this is a redo of [Gb] it and the tuning for this is standard, [Db] but double drop D
So you drop this down to a D?
Hi you down to a D
[N] Okay, and the capo goes on the sixth fret
But I'm tuned down half a [F] step so I'll put it on the seventh the first shape of the song is um
it's kind of similar to a
D minor except two fingers are switched.
So put my middle finger on the second fret third string
pointer finger on the first fret
Second string and a ring finger on the third fret first string.
[Abm]
This is the intro part
then the second chord will just be
[F] Slide your ring finger down to the [Db] second fret first string
[Abm] That's it.
[Eb]
And then [F] the third chord is it's kind of like an F.
[Gb] It's a
ring finger third [F] fret fourth string
[Bb]
Second fret third string first [Ebm] fret second string then back [Fm] here
[Eb] So it's gonna look like this the intro [Abm] and
[Db] [B] [Eb]
[Abm] [Db]
then when [F] you start strumming and doing the verse it's kind of the same thing.
[Abm] So
[Bbm] [Abm]
[Fm] [Abm] [Ebm]
[Abm] Oprah tell me [B] when you let go [Gb] tonight.
[B] I heard that you miss your [Abm] connecting [Fm] flight
to the [Dbm] Blue Ridge Mountains
So this chord when he goes the Blue Ridge Mountains
[Eb] you're barring the third fret but
You're gonna put a finger on the fifth fret [Db] sixth string [Eb] and then you want to mute this fifth string
[Db] so
You can either bar the whole thing and it'll kind of mute it or just bar these four [E] strings
[Db] See that's muted
[Dbm] to the Blue Ridge Mountains
Over in [Abm] Tennessee
[Bbm]
[Abm] [Bbm] [Dbm]
[Abm] Yeah,
[Bbm] [Abm] and then the second part is you're welcome with me [B] anytime you [Bbm] like
Let's go [Gb] to the countryside
[B] Leave [Eb] behind two green eyes [Dbm] look alike
So no one gets [Abm] worried now
[Eb] [Dbm] So no one
gets worried
[Abm] No, [Bbm] and [B] [Db] [Em]
now the [Gb] power goes Sean [Dbm] don't get careless
[Fm] Get
[Ab] careless I
Play it like this you bar [F] the second fret first second and third [Gb] strings and then you fret the fourth fret [Ab] first string
Some people have [Gb] it where you also fret the fourth [Cm] string fourth fret
But I don't [Gb] think it makes it sound that much better or even better [Ab] period.
It's just different.
So
[Dbm]
[Bb] [Cm] Get
Careless, [Dbm] there's that or show [Ab] don't get
Careless it's barely a difference and [Gb] you're gonna play that part pretty softly too.
[Dbm] I'm sure it'll [Ab] be fine
[Gb]
Then it goes to just a C chord
[Abm] And [Abm] I [Gb] do my um
B-flat for this pointer finger on the
fifth string first fret and then a ring finger on the fourth string third fret
The pinky on the second string third [E] fret
[Ebm] Now it's just [E] half of a C chord kind of an a minor [Gb] so it's a C [Eb] chord but without your ring finger
[Fm] [Eb] open third string
[Gb] So it's um again that whole part [Dbm] is
[Ab] [Dbm] I'm sure [Abm] it'll be fine
[Ab] [Gb]
I love you, [Dbm] I [Db] love you
[Ebm] Older brother
[E] of mine
then then comes [Em] the whole chorus part and
[Abm]
It's just this B flat thing.
But what you can do to kind of simulate that riff [Eb] is um, put your middle finger [Em] on the
second fret third [Abm] string so
And then take it off.
[E] [Abm]
[E] [Gb] You don't have to do it.
Just it's a nice [E] embellishment
Forest
[Gb] With a shivering [Dbm] dog rest.
[G] I don't know the words.
[Gb] It's a C chord
[Db] [E]
And the last [G] chord is it's kind of a [Gb] CF hybrid [B] thingy
[Eb] It's um you bar
So it's a ring finger there sixth string third fret
Underneath fifth string third [Ab] fret and then skip a string and then your [Gb] middle finger on the second fret third string and
pointer finger on
[B] first fret second string
in the morning
[Ab]
[E] In the shivering
[Eb] Where the [Gb] quivering dog rest [Abm] I [E] would do in my
[B] In the morning
And [Ebm]
then
[B] Terrible in my
[Ebm]
[Dbm] It's that G minor thing again to the a minor thing [Dbm] even if you don't mind
[Gb]
[E]
[Gb] I was
[Bb] [E] In
[Db] [B]
That's a little song [F] now you just need you [E] know, three friends who can sing and
[Eb] Guitar player sky and you know, you could play the song so it's pretty simple drop D tuning capo six fret
Debut album I I made this video a long time ago
I thought I had it up, but I didn't and now I can't even find it
So this is a redo of [Gb] it and the tuning for this is standard, [Db] but double drop D
So you drop this down to a D?
Hi you down to a D
[N] Okay, and the capo goes on the sixth fret
But I'm tuned down half a [F] step so I'll put it on the seventh the first shape of the song is um
it's kind of similar to a
D minor except two fingers are switched.
So put my middle finger on the second fret third string
pointer finger on the first fret
Second string and a ring finger on the third fret first string.
[Abm]
This is the intro part
then the second chord will just be
[F] Slide your ring finger down to the [Db] second fret first string
[Abm] That's it.
[Eb]
And then [F] the third chord is it's kind of like an F.
[Gb] It's a
ring finger third [F] fret fourth string
[Bb]
Second fret third string first [Ebm] fret second string then back [Fm] here
[Eb] So it's gonna look like this the intro [Abm] and
[Db] [B] [Eb]
[Abm] [Db]
then when [F] you start strumming and doing the verse it's kind of the same thing.
[Abm] So
[Bbm] [Abm]
[Fm] [Abm] [Ebm]
[Abm] Oprah tell me [B] when you let go [Gb] tonight.
[B] I heard that you miss your [Abm] connecting [Fm] flight
to the [Dbm] Blue Ridge Mountains
So this chord when he goes the Blue Ridge Mountains
[Eb] you're barring the third fret but
You're gonna put a finger on the fifth fret [Db] sixth string [Eb] and then you want to mute this fifth string
[Db] so
You can either bar the whole thing and it'll kind of mute it or just bar these four [E] strings
[Db] See that's muted
[Dbm] to the Blue Ridge Mountains
Over in [Abm] Tennessee
[Bbm]
[Abm] [Bbm] [Dbm]
[Abm] Yeah,
[Bbm] [Abm] and then the second part is you're welcome with me [B] anytime you [Bbm] like
Let's go [Gb] to the countryside
[B] Leave [Eb] behind two green eyes [Dbm] look alike
So no one gets [Abm] worried now
[Eb] [Dbm] So no one
gets worried
[Abm] No, [Bbm] and [B] [Db] [Em]
now the [Gb] power goes Sean [Dbm] don't get careless
[Fm] Get
[Ab] careless I
Play it like this you bar [F] the second fret first second and third [Gb] strings and then you fret the fourth fret [Ab] first string
Some people have [Gb] it where you also fret the fourth [Cm] string fourth fret
But I don't [Gb] think it makes it sound that much better or even better [Ab] period.
It's just different.
So
[Dbm]
[Bb] [Cm] Get
Careless, [Dbm] there's that or show [Ab] don't get
Careless it's barely a difference and [Gb] you're gonna play that part pretty softly too.
[Dbm] I'm sure it'll [Ab] be fine
[Gb]
Then it goes to just a C chord
[Abm] And [Abm] I [Gb] do my um
B-flat for this pointer finger on the
fifth string first fret and then a ring finger on the fourth string third fret
The pinky on the second string third [E] fret
[Ebm] Now it's just [E] half of a C chord kind of an a minor [Gb] so it's a C [Eb] chord but without your ring finger
[Fm] [Eb] open third string
[Gb] So it's um again that whole part [Dbm] is
[Ab] [Dbm] I'm sure [Abm] it'll be fine
[Ab] [Gb]
I love you, [Dbm] I [Db] love you
[Ebm] Older brother
[E] of mine
then then comes [Em] the whole chorus part and
[Abm]
It's just this B flat thing.
But what you can do to kind of simulate that riff [Eb] is um, put your middle finger [Em] on the
second fret third [Abm] string so
And then take it off.
[E] [Abm]
[E] [Gb] You don't have to do it.
Just it's a nice [E] embellishment
Forest
[Gb] With a shivering [Dbm] dog rest.
[G] I don't know the words.
[Gb] It's a C chord
[Db] [E]
And the last [G] chord is it's kind of a [Gb] CF hybrid [B] thingy
[Eb] It's um you bar
So it's a ring finger there sixth string third fret
Underneath fifth string third [Ab] fret and then skip a string and then your [Gb] middle finger on the second fret third string and
pointer finger on
[B] first fret second string
in the morning
[Ab]
[E] In the shivering
[Eb] Where the [Gb] quivering dog rest [Abm] I [E] would do in my
[B] In the morning
And [Ebm]
then
[B] Terrible in my
[Ebm]
[Dbm] It's that G minor thing again to the a minor thing [Dbm] even if you don't mind
[Gb]
[E]
[Gb] I was
[Bb] [E] In
[Db] [B]
That's a little song [F] now you just need you [E] know, three friends who can sing and
[Eb] Guitar player sky and you know, you could play the song so it's pretty simple drop D tuning capo six fret
Key:
Gb
Abm
Dbm
Eb
E
Gb
Abm
Dbm
_ _ I'm drone diamond and this is how you play Blue Ridge Mountains by Flea Foxes from their
_ Debut album I I made this video a long time ago
I thought I had it up, but I didn't and now I can't even find it
So this is a redo of [Gb] it and the tuning for this is standard, [Db] but double drop D _
So you drop this down to a D? _ _ _ _
Hi you down to a D _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] Okay, and the capo goes on the sixth fret
But I'm tuned down half a [F] step so I'll put it on the seventh _ _ _ the first shape of the song is um
it's kind of similar to a
D minor except two fingers are switched.
So put my middle finger on the second fret third string
pointer finger on the first fret
Second string and a ring finger on the third fret first string.
[Abm] _ _ _
This is the intro part
_ then the second chord will just be
[F] Slide your ring finger down to the [Db] second fret first string
[Abm] That's it.
_ _ _ [Eb] _
_ And then [F] the third chord is it's kind of like an F.
[Gb] It's a
ring finger third [F] fret fourth string
[Bb]
Second fret third string first [Ebm] fret second string _ _ then back [Fm] here
[Eb] So it's gonna look like this the intro [Abm] and _
[Db] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [Abm] _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ then when [F] you start strumming and doing the verse it's kind of the same thing.
[Abm] So
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Abm] _
_ [Fm] _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _
_ _ _ [Abm] Oprah tell me [B] when you let go [Gb] tonight.
[B] I heard that you miss your [Abm] connecting [Fm] flight
to the [Dbm] Blue Ridge Mountains _
So this chord when he goes the Blue Ridge Mountains
[Eb] you're barring the third fret but
You're gonna put a finger on the fifth fret [Db] sixth string [Eb] and then you want to mute this fifth string
[Db] so
You can either bar the whole thing and it'll kind of mute it or just bar these four [E] strings
_ _ [Db] _ See that's muted
[Dbm] _ _ to the Blue Ridge Mountains _
Over in [Abm] Tennessee
_ [Bbm] _ _
[Abm] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Dbm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Abm] Yeah, _ _ _
_ [Bbm] _ _ [Abm] and then the second part is you're welcome with me [B] anytime you [Bbm] like
Let's go [Gb] to the countryside
[B] Leave [Eb] behind two green eyes [Dbm] look alike
_ So no one gets [Abm] worried now
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ [Dbm] So no one
gets worried
[Abm] No, [Bbm] and _ [B] _ _ [Db] _ _ [Em]
now the [Gb] power goes Sean [Dbm] don't get careless _ _ _
[Fm] Get
[Ab] careless I
Play it like this you bar [F] the second fret first second and third [Gb] strings and then you fret the fourth fret [Ab] first string
_ _ Some people have [Gb] it where you also fret the fourth [Cm] string fourth fret
But I don't [Gb] think it makes it sound that much better or even better [Ab] period.
It's just different.
So
[Dbm] _
_ [Bb] _ [Cm] Get
_ Careless, [Dbm] there's that or show [Ab] don't get
Careless it's barely a difference and [Gb] you're gonna play that part pretty softly too.
[Dbm] I'm sure it'll [Ab] be fine
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
Then it goes to just a C chord _ _ _
_ _ [Abm] _ And [Abm] I [Gb] do my um
B-flat for this pointer finger on the
fifth string first fret and then a ring finger on the fourth string third fret
_ The pinky on the second string third [E] fret _ _
_ _ _ [Ebm] _ Now it's just [E] half of a C chord kind of an a minor [Gb] _ _ _ so it's a C [Eb] chord but without your ring finger
[Fm] _ _ [Eb] open third string _ _
_ _ [Gb] So it's um again that whole part [Dbm] is
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Dbm] I'm sure [Abm] it'll be fine
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Gb]
I love you, [Dbm] I [Db] love you _
[Ebm] Older brother
_ _ [E] of mine
then then comes [Em] the whole chorus part and
[Abm] _
It's just this B flat thing.
But what you can do to kind of simulate that riff [Eb] is um, put your middle finger [Em] on the
second fret third [Abm] string so
_ And then take it off. _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ [Gb] You don't have to do it.
Just it's a nice [E] embellishment
_ _ _ Forest _ _
[Gb] With a shivering _ [Dbm] dog rest.
[G] I don't know the words.
[Gb] It's a C chord
_ [Db] _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And the last [G] chord is it's kind of a [Gb] CF hybrid [B] thingy
_ _ [Eb] It's um you bar
So it's a ring finger there sixth string third fret
Underneath fifth string third [Ab] fret and then skip a string and then your [Gb] middle finger on the second fret third string and
pointer finger on
_ _ [B] first fret second string _ _
in the morning
_ _ _ _ [Ab]
[E] In the shivering
_ _ _ [Eb] Where the [Gb] quivering _ dog rest [Abm] I [E] would do in my
_ _ _ [B] In the morning
_ And _ _ [Ebm]
then
_ _ [B] _ Terrible in my
[Ebm] _
_ _ [Dbm] It's that G minor thing again to the a minor thing [Dbm] even if you don't mind
[Gb] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ _ _ I was
[Bb] _ _ [E] _ _ _ In
_ [Db] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
That's a little song [F] now you just need you [E] know, three friends who can sing and
[Eb] Guitar player sky and you know, you could play the song so it's pretty simple drop D tuning capo six fret
_ Debut album I I made this video a long time ago
I thought I had it up, but I didn't and now I can't even find it
So this is a redo of [Gb] it and the tuning for this is standard, [Db] but double drop D _
So you drop this down to a D? _ _ _ _
Hi you down to a D _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] Okay, and the capo goes on the sixth fret
But I'm tuned down half a [F] step so I'll put it on the seventh _ _ _ the first shape of the song is um
it's kind of similar to a
D minor except two fingers are switched.
So put my middle finger on the second fret third string
pointer finger on the first fret
Second string and a ring finger on the third fret first string.
[Abm] _ _ _
This is the intro part
_ then the second chord will just be
[F] Slide your ring finger down to the [Db] second fret first string
[Abm] That's it.
_ _ _ [Eb] _
_ And then [F] the third chord is it's kind of like an F.
[Gb] It's a
ring finger third [F] fret fourth string
[Bb]
Second fret third string first [Ebm] fret second string _ _ then back [Fm] here
[Eb] So it's gonna look like this the intro [Abm] and _
[Db] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [Abm] _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ then when [F] you start strumming and doing the verse it's kind of the same thing.
[Abm] So
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Abm] _
_ [Fm] _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _
_ _ _ [Abm] Oprah tell me [B] when you let go [Gb] tonight.
[B] I heard that you miss your [Abm] connecting [Fm] flight
to the [Dbm] Blue Ridge Mountains _
So this chord when he goes the Blue Ridge Mountains
[Eb] you're barring the third fret but
You're gonna put a finger on the fifth fret [Db] sixth string [Eb] and then you want to mute this fifth string
[Db] so
You can either bar the whole thing and it'll kind of mute it or just bar these four [E] strings
_ _ [Db] _ See that's muted
[Dbm] _ _ to the Blue Ridge Mountains _
Over in [Abm] Tennessee
_ [Bbm] _ _
[Abm] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Dbm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Abm] Yeah, _ _ _
_ [Bbm] _ _ [Abm] and then the second part is you're welcome with me [B] anytime you [Bbm] like
Let's go [Gb] to the countryside
[B] Leave [Eb] behind two green eyes [Dbm] look alike
_ So no one gets [Abm] worried now
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ [Dbm] So no one
gets worried
[Abm] No, [Bbm] and _ [B] _ _ [Db] _ _ [Em]
now the [Gb] power goes Sean [Dbm] don't get careless _ _ _
[Fm] Get
[Ab] careless I
Play it like this you bar [F] the second fret first second and third [Gb] strings and then you fret the fourth fret [Ab] first string
_ _ Some people have [Gb] it where you also fret the fourth [Cm] string fourth fret
But I don't [Gb] think it makes it sound that much better or even better [Ab] period.
It's just different.
So
[Dbm] _
_ [Bb] _ [Cm] Get
_ Careless, [Dbm] there's that or show [Ab] don't get
Careless it's barely a difference and [Gb] you're gonna play that part pretty softly too.
[Dbm] I'm sure it'll [Ab] be fine
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
Then it goes to just a C chord _ _ _
_ _ [Abm] _ And [Abm] I [Gb] do my um
B-flat for this pointer finger on the
fifth string first fret and then a ring finger on the fourth string third fret
_ The pinky on the second string third [E] fret _ _
_ _ _ [Ebm] _ Now it's just [E] half of a C chord kind of an a minor [Gb] _ _ _ so it's a C [Eb] chord but without your ring finger
[Fm] _ _ [Eb] open third string _ _
_ _ [Gb] So it's um again that whole part [Dbm] is
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Dbm] I'm sure [Abm] it'll be fine
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Gb]
I love you, [Dbm] I [Db] love you _
[Ebm] Older brother
_ _ [E] of mine
then then comes [Em] the whole chorus part and
[Abm] _
It's just this B flat thing.
But what you can do to kind of simulate that riff [Eb] is um, put your middle finger [Em] on the
second fret third [Abm] string so
_ And then take it off. _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ [Gb] You don't have to do it.
Just it's a nice [E] embellishment
_ _ _ Forest _ _
[Gb] With a shivering _ [Dbm] dog rest.
[G] I don't know the words.
[Gb] It's a C chord
_ [Db] _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And the last [G] chord is it's kind of a [Gb] CF hybrid [B] thingy
_ _ [Eb] It's um you bar
So it's a ring finger there sixth string third fret
Underneath fifth string third [Ab] fret and then skip a string and then your [Gb] middle finger on the second fret third string and
pointer finger on
_ _ [B] first fret second string _ _
in the morning
_ _ _ _ [Ab]
[E] In the shivering
_ _ _ [Eb] Where the [Gb] quivering _ dog rest [Abm] I [E] would do in my
_ _ _ [B] In the morning
_ And _ _ [Ebm]
then
_ _ [B] _ Terrible in my
[Ebm] _
_ _ [Dbm] It's that G minor thing again to the a minor thing [Dbm] even if you don't mind
[Gb] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ _ _ I was
[Bb] _ _ [E] _ _ _ In
_ [Db] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
That's a little song [F] now you just need you [E] know, three friends who can sing and
[Eb] Guitar player sky and you know, you could play the song so it's pretty simple drop D tuning capo six fret