Chords for How to Play "Born on the Bayou" by Creedance Clearwater Revival, CCR

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_ _ Hey, what's up you guys?
Marty Schwartz here with Marty Music.
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I'm going to break down Born on the Bayou by CCR.
I've had a lot of requests for it.
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_ Let's learn this thing.
Here we go.
Alright, let's start with the main riff, which is kind of the signature thing going on in this song.
_ To get the full effect, I'm using a vibrato effect on my [E] stompbox, like my M9 Line 6 Multi FX pedal.
And so it's just a standard _ vibrato effect.
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_ _ _ going to turn it off though for the lick, just so you can hear it better.
I'm going to take an E major chord _ and _ _ _ _ put your pinky on the third fret of the B.
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that gives us an E7 chord.
_ _ I'm going to show you the lick and then I'm going to show it to you if you were the only
guitar because there's multiple guitars going on here.
We're going to take this E7 chord.
And the actual riff starts _ _ on the [A] D.
So we [E] pick the D, _ then the G string, _ _ then hop over
to the high E, _ and _ _ _ then that B. _ _
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_ _ _ _ [G#] then you go back to that G string and [E] repeat the high
D, B.
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_ _ And then you end it with that G and then the whole thing starts over.
So let's put that together. _ _ _
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Now if I add that vibrato effect, you'll really start to hear that.
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And so if you're playing by yourself, not with a band, you want to get the low bass
notes in there, right?
So instead of the first note being the D, _ which with the second fret, that's an E note,
the root, you can just play the open E instead like this. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ You know, like that kind of thing.
You could strum it. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ So now the rhythm, you could play a regular E chord or keep it as E7. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [N] _ _ So [G#] down-up, up-down-up, up-down-up, up-down-up, down-up-down-up, up-down-up, up-down-up, [E] up-down-up,
up-down-up, up-down-up, up-down-up, down-up-down-up, up-down-up, up-down-up, up-down-up-down-up.
And so that, if I'm going _ down-up, up-down-up.
It has to go down to get that up that I said, so that's where you're hearing the muted sound.
_ I'm going down, up, mute.
I don't want you to think too much about that.
I'd rather have you
thinking about the rhythm.
Down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up, down, up, down, up,
up, down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up, down, up.
Now check it out.
If I do that rhythm with a loop
pedal, I can then play the other vibrato lick over that.
So one, two, three, four, down, up, up, down,
up, up, down, up, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up, down, up.
_ _ Turn my other thing on.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ so then the only other thing is _ a D, A. _
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_ [D] _ [A] D, A.
[G#m] So that same rhythm, down, up, [A#] up, down, up,
up, [Em] down, up, up, down, up, [E] down, up, down, up, up, down, up, [Dm] down, up.
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_ That'd be two ups when you [D] get to that part.
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_ _ _ _ [D] _ [A] _ [E] So _ _ _ _ [D] _ [A] _ [E] that's
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[A] _ [G] _ [E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [E] _
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_ the only other chord changes going on.
Now you can have an E chord up here. _ _
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it E7. _
You can play an [D] E9.
_ _ So [E] that nine note is happening. _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [F#] It's just that. _
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_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [E] _ [F#m] _ [E] _
[A] _ [E] _ _ _ [G#] _ _ [E] So some different
voicings that you can experiment with if you're a little more, you know, a little more experienced
with the guitar in general.
You know, [Bm] E7, _ E9, blues.
It's all blues stuff.
Blues double [G#m] stops.
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[E] _ _ _ And then also _ [A] _
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there's some little kind of swampy things going on there that come from, it's
basically the mixolydian mode is what you would call it.
And it's just coming right from that E
chord, but he does that classic, [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G#] _ [A] _ just _ [G#] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ pulling off, _ keeping that first fret of the G down,
and just pulling off that [A] second fret of the G.
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And you can land on the [B] root.
You can slide [A] up a
whole sound.
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ And then you're in the, you know, you're in this little blues [E] box.
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All right, there
it was.
Hope you had fun with that riff.
Very swampy and bluesy.
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_ _ [Dm] _ [C] _ [D] _ _ [F#] [G] Close _ [Dm] to [F#] nothing!
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