Chords for How To Play Donovan To Sing For You (intro only)

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_ _ _ _ To sing for you is one of Donovan's flat pick songs where we're going to be strumming and picking specific [Eb] bass notes around the strums.
First of all we've got to get in tune.
He down tunes by a [F] half step for this song.
I think you'll find like him that it's easier to sing down tuned by a half step.
So getting in tune first of all, take your first string down to D [Eb] sharp,
_ _ _ second string down to [Bb] A sharp, _
_ _ [Eb] third string down to F [Gb] sharp, _
_ [Eb] fourth string down to C [Db] sharp, _ _
[Ab] _ fifth string down to G sharp,
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sixth string down to [Eb] D sharp. _ _ _
Now you're in standard tuning, all your normal chord shapes work [Gb] like G,
the home chord, [Eb] but you're half a step lower. _ _
Now then, let's play the intro and then we'll break it [Gb] down. _
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_ [Eb] So, as we said, in the key of G, start with a normal G chord
[Bb] _ [Eb] and we're going to start with a standard strum pattern for the song,
which [F] on a G chord is 6, pick the [Gb] 6th string [B] and then down, down, [Gb] up.
_ _ [Eb] It's 3 beats to the bar, so we're [Gb] counting 1, 2, 3 _ and_
[Eb] Although he varies that [F] pattern from time to time during the song,
think of that as your standard strum pattern. _ _
Now at bar 2 [Db] he plays 4, [Gb] up, down, up, down, up.
_ When he's [F] not singing, he tends to put more strums in.
It's absolutely not essential to replicate his strums.
Think of the [Gb] bass down, down, up as being your standard [E] strum pattern.
But he does sometimes put more strums in than that and he does [Db] it here.
_ [Gb] 1 and 2 and 3 and_
_ Now he begins [F] to sing that he does a lot in this song.
He's going to pick the 4th string open, hammer it to the 2nd fret
and then go down, down, up, or [Eb] down, up, down, up. _
[Ebm] _ _ _ _ _ So [Db] 1 [Ebm] and 2 and 3 and, with the hammer being 1 and.
Then he picks [Eb] the 4th string still fretted at the 2nd [Ebm] fret.
He goes up, down, up, down, up.
Bass up, down, up, down, up.
And then [C] 3 [F] times for 3 straight bars he goes back to the hammer [G] of the 4th string
followed by down, up, down, [Db] up.
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_ _ _ That's bars 5, 6 and 7.
Then [Eb] he hammers the 5th string open to 2nd fret.
And I take the ring [Ab] finger away here so I've got space to hit [Ebm] a clean hammer of the 5th string.
_ So hammer, [Gb] down, up, down, up on the 5th string.
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Then fold back into a normal G [Gb] chord.
6, down, down, up.
And then the lick [E] that's everywhere on this song.
[Db] _ [Ebm] _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Abm] That's [Eb] bars 10 and 11.
What he's doing here is he's hammering the 4th string open [Db] to 2nd fret.
[Ebm] _ Down, up, 4th string [Db] open.
_ And into bar 11, make the full G [Abm] chord again, play the [Eb] 3rd string [Gb] open. _
Down, down, up.
_ And then [Eb] 6, down, down, up, which you'll actually play 4 [Gb] times. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] So that coming from the lick of bar 10, [Eb] we've got [Dbm] this.
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_ And back to the normal G of bar 12. _
[Bb] I won't [Eb] play all 4 bars there, but the lick's the key [Db] thing.
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[Gb] _ _ _ _ _ _ He plays that lick all over this song.
_ [Eb] That's your full introduction, let me play it one more [Gb] time. _ _ _ _ _
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