Chords for How to Play "Even the Losers" by Tom Petty on Guitar

[G#] _ [D#] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [A#] Even the losers get lucky sometimes.
What's up [Dm] guys?
It's Thomas from the Band Radius and we're breaking down a little Tom [F#] Petty today.
[D#] Super easy Tom [E] Petty, simple chords and a simple [C] rhythm.
So on this [D] particular song, _ the rhythm's going to be [A] _ one _ _ _ _
[D] _ [A] and two and. _ _ _
And we'll do [D] that throughout the whole song and we'll just change a few chords.
_ But man, super easy.
The [D#] hardest part of this song is just the intro.
And [Dm] so [D#] why don't I just start on the hardest part and then we'll get down to it.
And I'll play it for you, but [D] it is _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [F#m] _ _
[A] _ [E] _ [G] _ [F#m] super, super [B]
simple.
[C] It's just the picking.
So here we go.
[A] We're on second fret and of the G [C#] string and the B string.
[E] And we're just going to strum like [A] this. _ _
_ _ _ Open E string, then back to the G string.
Okay? So. _ _ _ _ _
But the second time we hit this, we're going to lift up our fingers so it'll [G] actually just
be an open G.
[A] So.
_ [G] _ _ _ Okay?
And this is kind of this bass line [A] walking down.
_ [G] _ _ _
[F#] _ [E] _ _ [A#] We're just adding notes in [A] between. _
[G] _ _ And then I'm going to pick.
[C#m] _ _ _
_ [A#] And then I'm going to [F#m] go, _ [E] _
which is [F#] four on the D string.
[A] Second fret, second fret.
And [E] then second fret.
[D] Second fret on the [C#] G, second [E] fret on the B.
And skip down to the second fret of the [A] D [Em]
string.
Okay?
[Am] So it's going to go [A#] [C#m] one and [A#] two, [A] three.
[D] _ _ [F] _ [D] We're just [B] repeating that [F] rhythm.
One, [A#] two, three.
_ [F] _ _ [F#] _ [A#] _ _ [A] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ [F#m] And then I'm just changing my fingers.
[A#] Two, [F#m] four, two, [A] two, two.
Two, two.
Okay?
So.
_ _ [G] _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[Em] _ [D] Well.
Okay.
And that brings us to our verse.
Okay?
So it's going to be two, three. _ _
[A] That's [G] going to be our.
[A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D#] Okay?
And so the verse, I'm going to try [Dm] to break down [C#] this as easy as possible. [A#] Okay?
So we're going [D] to D to A.
[A] _ _ _
And then we're [G] just going to go from G [A] to A.
_ And then we just
hold out A for two measures.
Okay? So. _
_ _ _ _ _ G to A.
Okay?
So that's the first part of our verse.
There's four different parts.
That's the first one.
And the second one is basically the same thing, except we don't play this A chord at the end.
We just go D to A, [G] _
G.
_ And we just play G, hold it out.
So [B] we're halfway through the verse.
You [D] ready?
So the third part is [A] D to A, _ [D] _ _ _
back to D.
So D to [G] A to G.
Which is what we've always started out with.
[D] But then we go to D.
Okay? _ _
And we hold out D for two [G] bars.
And the G is a two, four bar.
So it actually kind of turns faster.
So [D] that. _
[A] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ One, two, three, four.
Two, two, three, [C] four.
And then [D] this brings us to the last one.
D, [A] A, and this is the only time we don't go to G.
We go to C [C] this time.
_ _ _ Okay?
And we hold the C out for two [E] bars.
So we'll start from the top.
It's going to go [C] the Brit.
I mean, from the beginning.
Here we go.
D [A] to A, [G] G to [A] A.
Hold this out two measures.
_ Basically repeating that [D] with no A this [A] time.
[G] G.
I'm just going to stay on this.
Two, three, four, two.
Isn't the two, four [A] bar coming up? _
[G] One, [D] two, one.
Back to D. _ _
_ And D, [A] A, only [C] C this time.
_ _ _ And that brings us [A#] to our chorus.
All right?
So check this out.
Two, three, four.
_ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ [B] How easy is that?
D to A to G.
It's the same [D] thing we were doing.
_ _ [A] _ _
[G] _ Except you hold G out a [A] bar.
And then repeat it.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ [G] _ _
And just hold out G this time. _
And go to A.
[A] A this time. _
_ _ _ [A#] _ Okay?
And so [C#] now you know your verse.
[D#] Now you know your chorus.
[E] It's basically just D, A, G.
Pretty much the whole song.
It's [C#] just figuring out the structure of it all.
And now, the only other part to teach you is the bridge.
Okay?
And so we're just going [A] from A _ to _ _ [Am] G _ over A.
So A is staying [A] in the bass, basically. _ _
Basically.
[Dm] _ And we're going to G over A.
Which is this.
It's going to be [C] open A string, [G] fifth fret on the D string, third fret on the G, third fret on the B. _
_ _ [D] So [G] make sure you hit this open A.
So we're just going [A] between A chord to [G] this.
With that same rhythm.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[G] And now [A] I'm just going to do that.
[G] _ [A] Three times.
[G] Four [A] times.
[G] Five [A] times. _
[G] Six [A] times.
It's getting easy.
Seven times.
[G] Then I hit a G.
_ _ And I'll hit the G again.
_ Ba-doom-boom-trumpet [D]-a-long.
_ [A] _
_ [G] _ _ [Cm] That's it, man.
Even the loser.
Super simple.
Makes you really [D] practice your A, [G] your D to A to G.
[Am] And then back to A.
So, [F] pretty simple.
If you know the song, [A] you'll pick it up right away.
[Dm] So, that's it, guys.
[C] And hope you enjoy a little Tom Petty.
I [G] love him.
He's awesome.
_ [A] See you later.
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