Chords for How to play Galway Girl Mandolin Steve Earle cover

Tempo:
80.925 bpm
Chords used:

D

F#m

G

Bm

F#

Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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How to play Galway Girl Mandolin Steve Earle cover chords
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[D] I've had a number of requests to back the camera up and show my hands and show how to
play this song.
I'm not an instructor, but what I can do is just play through some of the major parts
of the song and kind of explain them as I do the intro and the chords and maybe some
of the little melodic parts in between the verses.
[N] And I'll spare you the singing.
I won't sing, but I'll go through the song.
And then you can go to the other video that I put on YouTube some months back and maybe
put all the pieces together.
And I hope that helps.
The song starts out on the sixth and seventh fret and he just hammers on.
And again, this is the best I could figure out from watching Steve Earle's videos.
[C#] So it goes [D]
just a hammer from the sixth to the seventh.
And then it slides down to the fourth.
To the second.
And a hammer to the fourth.
Back to the second.
[G]
To a G chord.
And that's [C#] basically the intro.
So [D] it goes.
[G] And then it goes.
And that hammer goes back to the [D] second fret again.
And it hammers on the fourth.
[G] [D] So that's a G and a D chord.
The chords in this, I'll do that real quick, is the chords in this are D.
These are all open chords.
This [G] is a G.
And this other chord is kind of an A chord.
[A] Somebody will know the correct terminology for it.
But all I do is I cover the G and the D string on the second fret with one finger.
That's the A.
Some sort of an A chord.
This is.
That's an A there.
[Am] But that's a.
Maybe an A diminished or something.
But those are [F#m] the chords.
So it goes [D] like.
[G] [D]
So that's how it goes.
And then the chords.
Everybody pretty much knows the chords.
I've seen a number of videos on where people play the exact same chords I'm playing.
The little melodic part in between.
It kind of builds after each verse.
The first one goes.
The first one goes [F#m] like [D] this.
[D] [Am] Try that again.
[D]
[Bm] [D]
[F#m] [D]
[G] And let's see if I can explain.
It starts on the second fret.
[D] It starts open.
It starts open on the D [F#] string.
[D] I [Bm]
[D] [F#m]
[D] [N] just double [D] stop on a [Am] couple of those.
[D]
[Em] You can add a [F#m] little embellishment.
[E] That's all I do.
The second time around it does that [D] same thing.
But then [F#] it goes.
[D]
[F#m] [D]
It's like the first time.
But it [Bm] adds.
[D]
[Bm] [D]
[F#m] [D]
And basically that's it.
The third time it plays the third time through it plays that top part [F#] twice.
It goes.
[D] Plays that part twice.
And then it [Bm] ends on [D]
[F#]
[D] the D chord.
And basically those are the parts of the song.
I hope that helps you out.
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D
1321
F#m
123111112
G
2131
Bm
13421112
F#
134211112
D
1321
F#m
123111112
G
2131
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[D] I've had a number of requests to back the camera up and show my hands and show how to
play this song.
I'm not an instructor, but what I can do is just play through some of the major parts
of the song and kind of explain them as I do the intro and the chords and maybe some
of the little melodic parts in between the verses.
[N] And I'll spare you the singing.
I won't sing, but I'll go through the song.
And then you can go to the other video that I put on YouTube some months back and maybe
put all the pieces together.
And I hope that helps.
The song starts out on the _ sixth and seventh fret and he just hammers on.
And again, this is the best I could figure out from watching Steve Earle's videos.
[C#] So it goes [D] _
_ just a hammer from the sixth to the seventh. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And then it slides down to the fourth.
_ _ _ To the second.
And a hammer to the fourth.
Back to the second.
_ [G] _ _
To a G chord.
And that's [C#] basically the intro.
So [D] it goes. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ And then it goes.
And that hammer goes back to the [D] second fret again.
And it hammers on the fourth. _ _
[G] _ [D] _ So that's a G and a D chord.
The chords in this, I'll do that real quick, is the chords in this are D.
These are all open chords.
This [G] is a G.
_ And this other chord is kind of an A chord.
[A] Somebody will know the correct terminology for it.
But all I do is I cover the G and the D string on the second fret with one finger.
_ That's the A.
Some sort of an A chord.
This is.
That's an A there.
[Am] But that's a. _
Maybe an A diminished or something.
But those are [F#m] the chords.
So it goes [D] like. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So that's how it goes.
And then the chords.
Everybody pretty much knows the chords.
I've seen a number of videos on where people play the exact same chords I'm playing.
The little melodic part in between.
It kind of builds after each verse.
The first one goes.
The first one goes [F#m] like [D] this.
_ _ [D] _ [Am] Try that again.
_ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [D] _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [G] And _ let's see if I can explain.
It starts on the second fret.
[D] It starts open.
It starts open on the D [F#] string.
[D] I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
[D] _ _ [N] just double [D] stop on a [Am] couple of those.
[D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] You can add a [F#m] little embellishment.
_ [E] That's all I do.
The second time around it does that [D] same thing.
But then [F#] it goes.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [D] _
It's like the first time.
But it [Bm] adds.
_ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [D] _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
And basically that's it.
The third time it plays the third time through it plays that top part [F#] twice.
It goes.
_ [D] _ _ Plays that part twice.
And then it [Bm] ends on _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ _ [D] _ _ the D chord. _
And basically those are the parts of the song.
I hope that helps you out.
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