Chords for How to play guitar like George Harrison - by mjsokes

_ So I'm going to do a movie on George now, and I'm going to move really quickly, because
he did so much, _ he changed so much as a guitarist when he was with the Beatles, that it's going
to take a lot more depth and clarity than I did with John, because John was just pretty
much the same throughout the Beatles' _ tenure.
So I divided George's evolution as a guitarist into three phases.
There's the clunky phase, the smooth Leslie phase, I'll explain what Leslie is, and the
soaring phase, when he just totally kicked ass.
So starting with the clunky phase, George, I think, was insecure _ as a guitarist.
He still kicked major ass, but he wasn't sure of himself, which is, you know, you've got
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, everyone would be a little bit insecure.
_ But it was reflected in his playing style.
He wasn't bad, he was just a little clumsy, and you can hear it in his early solos.
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ If [E] you want that early [C] George sound, do a lot of that.
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[C] _ _ _ [F#] A lot of abrupt sounds.
And you can hear [G] it [Cm] _ on_ _ _ _
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That was slowed down, you can hear it, I saw her standing there.
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_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ And you can hear it on my favorite [E] early George solo, which is when I think he kicked the
most ass, _ Long Tall Sally.
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_ It would help if I played [Cm] it right.
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So [C#] it would help if my guitar was [D] in tune, but I think you get the right idea.
George was clumsy and yet a little bit, you know, amazing at the same time, playing way
the heck [C] up here, _ and doing some [D] crazy shit over here.
So that was early George.
One other thing you should know, he had a Chet Atkins style, which was he played with
his pick [N] and his middle finger, _ don't take that personally, and _ played most famously
on the [Em] Ed Sullivan show with All My Loving, which was_ _
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_ _ _ _ It would help if I [E] got the chords right.
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ So that he didn't use very much, I think only one [Am] other time. _
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_ [Am] _ [G#] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] Yeah, that was She's a Woman, you get the right idea.
So that was early clunky George.
Now, [Bm] I'm going to put an effect on really quick, [N] if you excuse me.
_ _ And I don't have a Leslie, which is what the effect is called, I have a rotary [G#] effect on
my Vox, a little plug.
And this was [N] the sound George was going for in the Let It Be _ phase, which encompasses
Let It Be, Every Road, a little bit of the White Album.
He used the Leslie pedal to get kind [G] of a _ _ _
[C#] smooth, glassy, [E] flowy type sound. _ _
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_ [G] And this came through on a lot of his work during this time.
[Em] Most famously, I think, the Let It Be _ single solo.
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[F#] It would help if I got the notes right, [N] because George did.
And also, there was no Leslie on this song, [A] but the same style was Octopus's Garden, which
[G] I'm bound to screw up, but here's my best [F#] interpretation of it. _
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[D#m] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ The [E] _ _
point is, you want to [Em] get that kind of flowy, glassy type [C#] _ _ _ _ [E] _ sound. _
_ [Gm] And he did it [A] also on a rock [F#] song, One After 909, which I'm bound to butcher, but I love it.
So here [G] it goes.
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_ [C#] _ _ [Bm] The point is, be very flowy, [E] and you want to get that _
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_ _ [G] glassy, flowy type sound.
So [F] that kind of, I'm going to turn the rotary off now, _ that kind of, _ _ I guess, evolved into
his Soaring phase, as I like to call [E] it, when he really kicked ass [G] on the guitar, and transcended
everything that had come before.
The best example of this kind of stands alone by itself, and I'll do my little tribute to
it right now.
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_ [C] _ _ One of _ [G] the best solos in rock history.
When played right, but he was just kicking ass.
I mean, get better [Em] _ than_
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_ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
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_ It was smooth, [F#] silky, and awesome.
[N] And my time's running out, so I'll leave it at that, but _ he was a completely different
guitarist at the end than he was at the beginning, and I hope I've made that clear. _ _
And he was awesome.
He was the man. _ _
And I hope this has helped you kind of see how he changed, how he developed, _ and I hope
that I've contributed in my own little _ clumsy way, how George kicked ass.
_ Enjoy it.
Play more like him if you can, because he was the man.
And have an awesome day.
Enjoy. _ _ _ _ _ _