Chords for How To Play Jim Croce New York's Not My Home (intro only)

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_ _ _ We're in the key of A for New York's not my home and [F] we're going to play a typical Jim Croce
rhythm pattern that goes one two three one two three one two _ and
A typically [Ab] Jim Croce descending bass line something he loved to do.
[E] Here's the introduction.
We'll play it and we'll get into [A] it _
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_ _ [Dbm] _ _ _ [C] _ [B] _ [Bm] _
_ _ [F] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] Now he starts on an [N] A chord
_ Play it out of the F shape
You know [E] your F shape in the first position here and you bring it up until the lying down finger is at the fifth fret
With the bass note of the fifth [A] string here
You've got [E] an A chord now
He's using that idea, but he gets a much more interesting sound than that by removing this finger
And [Eb] starting with these two fingers on the fourth string and third [E] string seventh fret sixth fret
_ [G] And _
[F] now he [A] plays four three and two and one together
[Em] _ that [B] gets in the open second string note, which is not [Abm] normally in the chord of A but creates a really lovely [A] sound [E] and
_ _ [B] _ Immediately we're into the one two three [Abm] one two three one [Eb] two calypso rhythm that Croce was so fond of
[E] He's going to play that pattern that we just looked at [A] twice
and _ [E] _ then [A] four three strings for three
_ [E] So it's actually [A] counting one and two and three and four and
But it feels like one two three one two three one two [Em] with the thumb on the bass
playing the ones
_ That continues through most of the song now
[F] He's going to make the bass note on the [B] fourth string descend one fret at a [Eb] time the fingering here is [Abm] going to be important
To move to the next chord you want the ring finger to [Eb] come down to the fourth string sixth fret
Middle finger comes away and the [B] little finger drops in on the third string sixth fret
[N] Normally I say to you fingering doesn't matter if you find one that you prefer then [B] use it
But I think you're going to want to follow the fingering for this
In the right hand we play the [Abm] same pattern
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[B] Now the ring finger comes away and the middle finger takes [Db] the fourth string fifth fret while the little finger stays in place
Same right hand pattern
Now _ _ _ _ _ [Eb]
we get a great sequence middle finger away index finger to fourth string fourth fret [Abm] little finger stays in place
play [Gb] four three [B] two and one
_ [E] then go to the fifth string fourth fret and play [Db] this play five three two and one and
[E] then
Make sure your thumb is down the back of the neck rock the wrist forward and come down to the third fret of the [F] fifth
string [C] and play _ five [Db] three
_ That sounds very dissonant [Ebm] on its own, but in context it sounds great
_ _ [Dbm] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] That's what we've got now
We want to be minus seven chord which is a bar of the second fret and the [F] a minus seven shape in front of the bar
[B] _
five [Bm] three two
_ four [D] three two and [B] then five
The [Eb] left hand comes [E] away and play six open whilst you're moving to the next chord shape
[Eb] Which I'll show you in a moment, so [B] that's again one [Bm] two three one two three [E] one two
Now _ come to this interesting chord F diminished seven which we're going [Ab] to finger this way
_ sixth string first fret third string first fret
_ _ [F] play six [Ab] [Bm] three two four three [F] two six [Abm] three
_ [B] You can hear that [Gbm] diminished chord sound straight [F] away, right?
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Abm] Interesting chord choice we won't get [Db] into the theory of why that's [E] interesting and why it works, but it is it's a great chord in that place
All right, we've just played these two
We've just played the B minor seven going to F [F] diminished again the rhythms the same one two [Ab] three one two three one two
I'll stop saying that now unless a [Abm] bar appears with a different rhythm
Now go to a normal a major seven chord the home [Eb] chord of this song
You know a seven [F] like this add to it the third string first fret [E] and you've got a major seven [A] five three two and one
[Dbm] four three two and one four three
Now _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dbm] _ we [E] finish the intro with this bass [Gbm] run _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ six string open to second fret [Gb] hammered fifth [A] string open
The [Eb] string second fret hammer it to the [B] fourth and pull it back off
_ then [A] fifth string open
[E] Sixth string second fret pulling [Gb] off to [E] open _ _
_ [Gb] one [A] and [Db] two and three [A]
[D] and [E] four and
Yeah, [B] so just be careful of that
That hammer on pull off is [B] angler [A] three and [E] four
_ [Cm] That's the introduction.
Let's play it [A] again slowly _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ [Dbm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [B] _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ [F] _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [A] _ _
[Dbm] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
[B] _ _ [A] _ [Gb] _ [E] _ _ [N] _ _