Chords for How To Play Joni Mitchell You Turn Me On I'm a Radio (intro only)
Tempo:
46.25 bpm
Chords used:
Eb
D
A
Gb
B
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Let's get in tune first of all for U-turn me on a radio.
We're once again in open D tuning
So let's do this tune your [D] first string down to D
Second string [A] down to a third string down to [Gb] F sharp
fourth and fifth strings stay the same [D] D and
[A] a
[D] But your sixth string comes down to D
That gives you a D major chord on the open strings
[G] And to play you tell me on a radio as she did it on the original album
We're going to cap over the first fret
So I'm teaching the [Eb] album version here on miles of isles the live version
She plays it without a [B] capo so you can do that, too
All right, we're going to kick off with the intro.
It's [Eb] going to sound like this
Around it would go again
This is one of the simpler progressions in Joni Mitchell's music.
We're going to start with a chord
It's called D on your tab and song she gets technically D5.
It's a D power chord
It's the third string third fret and the fifth string fifth fret
Gives us a D5 chord and she sets up for almost the whole of this song a typical Joni [C] Mitchell
Pattern that she picked up from her dulcimer [Eb] playing down slap up down slap up down
slap up down slap up and
The slap if you haven't seen one of the other videos that uses it is the karate chop part of your right hand
Landing on the strings of the slight tilt of the wrist so that the fleshy part of your palm
Lands on the [Ab] string just ahead of the pick and the pick can hit anywhere you like on the strings to create that percussive
Effect and that's on the second and fourth beat [Eb] of every bar
one two and three
Four she does that for almost all of this song not quite all
But we start off with a bar of it on this D chord
Three
Now D major seven is simply the middle finger coming to the fifth string fourth fret and the index finger staying where it is same pattern
On that last up she actually is taking the fingers away and playing up on open strings
So that she can move to the G over D chord, which is the same shape But
A7 sus4 has the middle finger moving to the fourth string second [Gb] fret and the index finger staying where it is
[Eb] And you could play the same pattern.
I think in the mix.
She's going down slap up
I don't hear that second slap in there, but it's really not important
All right, she plays that twice for the intro.
Let's play one more time
One two
Around we would go again
[Db] Now I just want to divert our attention from the song as it is on the studio [D] version for a moment and take a look
At how she plays the [Eb] intro on miles of isles because some of you might prefer
Or at least had a variation of this version on miles of isles.
She plays it this way
[Ab] [Eb]
That's quite an interesting variation and it is a preview of something that we're going to do a bit later on in the song
Starting on the same chord shape down slap and then change to the [B] D major 7 chord here [Eb] up
open strings up and
Then the G of a D chord up down
So we've gone down slap up
up down slap
a
little up on open strings and this
Which is our a7 sus4 shape but sliding up two frets
Then fingers off up and do it again put that back together
So there's a variation on the introduction
[F] That she does on miles of isles
We're once again in open D tuning
So let's do this tune your [D] first string down to D
Second string [A] down to a third string down to [Gb] F sharp
fourth and fifth strings stay the same [D] D and
[A] a
[D] But your sixth string comes down to D
That gives you a D major chord on the open strings
[G] And to play you tell me on a radio as she did it on the original album
We're going to cap over the first fret
So I'm teaching the [Eb] album version here on miles of isles the live version
She plays it without a [B] capo so you can do that, too
All right, we're going to kick off with the intro.
It's [Eb] going to sound like this
Around it would go again
This is one of the simpler progressions in Joni Mitchell's music.
We're going to start with a chord
It's called D on your tab and song she gets technically D5.
It's a D power chord
It's the third string third fret and the fifth string fifth fret
Gives us a D5 chord and she sets up for almost the whole of this song a typical Joni [C] Mitchell
Pattern that she picked up from her dulcimer [Eb] playing down slap up down slap up down
slap up down slap up and
The slap if you haven't seen one of the other videos that uses it is the karate chop part of your right hand
Landing on the strings of the slight tilt of the wrist so that the fleshy part of your palm
Lands on the [Ab] string just ahead of the pick and the pick can hit anywhere you like on the strings to create that percussive
Effect and that's on the second and fourth beat [Eb] of every bar
one two and three
Four she does that for almost all of this song not quite all
But we start off with a bar of it on this D chord
Three
Now D major seven is simply the middle finger coming to the fifth string fourth fret and the index finger staying where it is same pattern
On that last up she actually is taking the fingers away and playing up on open strings
So that she can move to the G over D chord, which is the same shape But
A7 sus4 has the middle finger moving to the fourth string second [Gb] fret and the index finger staying where it is
[Eb] And you could play the same pattern.
I think in the mix.
She's going down slap up
I don't hear that second slap in there, but it's really not important
All right, she plays that twice for the intro.
Let's play one more time
One two
Around we would go again
[Db] Now I just want to divert our attention from the song as it is on the studio [D] version for a moment and take a look
At how she plays the [Eb] intro on miles of isles because some of you might prefer
Or at least had a variation of this version on miles of isles.
She plays it this way
[Ab] [Eb]
That's quite an interesting variation and it is a preview of something that we're going to do a bit later on in the song
Starting on the same chord shape down slap and then change to the [B] D major 7 chord here [Eb] up
open strings up and
Then the G of a D chord up down
So we've gone down slap up
up down slap
a
little up on open strings and this
Which is our a7 sus4 shape but sliding up two frets
Then fingers off up and do it again put that back together
So there's a variation on the introduction
[F] That she does on miles of isles
Key:
Eb
D
A
Gb
B
Eb
D
A
_ _ _ Let's get in tune first of all for U-turn me on a radio.
We're once again in open D tuning
So let's do this tune your [D] first string down to D
Second string [A] down to a third string down to [Gb] F sharp
fourth and fifth strings stay the same [D] D and
[A] a
[D] But your sixth string comes down to D
That gives you a D major chord on the open strings
[G] And to play you tell me on a radio as she did it on the original album
We're going to cap over the first fret
So I'm teaching the [Eb] album version here on miles of isles the live version
She plays it without a [B] capo so you can do that, too
All right, we're going to kick off with the intro.
It's [Eb] going to sound like this _ _ _ _ _
_ Around it would go again
This is one of the simpler progressions in Joni Mitchell's music.
We're going to start with a chord
It's called D on your tab and song she gets technically D5.
It's a D power chord
It's the third string third fret and the fifth string fifth fret
Gives us a D5 chord and she sets up for almost the whole of this song a typical Joni [C] Mitchell
Pattern that she picked up from her dulcimer [Eb] playing down slap up down slap up down
slap up down slap up and
The slap if you haven't seen one of the other videos that uses it is the karate chop part of your right hand
Landing on the strings of the slight tilt of the wrist so that the fleshy part of your palm
Lands on the [Ab] string just ahead of the pick and the pick can hit anywhere you like on the strings to create that percussive
Effect and that's on the second and fourth beat [Eb] of every bar
one two and three
Four she does that for almost all of this song not quite all
But we start off with a bar of it on this D chord
Three
Now D major seven is simply the middle finger coming to the fifth string fourth fret and the index finger staying where it is same pattern _
_ On that last up she actually is taking the fingers away and playing up on open strings
So that she can move to the G over D chord, which is the same shape But
_ _ _ A7 sus4 has the middle finger moving to the fourth string second [Gb] fret and the index finger staying where it is
[Eb] And you could play the same pattern.
I think in the mix.
She's going down slap up
I don't hear that second slap in there, but it's really not important
All right, she plays that twice for the intro.
Let's play one more time _
_ _ _ One two
Around we would go again
[Db] Now I just want to divert our attention from the song as it is on the studio [D] version for a moment and take a look
At how she plays the [Eb] intro on miles of isles because some of you might prefer
Or at least had a variation of this version on miles of isles.
She plays it this way
[Ab] _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ That's quite an interesting variation and it is a preview of something that we're going to do a bit later on in the song
Starting on the same chord shape down slap and then change to the [B] D major 7 chord here [Eb] up
open strings up and
Then the G of a D chord up down
So we've gone down slap up
up down slap
a
little up on open strings and this
Which is our a7 sus4 shape but sliding up two frets
Then fingers off up and do it again put _ _ that back together _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So there's a variation on the introduction
[F] That she does on miles of isles
We're once again in open D tuning
So let's do this tune your [D] first string down to D
Second string [A] down to a third string down to [Gb] F sharp
fourth and fifth strings stay the same [D] D and
[A] a
[D] But your sixth string comes down to D
That gives you a D major chord on the open strings
[G] And to play you tell me on a radio as she did it on the original album
We're going to cap over the first fret
So I'm teaching the [Eb] album version here on miles of isles the live version
She plays it without a [B] capo so you can do that, too
All right, we're going to kick off with the intro.
It's [Eb] going to sound like this _ _ _ _ _
_ Around it would go again
This is one of the simpler progressions in Joni Mitchell's music.
We're going to start with a chord
It's called D on your tab and song she gets technically D5.
It's a D power chord
It's the third string third fret and the fifth string fifth fret
Gives us a D5 chord and she sets up for almost the whole of this song a typical Joni [C] Mitchell
Pattern that she picked up from her dulcimer [Eb] playing down slap up down slap up down
slap up down slap up and
The slap if you haven't seen one of the other videos that uses it is the karate chop part of your right hand
Landing on the strings of the slight tilt of the wrist so that the fleshy part of your palm
Lands on the [Ab] string just ahead of the pick and the pick can hit anywhere you like on the strings to create that percussive
Effect and that's on the second and fourth beat [Eb] of every bar
one two and three
Four she does that for almost all of this song not quite all
But we start off with a bar of it on this D chord
Three
Now D major seven is simply the middle finger coming to the fifth string fourth fret and the index finger staying where it is same pattern _
_ On that last up she actually is taking the fingers away and playing up on open strings
So that she can move to the G over D chord, which is the same shape But
_ _ _ A7 sus4 has the middle finger moving to the fourth string second [Gb] fret and the index finger staying where it is
[Eb] And you could play the same pattern.
I think in the mix.
She's going down slap up
I don't hear that second slap in there, but it's really not important
All right, she plays that twice for the intro.
Let's play one more time _
_ _ _ One two
Around we would go again
[Db] Now I just want to divert our attention from the song as it is on the studio [D] version for a moment and take a look
At how she plays the [Eb] intro on miles of isles because some of you might prefer
Or at least had a variation of this version on miles of isles.
She plays it this way
[Ab] _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ That's quite an interesting variation and it is a preview of something that we're going to do a bit later on in the song
Starting on the same chord shape down slap and then change to the [B] D major 7 chord here [Eb] up
open strings up and
Then the G of a D chord up down
So we've gone down slap up
up down slap
a
little up on open strings and this
Which is our a7 sus4 shape but sliding up two frets
Then fingers off up and do it again put _ _ that back together _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So there's a variation on the introduction
[F] That she does on miles of isles