Chords for How to play THEY CALL ME THE BREEZE by J. J. CALE

[F#] If there's one song that every guitar player should know how to play, it has to be this one. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Call Me The Breeze by JJ Cale.
Absolute brilliant song to play on your electric guitar.
It has a fantastic rhythm guitar part.
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[D#] Also, nice little licks you can [A] play in between. _ _ _ _
_ [C#] And what's nice is it's also very easy to sing.
I mean anyone can sing
Call Me The Breeze by JJ Cale.
It's not that [F#] hard. _
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It's not very hard to sing.
You don't have to be Pavarotti to sing that one.
_ Now that rhythm guitar part on the surface seems quite [F#] easy, but it's gonna make a hell of a difference if it sounds like this. _ _
_ _ _ Or like this. _ _
[E] _ [F#] _ Quite a difference, right?
Now how the hell did I do that?
Well, first you need to start as always with the basics.
Now the left hand only plays a couple of notes.
Let's take a look at what they are. _ _ _ _
_ Not too difficult.
But notice I keep pressing down my index finger.
You don't want to do this.
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[D#] _ [F#] It looks kind of awkward.
Keep pressing down the index finger.
If you can do that, let's see if we can do some alternate picking. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ A lot better.
Now let's see if we can make the ring finger and the little finger short. _ _ _
Like that.
_ _ _ Hear the difference?
It's a different sound.
Then let's see if we can add some palm muting with the right hand. _ _ _ _ _ _
And I have good news.
All you have to do now is simply play faster.
_ _ _ _ They call me the breeze and that's basically all you need to do.
Grab your guitar and let's see if we can play the verse. _ _ _
They call me [F#m] the breeze I [F#] keep blowing down.
_ _ [E] _ [F#] _ _ _ [B] They call me the breeze I keep blowing down.
[C#m] _ [F#] _ [E] _ [F#] _ _ _ [C#] I ain't having nobody.
[B] _ I ain't [A] caring [F#] for nobody.
_ [B] _ [F#] _ _ _ _
I think the most joyous part of writing songs to me is _ when I'm through.
And I can actually listen to it like [E] somebody else.
I can [F#m] stand back and listen to my own song.
Go, oh I did that and I don't like it.
Or yeah, I really like that. _ _ _
The first thing you want to do is to play an up strum on open strings _ quite loud just before the first beat.
Let me show [F#] you. _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [F#] Don't _ [B] do it too loud.
That's too much.
Just a little bit.
[F#] _ _
The other one is instead of doing the little finger
[E] we _ _ can also use the open D string instead.
[F#] Like this.
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ [F#] And that _ [E] makes_
[F#] _ _ _ [E] It's [N] _ very subtle but it works really well.
Now mind you these are all pretty much advanced techniques.
So if you're just looking to sing the song and play a bit of guitar you don't really need to do all that stuff.
I don't know whether he approves of what I've done.
I mean it would be great if he did.
I don't expect it but I mean he's given me access to so much success and great music.
Now besides being a great song for the rhythm guitar it's also perfectly suited to play a nice guitar solo or nice lick every now and then.
[F#] So if you want to do that let's first take a look at the scale.
You want the good old minor pentatonic of course.
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[B] _ [E] _ [B] _ [A] _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ And first of all it's important to remember that you want to avoid playing a lick during the vocals.
That simply doesn't work.
They call me the breeze.
I keep blowing [B] down the rain.
[F#m] _
That's terrible.
Don't do that.
Instead you want to wait when the vocals are gone and fill in the gap with a lick.
[F#] They call me the [E] breeze.
[F#] _
I keep blowing down the [Em] road.
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[N] _ _ And it's also important not to fill the entire space with a barrage of notes.
[F#] I _ [B] _ [A] _ [F#] _
[F#] _ mean you can do [D] that but it's nice to play a bit less than you [G] want.
A bit more precious.
[A] _
And when you go [B] to the A chord [F#] when you're doing the solo you can stick to the same notes as before.
_ [B] They work [Dm] but you don't want to be too predictable.
So it might be nice to play a different scale.
How about the A mixolydian [B] scale here?
[C#] _ [E] _
[G#] _ [A] _ [B] _ _ _ And then you can play stuff [Bm] [E] like_
[B] _ _ _ _ _
[F#m] And that just gives a bit more variation instead of playing the same old_
There's nothing [N] wrong with_
You don't want to do it all the time.
And in the blues of [C#] course we have the B.
[G#m] _ [C#] _ [B] _ [E] _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ [F#m] _ [F#] Hey guys!
To end the video I will play the solo.
Just one verse and see if you can play along.
Taps are available on my Patreon site and I will see you next time. _ _ _
_ They _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[B] [F#] call me the breeze.
_ I keep blowing down the road.
_ _ _ [B] _ [F#m] _
[B] They call me the breeze.
_ I keep blowing [F#m] down the road. _ _ _ _ _
[C#] I ain't got me nobody.
[G#m] _ [B] I ain't [E] carrying [F#] me no load.
_ _ _ [F#m] _ [F#] _
Ain't no [F#m] change in the [F#] weather.
_ Ain't no [B] change [F#m] in [B] me.
[F#] _ [B] _ [F#m] _ _ [F#] _
[B] Ain't no change in the weather.
_ Ain't no change [F#] in me.
_ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _
[C#] I ain't hiding from [E] nobody.
[B] _ Ain't nobody hiding [F#m] from me.
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[C] _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
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_ _ [Am] _ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ _
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[Dm] _ [A] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [C] _ [Dm] _