Chords for How to Play Working Class Hero by John Lennon

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_ _ _ _ Hey guys, it's Karl Brown for _ GuitarLessons365.com.
Today we've got a quick easy one for you.
We're going to learn how to play Working Class Hero by John Lennon.
So this is really based around just a couple of simple chords.
So we're going to start here in standard tuning around an A minor chord. _
_ _ _ _ [F] Alright, so in this pattern it's kind of a combination of right and [A] left hand techniques.
We're going to start with the strum [Am] and _ _ [E] then [Am] the [D] second time through [A]
[D] you're [Am] going to hammer
on the open D to the second [D] fret on the D.
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_ _ _ _ So you basically have to lift that up midway
between the strumming patterns.
So this is a pretty simple little thing but you [Fm] just want to work on this for a second
[Am] until you get that down because that's the main part of the song. _ _ _
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_ _ [C] Alright, so when the verse is going [Dm] he's pretty [Am] much just rotating between that little figure _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ and a G [F] [G] major chord, _ _ _ straight G major [Am] chord back to the A minor. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Am] _ _ Now you'll see that [D] sometimes in the song he will not do the hammer on so he'll just
kind of strum it straight.
It's [Am] usually when he's singing and _ [G] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] you'll also hear as the song progresses that underneath
that A minor he'll have the low E string [Am] in there.
So it'll kind of sound like this.
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_ [E] [Am] So you're just basically hitting [Fm] that E there, letting the open E string ring in there.
He builds the tension through the song by doing that.
So just listen for that and add that as the song [F] goes.
You progressively add it in more and a little [Em] bit louder as well.
The only other thing to really take a look [Am] at here is the chorus which is similar, it
sounds like this. _ _ _
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Alright, so it's the same as the verse the first time through. _ _ _ _
_ [G] The G [C#] back to the [Am] A minor. _
That pattern twice and _ then it's just A minor, [G] G, _ [D] D back [Am] to the A minor. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Am] _ _ _ _ Alright, now at the very end of the song when he goes through that, that's where he [G] ends on. _
[D] _ He ends on that D major chord.
That's where he basically stops the strumming patterns.
[Am] And then from there he resolves it to the A minor.
_ _ _ And then real quick he just hits that low open [E] E string [Am] and then _ _ strumming really close
to the bridge to get that bright metallic sound he just strum across the A minor to end it.
So we have [D] this where he stops the strumming pattern and [Am] then_ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Alright and that's Working Class Hero.
Hope you enjoyed it.
I'll see you again soon for guitar lessons at 365.com. _
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