Chords for Kenny Loggins - Footloose - Guitar Lesson by Mike Gross - How to play

What up _ _ _ _
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guys, Mike Gossett of RockingGuitarLessons.com and youtube.com slash RockingGuitarLessons1
that's Kenny Loggins with Footloose.
And I know you've heard this one before.
It's tricky.
I noticed, I tried to capture as close as I can to the studio version, but in concert
it's played in different keys, tuning wise, and the phrase is played different by different guitar players.
So this is capturing really close to the way it was played in the studio.
I noticed in studio it's tuned a quarter step sharp or a little bit past a quarter step sharp.
Why?
I don't know why they did that, but I checked out a couple different lyric versions of this
and they were tuned the same.
It was sharp from standard, okay?
Tricky riff, man.
Not technically hard, but tricky.
And it's probably going to be tricky for me to explain it to you.
Third fret E, middle finger.
[Ab] Pick and bend it a whole step and then hit the open [Bb] A.
Do that twice.
[N] And then bend that third fret again.
_ And then open A and open E.
_ [Ab] _
[Bb] _ _ [Am] And then [Ab] hit that third fret E again, bend it, [Bb] open A.
_ [Ab] So, [Bb] _ then
three E, open [F] E.
That's the first quarter [Eb] of it.
And then [Bb] _
_ do the [Ab] third fret E again.
Let me see.
_ [Bb] _
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Okay.
Bend [Ab] that third fret E, whole [Bb] step, and two open A's again.
And then [Ab] the third fret again.
And then one [Bb] open A. _ _ _
_ Two open A's there, man, sorry. _ _ _
So it's three groups of these. _ _ _ _
[F] Open E, third fret E, pick with your middle finger and slide to five [Ab] on the E.
[Bb] And then
the open [Gm] A.
That's the [G] midpoint of this.
I'm picking back towards the bridge because it's more tinty and he's got kind of that,
[Gb] it's probably a strap that he's using or something similar.
You can just tell so I'm trying to, I split the pickup to give it more of that strap [C] tone.
But I also am picking back where the bridge will give it more of that tintiness.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Fm] Did we say three E, open E?
I think we did.
[D] If we didn't, we just did.
[Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
_ [Fm] _ So, yeah, and you'll [F] bend that three.
I believe so.
And then we go fourth [G] fret E and do a half step bend.
_ _ [N] _
_ So it should sound like the fifth fret.
And then two open A's.
[Db] Do it all again.
Fourth fret E, half step bend.
[Bb] Two open A's.
So it's, do that [B] fourth fret bend again.
[Bb] And then one, two, three. _ _
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_ _ So it's only two [C] times.
Let me play it up to there.
This is a tricky one, man, even to explain.
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And I'm losing it.
Sorry guys.
[Bb] _ _ _ _
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Yeah, [F] then open E, third fret [Am] E, bend it, [Bb] open A.
[N] And then here's the last part.
You guys probably have some questions on this one, man.
Bear with me.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ Bend that fourth [A] fret half step on the E.
Two open A's again.
[Bb] Do all that. _ _
So, _ _ _ _ _ [N] and then bend it again.
[A] So we have [Bb] bend, open, open, bend, open, [G] open, bend.
[Bb] _ _ _ And two more opens. _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] Third [Ab] fret bend and then open A.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ All of that repeats except [Db] for the last quarter of it.
When you play songs, try to break it into the smaller [N] subgroups.
I know you guys have heard me talk about that a lot.
And it makes things a little easier because they're,
although these subgroups are very similar,
they have some changes in them.
But then this all repeats again, but it only repeats the first, second, and third subgroup out of the four.
So it doesn't do the last one.
And then the guitar kicks in.
I think it goes into like a fret hand mute, like [A] a,
_ _ [C]
that type of a thing.
So this one's tricky, man.
If you guys have questions, don't hesitate to ask.
It is, you'll see when you try it, it's tricky.
And I hope I explained it to where I don't lose you too much.
[D] I'm usually really good about explaining stuff.
But this one's tough, man.
So, like I said, not technically hard.
But it's all the little bends and
those little plays off of bending to another note
and then [G] hitting that true note without bending.
It's crazy.
[N] Alright, so anyways, have fun with it though.
Really, it's a classic.
It's a good one.
I didn't have any kiddy logins on here, now we do.
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This was close.
I don't know that it's 100% there, but it's close.
_ And like I said, I watched several from kiddy logins
and he actually changes it in different ones.
I don't know why that is.
But he was playing [Ab] the riffs sometimes himself.
[F] And then other times he had his guitar player
[C] and his band playing it and he wasn't.
And he was playing on the other parts.
But this is it.
This is Footloose.
Have fun with it.
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So, thank you, Matt.
We'll talk to you later.
Have fun with this.
[Bb] And I'll meet you back here for some more lessons.
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See ya. _ _ _ _