Chords for Last Dance With Mary Jane Tom Petty Online Guitar Lesson

[Am] _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [N] Yo, what's up?
Marty Schwartz here, GuitarJams.com.
I'm going to teach you Last Dance with Mary Jane by Tom Petty.
Let's get right into it.
A bunch of easy chords.
It's a [Am] good beginner song. _
[N] The rhythm could be a little tricky.
It's kind of like a groovy rhythm.
But let's go with the chords first.
We need A [Am] minor, _ G, [G] _ _ _
[D] D, back to A [Am] minor.
It starts over again on A minor.
_ [G] _ D, [D] _ [Am] back to A minor.
[N] Obviously there's a couple of little finger tricks there that spice up those _ chords a bit.
Now I guess when the Danny California song by the Chili Peppers came out, they said it
sounded so much like this tune.
Granted, they do sound very much alike.
I guess the one difference is with Tom Petty's tune, it's a D major chord.
And Danny California's a D minor chord.
But really, I think it's just coincidental.
There's only so many chords that sound good together.
I think this is just one of them.
Okay, so here's what we do.
We go [Am] on _ the A minor.
_ _ It's [B] kind of a bump [A] down.
_ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [C#] Listen to that [Am] again.
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _ Okay, now when I go to the [A#] D chord, _ _ this can be tricky.
You can just play a straight [N] D chord.
And this is the same rhythm.
But what he does is he plays a D major chord with no middle finger on.
So the [E] high E is [D] open and he hammers it on.
So that's kind of one of his little spices. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
Hear that?
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ _ [Am] Here we go.
_ _ [G] _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
Okay, it ends on that A minor, but it starts [C#] over again on A minor.
So I think what he did to break that up so it didn't sound exactly the same is he adds
his pinky [A#] to the third fret there.
And that would just be called [Am] A minor 7.
_ _ [G] _ But it's kind of cool because it stays there when it goes over to the G chord.
It's just a nice little, you know, a little extra, you know, extra little thing.
It's like vinegar on a potato chip, you know.
It's a zangy, flavorful thing for you.
Alright, here we go.
That whole [Am] verse.
_ _ [G] _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ _ Alright, now let's talk about the chorus, okay?
E [Em] minor, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ and it's A7.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
[C#] And [G] if you've seen any of my lessons on next level guitar, I've got an acoustic blues one
that is called, I talk about the land of A7.
And this is actually a perfect example of where [A] these things can pop up.
It's not just in blues.
So when he goes to the A7, one of the [G#] guitars, I think it's Tom Petty, he kind of climbs
up this little land of A7.
I'm not going to get too detailed into it.
It's really just an extra thing.
You could just stay on A7, but if you want to find that lesson, it's not hard to find.
[Em] So here it is, E minor. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [C] Result, you know, just a little hit on G, [G] right [Am] back in.
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ [C] _
_ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _
Okay, let me talk about something you can do [Fm] on the chorus.
[E] It's something I [F#] do when I play the tune.
It's just for fun.
[N] I play some of the vocal melodies on the chorus.
So what you can do is you can take your E minor, and then I'm going to put my pinky
on the B string, right there on the third fret.
And [Em] it goes like this.
_ [D] _ [B] _
_ [D] _ _ [C#] _ [B] _ _ _ [A] _
So [D] I'm just kind of adding _ _ [B] that_
[D] _
_ [Bm] _ [A] So listen to that with the E minor.
This is a [G] nice little action thing. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [A#] Alright, Marty Schwartz, GuitarJams.com.
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