Chords for Like The Way I Do - Lesson (Melissa Etheridge)

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_ _ _ _ [G] _ Whoa, what a smoker of a song.
This Melissa Etheridge song, I like the way I do, _ classic song.
_ I was doing Bring Me Some Water and [E] of course, kind of forgot about this [G] song in the first album.
Listened through it [E] and I [Eb] just had to learn it.
So [G] really, there's only a few chords in this song.
[Eb] _ _
[Dm] D minor, _ [A] _ [Bb] _ _
_ B [C] flat, C, [Am] and A minor.
[Db] So those are all [G] the chords in the song, but this is the rhythm.
That is the key to this song.
She does a few hammer [Abm]-ons here [G] and there and [Ab] even the way she plays it [Gm] live varies every time.
[Ab] I've looked up some [G] various live YouTube videos of it, so we'll touch on some of the things she does.
But to start out with, and I've seen people do it at the D [A] and you're going to hammer
[C] into a D [Dm] minor and [Eb] that's fine, but [G] what I've seen [C] Melissa play every time is she's [Db] doing
the D [Dm] minor in the first position.
[G] So what you want to do is keep your third finger on the second string at the third fret
[Dm] _ _
[Dbm] [Dm] and hammer into that D minor.
[C] So you're [G] hammering into the first string, first fret, third string, second.
[Dm] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] So you can hear how that rhythm is.
It's almost staccato.
You're stopping [A] and up-strumming.
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] So she's just playing a B [C] flat [Bb] _ and [G] you really only want to [F] play the [Bb] fourth, third, and second
[A] string [F] and that's [G] kind of [Eb] difficult to do, but with this strumming, [Gm] just let your finger
flatten out _ [G] so you don't hear that first [Bb] string either.
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[A] You can add [G] that B note if you want.
I've noticed again she doesn't really [Bb] do that.
_ [A] She lets the [Eb] bass player do that or [Gm] eventually do that B note.
So that might help you with the rhythm.
So we've got our D [Eb] minor and we're going to basically do [G] two measures [Dm] of it. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] And then our B [Bb] flat twice. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] Then we do our D minor again [Dm] twice. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] And then we go to our B flat for a [Dm] measure.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [E] [C] Then a C.
_ Is it so [Bb] hard?
[Eb] Now when she [Fm] starts the [Bb] verse, we're going to go B [C] flat to C.
Okay?
[F] And it's basically back and forth.
[C] B flat to C.
_ [Dm] B [C] flat to C.
[Gm] B flat.
And then [Abm] she's going to go to an [A] A minor.
_ Hold you, [Am] hold you like I do.
Baby, tell me does [Dm] she love [Gm] you.
So you're back into kind of the [G] intro.
So when you play that C, you can add your pinky down onto the second string at the third
fret for a C add [C] 9.
_ [Em] _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [Em] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Bb] _ _
[G] So again, it's your choice.
It's how she does it.
It's the rhythm and that [Gm] staccato beat.
So another way I've seen her [F] play it live is she's going from a [Dm] major B flat major 7.
[Em]
We've got this triad [F] or triangle here and we're [Dm] sliding that _ [Gm] third string second fret
[Dbm] into the third fret for [E] a B flat, but we're [Bb] not playing [G] the B root note.
So we're [Dm] doing this.
_ _ _ [D] And then all she does is lift these [Gm] fingers [C] off and comes into a [Gm] form of C.
But if we
kept our finger [A] on the second string [Gm] at the third fret, [F] which is here.
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_ Okay, that's a C add 9.
So that's another variation she does.
_ _ And again, it's how you want to play it and the rhythm you want to do.
The rhythm is a key to the song.
So after the A minor 7, [C] the chorus or [G] what we would refer to as a chorus, because again,
there's not a real, you know, repeating chorus.
It's words that [Ab] sound similar. _
After the A [A] minor, _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] baby [Dm] does she love you like the way I love you.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _
Okay that's D [Dm] minor and we're going to do that for two measures.
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[Bb] _ Okay B flat for two measures.
Does she stimulate and attract you?
Then [G] we're going to do C for [C] two measures.
[G] _ _ You can add that 9th _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Ab] and then back to D minor for [Dm] two measures. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] And then it starts over [G] again.
D [Dm] minor.
_ _ [G] So there is an electric guitar part that an early video, which I really love of Melissa
[Dbm] playing this back in the 80s.
Gentleman playing the [Db] guitar is a black Les Paul with P90s and it just sounds [A] fantastic.
So what he's doing is we're going [G] to be on the second string at [Ab] the sixth [Gm] fret, third
string at the seventh [Eb] fret and first string at the eighth.
And we're going to pluck.
[Fm] _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] Okay so we're plucking two, three, [D] _
one, three, two. _ _ _ _
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And it just repeats.
Okay and [Eb] that's the lick throughout the song.
That is a song.
If you follow that rhythm pattern, you'll be able to play right along with it.
I think I'll do a play along so you guys can see how it all falls together and some
of the rhythm and ways you can play it.
So I