Chords for Mary Jane's Last Dance Lesson - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ Okay, [Am] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _
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[D] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Em] that was a little bit of Tom Petty's Mary Jane's Last Dance.
Basically, you're
playing [Am] an A minor, [C] it's in the key of A minor, [G] then you go to a G, _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] back to the A [Am] minor again.
_ _ [C] And if you can get that dirty sound on your guitar, that's the way Mike can.
[Eb] _ _ [Am] _
_ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C]
The second
time through, he [G] plays it differently.
He adds this G there [Am] to the A minor.
_ [Bm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [C] It's little
subtleties [E] like that that he changes up each time.
_ And basically, it's just those three
chords repeated, those four phrases, over and over for the verses.
The [Em] chorus is an
E minor. _
_ _ _ And you just play the top strings, especially if you're singing, because you
don't need _ [E] to play the full chord if you're singing.
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ The A major, by [E] the way.
But what
he's doing is he's taking his finger off [Dbm] here, putting it back on, [A] so it's _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ back to
the [Em] E minor, _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ ends on the A minor, and then you're back to the verse again.
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[Em] And try to
use palm muting to get that rhythm down.
_ [G] _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [B] If you watch my right hand, I'm using a lot of
palm muting. _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [B] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ Okay?
And then when it comes to the [Eb] lead in _ [Em] the _ chorus, Mike Campbell,
when you get to the A [A] there, _ [Eb] when you're playing that A [D] major, Mike Campbell is basically playing
A [Em] chords all the way up the neck.
So he plays [A] it here, _ and then here, _ _ _ and then here.
_ _ _ [Em] And
that's basically the lead.
He simply does [G] that.
_ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And you slide up each time.
And then
the second time through, [E] he, you take these two strings, the first and the third, and
slide it up to the ninth fret, [A] _ _ _
[G] _ _ and back down to the seventh.
[Em] That's how the chorus ends.
[N] And then the main phrase in the whole song is this little bend that he does here.
_ [B] _ _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [D] _
[Db] All
he's really doing is taking [E] these two, those two notes there, and bending them [Eb] up.
_ _ [E] Then
he's hitting those [C] two with his first finger, _
[A] and then going to the fourth string there.
[D] So it's really from there.
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [D] _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Em]
And then I'll play the whole song through for you.
I recorded
the rhythm, and then I recorded the lead over the top.
So this is what it sounds like with
the two guitar parts [Eb] combined.
_ [B] That's Tom Petty's Mary Jane's Last Dance.
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