Chords for Ohio Tutorial

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_ Okay, Ohio by Neil Young. _ _
_ Pretty simple, it's built around this D chord shape, okay, and then it has two other chords
in the chorus.
_ But it's pretty straightforward from a chording standpoint.
It's played in D modal tuning or some people call it double drop D tuning.
So let me show you what that is.
It's standard tuning but the sixth and the first strings are tuned to a D.
So _ D and D. _
_ _ _ That means if you're trying to tune the guitar you do [A] it like this.
_ _ That's the seventh fret _ _ and the [D] third _ fret.
_ _ [A] Okay, so the rest of it is standard tuning.
So you got an A, _ [G] [D] a D, _ _
_ [G] a G, _ [B] a B, _
[D] a low D, and a high D.
It actually gives you three Ds in three Ds.
It's in three Ds.
[G] Three Ds.
_ [D] _ _ _ Three Ds, which means when you do that you get a big sound and it means you can do this.
_ _ [G] _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
A lot of what Neil Young does on all kinds of songs.
So on Ohio [D] it goes like this.
[G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _
All right, I didn't do that very well.
_ But basically if you look at the left hand [G] you go.
_ _ [F] _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _
_ [G] _ So more of this is about the right hand than the left hand.
Because all the left hands are going.
_ _ [F] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [C] _ So [D] that's basically the chord thing.
And then he's working [G] the right hand to make it work.
_ _ And _ [C] _ [D] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[D] _ _ _ you don't need to be too precise with your right hand [E] when you play Neil Young because
he's actually kind of a, I don't know if the word sloppy is right, I mean it's by design,
but he's not a precise player and it gives a lot of, it brings a lot of his feel to it.
And so what he's doing with his right [D] hand is he's doing [Em] this with the fat part of his hand here.
He's hitting the strings, bumping on the strings, muting the [D] strings at the same time he's picking them. _
And that makes, gives you this muting ring.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] Gives you this muting ring.
_ [G] _ _ _ [F] _
[C] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [Cm] _ [G] _ [D] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ So _ _ [C] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ that's _ [D] _ the picking pattern.
Then you've got the chorus [B] which is simple.
[Gm]
Put your bar here, _ put these two fingers there.
_ Alright. _ _ _ _
Gotta get down [C] to it. _
_ And then you play a regular old C chord which sounds nice and funky because of the D mode too. _ _
_ Soldiers are cutting us [Gm] down. _
_ Should have been done long [Bm] ago.
_ [C] _ Yay.
And he just keeps singing that [G] to the chorus and then he goes back to here.
_ _ _ [Dm] _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
So that is Ohio by [N] Neil Young. _