Chords for Queens of the Stone Age - Mosquito Song (Guitar Tutorial)

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I'm just going to show you how to play Mosquito song by Queens of the Stone Age today
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So for this tune we're going to need to tune down to C standard tuning which a lot of Queen songs are in
So from low to high we've got C _ _
[Fm] F
_ [Bb] B flat _ _ [B]
E [Eb] flat G
[G] _ _ _ [C] _
_ [Eb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ All right, and only two parts to this song we've pretty much just got a verse and a chorus
There is a solo in this song, but I haven't transcribed that it's just a solo so you can do your own one
But I'll go through section by section give you an example of each part, and then I'll teach it to you _
alright, so we'll start with the
Verse and the verse goes like this
[Fm] Okay, _ _ [F] _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [Ab] _ _ [C] _ _ [Cm] _ [Fm] _ _
_ [F] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
[Fm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [C] _
_ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ so we're starting with what in standard tuning is an a minor shape
_ _ so we're going to be playing the
Open fifth string second fret on the fourth and third and first fret on the second string _ _ _
_ And we sort of pick the bottom two strings _
_ And we strum strings two three and four
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
And just do a little up strum as well _ _
[A] And then we've got a little
[F] _ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] This little melodic run _ which is
[Bb] _ Just hammering on to what we're already holding down from the open strings, so we're going to hammer on [G] from open second string
[Ab] to first fret then open third string
[F] _ To second fret and then open fourth string [C]
to second fret and then [Bb] back to open fourth string so you get
[Eb] _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [Fm] Just like that _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Ab] Then we go to a C major shape
_ _ _ [Eb] _
[Ab] And again, we're just going to be plucking the bottom two strings of the chord
So [A] that's string [Ab] five on fret three
_ [C] Then second fret fourth string [Eb]
open third string and first [Ab] fret second string _
_ So you pick the bottom two strings so [Ab] you go five four and then strum
_ _ strings two three four
_ _ _ [Eb] _ [Bm] And then you can [Ab] sort of hear
_ [Eb] _ _ The getting ready for the chord change so we do that up strum, but this time
It's just open so we're sort of like [Am] getting ready to go to [C] the next
chord [Ab] here
_ _ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ So just open [Am] string three and four [D] and then we go to an E major [C] shape _ _
_ So that's second fret on the fifth and fourth strings and [E] first fret on the [C] third string _ _ _
Strumming all the strings and again we pick the bottom two two strings
_ Then strum the chord and [Ab] then do [Am] an up strum, but then taking our hand off, so we're just strumming [Eb] the open third
_ strings
[C] _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [D] And you get to the top again and repeat
[F] _ [Fm] _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] _
[C] _ _ [Eb] _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Eb] _
[Fm] _ _ _ And that's the verse [Db]
then the other part to learn now is the chorus and the chorus goes like this
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
[Fm] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ All right, so
Same chords that we use in the verse except now.
We've got a D [Bb] major chord or D major shape
_ _ _ _ All right, so we start on that
_ _ _ So open fourth string second fret on the third
_ Third fret on the second string and second fret on the first _ _ _
_ So strum this four times _ _ _ _
_ Then go to that a minor [Fm] shape
[A] So second [Fm] fret on the fourth and third strings [Ab] first fret on the second [Fm] string
_ _ _ _ [Bb]
So you go from the D major
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _
Minor do two strums of that _ [F] then we do that melodic run that we do in the verse
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [G]
So open [Ab] hammer on to one on the second string open hammer on [F] to two
On the third string [Bb] open hammer on [Cm] two on the fourth string [Bb] and then back to open [Gm] fourth string
_ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ So that's the [C] first little bit then we go to that D major chord
_ So second [G] fret on the fifth and [F] fourth and first fret [C] on the third string _
_ _ _ _ Just drum that four times _
_ _ And back to the a [F] minor do this four times
[Fm] _ _ _ _ Then we go back [Bb] to our D major
_ _ _ _ _ Back to a [Fm] minor
_ _ _ _ And then just do [C] one
_ Sort of slower raked strum of that a major chord
_ So just [Bb] got the D major [Fm] a minor and [C] a major _ shapes
In this and we just cycle between them.
_ I'll just play it through again slowly two three [Bb] four _ _
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ And that is all the parts to this song _
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