Chords for Rock And Roll Woman Acoustic Guitar Lesson - Stephen Stills

[F] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Am] _ [Em] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [F] _ _ [Em] _ [Am] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ [G] _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [N] Recognize that?
Great tune, 1967, Stephen Stills with the Buffalo Springfield, Rock and Roll Woman.
[A#] A really distinctive intro.
You can play it lots of [Am] different ways, _ _ _ [G] _
_ [Am] _ [G] _ _ but [A] what's kind of interesting about it is it's
the same lick [Gm] played over two different chords.
So first you have [F] F in the bass, so you can really just hit an F in the bass, then you've
got these parallel [G] thirds playing the melody.
[C#m] So if you weren't hitting the F in the bass, what you could [G#] do is come up to the fifth
fret and play the two notes at the fifth fret on the second and third strings, which would
be a C and [C] an E.
_ _ _ That's what we call a third in music.
It's the interval [A#] of two notes that are one [C#m] letter apart.
In this case, C, not D, and E.
[C] _ C and E to B and [Bm] D _ to _ B and [G] G _ open, and then to A [Am] and C.
_ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [A] A lot of songs [N] use this idea of parallel thirds in their [F#m] melody.
_ [C#] _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
[A] _ _ [D] _ _ [E] Jimmy [G] Buffett, _ Margaritaville.
So _ Rock and Roll Woman, again, starts off with one of those and [A] then just goes into
using those same, but again, it uses it over two different chords.
[F] First an F chord [C] with the melody, [Em] _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ [Am] _ [Bm] _
then a D [D] chord with the [Am] same notes.
[G] _ _
[Am] _ [G] _ _ _ [N] It makes it really interesting because you've got, it sounds like it's not the same lick
because you're hearing the same notes, but with different harmony.
Really important part of the song and the sound.
So this is an example of some of the types of lessons that we have at [G#] Totally Guitars.
So if, especially if you'd like to see more about Rock and Roll Woman, come on over to
the site and hit the recommend a lesson button and vote on songs because [N] that's a lot of
what we do when we decide what songs we're going to put up as lessons.
And I love doing 60s and 70s classic rock stuff.
Steve Stills, Neil Young, James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot, America, Beatles, lots of Beatles,
Doors, Rolling Stones, all that kind of stuff.
But there are so many songs out there that we really have to [G] take into account what people want.
So if you want to hear Rock [A] and Roll _
[E] Woman, did I say Rock [G] and Roll Girls earlier?
Wrong song.
[C] John Proby.
_ _ [D] _ [G] That one's already there, I think.
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [A] So anyway, come on over to totallyguitars.com, join in the community, the forum.
There's all just all kinds of really cool stuff and a lot of the most [G#] important things
you can do there are help us decide what lessons we're going to put up.
There are [N] finger picking lessons, there are strumming lessons, all kinds of stuff.
So _ check us out at totallyguitars