Chords for Slow Death - Flamin' Groovies - Lesson Part 1 of 3

_ _ _ _ _ Welcome to Vanderbilt.com. This is in response to a request for Slow Death by the Flamin' [D#] Groovies.
_ They were a band from San Francisco in the [N] _ _
late 60s and early 70s.
And Slow Death was _ a song they put out as a kind of a single _ _ in, I think it was _ 1972. _ _ _ _ _
It's a very cool song and they're actually a great band.
If you're not familiar with them, you may know their single Shake Some Action.
That's probably a big number, but it's worth checking out.
Anyway, in this _ lesson I'm going to cover _ all the aspects of the song.
In Part 1, I'll do a sort of a condensed playthrough _ in which I'll cover all the parts of the song in order,
but not every piece is going to be played through.
_ _ _ And then I'll cover the basic _ _ _ chords _ for the _ _ _ verses and chorus.
_ In Part 2, I will do the solo.
_ And then in Part 3, _ I'll do the outro _ and the slide _ parts that are played throughout most of the [F] song.
So, without [Bm] further ado, let's get started. _
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Okay. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Okay. _ _ _
[D] _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [N] _ Okay.
The opening _ [E] main figure goes like this.
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_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
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[N] What's happening there is you're starting off with this little riff and you only really do this the first time.
It's an open [E] E, _ _ _ an [G] E string third fret, _ _ E [E] open, _ [A#m] and [A] A open.
_ _ _ We're going to go into [E] the chord riff.
_ [C#] _ If you play it all [E] the way down here, you're going to get that _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ sound.
[A#] _
And then the chords are just an A chord.
[Em] We're going to lift [N] _ _ off [A] and put it back on like in this pattern.
_ [D] _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ And then you move to a C chord on the third [C] fret, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
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_ _ [A#] and then to a G chord, also on the third fret,
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
and then an open D chord, and you're going to cycle through where you include [F#] a D [F] suspend four at one point.
So that would be [A] _ _
like_ I'm [D] sorry. _ _ _ _ _
So you start on the upstroke. _ _ _
_ Goes to D four. _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [N] So slowly that whole chord riff [A] _ _ is_
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[A] It's important that _ _ when _ you move to this [C] C, start with an upstroke. _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] And then the same thing with the G.
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_ And then the D. _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ And [N] then you get to the little chorus part, it's just an A chord.
You hit the chord like ring. _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
And then the subsequent times, he just does a little figure before it, which is just_ _ _ _ _
_ And that's just _ A [C] string third fret, _ _ _ [C#m] _ [D] D string open, _ [N] _ D string second [A] fret, _ and then the A chord. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Do that three [N] times, and then when he's singing about to slow, it's a slow death.
A slow [A#] is just a G power [N] chord, third fret, _ played with a hand mute [G] like this.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
And then you're back to [N] the riff.
And that's how the main part