Chords for Suspicious Minds - Elvis acoustic lesson - Open G

Terry Dean with Acoustic Coffee Cutters.
See, we got a little challenge on this next song.
This is just kind of for fun.
I don't know if anybody will ever pick up on this or not, but_
Bluebird is a great classic show.
A lot of tremendous players down in Nashville.
Up and coming stars.
A lot of other stars, too.
I want to throw this song out here, as I'd love to hear a country version of this someday.
Maybe they get a little inspiration off of my coffee cover version from Acoustic Coffee Covers.
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But who knows?
Probably a pipe dream.
Anyways, we're going to try today a little Elvis.
Suspicious Minds, 1969.
But, a little twist.
The Acoustic Coffee Cover twist in open G.
So you can play this.
I'm in standard A440 tuning.
You can tune it down.
Go down to E flat or D, whatever you need there to lower it.
Or raise it up for your voice.
But let's look at this.
A classic by Elvis.
Suspicious Minds.
_ Alright, first off here, real quick.
We're going to tune it up again, just to remind you.
The E goes to a D.
_ So E [D] string down [G] to a D.
A down to a G.
_ [D] _ _ [G] _
D, G, _ B.
And then the high E [D] down to a D as well.
So we're ending up [G] with this.
If you muffle the first, you get your nice G chord sound there.
Alright, now let's look at the chords here.
Most of these chords are really pretty easy.
What we're going to do is we're going to do this.
We're going to hammer [C] on an A minor 7th position [G] right here.
_ Over the G. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ That's [D] first position.
Then we're going to go up to a C on the [C] 5th fret. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Up to [D] a D.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
You may recognize those chords.
Keith Richard made it famous and he learned it from another guy.
I think it was [G] Ry Cooder or something like this.
Really taught him how to do it back in the early days too.
But a lot of guys do open G.
_ Anyways, let's look at the song.
We've got an E minor we're going to need.
[A] Which is a 1, [E] 2, 3 bar.
Kind of bend your [Em] finger up.
And then put that _ 4th finger, the pinky on the 4th fret if you want.
Or you can play it up [Eb] here.
_ [Em] _ _ And it's [D] kind of like an E minor position [C] with a B.
That little finger.
Almost like an A minor but switch it up to an E minor.
And hold that finger down.
So it's first finger, first fret, second string.
And [F] then the 3rd _ finger [A] on the 2nd and your 2nd finger on the [Am] 2nd.
That's your [G] A minor.
The chords go like this.
G, [Am] A [G] minor, B [C] minor, C [F] which you can hammer on.
[D] A D which you can [G] hammer on.
And you can just hammer on 1 here too [C] if you want. _
_ [F] Or [C] you can hammer on both.
So [D]
that's _ that classic kind of Keith [G] Richards thing there.
Back to the open.
_ _ _ I kind of like the full one there.
It sounds a little better.
Alright let's try this.
I'm going to sing it low.
You can sing it high if you're a high tenor.
You can go up high but it starts off like this. _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [G] _ _
We're caught in a trap.
_ _ [D] _ I can't walk [C] out.
_ [F] _ [D] _ _
Because I [C] love you too [G] much baby.
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
[C] Why can't you [G] see _ _ _ [C] what [F] you're doing to [C] me?
_ [F] _ _ [D] When you don't [C] believe a word I'm [D] saying. _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ [G] _ _ [C] _
We can't [G] go on together. _
This is suspicious.
[C] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ We [G] cannot build our _ [C] dreams.
This is suspicious.
I'm not going to let you go [D] tonight. _ _ _
[G] _ Alright C, C, G, C.
That's a little low for me.
I'm going to go up high on the second verse.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _
[G] _ If an old friend you know. _ _
[C] That's right I said hello.
_ _ [D] _
_ Would you still [C] see suspicion _
[G] in your eyes? _ _ _ _ _
Here we go again. _ _ _
[C] _ Asking where I've been.
_ _ [G] _
[D] When you don't see the tears or real I'm crying.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ We [G] can't go on together.
This is suspicious.
[C] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ We [G] cannot build our dreams.
[C] _ This is [B] suspicious. _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Bm] Oh let our love [G] survive.
_ [C] _ _ I'll dry [D] the tears from _ [G] you. _
[B] _ Let's [G] don't let a good thing happen.
[C] _ _ _ [D] You know _ _ I've never _ [G] lied to you.
Alright you can mess around with it there.
That coda part just goes a little slow.
You play your E [Em] minor down here.
Or you can do it way up here on the [G] eighth.
_ It gives it kind of a dissonant.
It's a little [Em] different you know. _
_ [G] Oh let our love survive.
[C] _
_ _ [D] I'll dry the tears from your eyes.
You can do the same thing.
You kind of play around with it.
But the main thing is you get the power.
I think a lot of guys played it in [G] A.
So this is in G.
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ We're going to send that one out to the king.
Mr.
Elvis Presley.
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