Chords for Sweet Emotion/Aerosmith (guitar tutorial) - by Tonedr

This video I'm going to show you how I play Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith.
_ _ I'm going to show you the bass line or something very close to the bass line at the front of the song,
how you can double it on the guitar, just maybe for your own enjoyment if you're playing the song by yourself,
or in the case of the Tone Doctors, without a bass player,
_ or just to know what the bass player is doing.
And I do hear on the studio recording maybe a doubling _ on the recorded track of a guitar maybe as well.
So the bass line as I hear it is [A] sort of like this. _ _ _ _
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_ So the song's in A, _ so we're using an open _ A, _ _ _ _ _ 5th and 7th fret of the D string, which is a G and A note. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] Then we're going to jump down [A] to all the A string.
_ _ We're going to go to the 5th fret, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
hit the open string, [D] pull off from there,
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_ and then another pull off from the 4th fret. _
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_ _ _ _ [B] Another option to be [A] would _ be _ _
_ _ [C#] just using the open two strings, G and _ [G] _ _ _ A, [A] _
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instead [A] _ _ of_
I'm getting more of a chord fragment.
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_ _ _ _ I'm using my pinky and my 3rd finger to do _ what I was doing before.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ There's a couple of ways you can think about maybe playing the intro.
Now for the sort of signature lick. _ _ _ _ _
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It's just a regular D chord to an A chord that I'm using kind of for the intro.
I have a bar version [A] of. _ _ _
And on the A chord I'm really just trying to get the A, the D, and maybe the G string.
_ _ Certainly not the [C#m] B string.
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_ _ _ _ _ I can use kind of an upstroke. _ _ _ _ _
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I just kind of like the way that sounds, so I'm using _ [D] _
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up, just [Em] the way I do it.
_ _ The next phrase, 3rd fret A string, pull off, [A] _ _
_ down to [G] the 3rd fret of the E string. _
_ _ _ [A] Open, add, _ back to the 3rd [G] fret of the E string.
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You notice my 1st finger just kind of stays in place. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ That's just the way it feels [E] comfortable to me.
It kind of lets the guitar have that big fat sound if you can get in the habit of just locking that finger down.
The next phrase _
[F#] _ _ [G] _ [E] is _ _ _ _ _ 5th fret, 3rd fret, and open [E] on the A string.
_ [A] _ _ And I think it's important that [B] you use alternating strokes with your right hand. _ _ _
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[F#] And then it's just a chromatic walk from the 2nd fret of the low E string up to the 5th fret.
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_ _ _ Of course the 5th [B] fret of the E string is equal to the open A string, so you've got [F#] that choice.
[G] _ _ _ _ [A#] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [F#] _
_ [G] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ [G#] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ [G#] _ _ [Am] _
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[F#] _ _ [G#] _ _ _ You could certainly use power chords, [F#] just adding the 5th up two frets.
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[D#] If you wanted to.
[B] So let's put all that [A] together. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Am] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [A] _
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[G] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [F#] _ _ _
[G#] _ _ [Am] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [G#m] _
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Then the last part of the song just switches into the key of E, and it does so by _ just a big _ bend on the 2nd fret [F#] of the low E string.
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_ _ _ _ [C#] And you can play that any number of ways, but it's essentially a D to an [D] E.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ There I was just playing with the single notes. _ _ _ _
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_ _ Here with more power [E] chords. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ And here with a combination maybe of both. _ _ _ _ _
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That's how I play the rhythm guitar part to Sweet Emotion, and I hope the video might help you to get on your journey to playing it the way you want to play it.
Thanks for [N] watching.