Chords for Zac Brown Band - Chicken Fried - Easy Beginner Country Guitar Lessons - Easy Songs

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_ _ [Db] Hey, what's up, Marty again?
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_ I'm bringing you another request.
This is Zach [Ab] Brown band [Bb] chicken fried _
_ [Db] I'd actually [A] hadn't heard it yet _
But it seems like it's [Bbm] pretty popular on the radio right now, _ [Db] and yeah, it's a cool song
It's great.
If you're learning [C] your basic open chords because that's all we're going to [B] use
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Also just to preface [C] _ the recording or the way they [F] play it they tune
_ [B] Their guitar every it's tuned [F] totally regular and they play all the regular chords, but they tune it down
One [C] half step so that means if you [Db] were plugging into [Bb] a tuner [F] and you hit the e
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You'd actually want to lower it to where it was an [F] e [C] with that lowercase B looking thing
Which is called e flat [F] all of the all of [Bb] these strings would be [C] flat
So [F] if you the way I'm going to teach it to you
We're going to just stay in standard tuning [Bb] because most people [A] you know are looking on YouTube [Ab] in their standard tuning You _ know
_ _ _ _ [F] So we're going to just play regular tuning
But if you want to match it up to the [Bb] recording then you're going [Ab] to have to tune down a half step
[F] But it doesn't affect anything that we're learning
Except that it just won't [Ab] match up with the original [F] recording alright, so let's take a look at the chords
We need there's only three which [Bb] is great alright, so here.
They are a G major [G] chord _
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_ And I like [Eb] to play it some people play [C] it that way
_ For whenever you have a G followed by a D
It's nice to have that [Bb] ring finger [C] on the third [E] fret of the B string because it's [C] the same note on the D chord you can actually
_ _ _ Pivot [Bb] it use it as a little pivot point and I highly recommend just sitting there and just practicing G and D
You won't [Eb] regret it okay, so the first chord [G] G
_ _ _ _ second chord is [D] D _ _ _ _ _
_ _ third chord _ _
_ _ [C] C _ _ _ _
_ And that's it.
That's all we need
alright
_ _ _ [F] _ Now let's play the tune
_ _ _ _ All right, so here's the rhythm that you know I'm gonna teach teach you
[Bb] It's just a good way to play if you're just playing [B] by yourself
_ _ [E] So we're gonna go [Fm] _ down [B] down _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] Down up
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So that's [B] definitely
[Bb] The the [B] kind of the standard rhythm on [F] that [B] chorus now sometimes on the verse he kind of goes like you know [Db] into like a reggae [G] thing like
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[Fm] And then opens it up again, let's just [D] keep it real simple.
[B] We're gonna.
[C] Just keep the whole thing down [B] down down down [Bb] down _ _ _ _
_ _ _ All [D] right, I think [Ab] that's what most of you will want [Bb] so here's what we're gonna.
[C] Do we're gonna do
_ _ [B] The [C] chorus [Bb] first all [C] right, so it's gonna [G] be G _ _
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So two of those rhythm sequences on G _ _ two of [C] those rhythm sequences on [D] D _
_ Down up down down up down up
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_ _ _ Then one on G [G] one on D
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_ _ _ You see [Ab] that so let's I'm just gonna play that whole thing [C] again for you.
Here's regular [G]
speed
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Now here.
It is a little bit [G] slower _ _ _
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One more time regular speed one [E] two one two here [G] we go _ _ _ _
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_ Cool cool, okay, so now the verse and that's the only other thing _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ So [Db] one of those down down up down up for each chord change [C] and is G
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[Db] and you know sometimes like I
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_ _ watched a little live [G] thing and it was like
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_ _ That kind of thing, but you know let's [Fm] just keep it simple all right, so that's it.
Let's uh let's play through the [Db] whole thing
So [D] let's see we'll go through the [C] chorus twice
And we'll go through the verse and [Ab] then the chorus one more time
_ [Bb] You know you can kind of play along if you if you want to try that [Db] one two one two [G] here we go _ _ _
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Good thing again _ _ _ _
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first _ do _ _ _
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