‪Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Acoustic guitar Song Tutorial - Easy beginner lesson Shinedown Chords‬ by Andrew Collins

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How you doing guys?
[B] Andy with you for another nail guitar song lesson.
Today we're taking
a look at the [Ab] classic, Leonard Skinner's Simple Man.
Got a chart for you, click the link down
below and you can get it there.
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Not a
super super tricky song, I'm going to give it to you in levels, give you a bit of beginner
action and then see how you can speccy it up a little bit.
But definitely approachable
as a beginner.
It's essentially three chords.
So, what are those magical three chords [B] that
make up the legendary Simple Man by Leonard Skinner?
They are [C] C, G, [G] _ _
[B] A minor.
So, [C] in its
simplest form, _ [G] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
[A] two [C] strums on C, [G] two strums on G, four [Am] strums on A minor.
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_ _ [Ab] That's the heart
of what's going on in there.
[Bb] You can get a little busy with the rhythm, you can get some
extra [C] anders in there.
One, [G] two, ander. _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] Down, [G] down, down, down.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ Alright, so that's the heart
of it.
And then [G] from there we have these cool little lines that are going on which at the
start when I was demoing that, I was kind of showing you how you can integrate those
with the chords.
So, I'm kind of thinking a lot of people, there's more people who are
going to want to learn to play this for themselves or to play solo or that sort of thing than
in a band format.
So, what I'm going to show you, you can still take it and you can put
it into your band sense, but this kind of covers both bases and it sounds really cool.
It's a great thing for looking really impressive.
By putting the melody [A] as well as the chords
together.
So, if you missed it at the start, it's [C] the_
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_ Isn't that [A] cool?
So, what there
is, is these little leading notes, these melody notes [C] which are going to tie those chords
together of [A] C, G, A minor.
So, we get open A string, [B] second fret, [C] and then third fret
to lead us into our C, _ the strumming chord.
_ From [A] there, we're then going to get where
that second finger is, [E] the E there, [D] open D string, [C] and back to the C where the third
[A] finger is.
So, you're kind of just shadowing the shape that you've already got there. _ _ _ _
G,
[B] that's a little quick change there, [G] _ but all you need is really just [Am] the second finger
[G] and then get your strum after that.
And now we get that same little run [E] down.
E, D, [C] C,
so you could use your, this time, first finger, [C] open, second finger for the C, [Am] A minor this
time.
So, so far we've got [C] _ _ _
E, D, [G] C, G chord, [E] E, D, [Am] C, A minor, and here's [A] the little techie
bit.
[Gb] We're going to get E, [A] G, E, and we're going to reach our fourth finger over to do
[Bb] that.
_ I was going to suggest another way.
Yeah, I'll show you another way.
If you have
trouble with your fourth finger there, but do work on the fourth finger because, [A] you
know, everyone's got an uncovered fourth finger to start with.
So, I'll show you the fourth
finger way.
Indecisive.
Alright, so we've [Am] got A minor for two strums, [C] O, third fret
[E] open on the E string, O, three, O, [Am] A minor.
Now, if you have issues with [A] that with your
fourth finger, you can [Bb] just take off your third finger here and you can reach that over.
So you're now playing what is actually an A minor [Am] seven.
Rather than that, it's very
similar.
[A] _ [Am] _ _ [A] So I suggest you just work on your fourth finger.
So, put that all together.
[B] O, two, [C] three, C, [D] two, O, three, [G] G, [E] two, O, three, [A] A minor, O, three, O, A [Am] minor.
Lead up again.
[C] O, two, three, [D] two, O, three, [G] G, two, O, [A] three, A minor, O, three, O, A.
You can fit in an extra G there, [Am] _
[E] rather than just E, G, E.
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[Am] _ [A] Getting that integrated with
your strums takes a bit, but I tell you what, it's worth the effort because it sounds cool,
doesn't it?
Putting [C] those two things together.
[B] Having a melody and chords at the same time.
Just building up to it.
You might not get it straight away.
You might have to come back
later and it might just click further, but it's well worth [A] working on this whole thing
of joining up melody notes and chords.
[B] So, as far as the intro goes, we're kind of working backwards there. _
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