Chords for ♪♫ The Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang (Tutorial)

_ _ _ _ Hello, here's a tutorial for the pretenders back on the chain gang _ got an email asking for a tutorial for this one
To be honest, I actually forgot not even covered it _ _
But anyway, it is a nice one to play.
So I thought I'll show you how to play this one
I might have to go through it fairly quickly because there's a fair few parts that we need to know _
_ Now Chrissy Hyne, I've seen her playing this _ acoustically
_ _ Live on the YouTube clips or a thing and she uses a lot of open chords
_ Which probably sound which do sound really nice when you're playing it with a band
_ When you're playing it solo, _ maybe not so much.
I don't know.
This is the way I play it
So let me just show you that _ _ now the intro does use these nice open chords
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ so [D] this
_ Here, it's basically basically a D [C] chord, but up here on the _ 10th and 11th fret on the 10th [Am] fret on the second string
and the 11th fret on [D] the third string
_ _ _ _ You're gonna strum _ from the fourth or the fifth string down
_ _ _ And that formations gonna slide now down to the fifth and sixth [A] frets _
_ _ _ And _ then a minor [Bm] seven _ _ _ _ _
Do that twice?
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Haven't got time to tell you strumming patterns and so forth.
You just have to listen.
[D] Okay, so _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ Now you do that twice
_ Now we come into [G] the main sort of chords for the [D] verse just D _
_ [A] _ Asus for _ [Em] a
minor seven [G] _ and
G.
[D] All right.
So for all of those chords your ring finger [G] can stay stuck on the second string there on the third fret.
[D] So _
_ That's the part _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ D
[Em] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ Asus for [Em] _ a minor [G] seven _ G
[D] _ Keep it up now [A] the picture of you
[Em] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ What hijack my world [Bm] that night _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [A] Come back for a I [D] there before D
If you're lazy, you [A] can just do the Asus for [D] and come back for the D
So that's the [E] only little variation and just at the end of each [D] line
_ after the [A] G
_ [D] Quick a for the D again
_ To a place in the past we've been cast out of whoops.
Sorry to a place in the [A] past
We've [Bm] been cast out of
[G] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ Now _ _ we're back [Bm] in the _ fight
[D] _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ Excuse my voice _ sounds absolutely nothing like Chrissy hind I know
_ So a minor [A] I Yeah
[Em] _ _ Back [A] on the train.
_ [Em] Yeah
a minor _ [A] _
a
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [A]
Minor a back [D] on the chain
to D
_ _ Now what I like to do at that part though is [Em] rather than go to a [A] minor to a which is the easy way
You [Em] get a minor to a [A] seven _ and you can get this little run [Em] happening in there.
You can get this bit
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ It's nice if you can throw that part in there.
So [Em] on the a minor if you want to do that
_ Use your pinky on the third fret of the first string.
You're basically gonna run from the third
_ _ _ _ [F#] Three three [Em] two open or you're on your a minor _
_ _ _ _ Then [Am] I said a seven sus
[Em] _ _ _ _
So you're gonna [A] be coming down the second string now from the [Em] third second open second, _ so _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So hey, so it's us a seven
_ Open second [A] string _ back to the a [Em] seven. _
So
_ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ Up stroking on those
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [Em] _ Oh _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [G] Back on the [D] chain gang D _ a sus _ _ _ 4d
_ _ a sus 4
_ _ _ In verse 2 which is the same as verse 1
[A] _ _ Okay, [F#] so we won't go through verse 2 when you come out of verse 2 though. _
You come [C] back to the same as [D] yet _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ You
Gonna be coming close now into that little minor
_ _ _ Part third verse where you got minor chords _ to come into that though.
You can do that little D _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ Down strokes on the various D chord see [F#m] come back up now to the you don't have [E] to do this because these are pretty quick
Transitions but up on the 10th fret bar across the top two strings on the 11th fret on the third [D] string _ _
that D
_ _ _ For this D [A] which is first finger on the third on the fifth string the first [F#] finger on the fifth fret first string
_ And then the second and third strings on the [D] seventh fret
_ _ _ in your ordinary D _
_ [Dm] into a D minor _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ One down stroke one down stroke one down stroke _ _ _
_ [A] How is it be?
[Dm] _ Yeah for this verse you're going from D minor [A] _ to a sevens pretty much the whole [G] way through the verse
[D] _
_ _ _ [A] How does it [Dm] be
_ _ _ [A] Forces to live like [Dm] we do
_ _ [A] _ Bring me to [D] my knees
_ [A] See what they've done to [Dm] you
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
Now what you can do there is that little [E] bit when [D] you're in your D minor
[Dm] _ _ _ Just release the first string of the D minor and put and come back on again _ _
_ _ _ _ Come back to a seven now, but keep your first finger on the first string _
[A] and _ _ _ then release it
[D] Yet _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ another optional
A _ _ little thing you can do but it does sound nice _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [A] But I'll die as I [Dm] stand here today.
You just keep going [F#m] from D minor [Am] to a seven till the end of the verse
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
Now we have a key change _ [Em] unfortunately, it's up [E] to E which means we then have [B] a B _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] _
Back to E so verse 3 [E] you basically just came from [B] B to [A] B to [B] A back to B
[D] _
_ [E] _ _ [B] Down the picture of [A] you
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ This is where the
_ Open chord _ [Am] perhaps might be easier [B] instead of playing the B if you hate playing back or B's you could play that
open [E] B so
_ _ [B] Now the picture of [F#] you
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ That's keeping your a shape _ sliding it up to the eighth [B] fret
_ _ [E] And down to the [A] sixth fret for the A [B] _ back up to the eighth fret for the B
[E] _ _ _ _
Again that's just an option you could just [B] play your
_ Open B power chord as well
_ _ _ _ _ on the fifth string second fret and on the
third and fourth strings fourth fret
_ Which just leaves those top two strings open
_ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [B] down the picture of [F#] you _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _ _
So there you go three or four different options on how you can play this verse
_ [F#] So I suggest play it the way you like it the way it's easiest for you
_ [Am]
But basically it's just [E] going between A to [A] B _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ Open chords definitely sound better at the outro there
[E] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I
Raced through the end of that.
I'm just conscious that this video is going on for a long time, so
_ _ _ There you go.
I gave you a thousand and one different [F#] ways of playing that song
_ _ So play the play the way you like it alright, _ so anyway as usual.
That's enough to put together the song _