Chords for "I Am, I Said" Neil Diamond tips on technique for TDPRI

Well, I offered to do a video to show you how I would play this song
_ _ _ _ _ I
noticed that when Neil Diamond
Has performed this live.
He doesn't start with the same little
_ higher _ _
_ Little lick there, but
_ He might have been the one playing it on the record, but could have been a studio guy too.
It doesn't really matter
When I I normally play my
Open a the cowboy a like this with three fingers put my middle finger on the D string
Ring finger on the G string and my little finger on the B string but _ _ _ _ _
_ _ when I'm doing a song that's going to require the I
_ _ switch my middle and and
Index fingers and I [Bb] put the index on the G
middle on the D
_ And
Ring finger on the B [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ and play it _ like this _ _ _
Something [F] it's sort of like James Taylor plays his except [Bb] he kind of does his almost [F] totally backwards like this
He puts his ring finger on the D string.
I can't play that [Bb] way
_ So I do this so that you can get them _ _ _ _ _ _ see the the a the a sus
_ [F] _
the a
Adnan or a to _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Here's what I would do for that song.
I'd go something like this
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] and then for [Eb] like the D and _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ You know, I would just basically do that.
It's kind of like my own take on how to play finger [Bb] style acoustic
_ Sometimes you can [Gb] do this to get that high a in there put your bar [Bb] the first four strings
with your index finger and then put your pinky up on the
sixth fret _ _ _ of the E string
_ _ _ [Fm] Be the fifth fret if you did it with that without the capo on I have the capo on here
So I'll be in the same key as [Bb] as the record. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ All right now in the in [Eb] the course I am I said
instead of playing
[Ab]
The D sus there [D] what is happening there is the guy is playing a D
_ [Eb] sharp 11 _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ At least the vocals are doing I mean the strings are doing that in the background and if you want to
Kind of be authentic to the record
_ You can you can play that _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ Basically, it's just a matter of getting you know, the technique of the finger picking down under under your [Eb] fingers
_ _ [C] It this would be a [Eb] true arpeggio
_ _ _ _ something like that when you if you go
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _
You know, it has
Elements of arpeggio in it, but it's really more or less just a riff or [Eb] a lick _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gb] And so, you know, that's why I did this video to kind of give you an idea of what you can do to
_ to
You know play [G] in the style
of that particular
Recording.
I hope