Chords for "Little Red Rooster" taught by Fred Sokolow

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_ _ I _ [G] _ _ _
had a little red rooster, _ _ [C] _
too lazy [G] to crow for day. _ _
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_ _ [C] _ had a little red rooster, _ _ _ too lazy [G] to crow for day. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] Keep everyone in the barnyard [Bb] _ _ upset in [G] every way. _ _ _
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[C] And the dogs begin to bark and _ the _ hounds [G] begin to _ _ howl. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] The dogs begin to bark [G] and _ _ the [C] hounds [G] begin to _ howl. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] Look out, strange kin people, [G] _ little red roosters _ on the prowl.
If _
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[C] you see my little red rooster, _ _ please _ won't [G] you send him home.
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_ _ _ If you see my little red rooster, _ _ _ [C] please _ [G] send him on home. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ Ain't had no peace in the barnyard [G] _ since [C] my little red rooster [G] been gone. _ _ _
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We're going to do a solo for Little Red Rooster _ that's not exactly the melody,
but sort of a stylized melody to it.
And before you start playing melody, even down here on the lower registers,
let's look at some of the melody notes that we want to hit. _ _ _
This is a high G note up here, the first _ string on the fifth fret.
And frequently I want to hit that high G note, since we're in the key of G,
and not with the rest of the string.
So I bend my slide back to get just that note, _ _ slightly bending it this way. _ _
There's a note here.
Well, let's take a scale, going down the scale we got.
_ _ So I've got these notes, _ _ [D] _ _ [E] and sometimes I'll hit these.
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [E] _
_ Everything is almost on the, most of the notes you want are on the fifth and third fret.
[G] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ Sometimes a slide player will slide up to a note,
even though they've got an open string that has the same note.
Like I've got this G note on the open third string,
_ I might still want to slide up to it on the fourth string, fifth fret,
[Ab] because that way I can sustain the note and get [G] that vibrato. _ _ _ _ _
Likewise, [D] instead of hitting this _ open first string,
sometimes [G] I'll slide up there or even on the third string, way up to the seventh fret.
_ _ _ [C] You can also find melody notes right on those barred chords.
So if I go to a C chord, _ [E] I might get one of my melody notes [D] here,
or here on the D chord, [G] right on the chord itself.
_ _ So let's do a _ solo here that simulates the [Gb] melody a little, right where [G] I could go. _ _ _
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_ [A] I'm [G] using, you notice I'm doing a slide [Gm] here in between the,
just for little fills in between the [G] melodic phrases.
And I'm also coming up here to this high [Gb] G note at the end of those fills.
Now let's split the screen, and I'll do a similar solo, but slow it down for you,
so you can really get a close look at what both my hands are doing on the solo of the Little Red [F] Rooster. _ _ _ _ _
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