Chords for "Michelle" by The Beatles : 365 Riffs For Beginning Guitar !!

_ _ _ Let's check out two beautiful riffs from Michelle.
First the intro.
[C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Gb] _
[Cm] _ _ [Bb] And there we have that great
[G] guitar solo. _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ Now for [N] the intro to Michelle, your fretting hand gets a nice little workout.
We're going to start off with your index, middle, and ring each carrying their own string.
First string, second string, third string.
It makes a nice diagonal line.
See that nice
diagonal line?
[Fm] _ _ [E] Now your first finger is going to stay right where it is.
Your other two
fingers are going to make a little switch.
_ Now that grip right there might remind you
a little bit of an A minor chord.
[Fm] It's not an A minor chord, but you want to use something
as a reference point.
So I use an A minor grip as my reference point right there because
it reminds me of A minor.
So far, _ index finger stays.
[E] _ _
Now my third finger, my ring finger,
is going to stay second string, ninth fret.
[Ebm] And guess what this reminds me of?
A D chord.
[Ab] _
Again it's not a D chord, but that's my reference point. _ _
My first finger is going to slide back
just a tiny bit.
Now it's on the third string, seventh fret.
[D] _
_ [Ab] The whole thing is about to
change now.
My index is going to do a little bar at six. _
[Gb] And with either your fourth finger
pinky or your third finger ring finger, [F] _
either way, you're going to get that first string
eighth fret.
I'm going to use [Gb] my fourth finger fret now.
_ [C] _ [Bbm] _ That's why you need that bar in
place.
[Ab] Definitely fourth finger for nine on the second string.
And now a quick little
slide.
An index finger bar, a little partial bar from [C] seven sliding up to eight.
See that?
[Gb] Index finger, the two skinny strings, [G] seven to eight.
And I'm using the pad of my index
finger.
I'm not using the [E] tip.
I'm using the pad.
_ [Ab] Now I'm going to hold down what feels
like an F bar chord.
You do not [Gb] have to do this.
_ [C] _ _ I [Am] do need my third finger on ten on
the D string, on the fourth string.
So for me [Gb] it's easy to just think of this as a complete
chord grip.
So I'm thinking of an F chord formation here.
Again I'll say the second
finger here is extraneous.
You do not need to have that finger down.
So if you're not
comfortable doing this grip, that's okay.
You can go like this.
Here's my [G] slide.
[Gm] Just
reach over with your ring [C] finger.
_ Nothing _ wrong with that. _
And [Gb] I guess you could use
your fourth finger if you like that [G] better.
[C] _ _ [G] F formation is so important to so much guitar
playing.
To me [C] it _ [Ab] just makes sense to grab that chord even though I admit the second
finger doesn't have to be down.
Okay so let's walk our way through the whole introduction
here nice and slowly.
[Fm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ There we go.
Beautiful.
_ Now as we tackle the solo from Michelle, it's
important to understand what's meant by playing in a certain position.
The solo starts off
with your fretting hand in seventh position.
That means your index finger is hovering over
the seventh fret.
Middle finger is ready for the eighth fret.
Ring for nine.
And your fourth
finger, your pinky, is hovering right around the tenth fret.
Seven, eight, nine, ten.
Every
fret has a finger dedicated to it.
Later in the solo we'll move down to fifth position.
Index at five.
Middle at six.
Ring at seven.
Pinky at eight.
Okay?
So all those numbers,
all those frets will have a finger ready to go.
Very important, okay?
You don't want to
let your fingers get tangled up on this solo.
If you stay in a position for as long as you
can and then move to the next position and then finally move back again just the way
I'm going to teach you, you won't get that feeling of rushing around with your hand and
your arm and your elbow and your wrist rushing around so much.
Okay here we go.
First phrase,
we're in seventh position.
[F] The first note is on the eighth fret.
[Gb] So of course I'm going
to use my second finger for that note.
Here it [F] comes.
_ [A] _ _
_ _ Easy, right?
Next phrase, eight,
[Db] ten, six.
Now you might say, wait a minute, six, [D] where did that come from?
Well sometimes
you have to move out of position just for a second.
So I'm in seventh position, my index
finger has to shift over to the [Dbm] other _ [Ab] _ number six there on the fourth [N] string.
Sometimes
you just have to shift a little bit.
Is that officially going to sixth position?
I guess
you could say that.
We're about to go to fifth position [F] in a second, but temporarily you
could argue that we're in sixth position.
Okay here's the solo from the beginning so
far. _
_ [A] _ _ [Dbm] _ [G] _ _ Okay ready to go on?
Here we are in fifth [N] position now for the next phrase.
Get your
index finger hovering over the fifth fret there.
Here it comes.
_ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] [F] See how every fret has
[Eb] a finger dedicated to it?
Again from the beginning of the second phrase.
Five, five six, eight,
[F] _
_ [Ab] five six.
[D] Finally here [E] comes a seven.
We're still in fifth position now, right?
There
should be no doubt in your mind which finger should play that seven.
It takes a little
bit of discipline but it's worth it.
Okay moving on with the next phrase.
[Ab] Five, six,
[F] [E] eight, seven.
We're still in fifth position here.
[Gb] And now is the time for the final [Ab] phrase
to shift back to seventh position.
[Eb] Okay for this final closing phrase.
_ [E] _ _ [Ab] And there's that
beautiful melodic number [D] six at the very end there.
Here comes again that last phrase.
[F] _ _ _ _ Okay [Ab] so let's take it from the beginning nice and slow.
The whole solo all the way through
nice and slowly.
Two, three, [F] four.
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [G] _
_ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [Fm] _ _ [E] And the [D] final phrase.
_ [Ab] _
Now you can do this [Gb] solo.
It's
a beautiful solo so there's your inspiration right there.
Remember about shifting from
seventh position [Bb] to fifth position.
Keep the fingering exactly the way I did it.
It's the
most [Gb] efficient way to do it.
And especially if you're ringing pinky and don't feel very
confident this is exactly how they're going to get confident by using them under pressure
like this in the solo.
Alright stick with it.
Take it slowly and you're going to sound great. _ _ _