Chords for Amos Garrett teaches Bo Diddley

Okay, here's a real classic Bo Diddley shave and a haircut look for you.
I'm going to show you a variation of it.
And uh, _ right here it goes like this a one two three four _ _ _
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ Shave and a haircut two bits.
That's what the old phrase is
Now i'm going to show you another slight variation on this a little tonal change on my instrument
Uh, I'd like to mention at this point
If you notice that uh, the bass and drum figure were completely
different figures than
From the from the guitar pattern the most important thing about Bo Diddley grooves for an entire rhythm section is that only one instrument?
play
The the classic Bo Diddley shave and a haircut strum or any of those variations
And we have a basically a walking bass pattern and uh, what they call a double shuffle down in new orleans or a hummelaka
Down in abbeyville, louisiana
On the drums now, we'll play this [E] again i'm going to add one beat to the shave and a haircut [G] so we'll go shave haircut
two bits and
Okay, this one of those faves goes like this one two three four _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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shave and a haircut two bits and now _ _ _ _ because that
shave and a haircut Bo Diddley lick and it's uh,
Several variations are the most obvious and predominant rhythmic accent in his music
Uh [E]
a lot of young bands when they start playing it
Uh, every every member of the rhythm section is tempted to play
That accent and very often you'll hear entire bands
That where every instrument is playing that [Ab] and when they play it uh _
Play that figure like that.
I I call it the garage band lurch
[Abm] And there's no there's really [A] no syncopation to it.
You have to [Fm] understand that syncopation
takes place when there are
Two or more rhythmic patterns being played against each other when you only have one
Uh, you do not have [G] syncopation.
You don't have that wonderful
_ rolling lilt and you know and continuity that that uh, Bo Diddley's original feel hadn't
as much as it's against my
_ Better instincts.
We will perform the garage band lurch for you right now and then show you
How it ought to be played a couple of different ways.
All right guys _ _
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_ _ _ _ Let's play it the right way.
Well, let's do that.
Yeah that funky stuff one two, three four _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [N] That's a little better _