Chords for Baby Blue Guitar Lesson Preview - Badfinger
Tempo:
110.3 bpm
Chords used:
Ab
B
Eb
Gb
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Gb] [Ab]
Badfinger has some [Eb] great tunes.
album Straight Up, written
anyway, have some great tunes.
Guitars, and it has all kinds of neat little nuances in it that are, some of
capo to the fourth fret using chords from the [B] key of G.
That's how they get this
A little bit of [Eb] distortion and stuff, of course, because it's done on electric guitars,
Badfinger has some [Eb] great tunes.
album Straight Up, written
anyway, have some great tunes.
Guitars, and it has all kinds of neat little nuances in it that are, some of
capo to the fourth fret using chords from the [B] key of G.
That's how they get this
A little bit of [Eb] distortion and stuff, of course, because it's done on electric guitars,
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Ab
B
Eb
Gb
E
Ab
B
Eb
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
Badfinger has some [Eb] great tunes.
This is Baby Blue from their 1971 album Straight Up, written
by Pete Ham.
And _ they, anyway, have some great tunes.
I have a lesson put together for this
at Totally Guitars, and it has all kinds of neat little nuances in it that are, some of
which are really challenging, and some are really straightforward.
Now, they did the
song capo to the fourth fret using chords from the [B] key of G.
That's how they get this
sound. _ _ _ _ _
A little bit of [Eb] distortion and stuff, of course, because it's done on electric guitars,
but as you [Ab] may know, most of my lessons are done, all of [G] my lessons are done on acoustic
guitar, more [Ab] geared towards solo stuff.
But that opening run is really neat, because it's
a [B] G chord, _ played standard.
The way I like to have people play [Ebm] G is with their second,
third, and fourth fingers, and this [Ab] little lick is a perfect example as to why, and more
of a riff, more of a [F] vamp than anything else.
But, by [B] having your first finger _ available,
not playing one of the [Abm] notes of the G chord, [N] you now can add on your first finger to the
second string of the first fret for the C, and move your second finger to [Ab] the fourth
string of the second fret [E] for an E, essentially giving you a C chord, but with G in the bass
and G on the top.
_ _ [B] _ _
_ And that's the little vamp they came up with. _
_ _ Put those two notes on,
and take them off.
Down, up, down, up.
On each of the [Ab] downs, you've got the two fingers
down, and on each of the ups, they come [B] back off. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] And then we have a little eight-note _ _ _
_ _ [B] run, G on the third fret of [Bm] the sixth string, [Db] A, open fifth string, [Eb] _ B, third fret, second
fret of the fifth string, [Gb] to the open D, and then straight down our G scale.
[Bm] C on the third
fret of [E] the A string, B on the [Eb] second fret, _ [Db] A, [B] and ending on a G.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _
And it's [E] really important
that you keep the alternating down, up, down, up _ pattern going while you do that.
[Db] And, another
important [B] thing, is you've just been doing some strumming here, and your hand _ has to
be free, and now you have to play a little run.
_ _ [Ab] _ So, [F] what I recommend is you have to get
an anchor down to do that.
Don't let your arm keep flailing away [Abm] and try to play that
run.
_ _ [B] It's [Eb] going to get really sloppy.
So, lightly rest your little finger, or your fingertips
on the first string, maybe your third and fourth fingers, or put the knuckle down on
your _ little finger on the [Abm] face of the guitar, so [Gb] that as you play that run, only really
your finger, your thumb and index finger are moving.
[Db] _ _ _ [Gb] [Eb] And then you have to land on the D
chord very quickly.
Anyway, I have a whole lesson on this that goes into the [Ab] whole, everything
in the song.
All the little [E] arpeggios, _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [B] the intro run, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Db] _ _ [Gb] _ [Ab] we have the same run happens on
a D chord, _ _ _ [Dbm] before we have some other chords, and some more little cool [E] arpeggios on _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] a [Ab] C
chord.
So, a lot of great things in this song.
But, if you'd like to check it out, it's at
Totally Guitars.
It's part of the Target program there.
We have a lot of other free lessons
that are available at TG and also here at our TG Free Lessons channel.
But, Baby Blue
is a very detailed lesson with a lot of, [Bb] _
again, nuances.
We even talk about the chord [D] progression
of the solo.
_ [A] _
_ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Dbm] So, a lot of great [Ab] sounds in Baby Blue, as is typical [F] of some of Badfinger's
best tunes.
So, if you'd like to check it out, it's up now at Totally Guitars.
Lots
of other songs as well, and other lessons on [Gb] general techniques and just becoming a
better guitar player by learning a lot of really cool songs.
So, please come visit us
when you can at Totally Guitars. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
Badfinger has some [Eb] great tunes.
This is Baby Blue from their 1971 album Straight Up, written
by Pete Ham.
And _ they, anyway, have some great tunes.
I have a lesson put together for this
at Totally Guitars, and it has all kinds of neat little nuances in it that are, some of
which are really challenging, and some are really straightforward.
Now, they did the
song capo to the fourth fret using chords from the [B] key of G.
That's how they get this
sound. _ _ _ _ _
A little bit of [Eb] distortion and stuff, of course, because it's done on electric guitars,
but as you [Ab] may know, most of my lessons are done, all of [G] my lessons are done on acoustic
guitar, more [Ab] geared towards solo stuff.
But that opening run is really neat, because it's
a [B] G chord, _ played standard.
The way I like to have people play [Ebm] G is with their second,
third, and fourth fingers, and this [Ab] little lick is a perfect example as to why, and more
of a riff, more of a [F] vamp than anything else.
But, by [B] having your first finger _ available,
not playing one of the [Abm] notes of the G chord, [N] you now can add on your first finger to the
second string of the first fret for the C, and move your second finger to [Ab] the fourth
string of the second fret [E] for an E, essentially giving you a C chord, but with G in the bass
and G on the top.
_ _ [B] _ _
_ And that's the little vamp they came up with. _
_ _ Put those two notes on,
and take them off.
Down, up, down, up.
On each of the [Ab] downs, you've got the two fingers
down, and on each of the ups, they come [B] back off. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] And then we have a little eight-note _ _ _
_ _ [B] run, G on the third fret of [Bm] the sixth string, [Db] A, open fifth string, [Eb] _ B, third fret, second
fret of the fifth string, [Gb] to the open D, and then straight down our G scale.
[Bm] C on the third
fret of [E] the A string, B on the [Eb] second fret, _ [Db] A, [B] and ending on a G.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _
And it's [E] really important
that you keep the alternating down, up, down, up _ pattern going while you do that.
[Db] And, another
important [B] thing, is you've just been doing some strumming here, and your hand _ has to
be free, and now you have to play a little run.
_ _ [Ab] _ So, [F] what I recommend is you have to get
an anchor down to do that.
Don't let your arm keep flailing away [Abm] and try to play that
run.
_ _ [B] It's [Eb] going to get really sloppy.
So, lightly rest your little finger, or your fingertips
on the first string, maybe your third and fourth fingers, or put the knuckle down on
your _ little finger on the [Abm] face of the guitar, so [Gb] that as you play that run, only really
your finger, your thumb and index finger are moving.
[Db] _ _ _ [Gb] [Eb] And then you have to land on the D
chord very quickly.
Anyway, I have a whole lesson on this that goes into the [Ab] whole, everything
in the song.
All the little [E] arpeggios, _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [B] the intro run, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Db] _ _ [Gb] _ [Ab] we have the same run happens on
a D chord, _ _ _ [Dbm] before we have some other chords, and some more little cool [E] arpeggios on _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] a [Ab] C
chord.
So, a lot of great things in this song.
But, if you'd like to check it out, it's at
Totally Guitars.
It's part of the Target program there.
We have a lot of other free lessons
that are available at TG and also here at our TG Free Lessons channel.
But, Baby Blue
is a very detailed lesson with a lot of, [Bb] _
again, nuances.
We even talk about the chord [D] progression
of the solo.
_ [A] _
_ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Dbm] So, a lot of great [Ab] sounds in Baby Blue, as is typical [F] of some of Badfinger's
best tunes.
So, if you'd like to check it out, it's up now at Totally Guitars.
Lots
of other songs as well, and other lessons on [Gb] general techniques and just becoming a
better guitar player by learning a lot of really cool songs.
So, please come visit us
when you can at Totally Guitars. _
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