Chords for Bill Withers - Just the Two of Us - Guitar Lesson (Part I)

_ _ _ I'm gonna break down the song
Just the two of us by Bill Withers into the chords that I use on my version
_ For those who know their chord shapes already
_ I'll run through the sequence first
_ It's a C major [C] 7
_ _ _ Which is a bar chord [G] inversion _ and [B] then to a B7 sus4
Which _ is a bar inversion.
For those of you who don't know the sus4
You're just raising your little finger by one fret which raises it to the fourth and then resolve it
_ _ _ _ _ So we've [C] got C major 7
_ _ [B] B7 sus4 resolving to the B7
_ _ Then an E minor 7
[Em] Which is a straight E minor.
You just take the third finger off _ _ and then it goes to a D minor 7
Which is a bar inversion which again is just an
_ [G] _ An A minor shape [Dm] you just take off the little finger
_ _ and then a G7
[G] _ _ bar inversion
_ [Ab] And then it repeats that sequence again
C major 7
[C] _
_ _ _ _ to B7 [B] sus4
_ _ Resolved to the 7
[F] [E] And a straight E minor
_ _ Then the verse just [C] repeats that whole sequence again
[E] C major 7 _ _
_ [B] B7 sus4 resolve
_ [Em]
E minor 7
_ To a D [Dm] minor 7
[G] to a G7
_ _ C major [C] 7
_ _ [B] B7 sus4 resolved to the 7 and a straight [E] E minor
_ [Em] _ _ _
And the chorus is just the same except you drop the 7 sus4s.
So it's
C major 7
[B] _ B7
[Em] to E minor 7
[Ab] To D minor [G] 7 G7 C [Em] major 7 [B] to B7
[Em] straight E minor and repeats that sequence again
[C] And then the only other thing is the bridge the instrumental
_ Which is a C major 7
_ _ [B] Does the B7 sus4
_ _ _ to the B7
And it [F] drops down
A fret and does the same sequence again.
So [Bb] it's a B flat major 7
_ [A] to an A7
_ sus4 resolving to the 7 A7
_ [Ab] and then a G sharp major 7 which
_ Is that for those who don't know the shape?
It's essentially a
C minor 7 and then just raise the top
bass string
The E string up to the fourth fret
_ _ _ And then you've [Gb] got a G7 sus4
_ [D] _
Again, you're just raising
_ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] And then this sequence is a C major 7 but you're leaving the high E open _ _ _
Bottom here _ and _ _ then closing it using a full bar chord so you're going
_ _ _ [Gb] And [C] then the last chord of the sequence is an F13 _
_ [Eb] which if you do
a B7 shape on the
Seventh fret
So you're starting with your first finger of the B7 shape on the seventh fret
if you like play a B7, but then raise the little finger to the 10th fret and _
bar across [D] the high E
[Dm] _ _
_ _ [Eb] That's an F13
[G] So the sequence [Gb] again going through for the instrumental is
[C] _
C major 7
[B] _ _ _ _
B7 sus4 resolving to the 7
[Bb] _ Bb [Gb] major [A] 7 to A7 sus4 to A7
_ [Ab] G sharp
major 7
[D] to [G] a G7 [F] sus4 [G] to a G7
[F] And then C [C] major 7 with an open top E
_ closing it
[F] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
That's all the chords [Dm] _ [E] sorry about that _