Chords for Cabin Down Below - Tom Petty - Mike Campbell - Rhythm Guitar Lesson

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_ _ Come on, go with me, baby. _
_ Come [Em] on, go with me, [E] girl. _
Baby, [B] let's go to the cabin down below.
[G] _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ I got a radio, _ _ _ _ [G] a little soft [E] and low. _
Baby, [B] let's go to the cabin down below.
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Baby, [A] I'm having on you. _
You were long, long time. _
_ Yeah, I watched everything you do. _
Baby, [B] you're gonna be mine.
Hi, [N] all.
In this video, we're going to learn the rhythm guitar part for the Tom Petty song,
Cabin Down Below.
You can get the tab over at my website at JonathanTorgerson.com. _
And also, if you're interested, I've been releasing some of my own music,
and you can find the Spotify link to that down below.
Now on to the lesson.
_ _ _ All right, let's get into the lesson here.
_ _ So we'll start from measure one.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ More or less, this song is just three _ _ _ _ _ chords.
_ _ And the main riff on the E chord, _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gb] measure one, _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ is we're just grabbing the sixth string. _ _
[G] _ _ [E] _ And with [G] your pinky, _ _ give that a little bend.
[E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ All right.
_ And then he plays a number of variations _ with the seventh, the seventh of the chord [Bm] up here.
So that's third fret on the second string. _ _
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_ _ _ So you're, [Gb] again, giving that a little bit of a bend on that third fret second [E] string. _ _
_ _ _ And [Gb] that's sort of the second half of [Fm] the riff there.
So [E] again, _ [G] it's_
[E] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And then for the most part, I'm staying [Ab] away from the thirds,
which [C] is making this actually a power [B] chord.
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ So I sort of just mute that with the _ tip of my first finger.
_ And then the next chord in the verse,
_ there's two guitars and they're panned hard right [Eb] and left.
This is kind of the best parts from each.
The one guitar _ [Abm] on this part plays a [B] B power chord,
_ _ while the [B] other guitar is playing a B9, _ which I have written in the music there.
_ _ _ [Ab] And the way that you play that is second fret on the fifth string,
_ [Eb] first fret on the fourth [A] string, _
_ second fret on the third,
[Db] _ second fret on the second.
[B] _ _ [A] _ _ _
And [B] you'll _ [Eb] hear_ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] You're kind of bending that.
_ _ I believe this part, [C] you know, if you're looking at YouTube videos and such,
[A] _ _
that this is the part that Tom Petty plays
[B] while Mike Campbell is playing the power chord.
But _ this part's a little bit [E] more interesting than just the straight power chord.
And again, [B] it's the B9.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
And then we've got to walk down.
_ [G] _ And [B] that's second, _ [Bb] first on the fifth string.
[A] Open.
Back to that third [G] fret _ on the sixth string.
_ [G] And back to the riff.
[E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ So the whole [E] verse part together _ [G] is_
[E] _ _ _
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_ B9.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _
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All right.
And that's the verse part.
_ [Eb] _
And then we get _ into_
It's hard to say what's the verse and what's the chorus here,
but we'll call this _ _ almost a bridge.
They do it twice.
And the harmony [E] that's implied is [A] an A.
_ _ But what _ [Gb] the lead part, what Mike Campbell's doing,
is he's playing [A] these _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ sixths,
and he's got [A] a pedal tone on the fifth string.
So we've got_ _
_ _ _ [B] _ So we've [Dbm] got the_
On the fourth string, we've got 11th fret _ _ _ on [Gb] the fourth.
And then we've got, on the second string, we've got 10th fret [A] on the second.
And then _ [G] we're leaving the _ [C] _ third string open _ and the first string [A] open,
as well as a pedal tone [Abm] on the fifth string.
And we take that shape from here.
[Em] And we go down two frets.
_ And [E] the same two strings, now we're on the same fret,
_ _ on the seventh this time. _
_ And then we're down, same thing, on the [Em] fifth.
_ And all the while, we've [A] got_ _ _
_ Oops, I [A] screwed that up. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] So we've got [Ab] that pedal tone, [A] so fifth string.
[A] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ And then to turn the riff around, it's_
[A] _
_ _ _ [C] Three, four, open fifth string.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
And then we finish with a B power [B] chord. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] And then it's back to the verse. _
[G] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ So there you have it.
There are the two primary _ [N] rhythm guitar parts.
_ Again, there are two guitars on this,
and so there are some slight variations between the two.
_ I just sort of made an amalgamation of the juicy bits, so to speak.
_ _ So once again, you can go on over to my website.
I have this all tabbed out. _
And don't forget, too, _ if you would go check out my original music
that I've been posting up on Spotify,
you can find a link for that below.
You can also find that on my website as well.
Thanks