Chords for Counting Crows Long December Guitar Lesson + Tutorial

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_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [N] Hey, what's up you guys?
Marty Schwartz here with Marty Music and we're going to do a little counting crows.
And after listening to this song, I think this is where the accent for the Californians came from.
He's talking about Hollywood and California. _ _
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Let's get to it.
All right, so we got the capo on the third fret and the intro, which is like a piano
chord intro, is the same progression for the na na na parts.
So we get to learn the na na na parts right off the bat.
And we play a D to [F] G.
G [G] to G.
Again, _ _ it's real just down, down, down, you know.
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_ So [E] a good like starting rhythm, down, down, down, up, down, up, down, [Ab] down, down, up,
down, up, down, [G] down, down, up, down, up, down, down, down, up, [F] down.
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_ [Gm] _ _ _ [Ab] I'm going to mix it up, but that's a good [F] starting point if you're a beginner and you
need some, you know, thing to refer back to.
Okay, so the na na na parts.
D [Bb] to G.
[Gm] E minor [Bb] to G.
[F] Back to D, [Bb] D to G.
E [Gm] minor stays there. _
_ So just notice that happens throughout the song.
[F] You got D to G, E minor [Bb] to G, you know, all for [F] the same amount of time.
And then D to G, [Gm] but now E minor for twice as long.
_ _ And [Bb] then long December, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So now we call this the verse, and it's all nice, easy chords.
So we're going to start now with a G.
So we just did the na na na parts, now we have the verse.
A G [F] to D, _ [C] A major, [Gm] E minor.
So [Bb] once again, that's G [F] to D, A [C] major to [Gm] E minor. _
_ Back to [Bb] G.
G [F] to D.
[Bb] Now G for twice as long, or four times as long, like that.
So here we go again from the top of the verse. _
G [F] to D, [Gm] _ [C] A, [Gm] E minor, _ [Bb] _ [F] G to D.
[Bb] Now a long time on G.
_ _ _ Now it [E] kind of starts the same way, but starts with E minor instead of G.
So check this out.
This is the [Gm] lyric.
I can't remember the last thing that you said.
So E [Bb] minor, G, _ [F] E [Gm] to [C] the A.
So once [Gm] again, I can't [Bb] remember [F] the last thing that [C] you A.
So all, you know, it's the same, but starts with E minor,
and then has a G [Gm] in there.
So E minor, [Bb] G, _ G to [C] the A.
Now [Gm] E minor to _
[F] D, [Bb] then G.
_ And that's the [G] whole verse of the song.
So let's go to the very top of the song.
You can play it with me.
It starts with chords, which happen to be the na-na-na part,
which we haven't gotten to yet.
But this is how it goes.
Three, [F] four.
D [Bb] to G, [Gm] E minor [Bb] to G, _ [F] _
E to [Bb] G, but just [Gm] E minor.
Now we're going into the verse, which is a [Bb] G.
A G [F] to D, _
[C] A major, [Gm] E minor, [Bb] _ _
[F] G to D, then back [Bb] to G.
Hold on, G. _
Now E [Gm] minor, [Bb] E minor, G.
_ [F] D [C] to the A [Gm] to E minor, _ [F] _
E, [Bb] G.
_ _ _ All right.
So now the chorus is very close to the na-na-na parts,
but it's just over [F] and over.
It's D [Bb] to G to [Gm] E minor.
_ _ Does that [F] again.
One more [Bb] night in [Gm] Hollywood.
_ Do that.
[F] And it's D [Bb] to G, [Gm] E minor.
Stop.
I wish [F] you would.
[Bb] Na-na-na-na.
[Gm] E minor, [Bb] G.
_ [F] _ D to [Bb] G, but [Gm] just E minor.
All right.
_ Let's go to the, let's just play all the way through.
Here's [Bb] the verse.
G [C] to D, and A to [Gm] E minor.
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[F] G to D, back [Bb] to G.
Hold on that G.
Now [Gm] E minor, E minor, [Bb] G.
_ [F] D to [C] the A, always followed by [Gm] E minor.
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[Bb] D, G.
_ Chorus is a [F] D.
It's D [Bb] to G to E [Gm] minor.
He's going to do that again.
[F] It's D [Bb] to G.
Hold [Gm] on, E minor.
Same thing again.
[F] It's D [Bb] to G, [Gm] E minor.
And you're going to stop and say, I wish [F] I.
D to [Bb] G, G.
[Gm] E minor [Bb] to the G. _ _
[F] Na-na-na-na.
[Gm] Yeah, yeah, hey, oh.
_ [F] Just like that intro.
D [Bb] to G, [Gm] G minor to [Bb] the G.
_ _ [F] _ [Bb] E to G.
_ [Gm] E minor. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
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