Chords for Cut Your Hair - Pavement - Guitar Lesson

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Alright, I'm going to teach you how to play Cut Your Hair by Pavement.
It's pretty straightforward, pretty easy chorus.
I'm going to play it and sing it for you first, and then I'll break it down for you afterwards.
So, here we go.
_ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] While I know to go and [Em] cut your hair, do you think it's going to make him [G] change?
I'm just a boy with a [Em] new haircut, and that's a pretty nice [D] haircut.
Charge [G] it like a puzzle, hit [Em] me where it muzzle.
[D]
Hesitate and die, look [G] around, look around.
The second [Em] drum will drown, his telephone is found.
[D] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] Music [G] seems crazy, [Em] bands are up each and [D] every day.
I [G] saw another one just the [Em] other day, a special new band.
[D] I [G] remember lying, I don't remember lying.
I don't remember words, [D] I don't care, [G] I don't care, I [Em] don't care.
I need to see the government _ [D] _ _ [C] and_
[G] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ [G] Advertising looks and chops [Em] a must.
[G] No [Em] big hair!
[D] Songs [G] need a lot when [Bm] songs are bought.
And so do [D] you.
_ [G] Strive now to the practice room, and so on and so [Em] forth.
Great [D] song.
Really easy song too.
It's really just a D chord, [C] a C, [G] a G, and an [Em] E minor.
And those chords just repeat themselves in that progression over and over again.
So, [D] D. _
_ One finger on the third string, second fret.
Third finger on the second string, on the third fret.
And two finger on the first string, second fret.
You're strumming from the fourth string down.
And then the strumming pattern _
_ _ [Gm] is_
_ [Em] _
_ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D]
Each chord gets four down strokes.
And you're sort of palm muting as you're playing those chords.
So basically, the palm of my hand is [Ab] hitting the bridge of my guitar.
Right where the strings meet the instrument.
So, if I were to lay my [A] palm there_
_ _ It has like the staccato texture.
_ As opposed to playing those chords nice and open. _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ So_
[Em] And then, at the [D] end of each _ [G] chord_
_ _ I'm kind of doing like a [D] triplet type thing.
_ _ [C] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _
If I could slow it [Eb] down even more it would be [D] like_ _
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[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ Okay, so maybe that'll help you.
[Gb] C chord, the way that I'm playing it is_
_ _ [D] Two finger on the fifth string on the third fret.
That's the A string.
And your one finger is on the fourth string on the [C] second fret.
So [D] we're going from a D.
And then my pinky goes on to the _ first string on the third fret.
So it goes from D.
[N] And then pinky goes on to that third fret.
Third finger stays there and then the other two fingers [C] go_
The rest of that C chord there.
And then [Gm] for the G chord you're bringing one and your two fingers [G] up again.
So, from the fifth and fourth string to the sixth and fifth string.
[C] _ [G] It's a really easy [C] way to transition between your C and your G chord.
[G] So C you're starting [C] from the fifth.
[G] G you're starting from the sixth. _
And of course we go to that E [Em] minor.
_ So the third and the fourth fingers stay where they're at.
Your one finger goes on to the second fret of the fifth string.
And your two finger goes on to the second fret of the fourth string. _ _ _
[N] Okay?
The other thing that I wanted to mention was_
Just to break up a little bit of the simplicity of the song and put some dynamics_
I played those same chords on the fifth fret position.
So D chord on the fifth [D] fret.
Strumming from the fourth string down still.
Your one finger is on the fifth fret.
Pinky and third finger [Eb] are both on the [D] seventh frets.
Okay, so you have five, _ seven, seven, and then open D string.
And then the C chord would be thumb on the eighth fret of your E string on top there. _
Third and fourth [C] fingers on the tenth frets.
_ _ _ _ One finger on the eighth fret again of the B string.
Okay, that's my C.
Playing a G, take your third and your [Ab] fourth finger and bring them up a string each.
So now you have [G] ten, ten, and then on the bottom strings you have [N] seven with your one finger on the first string.
_ And eight with your two finger on that [G] B string.
Okay.
_ _ Then that E minor would be bringing your third and fourth finger down to the seventh fret.
And your one finger on the fifth fret of the D string.
[Em] _
Okay.
So that sounds [D] like_ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _
[G] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _