Chords for Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin' Acoustic Guitar lesson

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_ _ _ _ [Em] _ [D] Long train runnin'.
Another driving, driving, cookin' Gooby Brothers [Eb] songs.
These guys came up with some of the greatest, the classic rock era, and some of the greatest
guitar playing in it.
So Tom Johnson wrote [Db] most of these types of songs.
Pat [F] Simmons wrote more of the acoustic songs.
South City Midnight Lady, Black Water, that kind of stuff.
[A] But [F] Long Train Runnin' is, I have students work on this all the time because it's very,
[N] it's pretty difficult.
_ Because what you need to do is get a hammer-on, a double hammer-on from a full bar where all
the notes in the bar are clean first.
Now they do this in the key of, well starting with a G minor chord.
So the [Gm] bar is up at the 10th fret.
[F] And if you just [Gm] strum the top five strings, you don't really need the sixth string as
part [F] of this.
That's the sound.
And it's hard to get those clean.
I sometimes have students work on this a [Bb] little lower on the neck, especially if they don't
have a cutaway up here.
But, _ and it's much easier on an electric guitar by the way too.
But in any case, hit the [F] five strings, but then you're gonna [Gm] hammer-on notes that would
be out [G] of an A minor 7 shape.
Which would be [F] your first finger on the second string of the first fret, your second finger
on the fourth string of [C] the second fret.
_ [D] Got that?
If not, [F] check my Chord Companion series over at Totally Guitars.
But in [D] any case, _ [Bb] that's [G] what you're working on.
It's holding that bar [F] down tight and getting those two notes to hammer-on.
[Eb] Very difficult move.
Takes a lot of practice, strength, coordination, and time to [E] evolve.
Then you also need to be able to do the [Gm] opposite of it.
You're gonna strum it kinda deadened for a while, _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] and then pull it off.
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_ _ [D] _ _ [Gm] So you're hammering it on and not strumming it again right there.
_ Missing another down, _ catching it up, and then some dead ones.
_ _ Down, [Dm] and one more down with a quick pull-off. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gb] And as is the key to [Abm] every strumming [E] song in the world, especially all the ones that
I teach, maybe more, [F] your right hand has to learn to just keep going.
So again, I have very extensive lessons available on stuff like this.
And if you'd like to see more on this lesson on Long Train Runnin' from their third album,
The Captain and Me, [E] 1973 I'm thinking.
_ Maybe 72.
[F] No, probably 73.
But _ _ it's just a great strumming song.
If you'd like to get to more of this song, come over to Totally Guitars.
Let me know that Long Train Runnin' should be on everybody's list of cool songs to do.
Then I'll go through the whole chord progression and [Cm] everything else.
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[Gm] But it's a great barre chord exercise and can really work on strengthening up those [G] fingers.
So again, if you wanna see Long Train [F] Runnin', come check us out