Chords for Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues - Guitar Lesson

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This is the [G] guitar lesson for Eddie Cochran's Summertime Blues, The Easy Way and The Correct Way.
This song always reminds me of Caddyshack.
[B] _ Starting off, make [E] sure your guitar is in standard E tuning. _ _ _ _ _
And [G] this is what you've got to know to play this song.
You've got to know [E] your E major chord, you've got to know your A [A] major chord, _ you've got
[B] to know your B major chord, _ _ [G] and you've got to know this little thing.
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_ _ _ _ [Bm] Alright, so _ the guitar part in this song is extremely easy and it doesn't play [C] throughout
the entire song, but I'll show you something you can do to kind of give it a little bit
of flavor, okay?
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_ _ So this is the part that we all know, [E] alright?
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What [N] that was, was that was E to A, and then it stops, and then goes [F#] B to E, okay?
So [E] down, up, down, [A] _
A, on that upstroke.
[E] So down, this is on the E, down, up, down, [Em] _
then on the upstroke [A] we go A, _ _ _
_ [G] alright we stop,
and then on [B] B we go down, up, down, and then on the upstroke we play [E] an E.
_ _ Alright, so down, up, [A] down, A, _ _ with an upstroke, [B] on B, down, up, [Bm]
down, [E] on the upstroke, A,
I'm sorry, E. _
_ _ [G] _ Okay, so he's singing and after every line he does the, [A] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ alright, and so he keeps on [F#] singing,
and then it comes to a part [A] where you hear this, you hear, _
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Alright, so this part right here is, I'm taking my pointer finger and I put that on the second
fret D string, _ and that's all I'm doing.
What I'm doing is I'm taking my ring finger, [A] I'm playing, [C] _ I'm strumming two strings, I'm
strumming the A and the D, _ [G] and I'm strumming [A] those twice. _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] And on the third time I'm putting _ my _ ring finger on the fourth fret [F#] _ D string, okay,
and that's giving me a [A] different sound, so I go, _ _ _ _ _ _
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Sometimes, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and then when he says sometimes I wonder, that's when it comes [A] back in.
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[B] But there ain't no cure for the summertime [E] blues.
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_ [N] Alright, and so, _ _ this song you're not constantly playing the guitar.
There's other instruments that are carrying the song along, okay, but what you can do,
_ since when he's singing and [A] he's not playing this part,
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] what you're doing is you're just basically palm muting your [E] E string, _ and going like this, _ _ alright.
That carries the song, so he can go, he can go.
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_ _ _ _ [G] Alright, so see what I did, I [E] just kind of threw that little [N] alternate picking with my
E string to kind of carry that E chord along when the song's actually going along.
I think it's the bass that actually carries the song along. _ _ _ _
So that's it, this is a great song from I believe the early 60s or maybe even late 50s,
but a great song to [G] learn how to play and a very easy [B] song to play too, and fun to sing along with.
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