Chords for Funk 49 Guitar Lesson Joe Walsh James Gang (Easy)

_ _ _ _ Ok, so today I'm going to do a lesson on the song Funk 49 that was made famous by Joe Walsh
and the James Gang. _
Played a hundred different ways.
I just want to show [C] a few riffs on this song so you can make it your own [B] and hopefully
learn something from it.
I've been playing this song for years and I've seen it [E] slaughtered on YouTube.
So, the guitar is in standard tuning _ and the song is in the key of [A] A.
_ [Am] _ [E] _
_ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ _
And it [A] starts out on this [B] D note [Bb] on the third string, seventh fret.
He bends it up a whole step.
[E] _
Add the pinky on the eighth [Gm] fret of the B string.
_ [B] Let off on this.
_ [D] _
_ [Bb] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Db] _
_ [C] He bends [Bb] that down about a half step.
[G] _ _ [G] _
Goes up a whole step with [Am] the G string. _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [A] _
So it's two [A] pull-offs. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G]
So you can [C] hang in that, it's easy.
And then it goes [A] right into the_
And that's nothing more than a mute.
[Bb]
The low E.
_ And the first four strings of the guitar.
Let the A ring, we're in A.
[Em] _ _
[D] _ _ [Gb] That's the opening.
[Bm] _
_ _ [E] Generous muting going on here.
And here's this chord.
[D] _ _ _ _ _
And that's the chord that [B] everybody knows, [F] I hope.
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [Bb] _ [Eb] _
_ _ [A] _ _ That chord in every five-year being, you're going to use it all the time.
So [E] it's_
_ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _
Vibrato here after [D] the chord.
_ [E] This is short from playing [B] all day, but_
Add [Gb] the vibrato and then it goes into this riff.
[A] _ _ [A] _ [Em] _
_ _ _ And again. _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ [A] _
He [Am] does the power chord, the, [B] let's call it A note third.
[A] Every other time [B] and then hangs on the note every other time.
Does that four times, goes up two [Bm] frets.
_ _ _ _ _ _
Does that again. _ _ _ _
_ _ And very quickly goes to Jimmy's chord.
[D] _ E seventh with the raised [B] ninth, I call it.
E seventh augmented [Bb] ninth, E seventh sharp nine.
[D] That is the chord.
All kinds of nonsense played in that.
Take [E] it from me, it's the E seventh with the raised ninth.
I watched him play it ten feet away.
That's what he's [E] playing.
_ [D] Goes like this.
_ _ [E] _ _ [D] _
It's all through that.
And then you get to the part [B] with the drum solo.
And the [B] other day I was playing along with the James Gang recording.
And got to the drum solo and I [Gb] got bored and I had nothing to do.
So I started going like this.
_ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ [A] _
[E] And I started playing the drum solo.
So [B] if you want to do a [C] solo piece, you can. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Backwards, upstroke, to the fourth string.
Kind of like a rig, but you hear the notes and hangs on this note. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [G] Sometimes he plays that note twice.
_ [D] _ _ _ [Gb] _
And [C] that's the riff.
_ _ [Am]
And then he plays this.
Hang on that G note.
Then up to [Cm] the tenth fret, _ the highest string, [Bb] the E first.
_ _ [A] Then bend it up first and come down.
_ Or sometimes he plays it like this. _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [Gb] _
_ [E] Watch the whole song.
Sometimes he will hang like this.
_ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ [C] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ [Gbm] Sometimes he [A] just hangs there.
_ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _
[D] _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _
And that's pretty much the whole song.
And [C] if you listen to the album, you know those riffs.
You're home free.
Practice.
I [Bb] can't play it.
Maybe you can.
That's all I can tell you is Chet would say. _ _