Chords for Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain - Guitar Lesson (chords, strumming pattern, intro and more!)

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_ [G] _ _ [N] This is the guitar lesson for Grand Funk Railroads.
I'm your captain, closer to your home.
Okay,
or closer to my home.
Who's ever home?
Okay, so guitar, standard E [E] tuning. _
All right, [G] now
let's go over to the little intro.
All right, [N] so make, this song is in the key of D, so
what I want you to do is I want you to take your middle finger, put it on the second fret
G string.
Take your ring finger, put that on the third fret B string.
Then take your
pointer finger and put it right behind your ring finger on the same B string on the first
fret [Em] and leave this guy open, the E open.
Okay, so [D] the intro goes like this.
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Bb] All right,
we play that twice and that's the intro.
So have your [C] fingers where I told you to put
them and then you want to down [D] pluck the D string, up pluck the B.
All right, you're
hitting your ring finger right now.
Take your ring finger off, down pluck the D again, [Dm] up
pluck the B again, you're hitting your pointer finger.
Now [D] down pluck the D for a third time,
[Bm] up pluck it and your B string should be open.
[Db] Okay, so we [D] have, _ [Bm] _ _ all right, now we have a
[N] hammer on pull off type of deal.
Pluck the G string open and hammer on with your middle
finger on the second fret on the G [Dm] string.
So [A] we go, _ now we're going to pluck the B string
open and we're going to do a hammer on [Bm] pull off on the first fret.
So, [Em] _ [D]
all right, so we
should have this. _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ All right, [N] now that's the first time through.
The second [G] time through,
we're [D] doing the same thing _ [Bm] but _ where the hammer on pull off was, it changes a little bit.
[G] We're going to still hammer on on the second fret G [D] string but we're going to take our
pointer finger and put that on the first fret _ [C] and _ [D] _
[G] we're going to slide up to the third,
okay, [C] so [D] and [B] then we [D] do it all over again one more time. _ _
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[Dm] _ [Bm] _ [G] _ [C] _ [D] _
[G] All right, and then it goes
into the song, okay.
The bass comes in and does kind of a little walk down of some scales
and [D] then we have, the guitar just does this D, [G] then C and 9, _
[D] D, _ _ [G] C and 9.
[D] C and 9 is like
a G, just move it [C] two, just move these guys one string [G] down, okay.
So [C] here they are, one
string [D] down, all right.
So, _ _ _ _ [C] C and 9, _ [D] _
D, _ [G] C and 9.
All right, it does that for a while
and then finally it [Db] goes into the meat [D] of the song which is the, _ _ [G] _ _
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[G] _ [D] everybody.
[N] So, okay, _
so it's D and C and 9 just like it was before but there's a kind of intricate strumming
pattern there, okay.
I'll play it really slow so you can see it and I'll try to go over
with you and name out the down strums and up strums.
[C] Sometimes I get confused but we'll
try it anyways, okay.
So [D] we have, _ _
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[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [D] _ _ so down, up, down _ and then we do an upstroke with our
middle finger off of that D shape [Db] and then we do an [D] upstroke with it back on.
So we have
a D _ and then we take our [G] pinky and put that on the third fret E string _ and then we do
cat 9, we go, _ _ so up, up, down, up, down, up.
Okay, so up, up, down, up, down, up [D] on the
C add 9.
So we go down, up, down, down, up, down, _ Dsus2, upstroke, D, upstroke.
Then
we put our pinky on and make a Dsus4 [G] _ and then we go _ _ _ up, up, down, up, down, up.
Okay, [D] so _ _
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_ [G] _ _ and [N] that my friends is how a strumming pattern is born.
So that's the strumming pattern for
the majority of the song, all right.
And then it gets into a part, it's kind of like an
interlude, [Bm] all right.
And what [D] that is, is it stops, it ends on D after that whole little
strumming pattern we just talked [G] about and then it [Dm] goes into a _ _ D minor, [Bb] B flat, _ D _ [Dm]
minor,
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B flat, _ _ [D] _ D [Dm] minor, _ [Bb] B flat, _
_ _ [F] F, _ _
[G] _ [A] A, _ _ [Dm] one more time, D minor, _ [B] _ [Bb]
B flat, _ _ [Dm] _ _
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_ _ [Em] _ [Dm] _ _
D minor, [Bb] B flat, _ _ [F] F, A, one
more time, D minor, B flat, F, _ _ _
[A] A.
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_ _ [G] All right, back into this. _
_ _ [D] _ So D and [C] C add 9.
_ _ And then
[A] eventually after a couple more times that we get back [D] into [G] the_ _
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_ [G] _ _ _ All right, the end
of the song when it goes in, I'm getting closer to my home, all it is is the [Ab] same thing that
we've been talking [D] about.
It's just D and [G] _ then C add 9.
You're going to hear some seagulls
and stuff in the background on the original [D] recording.
And D, _ [C] C add 9.
[G] And then it picks
up [D] and just _
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[G] goes_
_ _ _ So _ _ [D] _ _ _
it's _ _ basically_ _
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It's a really [D] basic strumming pattern at the [C] end.
So [Gm] not too hard of a song.
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And I will see you [E] guys on the next guitar lesson.
Thanks, guys. _
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