Chords for How to Play "4+20" by Stephen Stills (Off CSNY's Déjà Vu)

[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ Four and [G] twenty years [D] ago I come into this life
Son of a woman and a man lived in strife.
[Dm] He was tired
[G] _ _ [D] He _ _ [Dm] was an [G] intercelling [D] door
Like _ [Dm] _
[G] the devil to [D] be more
_ _ [G] The purpose of this video is to try to teach you how to play four and twenty a
Beautiful song by Stephen Stills off the deja vu album by Crosby Stills Nash and Young
It's a wonderful song great song to learn some finger-picking with and a new tuning to boot.
So I hope you enjoy this
First _ _ _ _ _ we have to talk about the tuning of the song
I originally tried to play this song [Eb] in standard tuning and you could somewhat approximate it
But really in order to get the sound of the guitar, right?
You need to tune up properly
I believe that Stephen actually tuned up into an e-modal tuning
But I prefer a D
Tuning because it works better with my voice
So this I have my guitar tuned right now into that D tuning and it's dad dad DAD DAD
So starting with the lowest string you drop the e down a full step to D
[D] You leave the a string [A] alone
You leave the [D] D string alone as well
The third string which is normally tuned to G
You drop that down to D and if you'll notice the third and fourth strings are actually in unison _
The [G] B string or second string you [A] drop down to a and
Finally your [D] E string high E string you drop down to D
So once again, you have D a D
D a D
And that's it you get [E] this wonderfully nice rich [D] D chord
just by strumming when you're in this tune and
If you've [Gm] heard many of Stephen still songs, you'll notice that he writes a lot of his songs in this tuning
[B] So once you learn this single tuning, [D] you can actually play a whole bunch of songs
with _ _
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the intro
now the intro basically
the intro is
Mimics what you do during the verse?
It's the same riff and it's just a drone on an open D chord on this basically this open
Now the only thing that's changing is what you're playing on the top two strings the first and second string
[A] so the first shape that he plays is
Achieved by placing your first finger on the seventh fret of the first string and
By placing your third finger on the ninth fret of [Ebm] the second string
And when you play that [D] in combination with the open strings
Get a nice D sound
the second shape that he plays he drops [Em] this down a
whole step so that your fingers are on five and seven respectively [G] and _
Then the third shape he drops it down so that your first [Gb] fingers on the fourth
Fourth fret of the first [D] string and the fifth fret of the second string and when you play this open, that's your D major
bread and butter chord for this entire song
Combining _ that with the finger picking which is just an outside inside kind of figure _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ Again
The connecting [N] figure that he plays in between each
repetition of that riff is a simple hammer-on that he performs by hammering on the second fret of the second [B] string and
_ you can add the bass [D] note with it as well and
Then he slides back up to our 4 5 D shape
So all together
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] I've seen [D] some people hammer on with their first finger and then
[Ebm] Play the fourth fret of the first string
so they just [Gbm] go and
[D] That's fine
But I've watched some videos with Steven actually playing and it looks like he slides back up to the fuller D shape
So I prefer to use that but again
Do whatever feels natural so the intro now in its entirety
The _ _ _ _ _
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_ chorus is really simple [Eb] it consists of just two chords and then it returns [F] to D
Those two chords are the following the first is an F shape
which is played by putting your third sorry your middle finger your second finger on the third fret of the sixth string and
doubling it up and
by placing your third finger on the third fret of
You can see that of the third string.
So you've got two notes and
You continue the picking pattern
_ Then _ you slide up a full step so that both [G] fingers slide up to the fifth fret and _ _
[D] Then back to D.
So all together it sounds [F] like this
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_ [D] _ _ [F] _ Now [G] _ _
[D] _ _ when you go back to D
What Steven does is he slides [E] up again on these top two strings [A] this time?
placing this first finger on the 10th fret and
His third finger on the 12th fret of the second string and he plays a pattern that sounds like [D] this
_ _ He _ [E] [Dm] plays it differently every time the point is just to try to get the feel of it right so altogether
Those three chords sound like this during the chorus
_ [G] _ [D] I _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ usually add just some harmonics to transition back into the verse and it starts over again
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_ _ Well, that's it I hope that you tune down your guitar be adventurous don't worry about it
And I hope you learn this song because it's really worth it _ _
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