Chords for How to Play Blackbird on Guitar Lesson Fingerpick Paul McCartney BeatlesWhite Album Tabs Lennon

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Hi, [C] I'm going to teach you today how to play Blackbird by the Beatles
The way that it's performed by Paul McCartney on the original recording on the White Album
_ Basically, McCartney uses [E] his thumb [B] and his first finger to play the whole song.
[E] So [Am] we'll go through this slowly
But basically [G] here's what it looks like _
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_ [N] Okay.
Now a lot of people play it in the classical style like this where they're using their thumb and all three fingers
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_ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ [A] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [F#] And you can play it that [N] way if you like it's pretty that way
And most people who hear it won't know the difference, but that's not how it's played on the original recording
_ _ _ Okay, so in the original recording as I mentioned it's your thumb and your first finger all the way through so it'll look [G] like this
All [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _
_ _ [D] _ _ [N] right.
So to get started just make a simple G string with your make a simple G chord with your left hand
_ And you're going to be plucking with your thumb and your [G] first finger
_ And then just brushing down
With your [Am] first finger just brush these three strings the D the G and the [G] B
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_ _ _ _ _ _ you're not brushing.
You're not doing a full strum like [Am] this
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_ [N] Okay, it's pretty delicate.
You're doing again.
You're plucking with your thumb and your first finger
[G] _ Then you're brushing down with the first _ [A] and _ _ [G] _ _ _
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_ _ [Em] _ _ that's [D] pretty much how it goes how that first part goes through the whole [G] song pluck down [Am] pluck
Rush [G] down pluck _ brush down pluck _ brush down as I said, that's about half the song
[N] The other half of the song is a little trickier
You're doing the same sort of technique
But it's a little bit more involved what you're going to be doing [B] is you're going to start with the same [G] pluck
We're using your thumb and your index finger
_ _ _ _ Right so pluck, but this time you're going to go down up with your brush.
So it's pluck
_ down up and
Then you do thumb by itself [Gm] and then you do brush, but this time you brush up down [G] up down
So it's pluck _ _ _ _
down up
thumb by itself up down
_ pluck _ _
_ _ down up thumb up down
pluck _ _ down up thumb up down
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_ _ _ _ _ _ If [Bm] you want to just practice it with the C chord, that's [C] fine, too _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ By the way, [G#] I'm using my third finger [G] just to anchor
Myself on the guitar that helps to keep your wrist steady if you don't anchor it
[N] You're going to probably miss hit a lot of strings
I find it easy to plant my third finger other people probably plant their pinky
_ But in any case that's pretty much it.
Those are the two techniques for strumming throughout [E] the whole song
So I'll play it [G] from the beginning _ _ _
[A] _ _ [Am] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ [C#] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D#] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [G] You _ _ _
[F] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [Em] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [N] That's pretty much the whole song
_ The patterns repeat throughout the verses in the chorus
That's it.
If you can play those two techniques where you're doing [G] your pluck and the brush down and then the pluck _
down up thumb up down
If you can do those two techniques [N] you can play it the way it is on the original and if you can sing it as well
_ Haha, you can be a rock star.
Good luck.
Have fun _ _ _ _ _
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