Chords for How to Play "Breakdown" by Tom Petty on Guitar

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What's up guys, it's Thomas from the band Radius and we're breaking down, [A] breaking down,
breaking down, breaking down Tom Petty.
Awesome song, super easy, A minor to G, just a cool
groove [Eb] and throw in [F] F [Ab] _ occasionally for the chorus.
[A] _
_ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ [G] He's [E] _
[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _
[Db] got a cool Fender Rhodes in there
kind of doing [C] this thing.
[Bm] _ _ _
[D] _ [B] _ _ [Am] And that's just fifth fret, fifth fret on the G and [G] the B
string and then we're sliding down to fourth fret on the G string, third fret on the B
string.
[C] _ [Bm] _ And since we're [Am] just doing A minor [G] to G, [C] I'm doing bar [A] chord form, so A minor
is going to be fifth fret, _ then seventh fret, seventh [Am] fret, five, five, five, okay?
And
so here we are playing the Fender Rhodes part, the five, five, so maybe you can strum that
and then we're going [G] _ _
four _ and three on the G bar chord.
_ Three, five, five, four, five,
four, three, three.
So [A] _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _
[A] _ _ [G] _ _ [A] imagine [G] that and then we go.
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [Am] _ [E] _ Okay, so let me teach you that, that's
the main riff.
We start here, [Am] _ kind of sliding into the tenth fret of the B string and [Gm] go
down to [A] eighth fret and then back up to ten [Em] and then land on the ninth fret of the G string.
So, _ _ okay?
_ _ And then we're basically going to kind of do that same motion, so slide down
two frets to the seventh fret _ _ and then we're going to land on the [Am] seventh fret of the D
[E] string.
So, _ [A] _ _ okay?
So let's put those together [E] and _ _ [A] _ _ then we're going to do the same slide,
_ _ kind of going, _
_ [E] and we're going to end on the seventh fret of the A string.
[A] So, _ [E] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [A] _ _ _
[G] _ [A] [E] okay?
_ _ _ [A] _ [G] _
_ [A] And that is five, five on the high [G] strings, eighth fret, _ [C] _ _
[D] _ _ [C] _ just five, five on G string,
B [D] string, and land on the seventh fret of [Em] the G.
So, _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Bb] _ [E] _
[D] _ [G] _ _ [Am] [G] it's alright [Em] if [Am] you [G] love me.
So
[Am] the whole verse is [G] A minor to G, [A] and if you [G] don't, _ _ [Am] _ [G] I'm [Am] afraid I'll [G] run away, [Am] honey.
[G] I
can't [C] feel any of [F] you.
_ F, and I'm doing F this way, you do bar chord, because what he's
going to do is kind of change from F to [Dm] F6, which is just adding your pinky on the third
fret of the B string, and then F7, [C] _ which means you hit an open high E string, [F] lift up _ your
pinky, and then F6.
[Dm] _ _ So [E] it's going to go, [G] I _ [A] [Gm] got the [F] feeling you want.
_ [C] [F] So then it's going
to go F, [Bb] F6, [F] _ [Dm] F7, 6.
[E] _ [A] _
[G] _ _ [Em] _ [A] _ [G] Let's try that one more [A] time.
[G] _ _ [F] _ _ [Dm] _ F6, [F]
F7, [Dm] [E] F6, [A] _ [G] break [C] [F] down.
_ [G] _ [A] Okay?
So, that's
the chorus.
And the chorus is just going to be super easy.
It's going to be A, [G] A, to G,
[Fm] F, [G] G, [A] A, [G] G, [Fm] _
[G] F.
_ [A] And [G] _ _ [F] _ _
[G] _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ [F] then the fourth time, we're going to stop on the F, and we're going to
do that cool thing, the F [Dm] to F6, [F] F, major 7, [Dm] F6.
[F] It's alright, [Dm] _
_ _ [F] _ _ [Em] it's [A] alright.
[G] _ [Am] And then
back [G] to the intro, [Am] [G] back to the riff.
_ [Am] _ [E] And that is the basis of break down.
So, pretty
easy guys, only three chords, really cool riff, and that's it.
That's all I can teach
you for this song.
So, good luck guys, and we'll be seeing [B] you later. _ _
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