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, breaking down,
breaking down, breaking down Tom Petty.
Awesome [Eb] song, super easy, A minor to G, just a cool groove and throw in F [Ab] occasionally
for the chorus.
[A] _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _
_ [G] He's got a cool Fender Rhodes in there, [Db] kind of doing this thing.
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_ _ _ _ [Am] And that's just fifth fret, fifth fret on the G and the B string and then we're [Bb] sliding
down to fourth [A] fret on the G string, [G] third fret on the B string.
_ [Bm] And since we're [Am] just doing A minor to G, [C] I'm doing barre chord [A] for him, 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 barre chord.
Three, five, five, four, three, three.
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_ _ _ _ [A] So, imagine [G] that and then we go.
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [Cm] _ Okay, so let me teach you that, that's the main riff.
We start here, [A] _
kind of sliding into the tenth fret of the B string and [G] go down to eighth
[A] fret and then back up to ten and then [Em] land on the ninth fret of the G string.
_ _ _ 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 seventh [Am] _ fret of the D [E] string.
_ [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.
So, _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [G] _ [C] that [A] is five, five on the high strings, [G] eighth fret, _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ just five, five on G string,
B [A] string, and land on the seventh fret [G] of the G.
So, _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ [Em] _ [G] the [Am] whole verse is A [G] minor to G. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _
[G] _ _ [Cm] _ [F] And _ _ I'm doing F this way, you do barre chord, because what he's going to do is he's going
to 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 back to six.
[Dm] _ _ [E] So it's going to go,
[G] _ _ [A] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [F] _
_ So then it's going to go,
_ [Bb] _ _
[F] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _
[G] So let's try that one more [A] time.
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[Dm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ Okay?
And the chorus is just going to be super easy, it's going to [A] be A, [G] A, to G, [C]
[G] F, G, _ [A] A, G, [C] F, [G] G.
[A] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And then [F] the fourth time we're going to stop on the F, and we're going to do that cool
thing, the [Dm] F to F6, F, [F] major 7, [Dm] F6,
_ [F] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [F] _ _
_ [A] It's [G] alright.
[E] And then back to [G]
the intro, back to the riff, _ [E] and that is the basis of Breakdown.
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 you [B] later. _ _
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