Chords for How to Play "Fortunate Son" by Creedance Clearwater Revival, CCR - Guitar Lesson, Tutorial

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[C] You
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_ _ Hey, what's up you guys Marty Schwartz here again from GuitarJams _ .com
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I've got another classic for you
Really fun intro a fun little bridge
Kind of based in the blues, but used in a rock setting so we always like that stuff for our arsenal of tricks
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We go this song's based in G _ _ _
_ And it uses that classic what we call that we call them six
_ In guitar it's this kind of thing
It _ _
[Em] _ helps if you can hear it _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ Right like in soul [Bm] man or?
[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Gb] _ [G] _ All that kind of stuff.
It's got a familiar sound to it a classic bluesy kind of sound _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ So [Em] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Ab]
check it out we're [G] gonna _ _ _
Slide up to the ninth fret on the D string with our _ middle finger this one right here _
[Gb] or the one between the lines Ah
[Em] _ _ _ Just like that so we're sliding up to that nine
_ index finger _
_ Goes [E] to the eight of the B string and we're just kind of letting the middle finger mute
_ _ That G [Gb] string that's in between
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And we're you know trying to [Ab] pluck them individually
_ [G] _ _ _
So we're skipping over the G string _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Okay, and then we do the exact same thing a whole [Abm] step down
_ [Dm] _ _
So that would be [E] sorry it's kind of screwed up middle finger on the seventh fret of the D index on the sixth of the [F] B
_ [Em] So we got
_ _ _ _ Nine and eight
[Gb] _ [F] _ _ _ _ seven and six
_ _ _ Next we'll do the middle finger to the fifth fret
[G] _
But it's [Eb] not
_ That doesn't sound right does it [Em] no
_ _ _ So this time they're both on the same fret so we're gonna use our ring finger on
_ _ The fifth fret of the B and middle finger on the fifth fret of the D string
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Okay, so
_ [G] _ _ _ Nine and eight
[F] _ _ _ _ Seven and six
[Em] _ _ _ _ five and five
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _
five and three
_ Little weird, but we're gonna just slide now.
We switched our ring finger _ sliding up to the fifth of the D _
_ so we can get [Ab] that third fret of the B, and it's coming [G] from
_ [Fm] G chord [Gm] _ _ _ and _ _ _ then
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Right _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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[Em] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ _ Now there's a few different ways to do that lick you know I just learned it by ear
It's potentially has a capo or drop D
There's some different things that I was hearing, but this would be the [E] easiest and best [Bb] way
[G] _ _ _ If [Gm] you just want to have some fun _ _ _ _
sixth fret to the third
_ _ It's also _ first fret on the a
_ [G] _
To the third you could do it either way so _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
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_ [Fm] _ [Gm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] So then we're gonna play a G bar chord
But it's kind of good as a power chord [B] so you can get your middle finger there, and if you [G] hit it
It's okay, but we kind of want to
Mute that from the bar chord.
We don't want G [Gm] minor _
Definitely don't want that
_ _ That's kind of good or _ more power chord _
_ _ _ so we [Ab] got G then down to [F] F and _ _ _ _ _
Then C, [Bb] which you could do this one.
It's also first right on the a [G] _ _ to the third you could do it either way so _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
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[Gm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] So then we're gonna play a G bar chord
But it's kind of good as a power [B] chord so you can get your middle finger there, and if [E] you hit it
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] So then we're gonna play a G bar chord
But it's kind of good as a power chord so you can get your [B] middle finger there, and if [G] you hit it
It's okay, but we kind of [Gb] want to _
Mute that from the [G] bar chord.
We don't [Gm] want G minor.
We definitely don't [G] want that _ _
That's kind of good or _ more power chord
_ _ _ _ We got [Ab] G then down to [F] F _ _ and _ [Ab] then C.
Which you could do [C] this way _
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_ Or you could play C with the same voicing as
[Cm] The G and F all the way up here to the eighth fret which that root
_ Is a [G] C so we got G [D] G G [F] G F _ _
_ [C] _ C
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G starts over on G _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [G] C G _ so that's the first, but then when [Ab] it's _
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Instead of the F [Gb] you you [B] exchange that F for a D chord [G] so you got _ G
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Play [Ab] a D right here.
I'm playing a D power [D] chord right here, _ _ _ so [E] like I said [G] you got this _ _ G
[F] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ Anyway you know
_ G [F] _ [C] and _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ then _ _ with the chorus, it's just _ _ [D] G _ D
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C
G [G] _ if we're only using one voicing _ that's the [D] third fret
_ _ 10th fret for [C] D _ _
_ 8th fret [G] for C G. _
So those are the two parts [Ab] okay, so we've got that intro
[G] _ _ _ [F] Then [Em] _ _
[Gm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ we've got the two different parts for that then there's a bridge, and it's actually really [Bbm] fun
_ _ Because it's not hard _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dbm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ So we use the same voicing with these two fingers
_ And we start it's another bluesy kind of thing middle finger is on the seventh of the G
[Bbm] _ _ _ _ Index is on the six of the B, and you hit those two _ _ _
Then a half step [Dbm] down _ _ _
Which is a bluesy thing?
_ Then [E] all the way down
_ second fret first fret which is