Chords for How to Play "Free Falling" by Tom Petty on Guitar

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_ _ _ _ _ What's up guys?
Yes, you clicked on it free falling.
Yes, you're gonna learn how to play it. _ _
Yes, I'm Thomas from the band Radius
and let's break it down for you guys.
_ Yes, I have a capo on the first
fret _ and yes it helps.
_ Alright,
here we go.
The song is really easy to play.
There's only _ _ three _ chords.
_ You guys excited?
I am.
So here we go.
We're doing an E chord.
_ _ _ Oh man, I have a secret for you.
_ _ Tom Petty, he plays it a certain way and I'm gonna teach you that secret.
Okay?
So here's_
I'll play it for you real quick
_ and then _ I'll tell you a little secret.
You ready?
[Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] Alright.
Did you see anything different in there? _
_ _ Basically, here's the E chord.
So we're doing open E, [C] second fret,
[F] _ second fret, _ first fret on the G string, open, open.
_ _ That is our first chord of three.
_ Moving to our second chord, it's just gonna be
open A string, _ second fret on the D, _ second fret on the G string,
_ _ open, open.
_ It's an Asus2. _ _
_ _ _ _ But Tom Petty _ _ _ puts
this finger on the first fret behind it. _ _
_ It makes no difference in the sound other than the fact
he can do one of these.
_ _ _ Boom!
First chord. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
See how I moved there?
_ _ _ _ But he keeps this finger
there.
It's brilliant and it comes with experience that, hey, I don't have to lift up my finger. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Because as we all know,
even in [Bb] Guitar Hero, the highest note _ gets
the pluck, gets the gold, [A] rather [Bb] than the lowest one
if you're on the same string. _ _
[F] So, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ nice. _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ So we're gonna change back to that [F] first chord, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ then
hit this chord once, then the first chord once,
_ _ [C] _ _
and this is a B chord, okay?
So we're on second fret,
_ _ [G] fourth fret, fourth fret, okay? _ _ _ _
We're doing a barre chord, _ and with this finger, I'm [F] muting this
_ bottom E string, [C] _ and I'm arcing my fingers up so I can let this
_ [Fm] B and the E string ring out under me.
I don't
[C] want to mute them, _ so I want to arc my
arms enough.
If you're having a hard time arcing, just push your elbow
out this way a little bit.
So you'll get a little_
[Cm] Whoa!
There we go.
I got some arc _ in [F] everything.
_ _ _ _ _ So, _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ okay?
So,
[Cm] that's what Tom Petty is playing. _
So, Mr.
Mike Campbell,
over there on the 12th string.
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So we're getting this
_ nice, _ heavenly _ _ chords.
So it's [Eb] the D shape, okay? _
This is our normal D chord.
We're sliding it up two frets, _ _ _ _ okay?
_ And we're just putting our pinky _ _ and _ _ _ _ letting go of it,
and then this is our third chord.
_ _ Keeping these same
two [E] fingers, like, it is like the D chord, but we're just moving [C] this fret down too.
So it's going [Fm] to be 4-5-2.
_ _ _ [F]
First one's 4-5-4, then 4-5-5,
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ okay?
So that's pretty simple.
So that's played on top
_ [F] of the other part, and so we're doing that. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ You learn these [F] three chords,
pull [Bb] out that capo, first fret, _ [F] people are going to start [C] singing.
_ They think [F] they know the words, [Bb] it's like
_ _ four verses, and [C] people always mix up the verses,
but that's the fun part of it.
[Bb] _ And then, once you're [F] towards the end, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] people go _ nuts,
okay?
And then this is when you bust out in two. _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[C] _ So I'm just using those same chords,
just in [F] bar chord form, because _ everybody's already
ruined their lungs at this point in the song, so we're like, alright, I'm going rock mode.
Open, _ _ _
[C] then second fret on the A, _ _
I'm going to play that three times, _ _ [Bb] _
then slide up to the fifth fret and seventh fret.
I'm just doing a two-finger chord.
_ [F] _ _
Hit this three times, 1-2-3, [Bb] then slide this up and play this. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And we're actually going to play it six times,
_ because one's going to [F] overlap coming back [Fm] to it.
So 1-2 [Bb]-3-4 _ -5 [F]-6.
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ So what I do is [Bb] I hit that six, [F] and then I hit two on the original one,
and [C] then I go all the way up to the seventh and ninth fret,
and then I play that _ _ _ five [F] times.
So it goes three, _ _ _ [Bb] then six, _ _
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[C] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ [Eb] and the best way instead of counting is just feel it.
_ [F] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [F] Start over. _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] Oh man, [F] _
yeah, I'm free!
_ _ Man, that's it [D] guys.
Teaching you all the secrets I know.
That's it.
Three chords and the truth.
Free Fallin', thank you Tom Petty. _
I'm Thomas, signing off for you guys.
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and we'll be seeing you around. _ _
Later.
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_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [Abm] _
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