Chords for How To Play Gordon Lightfoot Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (intro only)
Tempo:
54.8 bpm
Chords used:
B
E
F#
D#
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
The record The End of Fitzgerald is actually very easy to play.
It won't take us very long to get this one down.
We'll cap out at fret 2.
Playing chord shapes in the key of A, and there are really only two sections to this song.
The intro section [B] has one chord sequence, and the verse section has another.
And once you've got those two, the song [G] just moves between those [F#] two sections.
Let's kick off with [B] the intro.
It's going to sound like this.
[E] [B]
[E] [B]
We're in 6 beats to the bar, so the song is counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, with 1 and 4 being the strong beats.
[D#] The first chord we want to hold down is an Asus2 chord.
It's [F#] like an A chord, but without the second [B] string finger.
The second string is open.
So you've got 4th string, 2nd fret, 3rd string, 2nd fret, nothing else.
That's Asus2.
And there are two different strum patterns in this song.
Right at the very beginning, the first intro uses a [D#] simplified strum pattern,
and from then on there's a second strum pattern that goes for the whole of the rest of the song.
[B] The first one is down, down, up, down, down, down, down, down, down, up, down, down, down, down.
1, 2 and 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2 and 3, 4, 5, 6.
[D#] I played it twice there.
If you like that pattern, you can use it through the whole of the song.
But he uses it for the intro.
He'll vary it from time to time, but essentially he's using that pattern for the intro,
and then I'll show you the one that he uses when he gets to the verse.
Now we just need to move the chords to that intro, because it's one bar for each chord.
So Asus2 goes for a [F#] bar.
Down, down, up, down, down, down, down.
[B] G6 over A is
Do you know your Fmaj7 shape, like an F chord without the finger lying down?
[D#] Take that shape, bring it up two frets, and you've got the second chord that he's playing.
Technically G6 over A.
And that's the [B] same strum pattern.
Then go to a D [E] chord.
Down, down, up, down, down, down, down.
[B] And back to Asus2.
That's the first line of the intro, and I'm using the song [G] sheet to go through this song,
because the tab really doesn't help us at all.
[B] It's just a strummed song around the chord shapes that we learn.
So the song sheet's the best thing.
Go back to G6 over A, [E] bar of D, and [B] now two bars of Asus2.
1, 2, and 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2, and 3, 4, 5, 6.
Here it is again, that intro.
[E] [C#]
[E] [B] [F#] The legend lives
It won't take us very long to get this one down.
We'll cap out at fret 2.
Playing chord shapes in the key of A, and there are really only two sections to this song.
The intro section [B] has one chord sequence, and the verse section has another.
And once you've got those two, the song [G] just moves between those [F#] two sections.
Let's kick off with [B] the intro.
It's going to sound like this.
[E] [B]
[E] [B]
We're in 6 beats to the bar, so the song is counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, with 1 and 4 being the strong beats.
[D#] The first chord we want to hold down is an Asus2 chord.
It's [F#] like an A chord, but without the second [B] string finger.
The second string is open.
So you've got 4th string, 2nd fret, 3rd string, 2nd fret, nothing else.
That's Asus2.
And there are two different strum patterns in this song.
Right at the very beginning, the first intro uses a [D#] simplified strum pattern,
and from then on there's a second strum pattern that goes for the whole of the rest of the song.
[B] The first one is down, down, up, down, down, down, down, down, down, up, down, down, down, down.
1, 2 and 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2 and 3, 4, 5, 6.
[D#] I played it twice there.
If you like that pattern, you can use it through the whole of the song.
But he uses it for the intro.
He'll vary it from time to time, but essentially he's using that pattern for the intro,
and then I'll show you the one that he uses when he gets to the verse.
Now we just need to move the chords to that intro, because it's one bar for each chord.
So Asus2 goes for a [F#] bar.
Down, down, up, down, down, down, down.
[B] G6 over A is
Do you know your Fmaj7 shape, like an F chord without the finger lying down?
[D#] Take that shape, bring it up two frets, and you've got the second chord that he's playing.
Technically G6 over A.
And that's the [B] same strum pattern.
Then go to a D [E] chord.
Down, down, up, down, down, down, down.
[B] And back to Asus2.
That's the first line of the intro, and I'm using the song [G] sheet to go through this song,
because the tab really doesn't help us at all.
[B] It's just a strummed song around the chord shapes that we learn.
So the song sheet's the best thing.
Go back to G6 over A, [E] bar of D, and [B] now two bars of Asus2.
1, 2, and 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2, and 3, 4, 5, 6.
Here it is again, that intro.
[E] [C#]
[E] [B] [F#] The legend lives
Key:
B
E
F#
D#
G
B
E
F#
_ _ _ _ _ The record The End of Fitzgerald is actually very easy to play.
It won't take us very long to get this one down.
We'll cap out at fret 2.
Playing chord shapes in the key of A, and there are really only two sections to this song.
The intro section [B] has one chord sequence, and the verse section has another.
And once you've got those two, the song [G] just moves between those [F#] two sections.
Let's kick off with [B] the intro.
It's going to sound like this. _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [B] _ _
[E] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
We're in 6 beats to the bar, so the song is counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, with 1 and 4 being the strong beats.
[D#] The first chord we want to hold down is an Asus2 chord.
It's [F#] like an A chord, but without the second [B] string finger.
The second string is open.
So you've got 4th string, 2nd fret, 3rd string, 2nd fret, nothing else.
That's Asus2.
And there are two different strum patterns in this song.
Right at the very beginning, the first intro uses a [D#] simplified strum pattern,
and from then on there's a second strum pattern that goes for the whole of the rest of the song.
[B] The first one is down, down, up, down, down, down, down, down, down, up, down, down, down, down. _
1, 2 and 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2 and 3, 4, 5, 6.
[D#] I played it twice there.
If you like that pattern, you can use it through the whole of the song.
But he uses it for the intro.
He'll vary it from time to time, but essentially he's using that pattern for the intro,
and then I'll show you the one that he uses when he gets to the verse.
Now we just need to move the chords to that intro, because it's one bar for each chord.
So Asus2 goes for a [F#] bar.
Down, down, up, down, down, down, down.
[B] G6 over A is_
Do you know your Fmaj7 shape, like an F chord without the finger lying down?
[D#] Take that shape, bring it up two frets, and you've got the second chord that he's playing.
Technically G6 over A.
And that's the [B] same strum pattern.
_ _ _ Then go to a D [E] chord.
Down, down, up, down, down, down, down.
[B] And back to Asus2.
_ That's the first line of the intro, and I'm using the song [G] sheet to go through this song,
because the tab really doesn't help us at all.
[B] It's just a strummed song around the chord shapes that we learn.
So the song sheet's the best thing.
Go back to G6 over A, _ [E] bar of D, and [B] now two bars of Asus2.
1, 2, and 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2, and 3, 4, 5, 6.
Here it is again, that intro.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [F#] The legend lives
It won't take us very long to get this one down.
We'll cap out at fret 2.
Playing chord shapes in the key of A, and there are really only two sections to this song.
The intro section [B] has one chord sequence, and the verse section has another.
And once you've got those two, the song [G] just moves between those [F#] two sections.
Let's kick off with [B] the intro.
It's going to sound like this. _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [B] _ _
[E] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
We're in 6 beats to the bar, so the song is counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, with 1 and 4 being the strong beats.
[D#] The first chord we want to hold down is an Asus2 chord.
It's [F#] like an A chord, but without the second [B] string finger.
The second string is open.
So you've got 4th string, 2nd fret, 3rd string, 2nd fret, nothing else.
That's Asus2.
And there are two different strum patterns in this song.
Right at the very beginning, the first intro uses a [D#] simplified strum pattern,
and from then on there's a second strum pattern that goes for the whole of the rest of the song.
[B] The first one is down, down, up, down, down, down, down, down, down, up, down, down, down, down. _
1, 2 and 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2 and 3, 4, 5, 6.
[D#] I played it twice there.
If you like that pattern, you can use it through the whole of the song.
But he uses it for the intro.
He'll vary it from time to time, but essentially he's using that pattern for the intro,
and then I'll show you the one that he uses when he gets to the verse.
Now we just need to move the chords to that intro, because it's one bar for each chord.
So Asus2 goes for a [F#] bar.
Down, down, up, down, down, down, down.
[B] G6 over A is_
Do you know your Fmaj7 shape, like an F chord without the finger lying down?
[D#] Take that shape, bring it up two frets, and you've got the second chord that he's playing.
Technically G6 over A.
And that's the [B] same strum pattern.
_ _ _ Then go to a D [E] chord.
Down, down, up, down, down, down, down.
[B] And back to Asus2.
_ That's the first line of the intro, and I'm using the song [G] sheet to go through this song,
because the tab really doesn't help us at all.
[B] It's just a strummed song around the chord shapes that we learn.
So the song sheet's the best thing.
Go back to G6 over A, _ [E] bar of D, and [B] now two bars of Asus2.
1, 2, and 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2, and 3, 4, 5, 6.
Here it is again, that intro.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [F#] The legend lives