Chords for How To Play Joni Mitchell A Case of You (preview only)
Tempo:
122.25 bpm
Chords used:
C#
G#
D#
F
G#m
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[C#m]
[B] We're taking a look at a guitar arrangement of A Case of You and we're [F] going to use Joni's
dulcimer parts as the basis for learning this part on guitar.
So the first thing we have to do is get in a tuning that puts us in the same tuning as
Joni's dulcimer, which is a weird one.
You want to take your first string and tune it down to [C#] C-sharp.
Second string, [E] tune down to [G#] G-sharp.
Now third string, tune up slightly to G-sharp.
You'll notice that it's the same note then as the second string.
Tune your fourth string down to C [C#]-sharp.
Fifth string down to [Em] G [G#]-sharp.
Sixth string down to C-sharp.
[C#] Now what she's [D#] got then here is a modal D tuning, [C] but she's taken [D#] it down a further
[E] semitone, presumably to be able to sing it a little [C#] more easily.
There's that modal sound of what you should find is the chord on the open strings.
[D#] And then of course we get the very famous intro.
It runs for eight bars.
I'm going to take it four bars at a time.
Here are the first [C#] four bars.
[F] So we start with
I won't worry about chord names here, let's just look at the shapes.
You want the first string at the fourth fret and the third string at the fifth fret.
Now the typical strum pattern for this song is Joni's typical dulcimer strum pattern,
which [C#] is down, slap, up, down, slap, up.
So if you haven't played any Joni dulcimer-y style guitar parts before,
[F] get in the habit of doing that.
The slap is the pick hitting the strings anywhere.
It doesn't have to get all the strings.
But the fleshy part of your strumming hand lands on the strings first,
so [G#] that you get a percussive dead sound.
[C#] So it's down, slap, up, down, slap, up.
One, two, and three, four, and one, two, and three, four.
[G#] So although I'll kind of instinctively [D#] vary that occasionally from time to time,
as Joni will [F] too, that is your basic pattern that you want to continue that feel throughout the song.
So we start on this first chord, [C#] down, slap.
And then, [Cm] you know, she plays it simply here, [G#] goes straight to the next chord,
which is the same two strings at the ninth and [D#] tenth frets, down, [G#m] slap.
[F] I'm putting in little implied [D#] upstrokes [C#] here.
Down, slap, [F#] up, [G#] down, slap, up.
They hinted at that in the intro.
[F] The next chord is ten of the first string, that's twelve of the first string,
and fourteen of the third string.
[C#] Down, [G#] slap.
Now come down to eleven of one, and twelve of three.
[C#] Up, [G#] back to the twelve and fourteen chord.
[C#] Up, slap.
[D#]
And down to nine of the first string, and ten of the third [C#] string.
Up.
And it's going to go down at the beginning of bar three.
[D#] So let's look at the rhythm of the first [Cm] two bars,
because the rhythm gets quite [F#m] syncopated here.
[C#] One, two, three, four.
One, [G#] two, [C#] and three, [F#] and four, and one.
[C#] [G#]
When we get to the actual song, you'll find that [D#] down, slap, up, down, slap
will work for [F] most of the song, but the intro she does play with this specific pattern that I'm showing you.
So we've reached bar three, we're on the ninth and tenth fret chord.
[C#] Down, slap, up, down, [F] slap.
And then come down to the same two strings, seven and nine, [C#] up.
And it'll go up, down, in fact, as we go into bar four.
[G#] [F#] One, two, [C#] and three, four, and.
Notice the chord changes on the and of four.
And bar four, [A] [G#m] out of the seven and nine [C#] fret chord,
down, slap, up, down, [G#] slap.
And bring that same shape down two frets to five and seven, up.
And in fact, it's going to go up, down as we head into bar five.
[C#] One, two, and three, [G#] four, and.
[G#m] I'm now going to play bars one to four, and [C#] slowly.
[B] We're taking a look at a guitar arrangement of A Case of You and we're [F] going to use Joni's
dulcimer parts as the basis for learning this part on guitar.
So the first thing we have to do is get in a tuning that puts us in the same tuning as
Joni's dulcimer, which is a weird one.
You want to take your first string and tune it down to [C#] C-sharp.
Second string, [E] tune down to [G#] G-sharp.
Now third string, tune up slightly to G-sharp.
You'll notice that it's the same note then as the second string.
Tune your fourth string down to C [C#]-sharp.
Fifth string down to [Em] G [G#]-sharp.
Sixth string down to C-sharp.
[C#] Now what she's [D#] got then here is a modal D tuning, [C] but she's taken [D#] it down a further
[E] semitone, presumably to be able to sing it a little [C#] more easily.
There's that modal sound of what you should find is the chord on the open strings.
[D#] And then of course we get the very famous intro.
It runs for eight bars.
I'm going to take it four bars at a time.
Here are the first [C#] four bars.
[F] So we start with
I won't worry about chord names here, let's just look at the shapes.
You want the first string at the fourth fret and the third string at the fifth fret.
Now the typical strum pattern for this song is Joni's typical dulcimer strum pattern,
which [C#] is down, slap, up, down, slap, up.
So if you haven't played any Joni dulcimer-y style guitar parts before,
[F] get in the habit of doing that.
The slap is the pick hitting the strings anywhere.
It doesn't have to get all the strings.
But the fleshy part of your strumming hand lands on the strings first,
so [G#] that you get a percussive dead sound.
[C#] So it's down, slap, up, down, slap, up.
One, two, and three, four, and one, two, and three, four.
[G#] So although I'll kind of instinctively [D#] vary that occasionally from time to time,
as Joni will [F] too, that is your basic pattern that you want to continue that feel throughout the song.
So we start on this first chord, [C#] down, slap.
And then, [Cm] you know, she plays it simply here, [G#] goes straight to the next chord,
which is the same two strings at the ninth and [D#] tenth frets, down, [G#m] slap.
[F] I'm putting in little implied [D#] upstrokes [C#] here.
Down, slap, [F#] up, [G#] down, slap, up.
They hinted at that in the intro.
[F] The next chord is ten of the first string, that's twelve of the first string,
and fourteen of the third string.
[C#] Down, [G#] slap.
Now come down to eleven of one, and twelve of three.
[C#] Up, [G#] back to the twelve and fourteen chord.
[C#] Up, slap.
[D#]
And down to nine of the first string, and ten of the third [C#] string.
Up.
And it's going to go down at the beginning of bar three.
[D#] So let's look at the rhythm of the first [Cm] two bars,
because the rhythm gets quite [F#m] syncopated here.
[C#] One, two, three, four.
One, [G#] two, [C#] and three, [F#] and four, and one.
[C#] [G#]
When we get to the actual song, you'll find that [D#] down, slap, up, down, slap
will work for [F] most of the song, but the intro she does play with this specific pattern that I'm showing you.
So we've reached bar three, we're on the ninth and tenth fret chord.
[C#] Down, slap, up, down, [F] slap.
And then come down to the same two strings, seven and nine, [C#] up.
And it'll go up, down, in fact, as we go into bar four.
[G#] [F#] One, two, [C#] and three, four, and.
Notice the chord changes on the and of four.
And bar four, [A] [G#m] out of the seven and nine [C#] fret chord,
down, slap, up, down, [G#] slap.
And bring that same shape down two frets to five and seven, up.
And in fact, it's going to go up, down as we head into bar five.
[C#] One, two, and three, [G#] four, and.
[G#m] I'm now going to play bars one to four, and [C#] slowly.
Key:
C#
G#
D#
F
G#m
C#
G#
D#
[C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] We're taking a look at a guitar arrangement of A Case of You and we're [F] going to use Joni's
dulcimer parts as the basis for learning this part on guitar.
So the first thing we have to do is get in a tuning that puts us in the same tuning as
Joni's dulcimer, which is a weird one.
You want to take your first string and tune it down to [C#] C-sharp. _ _ _
_ Second string, [E] tune down to [G#] G-sharp. _
_ _ Now third string, tune up slightly to G-sharp.
_ You'll notice that it's the same note then as the second string.
_ Tune your fourth string down to C [C#]-sharp.
_ _ _ _ _ Fifth string down to [Em] G [G#]-sharp.
_ _ Sixth string down to C-sharp.
[C#] _ _ _ _ Now what she's [D#] got then here is a modal D tuning, [C] but she's taken [D#] it down a further
[E] semitone, presumably to be able to sing it a little [C#] more easily.
_ _ There's that modal sound of what you should find is the chord on the open strings.
[D#] And then of course we get the very famous intro.
It runs for eight bars.
I'm going to take it four bars at a time.
Here are the first [C#] four bars. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] So we start with_
I won't worry about chord names here, let's just look at the shapes.
You want the first string at the fourth fret and the third string at the fifth fret.
Now the typical strum pattern for this song is Joni's typical dulcimer strum pattern,
which [C#] is down, slap, up, down, slap, up.
So if you haven't played any Joni dulcimer-y style guitar parts before,
[F] get in the habit of doing that.
The slap is the pick hitting the strings anywhere.
It doesn't have to get all the strings.
But the fleshy part of your strumming hand lands on the strings first,
so [G#] that you get a percussive dead sound. _
[C#] So it's down, slap, up, down, slap, up.
One, two, and three, four, and one, two, and three, four. _ _
[G#] So although I'll kind of instinctively [D#] vary that occasionally from time to time,
as Joni will [F] too, that is your basic pattern that you want to continue that feel throughout the song.
So we start on this first chord, [C#] down, slap.
And then, [Cm] you know, she plays it simply here, [G#] goes straight to the next chord,
which is the same two strings at the ninth and [D#] tenth frets, down, [G#m] slap.
_ [F] _ _ I'm putting in little implied [D#] upstrokes [C#] here.
Down, slap, [F#] up, [G#] down, slap, up.
They hinted at that in the intro. _ _
[F] The next chord is ten of the first string, that's twelve of the first string,
_ and fourteen of the third string.
[C#] Down, [G#] slap.
Now come down to eleven of one, and twelve of three.
[C#] Up, _ _ _ [G#] back to the twelve and fourteen chord.
[C#] Up, slap.
[D#] _ _
And down to nine of the first string, and ten of the third [C#] string.
Up.
And it's going to go down at the beginning of bar three.
_ _ _ [D#] So let's look at the rhythm of the first [Cm] two bars,
because the rhythm gets quite [F#m] syncopated here.
[C#] _ One, two, three, four.
One, [G#] two, [C#] and three, [F#] and four, and one.
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [G#] _
When we get to the actual song, you'll find that [D#] down, slap, up, down, slap
will work for [F] most of the song, but the intro she does play with this specific pattern that I'm showing you.
So we've reached bar three, we're on the ninth and tenth fret chord.
[C#] Down, slap, up, down, [F] slap.
And then come down to the same two strings, seven and nine, [C#] up.
And it'll go up, down, in fact, as we go into bar four.
[G#] _ _ [F#] One, two, [C#] and three, four, and.
Notice the chord changes on the and of four.
And bar four, [A] [G#m] out of the seven and nine [C#] fret chord,
down, slap, up, down, [G#] slap.
And bring that same shape down two frets to five and seven, up.
And in fact, it's going to go up, down as we head into bar five.
[C#] One, two, and three, [G#] four, and.
_ _ _ [G#m] I'm now going to play bars one to four, and [C#] slowly. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] We're taking a look at a guitar arrangement of A Case of You and we're [F] going to use Joni's
dulcimer parts as the basis for learning this part on guitar.
So the first thing we have to do is get in a tuning that puts us in the same tuning as
Joni's dulcimer, which is a weird one.
You want to take your first string and tune it down to [C#] C-sharp. _ _ _
_ Second string, [E] tune down to [G#] G-sharp. _
_ _ Now third string, tune up slightly to G-sharp.
_ You'll notice that it's the same note then as the second string.
_ Tune your fourth string down to C [C#]-sharp.
_ _ _ _ _ Fifth string down to [Em] G [G#]-sharp.
_ _ Sixth string down to C-sharp.
[C#] _ _ _ _ Now what she's [D#] got then here is a modal D tuning, [C] but she's taken [D#] it down a further
[E] semitone, presumably to be able to sing it a little [C#] more easily.
_ _ There's that modal sound of what you should find is the chord on the open strings.
[D#] And then of course we get the very famous intro.
It runs for eight bars.
I'm going to take it four bars at a time.
Here are the first [C#] four bars. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] So we start with_
I won't worry about chord names here, let's just look at the shapes.
You want the first string at the fourth fret and the third string at the fifth fret.
Now the typical strum pattern for this song is Joni's typical dulcimer strum pattern,
which [C#] is down, slap, up, down, slap, up.
So if you haven't played any Joni dulcimer-y style guitar parts before,
[F] get in the habit of doing that.
The slap is the pick hitting the strings anywhere.
It doesn't have to get all the strings.
But the fleshy part of your strumming hand lands on the strings first,
so [G#] that you get a percussive dead sound. _
[C#] So it's down, slap, up, down, slap, up.
One, two, and three, four, and one, two, and three, four. _ _
[G#] So although I'll kind of instinctively [D#] vary that occasionally from time to time,
as Joni will [F] too, that is your basic pattern that you want to continue that feel throughout the song.
So we start on this first chord, [C#] down, slap.
And then, [Cm] you know, she plays it simply here, [G#] goes straight to the next chord,
which is the same two strings at the ninth and [D#] tenth frets, down, [G#m] slap.
_ [F] _ _ I'm putting in little implied [D#] upstrokes [C#] here.
Down, slap, [F#] up, [G#] down, slap, up.
They hinted at that in the intro. _ _
[F] The next chord is ten of the first string, that's twelve of the first string,
_ and fourteen of the third string.
[C#] Down, [G#] slap.
Now come down to eleven of one, and twelve of three.
[C#] Up, _ _ _ [G#] back to the twelve and fourteen chord.
[C#] Up, slap.
[D#] _ _
And down to nine of the first string, and ten of the third [C#] string.
Up.
And it's going to go down at the beginning of bar three.
_ _ _ [D#] So let's look at the rhythm of the first [Cm] two bars,
because the rhythm gets quite [F#m] syncopated here.
[C#] _ One, two, three, four.
One, [G#] two, [C#] and three, [F#] and four, and one.
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [G#] _
When we get to the actual song, you'll find that [D#] down, slap, up, down, slap
will work for [F] most of the song, but the intro she does play with this specific pattern that I'm showing you.
So we've reached bar three, we're on the ninth and tenth fret chord.
[C#] Down, slap, up, down, [F] slap.
And then come down to the same two strings, seven and nine, [C#] up.
And it'll go up, down, in fact, as we go into bar four.
[G#] _ _ [F#] One, two, [C#] and three, four, and.
Notice the chord changes on the and of four.
And bar four, [A] [G#m] out of the seven and nine [C#] fret chord,
down, slap, up, down, [G#] slap.
And bring that same shape down two frets to five and seven, up.
And in fact, it's going to go up, down as we head into bar five.
[C#] One, two, and three, [G#] four, and.
_ _ _ [G#m] I'm now going to play bars one to four, and [C#] slowly. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _