Chords for How To Play Joni Mitchell Coyote (intro only)

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_ _ Let's get in tune for Coyote.
It's an unusual [Fm] tuning this one, although Joni likes it.
She uses it in other songs as well.
_ Your first string [E] stays on the note E. _ _
_ The second string tunes [Cm] up to C. _
_ _ Third string down to [F] F. _
_ _ [Eb] Fourth string stays [D] on D. _ _
_ _ [Dm] [Ab] Fifth string down [Gm] to G. _ _
_ [Eb] And sixth string down to C.
[C] _ _ _
_ [G] It's an unusual tuning.
It [Dm] makes a very jazzy chord on [G] the open strings.
But the chord [N] shapes around that are not too difficult.
We're going to play this for the intro.
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And then into the verse.
_ [N] So just two chord shapes here.
One is _ what would normally be an A chord shape in standard tuning.
In this tuning, the fourth and third [Eb] strings of the second fret [C] _ [Eb] would make a C major chord.
But what she does is she adds to it the second string second fret as well to make [G] what we think of as an A chord shape.
And _ creates the beautiful chord of C add 9.
And she simply plays [C] that and [G] lets it come back to the open strings.
_ So on [Cm] the first two bars, she's going bass, [G] down, up, down, up, up, up, [Dm] up.
With that final up being open strings.
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Very off the beat, as so often with her.
[Cm] One, [G] two, and three, and four, and one, and two, [Dm] and three.
And on four of that second bar, _ [Eb] if you want to, you can slide from [G] five to seven _ of the sixth string.
[Cm] And then the open sixth string again as you come into the third bar. _
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_ _ _ [N] Now, she plays that little sequence four times.
And you could play it exactly like that all four times.
_ On the intro, she slightly changes the rhythm the second and fourth times.
The second time she plays this, [Gm] _ _ _ _
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[Eb] where she's going [C] _ bass, [G] up, down, up, up, up, [Dm] down.
With that down being open and then a down up or up down on the open strings [Cm] at the end of that bar.
_ [C] _ [G] One, two, and three, and four, and one, [F] and two, three, [G] and four.
_ _ So not essential to get that change [Eb] in the rhythm in there, but she does that [Gm] in the intro. _ _
_ [N] The third time round, which is bars five and six if you're excited, it's the same as bars one and two.
And then another [Eb] slight difference in the rhythm.
And this is a rhythm that she comes back to regularly in the song. _
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_ [C] Bass, [G] up, down, up, down, up, up, [Dm] up, down.
The final up down is open strings.
_ [C] One, [G] two, and three, and four, one, and two, and [Dm] three, and four.
_ _ [A] All right, here's that intro again.
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