Chords for How To Play LE FREAK Chic Guitar Lesson - Nile Rodgers Style R&B Funk Tutorial @EricBlackmonGuitar

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[C] Hi, [Gb] _ _ and welcome to my tutorial for how to play [N] La Freak by Sheik on electric guitar.
_ The guitar is [E] tuned standard EADGBE and the key is A minor.
_ _ [B] We'll only need a few chords for this, but the trick is in the way we strum it.
[C] We're going to need an A minor 7 chord played this way.
_ _ _ _ [G] For that A minor 7, we're holding down everything at fret 5 from the D string down.
[C] _ _ _ We'll also need to play a straight A minor, holding everything from the G string [Am] down
at fret 5.
_ _ We'll need a [B] D chord here, [D] _ _
_ and that's at fret [Abm] 7, holding down the D, G, and B string only.
_ We're not going to be playing that high E string.
_ _ _ _ _ _ We'll also need a C chord formed [C] this way.
_ _ _ For [B] that one, we're going to hold down the B and high E string at fret 8, the G string
at fret 9, and the D string at fret 10.
[C] _ _
_ We'll also [B] play a B minor like [Bm] this. _ _
_ [G] And for that one, we'll hold down the G, B, and [Bm] high E string at fret 7. _ _ _
_ _ [Bbm] Now, let me attempt to show you how I play this Now Rogers style chord riff.
[Gb] _ Now, the essence of this riff is in the wrist.
I'm going to take my fingers, place them on the fret board gently, _ and just go _ like that.
_ _ So I've got a muted strum.
I'm going to gently _ turn my wrist like this.
Now, I've got my pinky resting on my high E string, [C] and I'm just kind of brushing the
strings with my pick like that.
This is a very thin pick, by the way.
I'm using a _ .53,
so it's very forgiving when I strum.
It just skates across the strings because it bends rather than stiffens up as a heavy
pick would do.
_ _ _ [E] _ When I want the [C] chord to sound, I'm just going to press the chord down with my left hand
like that.
_ So I've got my fingers resting on the strings, and when I want a chord sound, I'm going to
squeeze them, so _ like _ _ _ that.
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Now, here's the riff that we're going to be trying to learn, okay?
_ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Em] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[C] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _
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How the pressure came in and brought the chord into the [Em] picture.
_ [E] When we [C] didn't have a squeezed [D] chord, we had this chuck going on. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] We'll start our chord riff by striking the D string, [G] _ fret 5, [Em] _ [N] and then we'll move to fret 7.
_ [D] _ [G] So [B] that's_ _
And then we'll move down to an A minor chord down here, the high strings, and go down [Am] up
[G] like that.
[Am] _ _ _ _ [G] After that, we'll hammer from fret 5 on the D string to fret 7. _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] Then we'll move to our A minor 7 chord and go down up [C] like [Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ that. _
_ _ We'll go back to the 7th [A] fret D string, _ [Em] 5th fret, _ 7th fret.
[E] _ _ Then we'll go to our D chord and we'll play [D] this. _ _ _ _ _ _
That's down, up, down, and all the [E] while, we're doing [Bm] our 16th note strumming.
[D] So that's_
_ _ We're [Gb] going to do the same thing here at [C] our A minor 7.
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [Am] _
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_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
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[Am] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [C] Now occasionally while we're strumming through this, we're going to go to our B minor chord,
which [Bm] is here, _ _ _ [C] and then go to C, _ and [A] then back to our A note. _ _ _
[E] So it's going to be played like this.
_ [Em] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ So we'll start it this way. _
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[C] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Eb] Now later on in the [C] song, there's a part where we play this. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Am] _ _ Now for that part, [Bm] _
we're [C] playing our A minor 7 [Am] and we're moving to our D chord.
[D] _ _ _ _ [E] And our strumming pattern [C] is_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Now the real challenge is keeping this strumming going and playing that.
So it's going to be like this. _ _
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_ [E] So the strumming pattern needs to be [Gb] really consistent with this wrist action.
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[Bm] _ _ _ _ Now I know that some of this might seem a little bit difficult,
[Ab] but I know that if you work at it, you'll be able to do it.
_ That's La Freak by Chic on electric guitar.
_ [N] Thanks for stopping by, _ _ and have a great day.
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