Chords for How To Play Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird

[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ Hey, what's up you guys?
Marty [C] Schwartz here.
Out of breath, rocking too [D] hard.
Anyway, bringing you this classic lesson right now.
This is the song portion. _
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It's a pretty nice little spot.
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But anyway, [D] let's break it [E] down right now.
Zoom in and do [C] it.
Here we [D] go.
All right, hey, we're [B] back.
We're going to play a G [G] major chord. _ _
_ I'm doing the _ [Eb] kind of [Db] G I like [Eb] with the ring finger [D] on the third fret [Eb] of the B, [D] pinky on
the third fret of the [N] high E, _ [C] middle on the third of the low E, index [D] on the second [G] of
the A.
_ _ That way you can [Eb] pivot your ring finger _ to go to the next chord, [D] which is D major. _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ G, G, [D] D, _ _ then E [Em] minor. _ _
[D] Then we need that E minor chord.
[Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] Then F. _ _
_ _ If you can play a full F bar chord, great.
_ I like this [B] F, and it goes [D] with C really well.
Ring finger on the third [C] of the A, [Db] pinky on the third of the [C] D, [F] _ _
middle [C] on the second of
the G, [F] _ _ _ [C]
index on the [F] first of the B.
_ _ _ [D]
My palm's kind of [Db] muting that high E.
If it gets [C] in
there, that's okay.
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] That goes really nice to C because the ring finger _ and the index finger are already where
they need to be.
[D] Pinky comes off, middle finger [Db] moves up to the second fret of [F] the D string.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Then the [D] D. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I'll show you a rhythm here in a second.
Let's go through all those [G] chords again.
_ G, _
_ _ [D] D, _ _ _ [Em] E minor. _ _ _ _ _
Stays on that E minor.
Then [F] _ F, _
_ [C] _ C, _ _ _ [D] _
_ D, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ G, _ _ _
[D] _ D, _ _ [Em] E minor.
_ _ _ _ _ Then F, [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C]
C, _ _ _ [D] _ D, _ _ _ _ and that's it. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Up, down, up, down, [Dm] up, down, up, down, up, _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ down.
_ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ And so then there's the_
_ [D] You cannot [Eb]
change_
_ _ _ _ [Db] _ _
[Cm] And that's no new chords.
It's just F, [E] _ C, _ [D] and D.
_ [F] _
_ So_
[C] F, C, D, you [D] cannot _ _ _ _ change_
_ _ _ [F] Again_
F, _
_ [C] _ C, _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ D_ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
You [D] get the idea.
_ _ So then [C] that rock and roll section [A] there at the [Eb] end_
[D] You can do power chords.
I'm doing a full major bar chord.
_ [Cm] Starting on the 3rd fret, which is [G] G.
_ _ _ _ That's a G.
This is a G also.
Then _ _ I [Bb] move it up _ a minor 3rd distance.
So the bar now is on the 6th fret.
And you call that Bb major.
_ _ Then up a [C] whole step, and that's C.
_ _ _ And I'm just doing_
Down, down, [G] down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ And so you could do [D] a [G] little_
[Eb] On the [Dm] F bar [Eb] chord right here.
First fret [Em] bar, same shape.
So you could do that for [C] little tags.
[G] Um, _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ two and three and four [C] and one and two and three and four and one and two and three
[G] and four _ [Bb] and one and two and three and [C] four and one and two and three and four and one
and [F] two and [G] four. _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [C] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, [G] yeah.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dbm] You know, all that [B] stuff, which _ I'm going to be really excited to do on my Les [F] Paul cranked up.
[Eb] But [C] that's going to get you _ all the, all [Dm] the, you know, [Db] _ [N] the _ _ meat _ [G] _ and potatoes, the chord
progression, [Eb] you know, the song itself, especially [D] a lot of people watch these videos [C] to, to
[Bb] perform these solos.
So this is going to get [C] you through that.
_ _ And it's a classic, so I hope it [A] helps.
All right, there [D] it was.
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