Chords for How To Play Man Of Constant Sorrow - guitar lesson

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_ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
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[Fm] _ [F] _ _ In this [B] lesson, we're going to be learning Man of Constant Sorrow from the movie Brother
Where Art Thou.
_ Cool kind of bluegrassy, bluesy, it's on the bluesier end of bluegrass _ tune. _ _ _ _
It requires some alternate tuning and a capo.
So I am tuned to drop D, so all you have to do is tune your E string, your low E string,
down to a D, [F]
and then you need to place your capo on the third fret.
And that's how you're going to get more of the sound like the original recording.
And it's really just three chords. _ _
_ _ _ So it's an F, _ it's an F, and it's a 1-4-5.
_ So the shapes we're going to be using here with the capo are a D major chord shape.
You really don't need your second string, we're not going to play that string.
Just kind of let [Fm] that be muted.
_ And then we're going to play [Bb] this, _ _ _ _ _ _ [F]
so you're going to [G] bar the third fret, [Bb] high E and B strings.
Pinky's going to be on the fifth fret A string and fifth fret E string. _
_ _ [C] And then play like an A chord. _ _ _
_ _ So it's mainly those three chords, and it's the same arrangement over and over, and it
took me a little bit of time to kind of grasp exactly what they were doing.
And then there's this lick in between a lot of it.
And the lick does vary, but we're going to basically go over one version of it.
It's pretty much the same, but there's little variations. _
_ So the intro has the lick, and then we're going to play a kind of different version
of that throughout the rest of the tune.
[F] _ _
[Fm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ And that's what it sounds like.
_ [Fm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ [F] _ [D] So at the beginning I played the full lick, and then at the end there I played this kind
of shorter, well it's not really shorter, but a little bit different version of that
lick that goes throughout the rest of the tune in between certain parts.
So what [F] I'm doing there is I'm, you can let a lot of these strings ring out because we're
in open D, [G] especially this low, the low E string.
[F] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _
[F] And it's a real kind of bluesy lick.
So I'm going to start with my first finger on the third fret of the A string, and doing
a little shuffle move with my third finger to the fifth fret.
_ So we're going to hammer that down.
I'm picking the low E string and A string.
_ [G] And then you're going to hit two more picks in [F] between there. _ _ _ _ _ _
And then you do another hammer on.
_ _ And then one more downstroke.
So we got, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and after that [Ab] you come down here and hit that note and bend it just a little bit.
Third fret D string.
_ [Gm] _ And then we do a little walk down like a blues scale.
[Fm] _ _ So fifth [Eb] fret A string, third [C] fret A string, open [Fm] A, _ _ [Bb] _
fifth fret [C] E string, back to the open
A string, [Ab] third fret E string with a little [F] bend, open D, and then our D chord.
So we got, _ _ _ whoops, _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ just like that.
Now when you're playing it, you don't have to be so particular about not bumping some
of these other strings because it all kind of rings out [Fm] together.
_ _ _ [F] _
_ So you don't really want it to sound like you _ _ want some of those other strings ringing out.
So you kind of am picking sort of the top, [G] or the low E, A, and D strings all together. _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ And then [Abm] it goes to an A chord.
[Fm] So, and _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [C] _ I'm just doing down, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up. _ _ _ _
[Ab] So it [Eb] does a bar basically of D and then A.
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