Chords for How To Play Neil Young Four Strong Winds (intro only)

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_ _ Four Strong Winds is in the key of C and it's strummed in one of the simplest acoustic guitar strumming patterns.
Grab a C chord just as we go through the strum [C] pattern.
Down up down up up down up
one and two and and four and
It just rings [G] across the third beat and one little [F] nuance [Ab] that acoustic guitarists will regularly do on a pattern like this that really works
on a song like this is on that missed third beat [Am] just touching the bass [C] end of the chord.
It's not a proper strum.
It's not like a bass end pick.
You just touch [G] the strings on the way through.
[C] Down up down up touch up down up.
_ _ [G] That's certainly what I'm doing as I'm strumming through this _ and the whole intro all together is going to sound like this. _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] So we start off on a C chord first bar with the standard strum pattern on to on a C chord.
Now notice that on the and of three we're going to put the little finger down on the second string third fret and then [C] take
it straight off again. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ So the little finger is off off off off on off off.
_ Now to a D minor chord
[Am] where on the and of three we'll lift the index finger off the [Em] first string and then put it straight back [Dm] down again. _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ Notice that on the final upstroke on the and of [G] four
probably we're on open strings as we're moving to the G that comes next.
On the G at bar three we'll play this. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] Normal G chord [G] down up down
_ _ and then up and hammer the second string to the first fret. _ _
Now the little finger or whatever finger you're using comes [D] from the first string to the second string third fret [G] up down up.
_ If you can get the strum just going down to and up from [C] the second string there that's even better.
But if you do catch the first string open that'll be fine.
_ [G] One and two and three and four and with the and three being the hammer on going down.
And back again to C where we [C] just strum a normal C chord for the whole of the standard pattern.
_ _ _ _ _ So those are the first four bars here.
They are slowly. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Now bars five and six are a C chord going to a D minor chord in the normal strum pattern without any fingers coming on or off.
_ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ But the final two bars of the intro are a G chord and a lick that [A] comes up regularly throughout this song.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ So you're going to put this in in many places at the end of every pair of lines in fact on a G chord down up down. _
_ _ _ First string finger comes to the second string third fret come up [B] from the second string if [C] you can.
But again if you get the first [F] it won't [G] really matter.
_ _ Now that finger comes off as you go down up to the open first string. _ _
Add the first string at the first fret up. _
First string at the third fret up. _ _ _
That's bar seven.
One and two and three and four and. _ _ _
That last upstroke rings across the first beat of bar eight.
Then you'll go up on the G7 chord first string first fret. _ _
Up from the first string open chord.
_ And then come to the third to the second string third fret [A] up down [G] up. _
_ Once again going to the second string is better but if you get the first it won't matter.
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So those two bars [F] together seven and [G] eight are one. _
Two and three and four and and and and four [C] and C and the beginning of the verse.
_ _ Here's the whole intro back together.
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
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