Chords for How to Play Paul Simon Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard Introduction

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_ _ _ _ _ Welcome along to the lesson on me and Julio down by the schoolyard, which if you've never played this song before
[Db] _ Well, they may have to [Ab] prize the guitar out of your arms [Gb] for the next two weeks because this is so much fun to play
we're in the key of a
_ [E] _ And we've got a kind of a calypso rhythm going on here
We'll talk about the strum pattern in just a moment
But first of all, let's look at the four chords of the very beginning introduction
_ Because the main four chords of the [A] introduction are a d [E] a e
_ But he [Eb] starts off playing them four times in a different position
So if you want to get just like the sound of [F] the record have a go at this a position of the fifth fret
In other words, it's the F chord shape, [Ab] but with the lying down [F] finger of the fifth fret
_ As we [C] strum it we're going to try and strum just the top three [A] strings _ _
_ _ Down up down up _ _ _ [B] then the chord you see on your tab on your song sheet
It's [E] easiest to follow the song sheet for this song by far
D _ 6
[D] It's a half bar covering the top four [Ab] strings at the seventh fret
But again, just try and play [Eb] the top three again down up [Bm] down up.
_ _ [Ab] _ No just down up down
_ Now _ [F] come back to the a chord [A] and go up _ _ _
_ All very [Ab] offbeat I'll put this back together in context in a moment, but let me [E] show you the fourth chord
We're going to play e out [Db] of the D chord shape
But these two fingers at the fourth fret _ _ and I'm going [E] to go down up down up _ _ _ _ [Abm] now
We'll play that four times, but if we just [Em] go back around again one time slowly.
Here's the [A] rhythm
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
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[Eb] So it's very funky the key is to get it up to [A] speed of course and
_ [F] The secret to getting this up to speed is to make sure that the wrist of your right hand has no tension in it at
_ You're going to [Ab] strum from the forearm but with a floppy wrist so that the [G] right hand can move very [Eb] freely and [A] quickly
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ There it is.
It's something like speed.
[D] We'll do that [F] four times and
Then we're going to go to the normal chord [Abm] intro which is the same four chords with the same rhythm pattern in the right hand
[Eb] But we'll [B] play a normally D normally [A] and e normally so a D a e
_ Don't worry about d6 this time.
Just play a normal D
_ Just _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ _ [Abm] make sure it's [Ab] exactly the same [A] down up down [D] up down up [A] down up
_ _ [E] down up _
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_ _ _ [F] Allow that last upstroke of each chord to be _ [Eb] a point where you're moving [Abm] to the next chord a good example of that is
[Eb] _ _
Let's run through it.
We've got the [A] A chord _ _
That last upstroke [Em] can be open [D] strings as your fingers are moving [Eb] to the D chord
Otherwise, you don't have time to move between the [A] chords
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_ _ now
[A] _ _ _
And this last up of the [Em] a chord can be open strings as [E] we're moving to the E chord _ _ _
_ _ That's a general guitar point guitarists almost always have to do that _ _ _
All right, you got that intro down or it to go [A] nicely for you _
_ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [Abm] There it is
If you want to play it exactly like the record and really this isn't important
You'll do four [N] times the first riff and three times the secret _ then we're into the