Chords for how to play "Sharp Dressed Man" by ZZ Top - guitar lesson

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_ _ _ _ [N] Okay, so Sharp Dressed Man, it's actually two very distinct licks going on here.
_ And that's what I've done in the video, in the performance part at the beginning, was
I did it in two separate tracks, okay, because [Gb] they're very different parts.
Okay, so the first part, _ you see a lot of guys playing this a lot of different [F] ways.
Some guys just [Eb] go, _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ [Db] _ I don't know, that's just not what's going on there.
Billy [C] Gibbons, _ _ he's a thumb guy, okay, so what's happening in the song is it's all bouncing
off that C note that he hits with his thumb, okay.
I'm not a thumb guy, so I'm doing it with my fingers.
But the basic lick solely is_
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_ _ [B] Okay, so if you figure out the root, in the beginning of the song, it doesn't just come in.
[Eb] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Db] It [Bm] proceeds with a double stop [C] here, _ like the C chord, just the G string and the D string. _ _ _ _
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That's the whole song right [C] at the very beginning, okay. _ _ _
_ [Fm] _ _ _ We're here, that's the D and the G string, _ _ doing it there.
I'm trying to do [D] everything with _ [Em] those two fingers, okay.
_ [E] _ _ _ Except at the beginning, I like to get my little finger in there just more solid for [C] me. _ _
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[F] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ Double stop, _ [C] _ another double stop, the [F] G and the D string, _ [C] back to the C, _ _ double stop [Ebm] on
the E flat, the D string, the [C] D string.
So, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
two hits now on the C, _ _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ [C] _ _ _ back here, [Eb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Db] _ _ _ and it's all really [Gb] staccato.
You don't want to _ [C] _ go_
_ _ [Ebm] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] It's all staccato, it's like [C] this. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ And then we've got the other guitar part, _ and you see a lot of guys playing [E] that like
this, _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ sliding it up from _ the _ _ _ _ B flat to the C, right.
The fifth there.
[F] But if you watch Billy Gibbons play this, he isn't doing that at all.
[G] What he's doing is he's going [C] flat _ _ _ _ _ _
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[C] _ _ _ _ C, _ _ _ _ _ and he's playing a C chord, [G] without _ that in it,
right, without [E] the E, _ second fret of the D string.
[C] So he's just muting that _ with his middle finger, _ or with the third finger, just sort of bent
over a bit.
_ _ Just getting_
So you're getting the C, the G, and the C.
So you get a real strong fifth there.
_ Real strong power chord, okay.
_ _ _ [Eb] And I'll give you a real hint, on this [Fm] song, you're going to want to tune down, flat that
B string, [B] okay.
Because every guitar I've ever played, that B string down in this range here, the intonation
is not right.
So if you tune your B on the tuner, peg on, [Fm] when you fret that C, that C note there on
the first fret, it's [C] going to be out of tune, okay.
And you're going to get some crazy wobbling, you [G] know.
It's going to sound like_
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Okay, so I'm not going to work for that power chord.
So [D] flat that B string, okay.
[C] And _ the strumming on that, from [F] what I can tell, is [G] he's [C] _ _ upstroke from the C, right.
_ Downstroke. _ _
So we're not playing the [E] high E or the low E when we hit the chord.
And [G] the preface to the chord, of course we're playing the E string.
[C] _ _ _ _ One time [G] on that G note.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ That's what he's doing.
He could be going _ _ _ opposite, like down, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
okay.
I can't really tell.
_ _ They both sort of sound, you know, [G] very close.
_ Okay, so don't do this.
[C] _ _ That's not right.
Do this.
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Okay, and then the next bit is just that bar chord on the C, right.
[Bb] _ _ You're just [C] hitting the_ _ _
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_ _ [C] _ [Bb] _ _ Okay, and then we're here.
And I change fingers there.
I just feel more comfortable [Fm] going_
_ My third finger instead of my little finger.
But you can do that.
_ _ [A] It just feels better for [Fm] me doing it this way.
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_ [Db] Okay, so, so far [C] we've got_
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_ [D] Yeah, then here.
[C] _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Eb] Okay.
And then [E] to get back into [F] _ the_
[A] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [Db] E flat, E sharp, [Bb] D sharp.
_ [C] _ _ [Eb] So that's just like E flat, _ [Bb] B flat.
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_ _ [Ab] _ These are all [Eb] just playing power chords, right.
I'm not going to [Bb] play anything on [Eb] the B string.
It's going to be all A string, D [F] string, G string, E string, [Bb] A string, D [Eb] string.
So power chords, right.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
And I will tell you the second time that [C] you play that part,
_ you actually hold that C a little bit longer.
So instead of _ going_ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ And that's it for the song. _ _
Unfortunately, unless you get two guitars in a band,
you're going to have to do this whole thing by yourself, right.
_ So you [F] have to compromise [Gb] it, okay.
So [Ab] what you're going to have to do is something [C] like this.
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_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
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_ [F] _ _ And so on.
Anyways, _ fantastic lick, _ riff, whatever you want to call it.
All right, hope you got something out of it.
See [N] you. _ _