Chords for How to Play "Steady As She Goes" by The Raconteurs on Guitar

[D] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _ [A] _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [B] _ [F#] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
_ _ [B] _ [F#] _ _ [A] _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [B] _ [F#] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
_ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [Em] What's up guys, my name is Cal and today I'm going to be teaching you how to play
Steady As She Goes by the [N] Raconteurs.
One of their most popular songs, if not their most popular song.
And that intro riff is [E] pretty much the entire song, there's only one other change besides
the solo, so it's pretty simple to play.
So let's get into it.
Okay so starting off with that intro, it sounds like this.
_ [G] _
_ _ [C#] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ And _ that's just on the G string here, and take your third finger and slide it up from
the fifth fret to the seventh fret on the G.
[D] _ _ _ And then hit that once and then hit it a second time.
_ _ [N] Then to the sixth fret on the [E] G string.
_ _ Then to the fourth _ fret on the G string with your [Bm] first finger. _ _
[B] So [F#] all together, [D] _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ [Bm] _ _ and [Em] you go through that twice.
Now it sounds a little bit plain, there's not really a lot going on there, so what I
like to do is add a little bit of vibrato.
If you guys don't know what that is, it sounds sort of like this.
_ _ _ And that's done by simply taking the note, whatever finger you're using, [Dm] and sort of
bend the string up and down really fast in small small motions that give it sort of a [E] twangy sound.
It adds a little bit of something, it's sort of personal preference whether or not you
want to do it, but it sounds like this.
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ Versus [B] _
_ _ [D] just this.
_ _ [C#] _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[C#] _ _ [B] So you can sort of hear the difference [Em] there, and your choice whether or not you want to
add that vibrato.
Okay, so moving on, we have the main riff which starts out [B] on a B minor chord, which
is just a power chord on the seventh fret low E string.
_ And this chord [Am] progression that we're going to be teaching you here is played throughout
the song, almost it is the entire song actually, it's the chorus as well, and there's only
one change which I'll go [B] over a little bit later.
So again, starting off on the seventh fret power chord, _ _ then to the [F#m] F sharp second fret
[F#] power chord, again on the low E, [E] then to the A which is on the fifth fret, [A#] so that's the
power chord on the fifth fret low E [A] string, _ then to an [E] E, and an E chord _ _ is just second
finger on the second fret A string, third finger on the second fret D string, [N] and first
finger on the first fret [E] G string.
_ So all together it's [B] this, _ _ [F#] _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [A] _
_ [E] _ _ and you play that twice, and then he changes the tempo of the
song, still the exact same chord progression, but now it sounds like this.
[B] _ [F#] _ _ _ [A] _ [E] _
_ _ [B] _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ And the timing for that does change, you can hear it change, you can kind of figure it
out, I don't really know exactly how to tell you guys what change that is, I'm not that
technical, but _ basically [B] the first time you go through _ the increments it sounds like this.
_ _ [F#m] _ _ [A] _
So [E] _ _ [F#] you can kind of tell between each time you hit that note, [A#m] sort of [F] palm mute the strings
and hit it once, [F#] _
[B] _ [F#] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[Em] and that's so you know the first [A] part, and the second part is [B] really
a lot faster, so you hit the first note, the B, [G] _ [F#m] _
[F#] and then sort of immediately [E] go to the
F sharp, [B] so the [F#] B sharp to the F [B] sharp.
[F#] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _
[C] [E] But again you can kind of figure that out, it's not too technical to _ learn, but it is
sort of difficult to explain that time difference.
Okay, so moving on, after you do that you go to the chorus, which sounds like [B] this,
_ _ [F#] _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ and again that's the exact same chord progression but now [Bm] you're just [B] strumming it, _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [A] _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
[F#] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ [F#] _ and [B] then
go right back into the [Em] intro riff.
_ So you hit the chorus, for the chorus just hit it twice basically, and then go to the
next one, _ just [E] strumming them, not that difficult.
Next up, we have the one change in the song, which is after I believe the second chorus
he does this, and it just sounds like this, [G] _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [Dm] and you get the [G] picture there.
So it starts out on the G, that's a power chord on the third fret, low E string, _ _ _
_ _ [Am] you
strum that I believe eight times, and then go to the fifth fret, [E] low E string, which
is an A chord, power chord, strum [A] that again eight times, _ and _ _ _ then up [B] to the B [Em] sharp, which
we've [B] already covered, and that's a power chord on the seventh fret, low E, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ and that
one you hit for twice as [E] long, I believe 16 notes is the exact [G] number, and then you go
[E] back and do that same pattern again, [Em] and that is all after the second chorus.
So all together, starting with the chorus, it sounds like this.
[B] _ _ [F#] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _
_ [B] _ [F#] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ Okay guys, so that's pretty much it for Steady [Cm] As She Goes, I hope you guys enjoyed [E] this
lesson, I really appreciate the support.
If you have any song suggestions, feel free to leave those in the comments section down
below, or if you have any questions, leave those there as well, I can pretty much answer
all of them.
So, hope you guys enjoyed this video,