Chords for How to play 'Take It Easy' by The Eagles

[G] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] Hi, Shane back with [N] this guitar at work.
This has always been a favorite of mine, Take It
Easy by The Eagles.
Wonderful song.
It's really just straight ahead chords, nothing crazy
going on, but I wanted to give you the authentic intro for [G] this.
It's so cool to hear what's
actually going on in the record, to add that to your basic campfire playing.
It's [N] immediately
recognizable as the intro to Take It Easy.
We're going to need here a big kit sheet.
You've got your sheets in front of you, I hope, from class.
Here's a G chord.
Now, some
of this will be new to you.
I'm going to call this a big kid's G.
There's no other name
for it to distinguish it from other G chords.
You do need to finger your G like this.
You
might be very used to this G right here, which is 2, 1, 3, and 4 finger-wise.
This one here,
ring finger, low E, middle finger on the A string, and pinky.
A lot of people struggle
with that stretch between the ring finger and the pinky, or that distance between them.
Get that thumb nice and low.
If your thumb's creeping up, you'll have all sorts of problems.
[G] Let's keep him nice and low.
Come in from underneath the guitar so you're getting all
the stretch.
See that little curl in the pinky is a good idea.
We'll call that Van Halen
pinky.
Whoa, they're doing reno's, and I think it sounds like they're coming through the
ceiling again.
Here's G, your new G, big kid's G.
Let's get our chord straight here first.
Now, C slash G, you'll see a diagram there for him.
To get him, I'm going to bring my
middle finger one down toward the floor, and I'll add the first finger right there,
first fret of that B string.
[C] There we go.
Beautiful sound.
That guy, let's go [G] from the
top again.
Here's your big kid's G, G right there.
Just one strum for now.
We'll find
a pattern in a sec.
G, and here's C slash G, [Cm] middle finger comes down toward the floor,
and first finger is added there at the first fret.
Hope you get a good close-up of that.
Notice the ring finger didn't move.
He stays [C] put.
It's a C slash G, is the name of that
chord.
[G] Now, D minor 11 slash G.
Sorry about the name of that.
Nothing we can do about
that.
All I have to do is take the middle finger, bring him one down toward the floor.
There you go.
[C] That's the last chord in that intro.
[D] Let's review all of those.
Here's [G] a
G, big kid's G, _ _ C slash G, middle finger down toward the floor, add the first [C] finger right
there.
Good, and here's your middle finger coming down toward the floor.
That's a D minor
11 slash G, and we're back to the big [G] kid's G right here.
There we go.
Now, let's get
our pattern going in the right hand.
You'll see at the bottom of your first page, standard,
standard strum.
I'm going to go down, down, up, up, down, up.
Now, the G gets two in the
very beginning, in the intro like that, so let's do it twice.
G, down, down, up, up,
down, up.
If this strumming pattern is new to you, notice there are two ups in a row
in the middle of that pattern.
You don't want to get stuck here.
I'm going to go down,
down, up.
You don't want to get stuck there because you need another upstroke.
Do what
we call a ghost stroke.
You do do a downstroke in between those two ups, but you don't hit
the guitar.
It looks this way.
I'll exaggerate it.
It's going down, down, up, up, down, up.
Gets you in position for the next upstroke.
Here we go.
Here's G again.
Down, down, up,
up, down, up, down, up, up, down, up.
Now, C slash G gets one pattern.
Let's get to that
chord.
[C] Down, down, up, up, down, up.
D minor 11 slash G, middle finger's [G] coming down [Am] and
down, down, up, up, down, up.
[G] We're back to the G.
You repeat all of that.
Let me play
it at a medium clip here.
Three, four, down, down, up, down, C [C] slash G, D minor 11 here,
[Am] _ back to G.
[G] Down, down, up, up, down.
Repeating that.
C slash G.
[C] _ Good.
D minor [Dm] 11.
_ [G] Now sit
on a G.
_ Good.
_ The vocal's in at that point.
Excellent.
That's your intro.
The rest of
the song, you know your G's, your D's, your C's, your A minors, your E minors.
You'll
be totally fine.
When a chord is bracketed, like you see in the second line where he says
I've got seven women on my mind, you see a G bracketed, then you see a D bracketed.
That
means two beats a piece.
On my charts anyway, brackets mean half the normal times.
In this
case, two beats each.
You would dispense with that pattern and just literally go down, up,
down, up.
We're counting that one and two and, then you go to [D] your D, three and four
and.
You don't have to play the fancy pattern.
Then you hit the C chord over top of the word
mind and [C] C.
Now we return to the fancy pattern.
Right.
Let [G] me take it from the top of that
verse.
Three, four, down, down, up.
Another one.
Now two beats on G.
One and two, D, [D] three
[C] and C.
Back to the main pattern.
You got G [G] coming, four that want to own me.
There's
a D right here, [D] two that want to stone me.
C [Em] coming, [C] C down, G.
[Em] _ [G] _ Your chorus, see a bit,
E minors, C's, G's, piece of cake for you.
So enjoy that.
Really try to work on that
intro.
We're going to need that big kid's G for other things.
So make sure you get a
good handling.
Really worth knowing.
That was Take It Easy by the Eagles.
Wait a second.
Let me give you an alternative intro for that.
Wait a second.
For those of you that want
another cool thing to do here is on the intro, instead of doing the full strum, especially
if you have a buddy you're playing with, your buddy could do the strum and you could do
this.
I'm going to strum the chord and pound away on the bass note.
Let me do that again.
So strum again _ _ _ _ and here C slash G, [C] give it a strum, [G] pound away on the same bass note
and D minor [Am] 11 slash A, strum it and [G] pound away on the bass note.
That's kind of neat.
Let me do that again here.
Strum and two and three and four and strum and two and three
C slash [C] G [G] and D minor 11 slash.
[C] Good [G] and quicker. _
One, two, three, [C] C slash G. _ _
G, [G] _ three, four,
one, two, three, four, [C] _ [G] yeah and G. _
Yeah, that's a neat little thing.
So you get your friend
playing the basic pattern on G and the C slash G, etc.
in the intro and you can do the bass
thing.
They complement each other quite well.
Just a little thought there.
We'll see you
again soon.
Bye bye now.
Cheers.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _