Chords for How to Play Willin' - Little Feat

Hey, hello all.
[G] _ Welcome to, this is a chord explanation for that Little Feet song called
_ Willin'.
If you're watching this you already know what a genius Lowell George was, and
what a waste it is that he died so young, but _ in his short time around he left some
really cool stuff. _ _
The intro chords are the same as the verse chords, _ but we'll walk through
the whole thing in order and it'll be [A] fairly self explanatory I hope.
[Gm]
It [G] starts off, it's
in G in standard tuning.
Lowell worked a lot in open G and sometimes open A, which is the
same, just tuned up a little bit, but this one's in [Em] standard tuning. _
_ And it [G] starts in
sort of an octave G up here.
So really for when you're doing these chords, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ you're only
playing these four middle strings, you're not [Em] playing the _ two [G] E strings on the top and
the bottom.
So for strumming you're just kind of muting those, in fact I mute the two E
strings, [Em] the bottom E is muted with my thumb and the top E is muted [G] with my pinky, which
is also fretting this other one.
So you can do a full _ strum like that and not get the
ringing of either of the E strings. _
_ _ So they're just [A#m] muted like that.
So it starts in, you
want to put your [B] pinky on the B string in the twelfth fret, [Em] _
_ [B] and then two frets [D#] down
from it, your [Em] pointer finger goes on the A string in the tenth fret, so it'll [A] look like
[Am] that, [G] _ _ with a blank fret in between.
So it starts, _ _ and the second _ chord is almost identical
except _ the _ _ [Gm] pointer finger only goes down one fret, so that's on the [F#] A string here, [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] what
and your pinky finger stays on, they both stay on the same strings, but it goes from
the twelfth and the tenth fret to [F#m] the ninth, [A] _ _ _ [C#] or [G#] the twelfth, [F#m] nine and ten.
[G] So you go _ [F#m] _
[Em] with
no space, [A#m] no fret, open fret between them, _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
and then slide that whole fingering position
down two [Em] frets.
_ _ _ _ Same thing again with no space in between them.
So, [G] so far we got, _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ then it
goes down another, _ it slides down again, but then it's back to the same fingering as
the original one, with a blank fret in between them, so we'll get to that.
_ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ So on [E] that one,
your pointer finger has moved down two frets, [B] and your pinky [Em] has only moved down one.
_ _ [G] _ _ Okay,
so _ then _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ move it all down again two frets, with a blank [C] space in between.
_ _ _ [G] So we got those _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ two, [G] and then G, _ _ _ _ _ [C] C, [G] then slide that up to D, _ even with the open G string [C] ringing.
[G] _ _ _ So
the ending goes, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
and when I go up on that [C] slide up, [G] _ _
I'm still, I'm muting that E string,
both E strings again, so you're only getting those, _ you're getting that D chord with an
open G in it without the E strings ringing on, I guess, _ [A#]
[Am] I suppose you could [G] cover that
G up here, but I just mute it. _ _
So that's the intro, _ _ _ _ and _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ [C] _
[G] _ _ _ then he goes into the,
I've been [C] from the song, C [D] to D, _ _ I can feel it all night, back [G] to G. _
Then it does a climb up like
this, G, every kind of [Am] rig, _ _ _ [G] all you're covering is that, _ _ which is another way of playing a G,
except take both the E's off.
So it's, every kind of rig that's ever been [C] seen me, _ _
_ _ _ driven by a drone.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ And then, if you give me, and then it [C] goes to C, _ and then walk down that same
walk up that you just did.
[G] That C to that G, _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] [G] I'll be with it, like that.
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ And then it starts again,
for that piano [D] solo, and [G] that's the whole song.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ That's everything.
_ _ If you have any questions,
email me. _