Chords for It Don't Come Easy by Ringo Starr Guitar Lesson

_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _
_ [C] _ [G] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ [C] _ [G] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
[C] You know it [D] don't come easy.
[Am] It don't come easy.
[C] You know [G] it don't [D] come easy.
_ _ Got to pay your [Am] dues if you want to sing the [C] blues.
You know it [D] don't come easy.
You won't have [Am] to shout or leap [C] or bow.
You can even [D] play the music.
[F]
Forget about the past and [G] all your sorrow.
_ _ [F]
The future won't last.
[A] It will soon be over tomorrow.
[D]
I can't ask [Am] for much.
I only want [C] your trust.
And you know it [D] don't come easy.
It's not [Am] my fault.
[C] Another time.
_ [D] _ _ [E]
Here are the chords that are needed.
You'll need an open D, an open A minor, an open C,
an F bar chord on the first, a G bar chord on the third,
and an A bar chord on the fifth that will manipulate into different shapes.
The basic structure of [D] this song is it starts off with a D,
[Am] to an A minor, [C] to a C, [Em]
[D] back to a D.
For the verse, the [F] second part is F, [G] to a G, _
[F] _ [A] to an A.
[N] You can turn the C chord into a C major 7 chord by removing your first finger.
It sounds [C] like this.
And you know it [D] don't come easy.
[Ab]
Here's the opening [D] riff.
_ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
[D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ Here's the opening riff played slowly. _
_ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [D] _
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ [D] _ _ [A] _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ In the first part of the song, you play the [N] riff two times with no vocals,
and then the next two times you play it, you play it with vocals.
So with the [D] vocals it sounds like this.
[G] It don't come [Am] easy.
[C] You know [D] it don't come easy.
_ [G] It don't [Am] come easy.
[C] You know it don't [D] come easy. _ _
At the end of the song, [Ab] you just play the riff [D] two times,
and then you end it with, _ _ so you end it with that hammer on and pull off
of the third fret note on the first string. _ _
[B] Here's the tablature for the intro and outro riff.
The lines are the strings of the guitar,
and the numbers on them are the frets that are played.
_ In the second part, when it [F] goes to the A chord, I do some changes [A] to that chord.
It sounds like_
_ _ _ [D] I don't ask [G] for much, [A] I just want_
So you hit the A chord, and then you can move your pinky down a string.
_ So now you're playing an A7 suspended fourth chord.
_ Take the pinky off when you're playing an A7,
and then you can put it here on the seventh fret of the second [Gbm] string.
It's an A6 or [A] A13, up to an A7.
So I'm moving my pinky up to the eighth fret,
[Gbm] back down to the seventh fret,
[A] and then I release the pinky and I have an A7 again.
So it sounds like_
_ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [N] I've divided the solo into three sections.
I'll play each section, and then I'll show the tablature for that section.
Here's the guitar [Abm] solo.
[E] _ _ _ [C] _ [Gm] _
_ [D] _ [E] _ [Db] _ [Ab] _ [C] _ [G] _ [C] _
[Dm] _ _ [Am] _ [D] _ _ [G] Here's section one of the solo, played [Gb] slowly.
_ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ Here's [Gm] _ _ the tablature for section one of the solo. _ _
_ _ _ _ Here's section two of the solo, played [Dm] slowly.
_ [Gbm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [C] _
_ Here's [B] the tablature for section two of the solo. _ _
_ _ _ _ Here's section [Ab] three of the solo, [Cm] played slowly.
[G] _ _ _ [C] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[F] _ [A] _ [E] _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _
[N] Here's the tablature for section three of the solo. _ _ _ _ _