Chords for Jethro Tull - Cross Eyed Mary Guitar lesson

[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [Am] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _
[Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ [Bbm] _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
[C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [B] _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ Hey, today I want to talk a little bit about another Jethro Tull song, Cross-Eyed Mary.
I kind of left out the intro right there and started with just where the vocals happen.
There's a long flute and guitar thing happening while the guitar is just kind of [N] damping on
some chords, E minor and D flat.
We'll visit more about that and the song in the extended lesson on this over at Totally Guitars.
But I just want to talk about a cool riff that [Ab] mostly happens here.
The strumming part [Em] of this song is no big deal.
So it's E minor, _ _ F, [F] _
_ _ [G] G, _ _ D, _ [D] _ [Bb] followed by [Am] this short little lick.
_ _ _ [G] _ [E] So that's [Am] A to C, [C] open to the third fret on the fifth string, [A] back to A, open, [E] up to the
E on the second fret of the fourth string, [Am] and then A [C] to C again, [G] G.
So from [D] the D, _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [G] _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [G] _ one more [D] time, even slower.
We hit the D, _
_ _ [A] _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[C] _ [G] _ [Em] and right back to E minor.
[N] _
So here's that whole little thing done pretty slow.
The important thing, though, about the picking on that lick, _ the A that you hit at the beginning
is on a beat.
So it's an eighth note.
[A] It's a down [C] on the A, up, and up on the C.
The C is held, though, for another eighth,
which means there's time for a missing down there, [N] and the next A [A] you get to is hit as an up.
[E] Down on the E, which is a quarter note.
So the next note is a down as [A] well.
Down [C] on A, up on [G] C, down on G.
[A] So it's [C] down, up, miss, [A]
up, down, [C] down, [G] up, down.
So that's the right hand [A] for that run.
[C] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [C] _
[G] _ [Em] And right back to the E minor.
_ That part happens [G] twice, E minor, [D] F, G, D with [Am] the run.
_ [G] _ [E]
Then start the [A] longer riff.
_ [Am] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [A] A, three times, [C] C to [A] A, _ E to A, _ [C] [G] C to G.
_ _ [A] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [E] _ Riffs like this _ _ frequently get done at different levels.
And in Cross-Eyed Mary, [A] it gets played there. _
[Am] _ _ [G] _ Not too tricky fingering on that.
You can use lots of different ways of doing it.
Then it [Eb] gets done a half step higher.
This is a little trickier, because now what you really have to do is make a bar across
the first fret for the notes of the fifth and fourth [Bb] strings.
_ [Db] _ [Bb] _ _ [Db] _ [Ab] _
So I end [Bb] up using my first finger here played across both the fourth and fifth strings,
my little finger for [Db] the C sharp, [Bb] my third finger for the F, and then [Db] I play the C sharp
and the [N] G sharp, both with my fourth finger flattened out across it.
So it makes it look easy, but it's actually a lot of _ [Bb] weird angles for notes.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Db] _ [Ab] _ _
[N] So hard to look at my hand and know what's going on there, but you just got to do a little
detective work and make sure that the riff is exactly the same as [A] this one, _ [Am] _
_ _ [G] _ just a half [Bb] step higher. _
[Bbm] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ [Ab] _ [A] Anyway, I'll have more about this song and a lot of other [N] cool tunes from Aqualung that
I'm trying to get lessons together for at Totally Guitars.
So come visit us at the forum there or the blog.
We've got a lot of longer lessons, and it's all free, so come check it out.
And check in with us when you can, totallyguitars.com.
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