Chords for LAY ME DOWN by James Raymond-TUTORIAL

_ Hey everyone, this is Jim and this is my tutorial video on how to play Lay Me Down by James Raymond.
_ And here we go with the introduction.
_ Open E chord.
[Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] In the lower right you'll see the _ _ frets.
X means don't play the string, zero [Abm] means open.
_ [Eb] Goes from low E string to the [Ebm] high E string.
_ Right here is a pull off.
[Db] _ [Ab] I'm doing it really slow so hopefully _ _ _ [Gb] you can see how it's picked and you can [Ebm] also see the [Gb] _ frets.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] And repeat.
_ _ You'll also notice that [Ab] I'm using a flat pick.
I actually [Abm] got this from the [Eb] Crosby _ [Eb] and Nash Live [Gb] DVD.
It has some pretty good close ups [Db] of a guitar player.
And there's also a [Ab] number of different tunings out there on YouTube.
Dadgad, [Gb] Drop D.
This is actually standard [Ebm] tuning and that's the way it was played [Gb] on the DVD.
And I actually find it the easiest to [Eb] play.
I actually learned it also in Dadgad and I played it that way for a while.
But I think this is a lot easier. _
_ _ _ Going into the verse.
_ [Cm] _
_ _ [Bbm] And we got a B minor but with an open E. _
[Eb] I'm going into an E minor [Ab] with a G in the bass.
[Ebm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] A suspended _ and A major. _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ Here the pinky is unnecessary.
It's just [Bbm] protecting from playing an [Gb] open G [C] when [F] you have that open E chord.
You don't have to use the pinky.
You [Bb] can just do _ [Db] _ [Bb] the_ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ A suspended [F] and A major.
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ And here we go again with the verse. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ The [Ab] vocals are harmonizing here.
Just [Eb] two voices. _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ D9. D9. _
_ [Ab] _ _ And there's the A suspended again.
And here's the [Eb] refrain which is in the guitar the same as the introduction.
[Ab] _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Db] Pull off.
[Ab] _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ _ _ And who knows?
The song may not have been played [Eb] the same way on the _ [Ab]
original recording.
But [Eb] _ [Gb] this seems to do the trick.
[Db]
This is a slide.
_ [Gb] A major. _ _
E and a [Ebm] C9.
[Eb] You see I don't have the pinky but again the [Ab] pinky is just insurance.
_ _ _ _ [B] _
_ And here's the second part of the refrain.
These are new chords.
There's a C with an A in [Bb] it.
And here's just a D minor with a G on [Ebm] top.
_ And [F] then a G major 7th.
[Gb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
This is wrong.
This should have had an F sharp in it.
[B] My fault. Sorry. _
[Ebm] I was doing it from memory and I just forgot.
[Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
Got an A on top this time.
_ [Db] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Abm] _
_ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ And we [Ab] go _ _ _ _ [B] back _ [Gb] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
to the verse.
_ _ _ And actually that's it except for the very last verse there's a change.
One chord is different.
So I'm just going to show you that real quickly.
_ Start out the verse as usual with the open E.
Here I didn't use the [Bbm] pinky insurance.
_ _ _ _ [Ebm] E minor. _
E minor with the G on the bass.
And [G] going to our A [Ab] suspended as usual.
And then right here there's a G sharp and an F sharp with a B and an E [Bbm] on top.
_ [Eb] _ _ _
_ Sorry that G is ringing.
It shouldn't. _
It's ringing against the F sharp which is where the bad dissonance was.
So it shouldn't be there.
[Ab] _
[Gb] And then you continue the verse as usual.
_ [F] _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ I think I'm going to play it through one more [Cm] time just so you can hear this [Eb] new chord. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Here we go.
[Bbm] E minor.
_ _ [Ebm] _ E with the G on the bass.
[Eb]
And here's the [Cm] new chord right [Bb] here.
And that's it.
Hope you [Gb] enjoyed it.
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