Chords for Learning to Fly Guitar Lesson - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Tempo:
71.85 bpm
Chords used:
G
C
Am
E
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[C] [G]
[Am] [C]
[G] [C] [G]
[F] [C] [N] Hey guys, it is Carl Brown from Guitar Lessons 365.com.
I'm going to do another one of my favorite Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers songs today
called Learning to Fly.
This one is a simple, pretty much just one chord progression, but it just shows you what
you can do with a great vocal melody.
It's just a fantastic song.
We just went, you know, some simple chords.
All right, so I'm going to just focus on Tom Petty's part here, like he would play live,
just the acoustic parts without the slide guitar parts or anything.
Just sticking with the basics.
So let's start here.
Now I've mentioned [G] before that Tom Petty, he likes to fill out the sound of the chords,
[C] but a lot of times just holding the third fret there on the high E string, it creates
like some, like an F add 9 chord and [Am] an A minor [G] 7.
But [C] don't really worry about that.
Just [G] keep your pinky up there and it's going to sound great.
All right, so let's start here with this F chord.
Now the way he likes to play his F a lot, once again, at the third fret there on the
high E string.
First fret on [A] the B, second on [F] the G, third on the D.
I'm in standard tuning here, by the way.
So we're just going to have [G] this, kind of strumming those four strings.
[C] If you want to grab with your thumb this low F, which most people wouldn't want to, it'll
fill up the sound a little bit, but it sounds great just with those four strings together.
So you go from there to a C chord by just taking these two fingers, the middle and the
ring finger, and moving them up one string to it.
It makes it a C chord.
All right, now while you're still holding [G] the pinky down, all you got to do is change
one [Ab] finger over to the, from the, that's holding that C on the third [N] fret of the A string,
over to holding the second fret of the [Am] G string.
Now that's an A minor chord with that note on top, and with that note on top it makes
it an A minor 7.
And then we're going to resolve that down [G] to a G chord.
[Bm] So that's the G chord with the open B string, which is very important for this song because
there's a little melodic figure [G] that he does in there.
It goes from a G to a Gsus4 back to a G.
Now just so [E] you'll know what that is before we get to all [G] the rhythms here, that's the
open B string, then add the first fret on the B, and then release it again.
So all together we have [C] this.
[G] [C] [Am] [G]
[C] So the rhythm, if I slow it down here, it's just a down-up, simple down-up rhythm.
You see how that, how it down-up, and then that down is kind of not hit, the second down,
and then you're going to move over to the C chord, hit that with an upstroke.
So we have this one more time.
Then it's [A] up-down-up after that.
So we have this.
[C]
And then you're going to do the same rhythm going from the A to the A minor to the G.
[G]
Now when you get to this G, then we have that, just the G, the open, add the first fret,
and then back [C] down.
So all together.
[Am] [G]
[C] [Am]
[G] [G]
[C] [G] Now [E] when he starts building up on that last little figure, you'll see him hold this G major.
[Ab] You'll see him just going between that open [G] B to the first fret on the B and back.
[Ab] He's going down-up, down-up, [G] down-up.
And you're going to do that 0-1-0 on the B string five times.
[N] Now you're going to hear that a couple of times.
And one of the times, it goes into this different rhythm figure with the same chords, and it
sounds [C] like this.
[Am]
[G] [C] [G] [E]
It's a way of just kind of mixing it up even though it's the same chords.
So that pattern that [C] they do, it's a down-up, down-up, down on the first, this F chord,
obviously twice as fast.
And then you're going to go to the C and just do a slow down-up, so like this.
[A] And then we're going to start the A minor with that same down-up, down-up, down rhythm,
kind of [Am] fast.
[G] And then go to the G chord and go down-up, with that adding the note on the B string,
and then back without the note, [C] the down.
So we have this all together.
[Am]
[G] [C] [G]
He's back to just strumming normal [C] after that.
[Am] [G]
Alright, so it's a great song, fun song to play, [N] and pretty easy, no tricky bar chords
or anything like that.
You just [Am] got to keep that pinky up there, and it really fills out the sound, [E] and it sounds great.
So I hope you guys enjoyed it.
I'll see you again soon for GuitarLessons365.com.
[Am] [C]
[G] [C] [G]
[F] [C] [N] Hey guys, it is Carl Brown from Guitar Lessons 365.com.
I'm going to do another one of my favorite Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers songs today
called Learning to Fly.
This one is a simple, pretty much just one chord progression, but it just shows you what
you can do with a great vocal melody.
It's just a fantastic song.
We just went, you know, some simple chords.
All right, so I'm going to just focus on Tom Petty's part here, like he would play live,
just the acoustic parts without the slide guitar parts or anything.
Just sticking with the basics.
So let's start here.
Now I've mentioned [G] before that Tom Petty, he likes to fill out the sound of the chords,
[C] but a lot of times just holding the third fret there on the high E string, it creates
like some, like an F add 9 chord and [Am] an A minor [G] 7.
But [C] don't really worry about that.
Just [G] keep your pinky up there and it's going to sound great.
All right, so let's start here with this F chord.
Now the way he likes to play his F a lot, once again, at the third fret there on the
high E string.
First fret on [A] the B, second on [F] the G, third on the D.
I'm in standard tuning here, by the way.
So we're just going to have [G] this, kind of strumming those four strings.
[C] If you want to grab with your thumb this low F, which most people wouldn't want to, it'll
fill up the sound a little bit, but it sounds great just with those four strings together.
So you go from there to a C chord by just taking these two fingers, the middle and the
ring finger, and moving them up one string to it.
It makes it a C chord.
All right, now while you're still holding [G] the pinky down, all you got to do is change
one [Ab] finger over to the, from the, that's holding that C on the third [N] fret of the A string,
over to holding the second fret of the [Am] G string.
Now that's an A minor chord with that note on top, and with that note on top it makes
it an A minor 7.
And then we're going to resolve that down [G] to a G chord.
[Bm] So that's the G chord with the open B string, which is very important for this song because
there's a little melodic figure [G] that he does in there.
It goes from a G to a Gsus4 back to a G.
Now just so [E] you'll know what that is before we get to all [G] the rhythms here, that's the
open B string, then add the first fret on the B, and then release it again.
So all together we have [C] this.
[G] [C] [Am] [G]
[C] So the rhythm, if I slow it down here, it's just a down-up, simple down-up rhythm.
You see how that, how it down-up, and then that down is kind of not hit, the second down,
and then you're going to move over to the C chord, hit that with an upstroke.
So we have this one more time.
Then it's [A] up-down-up after that.
So we have this.
[C]
And then you're going to do the same rhythm going from the A to the A minor to the G.
[G]
Now when you get to this G, then we have that, just the G, the open, add the first fret,
and then back [C] down.
So all together.
[Am] [G]
[C] [Am]
[G] [G]
[C] [G] Now [E] when he starts building up on that last little figure, you'll see him hold this G major.
[Ab] You'll see him just going between that open [G] B to the first fret on the B and back.
[Ab] He's going down-up, down-up, [G] down-up.
And you're going to do that 0-1-0 on the B string five times.
[N] Now you're going to hear that a couple of times.
And one of the times, it goes into this different rhythm figure with the same chords, and it
sounds [C] like this.
[Am]
[G] [C] [G] [E]
It's a way of just kind of mixing it up even though it's the same chords.
So that pattern that [C] they do, it's a down-up, down-up, down on the first, this F chord,
obviously twice as fast.
And then you're going to go to the C and just do a slow down-up, so like this.
[A] And then we're going to start the A minor with that same down-up, down-up, down rhythm,
kind of [Am] fast.
[G] And then go to the G chord and go down-up, with that adding the note on the B string,
and then back without the note, [C] the down.
So we have this all together.
[Am]
[G] [C] [G]
He's back to just strumming normal [C] after that.
[Am] [G]
Alright, so it's a great song, fun song to play, [N] and pretty easy, no tricky bar chords
or anything like that.
You just [Am] got to keep that pinky up there, and it really fills out the sound, [E] and it sounds great.
So I hope you guys enjoyed it.
I'll see you again soon for GuitarLessons365.com.
Key:
G
C
Am
E
A
G
C
Am
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [N] Hey guys, it is Carl Brown from Guitar Lessons 365.com.
I'm going to do another one of my favorite Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers songs today
called Learning to Fly.
This one is a simple, pretty much just one chord progression, but it just shows you what
you can do with a great vocal melody.
_ It's just a fantastic song.
We just went, you know, some simple chords.
All right, so I'm going to just focus on Tom Petty's part here, like he would play live,
just the acoustic parts without the slide guitar parts or anything.
Just sticking with the basics.
So let's start here.
Now I've mentioned [G] before that Tom Petty, he likes to fill out the sound of the chords,
[C] but a lot of times just holding the third fret there on the high E string, it creates
like some, like an F add 9 chord and [Am] an A minor [G] 7.
But [C] don't really worry about that.
Just [G] keep your pinky up there and it's going to sound great.
All right, so let's start here with this F chord.
Now the way he likes to play his F a lot, once again, at the third fret there on the
high E string.
First fret on [A] the B, second on [F] the G, third on the D.
I'm in standard tuning here, by the way.
So we're just going to have [G] this, kind of strumming those four strings.
[C] If you want to grab with your thumb this low F, which most people wouldn't want to, it'll
fill up the sound a little bit, but it sounds great just with those four strings together.
So you go from there to a C chord by just taking these two fingers, the middle and the
ring finger, and moving them up one string to it.
It makes it a C chord.
_ All right, now while you're still holding [G] the pinky down, all you got to do is change
one [Ab] finger over to the, from the, that's holding that C on the third [N] fret of the A string,
over to holding the second fret of the [Am] G string.
_ Now that's an A minor chord with that note on top, and with that note on top it makes
it an A minor 7.
_ And then we're going to resolve that down [G] to a G chord. _ _ _
[Bm] So that's the G chord with the open B string, which is very important for this song because
there's a little melodic figure [G] that _ he does in there.
It goes from a G to a Gsus4 back to a G.
Now just so [E] you'll know what that is before we get to all [G] the rhythms here, that's the
open B string, then add the first fret on the B, and then release it again.
So all together we have [C] this. _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ [G] _
[C] So the rhythm, if I slow it down here, it's just a down-up, simple down-up rhythm. _
_ You see how that, _ how it down-up, and then that down is kind of not hit, the second down,
and then you're going to move over to the C chord, hit that with an upstroke.
So we have this _ one more time. _ _
Then it's [A] up-down-up after that.
So we have this.
[C] _ _ _
And then you're going to do the same rhythm going from the A to the A minor to the G.
[G] _
Now when you get to this G, then we have that, _ _ _ _ _ just the G, the open, add the first fret,
and then back [C] down.
So all together.
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ Now [E] when he starts building up on that last little figure, you'll see him hold this G major. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] You'll see him just going between that open [G] B to the first fret on the B and back.
_ _ _ [Ab] He's going down-up, down-up, [G] down-up.
And you're going to do that 0-1-0 on the B string five times. _ _ _
_ _ [N] Now you're going to hear that a couple of times.
And one of the times, it goes into this different rhythm figure with the same chords, and it
sounds [C] like this.
_ [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [E]
It's a way of just kind of mixing it up even though it's the same chords.
So that pattern that [C] they do, it's a down-up, down-up, down on the first, this F chord,
_ obviously twice as fast.
_ And then you're going to go to the C and just do a slow down-up, so like this.
_ _ [A] And then we're going to start the A minor with that same down-up, down-up, down rhythm,
kind of [Am] fast.
_ _ [G] And then go to the G chord and go down-up, with that adding the note on the B string,
and then back without the note, [C] the down.
So we have this all together.
_ _ [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _
He's back to just strumming normal [C] after that.
_ [Am] _ _ [G] _
Alright, so it's a great song, fun song to play, [N] and pretty easy, no tricky bar chords
or anything like that.
You just [Am] got to keep that pinky up there, and it really fills out the sound, [E] and it sounds great.
So I hope you guys enjoyed it.
I'll see you again soon for GuitarLessons365.com. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [N] Hey guys, it is Carl Brown from Guitar Lessons 365.com.
I'm going to do another one of my favorite Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers songs today
called Learning to Fly.
This one is a simple, pretty much just one chord progression, but it just shows you what
you can do with a great vocal melody.
_ It's just a fantastic song.
We just went, you know, some simple chords.
All right, so I'm going to just focus on Tom Petty's part here, like he would play live,
just the acoustic parts without the slide guitar parts or anything.
Just sticking with the basics.
So let's start here.
Now I've mentioned [G] before that Tom Petty, he likes to fill out the sound of the chords,
[C] but a lot of times just holding the third fret there on the high E string, it creates
like some, like an F add 9 chord and [Am] an A minor [G] 7.
But [C] don't really worry about that.
Just [G] keep your pinky up there and it's going to sound great.
All right, so let's start here with this F chord.
Now the way he likes to play his F a lot, once again, at the third fret there on the
high E string.
First fret on [A] the B, second on [F] the G, third on the D.
I'm in standard tuning here, by the way.
So we're just going to have [G] this, kind of strumming those four strings.
[C] If you want to grab with your thumb this low F, which most people wouldn't want to, it'll
fill up the sound a little bit, but it sounds great just with those four strings together.
So you go from there to a C chord by just taking these two fingers, the middle and the
ring finger, and moving them up one string to it.
It makes it a C chord.
_ All right, now while you're still holding [G] the pinky down, all you got to do is change
one [Ab] finger over to the, from the, that's holding that C on the third [N] fret of the A string,
over to holding the second fret of the [Am] G string.
_ Now that's an A minor chord with that note on top, and with that note on top it makes
it an A minor 7.
_ And then we're going to resolve that down [G] to a G chord. _ _ _
[Bm] So that's the G chord with the open B string, which is very important for this song because
there's a little melodic figure [G] that _ he does in there.
It goes from a G to a Gsus4 back to a G.
Now just so [E] you'll know what that is before we get to all [G] the rhythms here, that's the
open B string, then add the first fret on the B, and then release it again.
So all together we have [C] this. _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ [G] _
[C] So the rhythm, if I slow it down here, it's just a down-up, simple down-up rhythm. _
_ You see how that, _ how it down-up, and then that down is kind of not hit, the second down,
and then you're going to move over to the C chord, hit that with an upstroke.
So we have this _ one more time. _ _
Then it's [A] up-down-up after that.
So we have this.
[C] _ _ _
And then you're going to do the same rhythm going from the A to the A minor to the G.
[G] _
Now when you get to this G, then we have that, _ _ _ _ _ just the G, the open, add the first fret,
and then back [C] down.
So all together.
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ Now [E] when he starts building up on that last little figure, you'll see him hold this G major. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] You'll see him just going between that open [G] B to the first fret on the B and back.
_ _ _ [Ab] He's going down-up, down-up, [G] down-up.
And you're going to do that 0-1-0 on the B string five times. _ _ _
_ _ [N] Now you're going to hear that a couple of times.
And one of the times, it goes into this different rhythm figure with the same chords, and it
sounds [C] like this.
_ [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [E]
It's a way of just kind of mixing it up even though it's the same chords.
So that pattern that [C] they do, it's a down-up, down-up, down on the first, this F chord,
_ obviously twice as fast.
_ And then you're going to go to the C and just do a slow down-up, so like this.
_ _ [A] And then we're going to start the A minor with that same down-up, down-up, down rhythm,
kind of [Am] fast.
_ _ [G] And then go to the G chord and go down-up, with that adding the note on the B string,
and then back without the note, [C] the down.
So we have this all together.
_ _ [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _
He's back to just strumming normal [C] after that.
_ [Am] _ _ [G] _
Alright, so it's a great song, fun song to play, [N] and pretty easy, no tricky bar chords
or anything like that.
You just [Am] got to keep that pinky up there, and it really fills out the sound, [E] and it sounds great.
So I hope you guys enjoyed it.
I'll see you again soon for GuitarLessons365.com. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _