Chords for Lynyrd Skynyrd Free Bird Guitar Lesson (Guitar Chords, Strumming Pattern, Outro and more!)

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_ _ _ _ _ Welcome to the guitar lesson for Freebird the easy way and the correct way.
_ I could write a book about this song
There's so much going on.
So [B] let's keep it [Bb] simple and easy.
Have your guitar tuned [B] in standard E [E] tuning _ _
_ The chords you want to [G] know are G _
_ _ [B] D but with your thumb on the [D] second fret
_ _ _ _ [Em] E minor _
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You want to [F] know your F?
_ _ [C] your C _ [Bm] and your D
[D] _ _ _
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_ _ [B] Know how to put your pinky on the third fret and then take it off.
All right when you have a D
Okay, so let's talk about the chord progression of the song.
Okay?
_ This is how there's you know, every line of the song every time they go [G] through the chord progression
_ It seems to change a little bit [Bb] in the intro
Okay, once the song starts going [G] and you [Bbm] know, you have the vocals come in [E] it basically stays the same.
[G] Okay, _ _ _ _ [D]
and
[Db] This is how it's _ [G] strummed when the intro dies off.
Okay, so it goes _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
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_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _
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Okay
_ [Em] So I'll play it through really slow so you can see the strumming [Gbm] pattern.
Okay, so
[G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _ _
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_ _ _ Okay, [Gb] and what I'm doing [A] there is on each chord I [G] go _ _ _
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Next chord
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Next chord E [Em] minor _
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_ Up, down, up, down
[Ab] E minor is the only chord in the progression where we hold for two counts.
Okay, so I play three minor twice
[Eb] Alright, that's [Gb] the strumming pattern
[N] where it changes up a little bit is uh
What does he say in the lyrics?
He says [Bb] _ and this bird you cannot change
[G] all right, and what that is is _
it's uh
_ _ It's F actually [F] it's _ _ _ [G] _
and [C] then C _ so _ _ [D] _
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[G] _ _ _ [F] F _ _ _
[C] _ C
_ _ _ [D] E
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [F] F
_ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ D
_ _ [F] _ _ _
And [C] this bird you cannot [D] change
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Alright [F] so that was [C] F, [D] C, and [Bb] E.
The strumming pattern for that was
[F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So down, down, up, down, down, [G] up.
Next chord
[C] _ Down, down, up, down, down, up
[D] Now on the D
Down, down, up, down, down, up
Down, up, down, down, up
All [Ab] _ right over and over again, I think [G] they play through that [C] part four times then it goes right [G] back into the
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_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] All right.
Now the fun part when the song picks up at the end.
All right, [G] we do this we go _
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[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ I'm making a G bar chord.
[Bb] Okay, so
[G] _ I'm basically doing down and up strokes just down up down up down up down up and on the down stroke
I'm not playing [Gm] anything.
It's muted.
[Eb] All the strings are muted.
[Ab] I'm not putting any tension on these fingers
Okay, I'm not pushing down [G] on the up stroke.
I am pushing down so it should sound like this _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bbm] Now I make a B flat power chord.
All right on the first and third fret do the same thing
[Bb] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bbm] And now I make a C
_ _ major power chord on the third and fifth [C] fret _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bbm] so it's G _ B flat C, [G] okay, so _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ Not too bad.
Okay, it kind of makes your
Your [Gm] hands a little bit tired, especially if you're [Bbm] not used to playing that _ [G] but just down I'll go through it really slow.
Okay, so _ _ _
No, no tension on the up stroke. _
So _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Db] All right, and that's when the guitar [Bb] solo comes in _
_ _ [A] kind of hard to play an [D] acoustic but _
[Bb] You get the idea.
So the chord progression is the same you have the pre-chorus which is
_ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ All
[G] _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] Right and the final part of the song is [G] the whole
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_ _ [Bb] _ I'll come back later and I'll do a guitar lesson for the solo.
The solo is super fast
You got to be fast with your licks, but [Bbm] it's really easy licks played over and [B] over and over again
Okay, [Bbm] the what makes it sound so cool is the fact that
He's playing it very fast and in tune in beat in rhythm with
[G] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ The rhythm guitar, [Bbm] okay, if you have any questions, please let me know
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