Chords for Madman Across The Water acoustic guitar lesson

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[A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [C] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _
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[Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ Another guitar song from a piano player, Elton John, Mad Man Across the Water.
This one just has a cool riff in the beginning, very spooky kind of sounding song.
Also uses the muting of the bass notes a little bit, so when you hit that A in the bass, so
it's an A minor [A] chord, you hit the A in the bass and you try to muffle it down here so it doesn't sound like this.
_ [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ _ [A] _ [Am] It's just too loud and [E] obnoxious.
_ [D] Anyway, it has to be kind of muffled [B] and _
[Bb] mysterious.
That's the sound we're looking for here.
So you hit [A] the A in the bass, muffling it [Am] a bit,
strum the chord a little bit, [Em] then I like to use my, [G] then to hammer on from G to [Am] A, _
[Em] _ using my index finger on the G, which is the third fret, [A] hammering on my third finger [G] to the A at the
fifth fret, then my little finger comes in and hits the fifth fret of the fifth [D] string, _ _
[E] sliding it up to the seventh [G] fret, _ _
[Em] _ _ _ [D] and then coming back to the fifth fret with the index finger.
So that second part of the run after that, well, here's [A] the chord part.
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[A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _
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[Am] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
Anyway, I'll have a more elaborate version of this song at our site at totallyguitars.com,
so come over there and check us out when you can, and help us out.
We're looking for what you would think would make a great, a cool guitar site.
We're trying to put up lessons of all the songs I've been teaching people for the last 40 years or so. _
I like to sometimes play this song in a finger-picking version where I'm playing the melody.
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[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[D] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[E] Anyhow, that's what I really like to do with these rock songs, is turn them into neat instrumentals
where we're picking out the melody and the chords at the same time, and can probably teach a lot of you
how to do that as you progress with some of the lessons I'm putting up at Totally [D] Guitars.
Hope you can get over there soon, and enjoy messing around with Mad Man Across the Water. _ _ _ _ _ _
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