Chords for Neil Young - Keep on Rockin' in the Free World - Easy Guitar Lesson - Fender Strat

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_ _ _ [N] Hey, what's up you guys?
Marty Schwartz here, GuitarJams.com.
_ I just saw Neil Young in concert in Central Park, Foo Fighters, and the Blackies.
Mind-blowing experience.
So I got to teach an epic rock and progression here for you guys on my new Fiesta Red Custom
Shop _
[E] 62 reissue Fender Stratocaster.
[Eb] Oh my gosh, I [N] love this guitar.
So anyway, we're going to zoom in.
I'm going to teach you this rock and progression.
[E] But real quick at GuitarJams [N].com, you can actually sign my request list down there and
I'm going to send you a free chord and scale book and other lessons that are not on YouTube
that are really helpful to really get you going playing guitar.
I really appreciate it if you do that. _
Let's zoom in and do it.
Here we go.
[E] Pretty _ great [B] song for a beginner, but also [C] a great song if you're a fan of music.
So I think it's a win-win [Eb]-win situation here.
Let's check this out though.
We're going to need an E minor chord, [Gb] which is like the ultimate beginner cowboy chord.
You can play it [Eb] with these two fingers or these two fingers.
_ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ It's the [C] second fret on the A and the second fret on the D [Gb] and you strum the whole thing.
For [E] this, we're going to go, _ _ just all [Eb] down strokes, lots of attitude and aggression.
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_ _ _ _ Then [N] we're going to go to a D chord.
_ If you're still learning, I like to think of the index finger coming over to the second
fret of the G right here and then middle finger on the second fret of the high E and ring
finger on the third fret of the B.
We're going to go, _ [D] _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ _ [C] then ring finger over to the third
[Eb] fret of the A, second fret there, index finger first fret on the [C] B and _ _ that's called [E] a C chord.
So you have E minor, _ _ D, D, C.
E minor, yeah.
[A] D, [C] D, C.
[Em] E minor.
_ [A] D, D, [C] C.
[Em] E minor, yeah.
[A] D, D, [C] C. _
[Em] E minor, oh.
[C] D, D, C. _
That's [B] the verse.
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_ [C] _ _ [E] Obviously, I was using _ distortion. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [E] _ So all I [D] did, I turned the distortion pedal [F] on _ _ and you can get some fuzzy [E] sounds.
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[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [C] _ _
[Em] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] Then we need the chorus and we're going to play a G chord, _ third fret, second fret, _ third
fret or third fret, third [G] fret.
_ _ _ _ _ I like this [Fm] one because the next chord is [G] D and if your ring finger is on the third
fret of the B, [Em] it can [Eb] stay there as a pivot point back to that [G] D chord.
Check it out.
G, [A] G, D, D.
[G] _ _ G, [D] G, D, D, D, _ [C] C.
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_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ And I'm still just kind of doing all rock and roll [G] down strums, you know. _
_ _ So we need a G chord. _ _
G, [E] G.
_ _ [D] G, D, D, D, D, C.
And _ _ _ _ [Em] notice that it's the same chords as the verse [Eb] except for the first chord.
You can change it, change up, write a new part just by changing one [G] chord.
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_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[E] Duh, [Em] duh, duh.
[Cm] And we need to go like this. _
[Em] _ _ _ So we're [Eb] hitting the third fret on the A from that [C] C chord, _ _ [B] then the second fret and _ _ _ then
strumming a whole E [C] minor chord.
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[B] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _
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[C] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [C] _ _
[Em] _ So there's just one other thing, [Eb] Chuckie, chuh, chuh, chuh, chuh, chuh, more down rock
and roll strums on an A [A] chord _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
or an A power chord.
_ _ [Fm] There's a lot of distortion on the [A] progression. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [G] Alright, I hope that was helpful to you.
Remember you can sign my request list down there.
I take my requests [Fm] there and then I also send you really cool stuff down there and you're
in my inner circle.
I really appreciate that.
Thank you so much [N] for hanging out with me and I hope to see you again real soon.
Take care. _ _