Chords for New York's Not My Home by Jim Croce Guitar Lesson

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[G#m] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [G#] _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
[G#] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G#] It's a spinning round [G] me, _ and [G#] all my thoughts are [B]
cloudy, [Bm] _ and I have begun to doubt all
[A] the things that were me. _ _ _ _ _
_ [G#m] Been in so many [C#] places, in the wild from so many _ [Bm] races, I've looked in the empty faces
[A] of the people of the night, and [G] something is just [A] not right, cause [Em] I know [F#m] that I gotta
get out of [A] here.
I'm so [F#m] alone, _ [A] _ don't you know [F#m] that I gotta get [D] out of here, [Em] you're not [A] my home.
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [A] Here are the chords needed for the verse section.
It starts off based off an A chord, and then you're going to walk down one of the notes
on the fourth string, _ _ and I didn't bother to really name those chords, cause you can
really name them three different ways, cause they're just three note chords.
_ _ _ _ So, [D] that's the first opening section, and then you'll take it into a B minor chord,
_ _ an F minor, flat 5, _ and an A.
_ _ These chords are needed, along with the A, for the chorus section.
F sharp minor, E, and [B] D.
_ _ So, let's take a look at the chords that are needed.
That very first [A] chord _ _ _ is based off an A chord, so an A bar chord, or _ this bottom four shape
of that A chord.
It's just these two notes, so it's the fourth and third strings _ of that A chord.
Then what happens is, the fourth string [G#m] note goes [C#m] down, _ and that other note just stays the [G#] same.
_ _ So, it [C#] goes down again to this shape, _ [F#] _ _ _
one more time, [E] and then the first finger up, when
you're in this position, just [C#m] moves up one string. _ _ _ _
So, those are the [F#] odd shapes that are part of this song.
[C] You hit a C passing note, _ into [Bm] a B minor chord, _ _ _ [A]
[C] and then you've got [F] that F minor, _ flat
[Em] 5, which is basically just like that.
You're just _ hitting these [F] two notes.
_ _ _ [E] _ [A] Then you'll need an A.
_ _ _ I play it in this version.
It just makes it easier for the song.
[F#m] _
F sharp [E] minor, _ E, [D] and there's also a quick D, [A] too, up here. _ _
_ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [F#] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ And [G#] all my thoughts were cloudy, _ [Bm] and I [F] had begun [Bm] to doubt all [A] the things that were me.
_ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] Been in so many [G] places, [C#] you know I've run [G#] so many races. _
[Bm] _ I've looked into the empty faces [A] of the people of the [F#] night, and something is just not [A] right,
cause I know [F#m] that I gotta get out of [A] here.
_ I'm so [F#m] alone, _ _ [A]
don't you [F#m] know that I gotta get [D] out of here, cause [B] New York's [A] not my home.
_ [F#] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ Though [G#m] all the streets are [G] crowded, _ _ there's [G#] something strange [C] about [Bm] it.
_ I've lived here about a year, and I never [A] once felt at home. _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ [E] Thought I'd make the big [G] time, I've learned a lot of [G#] lessons awful quick, and now [Bm] I'm
telling you that they were not the nice [A] kind.
And it's been so long since [E] I have felt fine.
[A] _
That's the [F#m] reason that I gotta get out [A] of here.
I'm [F#m] so alone, _ _ [A] _
don't you know [F#m] that I gotta get [B] out of here, cause New York's not [A] my home.
_ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [A] _ Let's look at the very first section of the verses.
_ _ It starts off with the A9 chord, _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [A#] and then it goes down to the B minor.
[Em] So that first part, it starts at the A minor, and [F#m] you're plucking 4 3 2, 4 3 2, 4 3, _
[B] and [G#] then that repeats for the next shape, _ _ _ _ _ [C#] next shape, same. _
_ _ _ _ And then when you get down to that [F#] fourth shape, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ you're just plucking 4 3 2,
_ and then [A#] you drop your first finger up to the [C#] fifth string, _ [F#] _ _ and so it's 5 [F#] 3 2,
_ and then down [C] to the C note, _
[B] _ and then you do the B minor chord.
The picking pattern on the B minor is slightly different.
It goes _ 5 [Bm] 3 2, _ 5 3 2 3 4.
_ [E] _ When you get down to the F minor, flat 5, it's similar.
_ [F]
It's 6 3 2, _ 6 3 2 [G#] 3 4, _ _
and the A is [A] _ 5 3 2, 5 3 2 3 4.
[Gm] _ _ So the whole section sounds [B] like this, _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ [E] and then into the riff.
[C] So there's a lot of different ways you can play this riff, but basically it starts [E] off,
open [F#] E, hammer on to the F sharp on the [A] second fret, _ open A,
_ [E] _
_ _ _ slide up from 2 to 4 and back to 2 real quick,
[B] _ _ [A] _ open A, [F#] _ _ back to the F sharp, [E] _
and then E.
So that's _ _ the _ _ _ most basic way.
Now whether you want to slide or hammer on, I don't think it matters. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ So [C] you can also change it and [B] play a different A on the way [E] down like this. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
So there's a couple different ways.
You just have to experiment and play the way that's most comfortable [F#] for you.
_ There's a little fill that can be played in the beginning of the verses, and it sounds like this, _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[G#] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [E] and then into the normal picking of the verses.
[A] What I'm doing there, I'm plucking the first and fourth [E] strings,
_ following up with the second string, _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ [C#] _
[B] and then back to normal after that.
Let's look at the little chords that happen right before you get to the chorus.
_ It starts off the first verse of the line,
[A] People of the night, [C#] something is just [A] not right,
Because I know that [F#m] I gotta get out [A] of here, and into the chorus.
So from that People of the Night chord, the A,
_ People of the [G#] night, [F#m] and something, F sharp minor, [E] is just _ _ not [A] right. _ _
[B] So from the E, I'm walking [F#] up [G#] F sharp, [E] G sharp, back to the A.
_ _ [A]
So, People of the night, [F#] and something is [G#] just not [A] right,
Because I know that [C] I gotta get out of here.
There's a transition between [G#] sets of verses that sounds [A] like this. _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ [E] The transition starts off as an [A] A chord,
_ _ _ _ _ on and off of the third fret of the second string,
[B] _ _ fourth [E] fret, third string, and then fifth fret, second string.
_ So the melody [G#] is, _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ so notice I'm keeping my third finger on that note on the third string.
And _ then the bass line goes, [B] _
[A] _ _ [E] which is open E, [F#] _ _ _ second fret, sixth [B] string,
second fret, fifth string, [A] and then to the A.
So the [E] second time you do it, _ [F#m] _
you go back to the verses immediately.
_ [Em] Because on that [A] A note, instead of hitting the open A,
you want to hit, you want to be there on that B.
So it's_
[F#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [G#] _ _ _ [G] _