Chords for Queen TIE YOUR MOTHER DOWN Guitar Lesson Lick Of The Month @EricBlackmonGuitar

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_ This lick of [A#] the month is from Queen's Tie Your Mother Down.
No offense mom.
It's a very cool and classic and [B] original lick done by Brian May that's not real hard
to do if you know what's going [F#] on with the lick.
[Am] Let's move in close.
We're just going to take our [Em] first finger and hold down an A chord right there at the second fret.
Okay.
You're going to use your [B] first finger to hold the [E] chord down [C] and you're going to use your
second finger to hammer on a C note.
[F#] Hammering pull off.
So we're going to have to go [A] open _ _ _ A there.
So that's _ _ _ how you do it.
So you got [A#] this.
You're holding this down and you're [C] hammering, [C#m] _
_ pulling down [Am] a little bit and pulling off.
Okay.
_ _ That's what you're trying to get. _ _
Now I've got my amp set up [F#] so that I've got a slight distortion.
Don't want a lot of distortion.
Just enough to get some rock sound in there.
If you put too [Gm] much distortion on [C] there, the whole thing just blots out.
[Am] You want _ to be able to hear your chords because you're going to have to play some [Em] chords in
this and the chords, [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] full _ _ _ _ chords, [Em] so you want to be able to hear those chord notes.
[Bm] So we're holding this [A] down, _ _ _ striking all the strings.
Now [Em] we're going to come up here so you can see where I'm [A] picking.
_ _ _ _ _ The [Em] picking style is going to be like [A] this. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Am] The only strings we're using are these.
[A#] _ [C] The _ second, third, fourth and fifth strings.
We're not doing much with the E [E] strings.
They're not in the way, [F#] but we want to emphasize the inner strings in [Em] here.
You know, just kind of avoid the E strings and [F#] just come in and do the second, third,
fourth and fifth string when you [A] strum. _
So you're going to strum like this. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Now I thought that was kind [Em] of unique, the way that's done [A] with the_
If you watch [C] any of the Rock Brian May videos on this [E] song, you'll see him just strumming
up and down, [Am] just like that.
He's not doing this.
_ _ [G] There's a way you can do [Am] this, _ _ but _ _ _ _ you don't get the high sound when you come up, like that.
So you want to go, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ pull off of that C.
So we're going to go one, _ two, _ _ _ _ _ four, _ one, two.
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[Am] Okay, and you're going to do that.
[C] That's going to be [E] done six times _ before you [F#] go to the chords, okay?
Now, let's go to the chords and see what the chords are going to be.
The first chord is an A, of [A] course. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A#] And when you get ready to do your vamp chords, you're [G] going to be playing a G. _ _ _
Textbook G chord. _ _ _ _ _
_ A D chord.
[D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ C add [Em] nine. _
_ [C] _ _ _ Now your [Em] C add nine is made, you hold your two fingers down there like that.
Come in with your second finger [N] and put it on a C _ at the third fret.
And then come in with your _ first finger and put it on _ an E at [C] the second fret.
Okay, so you've got a _ C add nine. _
_ _ _ And your last chord, now you're going to leave your fingers down here.
_ _ Take this finger up, [B] bring your first finger up to the B note.
And you've got a B note for your bass.
And you've got a G chord [G] down here.
_ _ G chord.
This is called a G slash B.
G chord.
And a B bass note.
_ Okay, so you've got this. _
Right there.
So the chords are again, are G. _
_ [D] D.
_ [G] C [C] add nine. _
_ [G] G slash B.
_ And then you're [A] back _ down to your _ groove chords.
So you go.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ And _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] that's Tie Your Mother Down.
Now let's go to the board and look at the chords and see what the chords look like on a grid. _
[Em] Here's what the chords look like on paper.
First we've [D#] got our A chord here where we're holding [A] our A.
_ And we're pulling off the C note. _ _
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Just like that.
And then our next chord is our [D] G, [G] textbook G there.
_ _ _ _ _ And then our D.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ C add [C] nine.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] G slash B. _ _ _ _ _ _
And back [A] to A. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Em] Alright, that's Tie Your Mother Down.
Lick of the month. _ _ _ _ _ _
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