Chords for Roxanne Guitar Lesson - The Police

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_ _ Hey guys, it's Karl Brown from Guitar Lessons 365.com.
Today we're going to learn how to play Roxanne by The Police.
So this one's a great little chord workout and it's really good for controlling left hand muting.
So, you've got some really cool things to look at here.
So we're in standard tuning here and what we're going to do here is we're going to start
with just this intro.
[Gm] Now the intro is this little _ three note, this three string triad here.
This is a G minor.
So we're going to just basically play the third fret bar across the first three strings. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Now you can just hit it with a downstroke _ and then kill the tone by releasing the pressure
and the fingers on the left hand.
Don't come off the strings because you'll cause noise like that.
_ Release pressure and _ _ _ _ _ that's how you create the rhythm there. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
So the beginning of the song is just introing just with that little chord stab. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And then we start the actual chord progression that I just played.
So that chord progression starts with that same chord played _ _ four times and then to a D minor.
_ _ _ [A] So we're just going to be playing here the second fret on the G, _ third fret on the B,
first fret on the high E. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Alright, and then we're going [Gm] to jump up here again.
_ _ _ _ That's just a different _ inversion, [E] a different [G] voicing here of the G minor chord.
So we're playing now four strings, fifth fret on the _ _ D string, seventh on the G, _ _ _ eighth
on [Gm] the B, and sixth on the high E. _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Alright, and then we're going to resolve that to _ _ _ _ an F major chord here.
We're still hanging out on just four [A] strings. _
It's the seventh fret on the D string with a bar here across these first three strings
at the fifth fret with your index finger.
[F] And then place your second finger there at the sixth fret on the B string. _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] So once again, those first four chords, _ _ _ _ _ each one hit [Dm] four times. _ _
_ _ _ Move [Gm] up here and _ _ _ _ then over to [F] the F. _
_ _ _ _ _ Alright, so from [Eb] there you're going to move it down
to this _ _ _ _ E flat.
So it's the same chord you just played, just two frets lower. _ _ _ _ _
[F] Now we're going to jump down here at the first fret.
You're going to have the third fret on _ the [Bb] D and the G.
_ [F] _ _
_ Alright, [Bb] so we're going to have this. _ _
_ _ _ _ Alright, so this is an F suspended [F] four.
If you want to know what that is.
So it has a little bar here at the first fret on the high E and the B string.
_ _ _ _ Same rhythm, and then move that chord [G] up two frets _ and just strum across those four strings.
[Gm] So all together. _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ Alright, so he does that progression before the vocals come in.
When the vocals come in, you play that exact same chord progression that we just did twice,
and that's the verse.
So out of that verse, you've played this along with the vocals twice, what we just learned.
There's the pre-chorus, which is just _ made up of three chords, which looks like this.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Alright, [G] that's what leads into _ [C] _ the chorus there.
So what those chords [F] are, it's that same E flat.
Remember we played this [Eb] chord here _ at the third fret?
It's the same one.
_ _ _ [F] Down still to the F suspended four, _ _ and then back up there to that G suspended four, the
same chord we ended the verse [C] _ with.
You're going to play this one eight times here, _ and then [Eb] repeat. _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
And then later on the song, it generally goes back to the verse from there, it doesn't really
kick into the chorus a [Gm] little later.
But _ [Bb] you'll have this transition again, that little intro, you'll hear it, kind of just
that chorus diagonal a few times before the [C] actual progression starts [Gm] again. _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ Alright, so the only other thing we have to take a look at here is the chorus, which is
really more of a punk rock style.
And it does [Abm] a build up [G] like this, _ and then it kicks into this riff.
[C] _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
So that comes out of that pre-chorus, _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
you might want to just play that suspended, that
G sus four chord, and then lay a full bar down, _ _ and [Db] add the fifth fret there on [G] the A string.
So you can just start kind of [C] palm muting that bottom power [G] chord. _ _
_ _ _ Build up, releasing the muting as you get louder, and then the actual chorus itself,
you're going to jump over to the power chord off the third fret of the A string, which
is [C] a C power chord.
_ _ [Bb] That [C] kind of just leads [Bb] into the actual B flat there.
[C] Same shape, two frets lower.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ So you do some straight down strokes, _ _ _ and you start lifting up the first finger [A] through
the open A, and [C] back.
So we have this.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ So you can [D] hear those two little [F] open A's I put in there.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] Alright, and now we're going to jump up to the sixth fret on the same string.
[F] _ _ _
[Bb] So it's six [F] to eight.
_ Same [Eb] rhythm here too.
[F] _ _ You can keep going back to the [Eb] sixth.
[F] _ _ Give it [Eb] some movement.
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Then we'll do this exact same concept, starting on the first fret on the low E [G] _
to the third fret.
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[Fm] _ [G] _ _ Then you start over, [C] back, going to [Bb] the_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ And [Ab] at the end of the song, they just kind of keep repeating that.
Alright, hope you guys enjoyed it.
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