Chords for Sweet Pea - Amos Lee - Guitar Tutorial

[E] _ _ _ _ [G#] G sharp minor, or G sharp [C#] dominant, C sharp minor,
[D] [F#] F sharp dominant.
_ [E] Sweet pea, _ _
[G#] yeah, blow my eye.
[C#] _ I don't know when [F#] and I [B] don't know why.
[G#m] Hey, what's up everybody?
This is Ty from 10thumbspro.com
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And today we're doing [E] Sweet Pea by Amos Lee.
_ Sweet pea, _ _ [G#] yeah, blow my eye.
[C#] _ I don't know when [F#] and I don't know [Bm] why.
All right, so we'll be breaking down the verse,
the chorus, and the bridge.
I'll even [D] show you the _ [E] notes _ _ for E [G] _ major pentatonic,
the scale [B] I use when I'm jamming this out.
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I dig it and I respect [G#] it.
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and let's break this one down right now.
[E] Sweet pea, all right, let's get our chords.
We have an E major, _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] a G sharp [G#] seven,
dominant seven, _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ C [C#m] sharp minor, _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] F sharp dominant [F#] seven,
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G#] plus we have an [A] A chord _ [B] and _ _ a B chord, all right?
So this is a three part tune.
It's a verse, a chorus and a bridge.
The verse, let's look at the rhythm.
I'm doing a kind of jazzy thing, finger style.
I'm not playing with a pick, I like it soft.
And I'm going [E] thumb on the one,
and then I'm putting my fingers here on the _ G,
[B] G and B string, but they could be everything [E] down a string
if you wanted G, B and E.
And I'm plucking up [Em] on the offbeat, like one and two.
[G] And on two, I just put my hand back [E] down
[G] and that gives it a little [E] smack sound. _
One and two, [G#] all right?
So [B] that's gonna happen over an E chord
for [E] a full beat, look at this.
One and two, three and four, okay?
One and two, three and four.
[G#] When you feel good with that,
we're gonna apply that chord progression to an [E] E, _
_ _ _ [G#] G sharp minor, or G sharp [C#] dominant,
C sharp minor, [D] _ [F#] F sharp dominant.
_ [Bm] _ [E] Sweet Pete, _ [G#] you have love in my eye.
[C#] _ I don't know when [F#] and I don't [B] know why.
[E] [G#m] So when we go into the chorus,
_ instead of being four beats, it's gonna be two [E] beats.
Like one and two, [C#] three [E] and four,
[A] [B] one and two, three and [G#] four.
But that happens two times.
[G] On the second time through, it's a little different.
Well, let's just play [B] through that one time.
One and [C#] two, three and [A] four,
one [B] and two, three and four.
I'll count to [E] you, one and [C#] two, three and [A] four,
one [B] and two and. _
So what we're doing here,
instead of [C] going at the very end with the A,
[B] one and two, three and four,
we're going one and two and three and four.
And you're gonna catch that B chord on the and.
All right, so let's play through that chorus,
the full thing with no lyrics.
Let's play through it one [E] time.
_ [C] Oops, from the top.
[E] _ _ _ [C#m] _
[A] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [C#] _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _ _
[E] _ Okay, now we also have, well, let's sing through it.
_ _ You're [F#] the only [A] reason I [B] keep on [E] coming home.
[C#] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [Bm]
[E] Sweet Pete.
[G#] Okay, so this is the part we go into [B] the verse.
And the verse is gonna [G#] be the rock of Gibraltar, _
always seemed to falter.
Do [Cm] you see how that hangs actually for two full measures?
[G#] One and two.
Three e four.
One and two.
Three e four.
One and two.
[C#] Three [G#] e four.
One and two.
[C#] Three e [B] four.
One and two.
[D#m] Three and four.
One and two.
Three [B] and four.
One and two.
Three and four.
One and two.
Three and [E] four. _ _ _
Usually, after that, that's when [B] we'd play the solo,
which would be based in the E-minor or E major [F#] pentatonic.
_ _ _ [Bm] _ [Em] _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ [G] All right, [B] so you got that scale.
available to you to jam on this one [C] as solo [D#m] as well.
All right, okay, so let's [B] go ahead and play through that
bridge, you have the lyrics [G#] up there.
♪ Like the rock that you're riding ♪
♪ I always seem to find you and [C#] the [G#] world's just getting [C#] away ♪
♪ [F#] Well I try to stay so humble, more and more [B] crumble ♪
♪ And I never [Cm] think before I [Bm] say, boom, [F#] shoot.
_ _ [E] _
♪
Into the solo [B] and then you're going to the last verse.
All right, [D#] so those are all the pieces.
That is the verse, that is the chorus, that is the bridge,
and that is even the [D#m] scale that I use
when I'm jamming on this one.
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All right everybody, so [E] that was it.
_ _ Sweepy, [A] awesome, tasty scale.
[B] _ [C#m] _ _ I [G] use, in the video you saw me use [E] some other shapes
if you've seen the cover, I use an E major [G#] up here,
_ _ G sharp [G#m] nine, [C#m] _
C sharp minor seven,
[F#] _ [A#] F [A] sharp dominant, [B] A and B.
That's how you can add the second guitar if you want.
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