Chords for Take It Easy Intro & Chords Lesson

All right in this lesson.
We're looking at the Eagles take it easy
I'm gonna go through all the guitar parts.
I'll show you it all on electric the chords is obviously the same on the acoustic
_ Starts off like [G] this
So _ _ [C] _ _
[Am] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ _ what I'm playing there is a GC and a D chord
I'm playing the G
I'm playing this version where you use your pinky on this string and play that D as well because you hear those
octaves coming through
On the G and the D and
[Fm] You want to leave your [N] pinky there for the other chords too because when you go to the C
You're gonna play the normal C chord, but leave the pinky there and you're always kind of coming [G] up.
So
So _ [C] when you come up you got that high G
Then [Dm] _
[Abm] this D chord here the version of this is interesting.
It's it's you're basically like a d7
You got your fourth [D] string open your [Dm] D bass your a
and then the C which is like d7 _ [C] and
It's got the high G with it though.
They just leave that G in there like a D suspended
So it's like a d7 suspended.
So we got after the C you leave your
Pinky there and play [Am] these two and [D] come up just the same just [Am] down to the D string
So [G] you just want to emphasize kind of the the top part of the strings that are always coming up _
_ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _
So they do two of those and then they're on a G chord and he does this little riff _ _ _ And
It's very typical where you know from the G chord
We're still playing that D and we're bending this a up to the B which is in G chord as well.
So
It's just some notes out of the G chord there.
Hold the D steady and give that a whole step bend And then
Down to the open G and we're just gonna walk down after that
[D] [F] I'm on the fourth string the E and the D
[Gm] _ [Em] _ [D] [Bb] And
Then here it's gonna throw a B flat in instead of the you know
The B right out of the G chord he throws in like a flat.
It's just gives you that blues type [A] sound _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ [A] _ [G] _ [A] _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ Okay
Now the chords are
Interesting there, you know, they're your typical
GCD and a minor
but if you try to
figure out how they go along with the vocals seems a little tricky and
After listening to it a few times it dawned on me that
This song is kind of like four long verses
And the reason I say that without a chorus actually when they're singing take it easy
They're on a certain part of what I'm calling the verse
But then the next time around they're not singing take it easy.
So it's not like a chorus
They're singing come on, baby.
Don't say maybe instead of take it easy.
So but it's the same chords behind it.
So
The way to remember this long verse that repeats four times is I break it up into three segments the first part
I'll just go through them here is GD&C
Then G D C and G.
That's the first time right when the the singing starts in the song _ _
_ _ [D] _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [N] Just like that.
That's segment one
[Em] Then they get into what I call segment two, which the first time around they're singing take it easy
It's _ an E minor E minor 7 _ _
[C] C and a G [G] and _ [Am] then it's gonna finish out with this a minor walk up to C and G
_ [C] _ Or
I'm sorry after the C they [Em] go to the E minor again
_ _ [G] So that's the the second segment and then the third and final segment is just C and G a couple times and
Then a minor walking up again to C and then ending on the G.
So
One time I'll play a full verse for you here and and then check out this chord pattern
[G] This is segment one
_ _ _ [D] _ [C] _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [C] segment three
[G] So _ _
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ [Am] _ [C] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ that whole thing basically repeats four times
Actually, the third time is the lead solo and it gets cut a little short
but other than that and then
_ there's a
couple other differences
[Em]
You know when they're singing take it easy where they're playing this is segment two now E minor and E minor 7 on
Where they're doing take it easy
_ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] [Em] Well in the second verse there when they're singing come on, baby
Don't say maybe that part is gonna be instead of the e7 there
They're gonna go to the whole D chord instead of just playing that D note
So it's gonna be _
[D] _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Am] _ [C] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ and then at the end of it.
They leave it the same there
And it also does that during the lead solo, but then on the fourth verse they're back to the take it easy
So instead of the D chord, they're just gonna play the seventh note.
_ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ So that's basically how I remember the chords
It might seem a little
Convoluted to think about it in segments like that, but actually, you know playing along with it
It was it wasn't consistent.
They make these little changes and if you remember those three segments and then the differences
_ Then the chord structure becomes clear regardless of what they're singing so that's the way I