Chords for The 6 LEVELS of Sweet Home Alabama (Intro Riff)

[N] What's [A] up everyone Mike here from the art [B] of guitar here with my second attempt at making this [C] video had a little bit of
[A] Issue with the last video.
I used my strat [Ab] and the action was solo
I was getting fret buzz
And there's this funny buzz in this building this new building that I moved to through the amps
You might still hear that a little [C] bit, but it's a lot less apparent with the SG
So we're gonna do sweet home, Alabama [Ab] levels on an SG so it might be a little strange, but it'll [Cm] work
Okay, I've seen a lot of people [Bb] play this a lot of different ways at a lot of different levels
So the first level I've [Ab] seen people play
This is just with power chords, and [G] it's kind of interesting because you can still make it work [Am] in a roundabout way
It's not gonna [G] sound perfect obviously, but if you take for [Bb] example a D power [Gm] chord
So fifth string fifth fret and you make a power [Bb] chord, and then you add the octave to [G] it
So it's gonna be like this [D] _ and _ _ _ you just pick it a certain way it can [Cm] sound okay
[D] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ It's a little generic [A]
obviously, [Ab] but it's just the first level [G] so all I'm doing is
I'm going from a [Bbm] D power chord moving it back to [C] the C power chord [A] and moving it over to the G power [B] chord okay
So we quickly want to [Bb] move on to level two because a lot of you guys
[Am] Like the open chord version because it's closer to the real version, but we have the D [Bb] to a C add 9
_ [Ab] To a G now some players elect to do the full chord shapes
But you'll [Bb] see sometimes
I'll leave a few fingers off [G] just because you don't need them like for [B] example the pinky doesn't need to [C] be there
Sometimes [G] I don't put it down sometimes.
I do depends on the D
I guess [D] _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
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_ [Eb] still generic
But now it [C] sounds a little bit better in my opinion because you're using [Ab] open chords and a lot of [G] open strings that [C] always sound
It's a little [D] faster
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Alright level three.
[Bb] We're gonna add a little bit [A] extra to the end of [Ab] each phrase, [Cm] so we're gonna go like [D] this _ _ _ _
_ _ We're [G] adding one more string that we're [Gm] gonna play at the last [A] [Gm] possible [D] second _ and _ _ _ _ [Bb] go right to the [Ab] next chord
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] Right to the next chord the last one's a little bit special.
We're gonna hit [C] the two low [G] G's
_ then the open G and
Then a quick [C] open G before [G] you go to the low G
_ _ _ _ So [Gb] don't forget that [Bb] last little 16th, and I'll throw it in there, and it'll [C] catch the beat in a great way
[D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Gm] _
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Okay, now we're gonna add the [A] tail _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ [Bb] Gives me traction when I add that extra pick otherwise you feel like you're just sort [G] of relying a lot on your left hand
[D] _ _ _ You know what I mean?
_ _ _ _ So it gives you a little more of [Bbm] a push there, [Gm] and then after you hit the final B _ _
_ [B] We're gonna reach up [Bb] some people use the ring finger some people use their middle finger
And we're gonna hit the third string second fret a and do a pull off to open G _
Just like that I've even seen people do it all with one finger before
_ [D] _ _ _ _ That's crazy to me.
I just [Gm] can't see using my first finger that [Bb] much, but some people do that okay
So anyways I like to use my middle finger so I end up [A] going
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_ [Bb] To complete the first tail so if you put it all together you get [D] this
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_ _ _ _ _ So now level five is [B] great because we're gonna [A] start palm muting a little bit at the beginning [Gm] of each phrase
So palm muting is not really your palm [Bbm] on the strings.
That's funny.
They call palm muting
It's [Eb] the side of your hand [B] on the edge of the bridge and [Ab] the string
So right where they meet you [C] can put the edge of your [Gm] hand and then play and you get this nice [E] little
_ _ [A] _ Muted sound [B] so it's not totally [C] dead muted like [Eb] this
_ It's too much [B] move back [Gm] until you get some tone
[D] _ _ _
_ Move too far back and you have _ no [G] muting happening at all [Bb] so you defeat the purpose so come back
[D] _
That's what you want now some people over mute it they go _
_ _ _ [C] _ Too [Bb] much what you [B] want to do is you want to meet the [C] first one slightly [Bb] and then let [D] go
_ And play [G] the next one open [Am] same with when you go to the [C] C and
_ _ the [G] G
_ For now for level five there's some fine details in that we'll get to that in the next level
[Ab] But for now we're just gonna go a mute unmute play the [G] up strokes the next part in the next part so we get
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ All right, I got [Bb] away with that for many years [A] a lot of people do but now we're gonna go to level six
I'm really gonna add [Gm] the detail okay, [Ab] so the final detail is going to be the same [Gb] concept
We're gonna do the mute for the first part
[D] we're gonna [Ab] kill the string [D] and
Then [G] play the open string
[D] _ _ Okay, that's a little detail [A] for the D part [D] mute kill _ _
_ Open mute kill open then [C] we go to the next one we get to the C.
Now something special happens.
We do the mute _
_ But then we do a really quick lift [Bb] off of our middle finger and then right back [C] on
So when we lift off I want you to do a quick [A] up stroke
_ Like that and then when it comes back [C] down
We're gonna play the C without the mute so you get this _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Fun thing to practice then we're gonna do the same thing with the [G] G _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ The G [C] when you listen to the recording it's so quick
It's hard to tell if he does [Ab] lift off to the E [G] or if it's just two G's
_ [Ab] With a dead note between [A] it's hard to tell all right
So if we put all these into practice now [Bb] the D is the mute [Ab] kill [D] open _
_ _ The C is the [C] lift off _
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The G is the [G] lift up _ _ _ _
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_ You [Ab] guys are dying to hear the next lick I bet
[G] _
_ _ [Bb] _ Want to throw in there, okay, [C] it's not as stratty as I wanted it to [Bb] sound obviously _
[Ab] _ But I'll [Bb] fix that poor [G] strat up and we'll come back with some more lessons with that
I [Eb] promise and by the way, I decided not to sell this [Gb] SG.
I'm keeping it.
I just had to do some modifications
I took [G] the weird little thing off of the Duesenberg
Tremolo, which I was using and I kind of broke it, but I sort of like this kind of looks nice
So I might just keep that [B] but uh, anyways thought I'd let you [Bb] know we're gonna be doing another _
[Ab] Level series very soon in the next week or so and it's one that a lot of people have been requesting
So I'm excited about [Cm] it.
So okay, go ahead and practice your sweet home, Alabama, and [Ab] I guess we will catch you next time
All right.
See ya
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