Chords for The Byrds I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better Guitar Lesson + Tutorial

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_ _ [E] Hey, what's up you guys?
Marty Schwartz here with Marty Music, gonna break down this Birds song that Tom Petty
also did a great version of.
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Alright, so that real jangly sound you hear on Tom Petty and Birds is that 12-string sound.
So to get more authentic to that recording, it's a 12-string.
You play it exactly like this.
[A] _ _ _
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So we've got an A major chord, and I'm playing it with three fingers across.
It starts with one strum before you add and take off fingers. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
So if you try down, [B] down, down, up, down, up, down, down, down, up, [A] down, up. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [F#] _ _ I'm just swinging my arm to the [D] rhythm there. _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ So that's the main pulse and riff of the song.
So it holds on that, and then when the vocals come in, it does that riff twice, and I'll
go through [G] the progression now.
We'll just call this [A] A.
A, _ _ da, da, A.
_ _ Now E major, _ [E] _ _ _ _ F sharp minor, [F#m] _ _ B [B] major. _ _
And [E] so, hopefully you know E major.
F sharp minor is barred across the second fret with the E minor shape.
I use my middle finger [F#m] to press against it.
_ And then B major [B] is right next door on the second fret A string with the A major shape.
That's hard.
You can do a power chord.
[F#m] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ They're pretty close.
Okay, so that's the _ first part of the verse.
It goes back to the main riff on A, but only one time now.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ D major to B [D] minor.
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [A] Probably feel a whole [E] lot better when [D] you're gone, _
[E] _ _ [A] when you're gone.
_ Bamping on the one.
And [F] the thing that I just did there, which I didn't walk us through yet, is the chorus.
And then we'll play the whole thing.
[A] A a whole [E] lot E _ [D] when you're D.
And [A] only the first chorus of the song, [F#] after that D, it
goes to [E] E.
And then the main riff.
[A] _ _
But the rest of the song, it goes feel a whole [E] lot better [D] when you're D, [G] G [A] when you're A.
So just the first one is feel a [E] whole lot better [D] when you're D, [E] G, [A] _ A.
_ _ _ Okay from the top.
Bamp on the one.
Here are the vocals, verse one.
A, _ A, A, A, A, the riff.
Now E, [E] _ F sharp minor to B.
[F#m] _ _
[B] _ [A] Back to the A riff.
_ But now D to B [D] minor.
_ [Bm] Chorus A, [A] A, A, A, A, [E] E.
[D] Then the D, up to [E] E.
[A] Riff on A.
_ Check it out. _ _ _
Second verse.
A, A, _ _ again A.
Then D, [E] F sharp minor to B.
[F#m] _ _ _ [B] Back [A] to A. _
D to B [D] minor.
_ _ [Bm] [A] Chorus.
A, A, A, [E] A, E.
_ [D] D.
But now [G] the G.
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [N] And then at the very end [A] of the song, feel a whole [B] lot.
The guitar solo is just that same form.
[A] And then the end of the song finally.
Feel a whole [E] lot better [D] when you're gone. _
[G] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _
_ _ [G] _ [A] A to G.
[G] Tried and true.
If [A] it ain't broke, _ _ [G] don't fix it.
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