Chords for The Byrds -Roger McGuinn's guitar style
Tempo:
137.8 bpm
Chords used:
Ab
A
Db
C
Eb
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[N] [Ab]
[Db] Folk music was the last to hold out to the lure of the electric guitar
Until Roger McGuinn and the birds showed what could [Cm] be done with a Dylan song in an electric 12 [Db]-string.
[D] I was interested [A] in
Getting an electric [Bb] 12-string
so I took a pickup and put it in my acoustic [Eb] 12-string but it didn't quite have [B] the sound that I was looking for and
[C] around [Eb] 1965 the Beatles came [Bb] out in 64 and 65 and [C] I was really interested in the
The sound that they were getting so I went to see George Harrison playing a
[Bb] Rickenbacker in a hard day's night and that's what gave me [A] the idea for the [C] Rickenbacker 12 at the time
I heard the [Bb] Beatles I was working as a [Ab] songwriter in the Brill building
which is a famous tin pan alley in New York City and my job was to listen to the radio and emulate the [A] songs that I heard and
When the Beatles [Eb] came out I was doing [A] that so
Naturally I [Ab] jumped right into that kind of music and started mixing folk songs that I'd known before with the Beatles beat
[C] things [A] like
[C] But what [A] later came out is turn turn [Eb] turn
[Ab] There [Gb]
[Ab]
[Db] is a [Gb] season turn [Ab] turn turn [Gb] and a [Db] time to [Ebm] every purpose
[Db] Under heaven
Roger [B] McGuinn very much came out of folk music.
He was in the limelighters.
He was [Ab] in some traditional [C]
groups
[A] [Ab] McGuinn came out of that what was really [Gb] important was [Ab] that unlike a lot of folk music snobs
[A] McGuinn heard the Beatles and said this is the greatest I got to start a band too
But he brought [Ab] a lot of folk music into it with him most obviously the 12-string guitar
Which has in [G] itself become a whole kind of subgenre
[D] [G] but McGuinn
Put things together in a in a new [Ab] way and [Eb] the fact that then [A] it would work with Bob Dylan's lyrics
As a mr.
[D] Tambourine man suddenly opened up a world of possibilities.
I used a [Cm] lot of my banjo technique on the guitar
[Db] I started doing
[Eb] [Db] this rolling thing
And that would be the substructure of the song it would be in the [Eb] song
And [Ebm] then I'd put lead lines over it, you [B] know, like on eight miles [Gb] I will
[Db]
[Ebm] [Db] [Cm] [Ab] Which was influenced by John Coltrane saxophone work that I was very interested in
[C] So I was trying to get the [Bb] valves opening and closing with the 12-string
[C] [E]
[G]
If you [Ab] want to get real
[C]
Small about it
There is [G] a whole line that you [D] can follow from the 60s to the present that came out of the birds
And then you know in the bigger [Ab] sense the birds become one more color
[G] That goes in and out of everything else and a lot of people, you know
[Gb] Springsteen or Jackson Browne or [D] any number of people will have their one [A] birdsy song
[Db] Folk music was the last to hold out to the lure of the electric guitar
Until Roger McGuinn and the birds showed what could [Cm] be done with a Dylan song in an electric 12 [Db]-string.
[D] I was interested [A] in
Getting an electric [Bb] 12-string
so I took a pickup and put it in my acoustic [Eb] 12-string but it didn't quite have [B] the sound that I was looking for and
[C] around [Eb] 1965 the Beatles came [Bb] out in 64 and 65 and [C] I was really interested in the
The sound that they were getting so I went to see George Harrison playing a
[Bb] Rickenbacker in a hard day's night and that's what gave me [A] the idea for the [C] Rickenbacker 12 at the time
I heard the [Bb] Beatles I was working as a [Ab] songwriter in the Brill building
which is a famous tin pan alley in New York City and my job was to listen to the radio and emulate the [A] songs that I heard and
When the Beatles [Eb] came out I was doing [A] that so
Naturally I [Ab] jumped right into that kind of music and started mixing folk songs that I'd known before with the Beatles beat
[C] things [A] like
[C] But what [A] later came out is turn turn [Eb] turn
[Ab] There [Gb]
[Ab]
[Db] is a [Gb] season turn [Ab] turn turn [Gb] and a [Db] time to [Ebm] every purpose
[Db] Under heaven
Roger [B] McGuinn very much came out of folk music.
He was in the limelighters.
He was [Ab] in some traditional [C]
groups
[A] [Ab] McGuinn came out of that what was really [Gb] important was [Ab] that unlike a lot of folk music snobs
[A] McGuinn heard the Beatles and said this is the greatest I got to start a band too
But he brought [Ab] a lot of folk music into it with him most obviously the 12-string guitar
Which has in [G] itself become a whole kind of subgenre
[D] [G] but McGuinn
Put things together in a in a new [Ab] way and [Eb] the fact that then [A] it would work with Bob Dylan's lyrics
As a mr.
[D] Tambourine man suddenly opened up a world of possibilities.
I used a [Cm] lot of my banjo technique on the guitar
[Db] I started doing
[Eb] [Db] this rolling thing
And that would be the substructure of the song it would be in the [Eb] song
And [Ebm] then I'd put lead lines over it, you [B] know, like on eight miles [Gb] I will
[Db]
[Ebm] [Db] [Cm] [Ab] Which was influenced by John Coltrane saxophone work that I was very interested in
[C] So I was trying to get the [Bb] valves opening and closing with the 12-string
[C] [E]
[G]
If you [Ab] want to get real
[C]
Small about it
There is [G] a whole line that you [D] can follow from the 60s to the present that came out of the birds
And then you know in the bigger [Ab] sense the birds become one more color
[G] That goes in and out of everything else and a lot of people, you know
[Gb] Springsteen or Jackson Browne or [D] any number of people will have their one [A] birdsy song
Key:
Ab
A
Db
C
Eb
Ab
A
Db
[N] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
_ [Db] _ Folk music was the last to hold out to the lure of the electric guitar
Until Roger McGuinn and the birds showed what could [Cm] be done with a Dylan song in an electric 12 [Db]-string. _
[D] I was interested [A] in
Getting an electric [Bb] 12-string
so I took a pickup and put it in my acoustic [Eb] 12-string but it didn't quite have [B] the sound that I was looking for and
[C] around [Eb] 1965 the Beatles came [Bb] out in 64 and 65 and [C] I was really interested in the
The sound that they were getting so I went to see George Harrison playing a _
[Bb] Rickenbacker in a hard day's night and that's what gave me [A] the idea for the [C] Rickenbacker 12 at the time
I heard the [Bb] Beatles I was working as a [Ab] songwriter in the Brill building
which is a famous tin pan alley in New York City and my job was to listen to the radio and emulate the [A] songs that I heard and
When the Beatles [Eb] came out I was doing [A] that so
Naturally I [Ab] jumped right into that kind of music and started mixing folk songs that I'd known before with the Beatles beat
_ [C] things [A] like
[C] But what [A] later came out is turn turn [Eb] turn
_ _ _ [Ab] _ There _ [Gb] _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
[Db] is a [Gb] season turn [Ab] turn turn [Gb] and a [Db] time to [Ebm] every purpose
_ [Db] Under heaven _ _ _
_ _ Roger [B] McGuinn very much came out of folk music.
He was in the limelighters.
He was [Ab] in some traditional [C] _
groups
_ [A] [Ab] McGuinn came out of that what was really [Gb] important was [Ab] that unlike a lot of folk music snobs
[A] McGuinn heard the Beatles and said this is the greatest I got to start a band too
But he brought [Ab] a lot of folk music into it with him most obviously the 12-string guitar
Which has in [G] itself become a whole kind of subgenre
_ [D] _ _ [G] but McGuinn
Put things together in a in a new [Ab] way and [Eb] the fact that then [A] it would work with Bob Dylan's lyrics
As a mr.
[D] Tambourine man suddenly opened up a world of possibilities.
I used a [Cm] lot of my banjo technique on the guitar
[Db] I started doing
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ this rolling thing _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And that would be the substructure of the song it would be in the [Eb] song
And [Ebm] _ then I'd put lead lines over it, you [B] know, like on eight miles [Gb] I will
_ [Db] _ _
[Ebm] _ _ [Db] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Ab] Which was influenced by John Coltrane saxophone work that I was very interested in
[C] So I was trying to get the [Bb] valves opening and closing with the 12-string
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ If you [Ab] want to get real
[C] _
Small about it
There is [G] a whole line that you [D] can follow from the 60s to the present that came out of the birds
And then you know in the bigger [Ab] sense the birds become one more color
[G] That goes in and out of everything else and a lot of people, you know
[Gb] Springsteen or Jackson Browne or [D] any number of people will have their one [A] birdsy song _ _ _ _
_ [Db] _ Folk music was the last to hold out to the lure of the electric guitar
Until Roger McGuinn and the birds showed what could [Cm] be done with a Dylan song in an electric 12 [Db]-string. _
[D] I was interested [A] in
Getting an electric [Bb] 12-string
so I took a pickup and put it in my acoustic [Eb] 12-string but it didn't quite have [B] the sound that I was looking for and
[C] around [Eb] 1965 the Beatles came [Bb] out in 64 and 65 and [C] I was really interested in the
The sound that they were getting so I went to see George Harrison playing a _
[Bb] Rickenbacker in a hard day's night and that's what gave me [A] the idea for the [C] Rickenbacker 12 at the time
I heard the [Bb] Beatles I was working as a [Ab] songwriter in the Brill building
which is a famous tin pan alley in New York City and my job was to listen to the radio and emulate the [A] songs that I heard and
When the Beatles [Eb] came out I was doing [A] that so
Naturally I [Ab] jumped right into that kind of music and started mixing folk songs that I'd known before with the Beatles beat
_ [C] things [A] like
[C] But what [A] later came out is turn turn [Eb] turn
_ _ _ [Ab] _ There _ [Gb] _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
[Db] is a [Gb] season turn [Ab] turn turn [Gb] and a [Db] time to [Ebm] every purpose
_ [Db] Under heaven _ _ _
_ _ Roger [B] McGuinn very much came out of folk music.
He was in the limelighters.
He was [Ab] in some traditional [C] _
groups
_ [A] [Ab] McGuinn came out of that what was really [Gb] important was [Ab] that unlike a lot of folk music snobs
[A] McGuinn heard the Beatles and said this is the greatest I got to start a band too
But he brought [Ab] a lot of folk music into it with him most obviously the 12-string guitar
Which has in [G] itself become a whole kind of subgenre
_ [D] _ _ [G] but McGuinn
Put things together in a in a new [Ab] way and [Eb] the fact that then [A] it would work with Bob Dylan's lyrics
As a mr.
[D] Tambourine man suddenly opened up a world of possibilities.
I used a [Cm] lot of my banjo technique on the guitar
[Db] I started doing
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ this rolling thing _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And that would be the substructure of the song it would be in the [Eb] song
And [Ebm] _ then I'd put lead lines over it, you [B] know, like on eight miles [Gb] I will
_ [Db] _ _
[Ebm] _ _ [Db] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Ab] Which was influenced by John Coltrane saxophone work that I was very interested in
[C] So I was trying to get the [Bb] valves opening and closing with the 12-string
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ If you [Ab] want to get real
[C] _
Small about it
There is [G] a whole line that you [D] can follow from the 60s to the present that came out of the birds
And then you know in the bigger [Ab] sense the birds become one more color
[G] That goes in and out of everything else and a lot of people, you know
[Gb] Springsteen or Jackson Browne or [D] any number of people will have their one [A] birdsy song _ _ _ _