Chords for Thin Lizzy Harmony Guitar Lesson - Rosalie (Cowgirl's Song) Intro

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Chords used:

D

A

B

C#m

E

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Thin Lizzy Harmony Guitar Lesson - Rosalie (Cowgirl's Song) Intro chords
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[Em] [D] [C#m] [Bm]
[A] [B] [D] [C#m] [B]
[A] Hi, Andy back again with a bit of fun with some harmony guitar.
Obviously we've all heard of Thin Lizzy and bands like Wishbone Ash that have used harmony
guitar to fantastic effect.
So never have I taught anything [G#] like this before so I thought we could have a little
bit of fun with some harmony of the most basic nature.
So what you've just heard there is the live version or a bit of the live version of Rosalie
by Thin Lizzy.
It's off their Live and Dangerous album.
And this is a, halfway through the song or actually towards the end of the song they
incorporate the Cowboy song with that little riff in.
So it's sort of like two songs in one.
And this little simple little harmony riff sounds fantastic.
So what I'm going to do today is teach you how to play both harmony lines, very very
simple and we've got the backing tracks for you so you can jam either of the harmony guitar
parts over the top.
Very easy to play but great fun and especially if you've got some mates to do it with as
well it's cracking.
So before I actually teach you [E] these I'm just going to briefly give you a bit of theory
and it will only be a bit because I don't like theory.
So this is actually in the key of D major, this particular riff.
And the D major scale is, [D] [G#] and what they're doing and what [D] we're going to be doing is
playing these D major scale notes.
So the notes of these scale.
So when one pattern has been played the second pattern which is the harmony line will be
playing what is known as the third.
It's the third note, it's the third note of the scale.
So by that this is what I mean.
The scale is D, [E] E, F [F#] sharp, [G] G, [A] A, [B] B, [C#] C sharp [D] and D.
Now one of the riffs, I call this the main riff which is the second riff I'll teach you.
The first note we're going to be playing is a D.
I've just said we're going to play the third.
So while we're playing the D the other guitar is going to be playing the third note of the scale.
So the first note is the D, [E] second note E, third note F [F#] sharp.
[G] Okay so we're going to be playing the F sharp note.
So above the F sharp note we have a G, [A] A, [B] B, [C#] C sharp [D] and D.
So whatever note you are playing you'll either be playing, you'll be playing the third note
above the main guitar.
I will explain each one as we go along.
So the harmony line sounds so clear.
Now if you don't play the harmony guitar separately you can play it on your own but it doesn't
sound anywhere as good.
So it'll sound like this.
[C#m] [Bm] [A] Yeah it's alright but it's not brilliant.
You can use your fingers to pluck it but it's not as clear.
You can't put the vibrato on it and you don't have that beautiful separation.
So like I said play along to the backing tracks and what I'm going to do first is teach you
the higher harmony line.
So go forward
Key:  
D
1321
A
1231
B
12341112
C#m
13421114
E
2311
D
1321
A
1231
B
12341112
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[Em] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [A] _ [B] _ [D] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [B] _
_ [A] _ _ Hi, Andy back again with a bit of fun with some harmony guitar.
Obviously we've all heard of Thin Lizzy and bands like Wishbone Ash that have used harmony
guitar to fantastic effect.
So never have I taught anything [G#] like this before so I thought we could have a little
bit of fun with some harmony of the most basic nature.
So what you've just heard there is the live version or a bit of the live version of Rosalie
by Thin Lizzy.
It's off their Live and Dangerous album.
And this is a, halfway through the song or actually towards the end of the song they
incorporate the Cowboy song with that little riff in.
So it's sort of like two songs in one.
And this little simple little harmony riff sounds fantastic.
So what I'm going to do today is teach you how to play both harmony lines, very very
simple and we've got the backing tracks for you so you can jam either of the harmony guitar
parts over the top.
Very easy to play but great fun and especially if you've got some mates to do it with as
well it's cracking.
So before I actually teach you [E] these I'm just going to briefly give you a bit of theory
and it will only be a bit because I don't like theory.
So this is actually in the key of D major, this particular riff.
And the D major scale is, [D] _ _ [G#] _ and what they're doing and what [D] we're going to be doing is
playing these D major scale notes.
So the notes of these scale.
_ So when one pattern has been played the second pattern which is the harmony line will be
playing what is known as the third.
It's the third note, it's the third note of the scale.
So by that this is what I mean.
The scale is D, [E] E, F [F#] sharp, [G] G, [A] A, [B] B, [C#] C sharp [D] and D.
_ Now one of the riffs, I call this the main riff which is the second riff I'll teach you.
The first note we're going to be playing is a D.
_ I've just said we're going to play the third.
So while we're playing the D the other guitar is going to be playing the third note of the scale.
So the first note is the D, [E] second note E, third note F [F#] sharp.
[G] Okay so we're going to be playing the F sharp note.
So above the F sharp note we have a G, [A] A, [B] B, [C#] C sharp [D] and D.
So whatever note you are playing you'll either be playing, you'll be playing the third note
above the main guitar.
I will explain each one as we go along.
So the harmony line sounds so clear.
Now if you don't play the harmony guitar separately you can play it on your own but it doesn't
sound anywhere as good.
So it'll sound like this. _
[C#m] _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ Yeah it's alright but it's not brilliant.
You can use your fingers to pluck it but it's not as clear.
You can't put the vibrato on it and you don't have that beautiful separation.
So like I said play along to the backing tracks and what I'm going to do first is teach you
the higher harmony line.
So go forward

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