Chords for Tom Petty - Breakdown - Guitar Lesson - How to Play the Intro Licks

[N] 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Marty Schwartz here. _ _ _
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_ Yeah, maybe so.
I've been busy touring, _ uh_
[A] Not really.
_ _ _ [G] _ Touring the office, you know.
Yeah, yeah, [Db] Zach's got a_
Zach's got_
You're a busy guy.
[B] I try.
I'm busy too, but it's always nice to have my brother here.
Now, [Db] _ you're sounding pretty good, dude.
How'd you learn guitar?
You know, this guy taught me a couple lessons.
I don't know, he kind of looked a little [G] bit like you.
Maybe a little younger, _ [E]
less _ [F] facial hair, you know.
[E] _ It's [Eb] weird, you know, the more I [C] played like him, the more I started to look [Fm] like him.
_ [E] _ Yeah, right.
_ _ _ So, [Fm] why don't_
Just because you're [C] here, and I don't [B] feel like it, you know.
You can work, do all the work.
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Why don't you teach that opening lick?
Sure, [E] yeah.
Alright, _ [Db] so_
The groove that I was playing was _ _ A minor to a [Am]
G. Right.
Which gives us [G] _
_ something, you know, [Db] _
basically you could just say, oh, it's in the key of A minor.
Sure, [Am] yeah.
But really the line is [Db] pretty much just the minor pentatonic scale.
[Dm] Yeah, it is, it is.
You're kind of coming up to the next [C] box here, so basically you're starting off [Db] on your A [Ab] root right here.
And you're just [C] wiggling it back [B] and forth the whole step, [A] so_ _ _
_ [Bb] So you're going from your 10th fret down to your 8th fret, [G] back up to the 10th fret.
So it just looks like [Am] this.
And _ then you're [B] landing right on the [Am] 7th fret here for the next note.
_ Oh, with your middle finger there?
Yeah, so it's just kind of your_ _
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And that slide just [B] is like all the time.
Yeah, you've got to hit that [C] slide just _ right.
It _ kind of [Am] makes it, I _ mean_
You could [Cm] do a pull-off thing, but I have a feeling they [F] do the slide and it definitely _ [B] adds [Am] some authenticity to the tune.
But [F] yeah, so you slide back and [A] forth, _ _ hit that [C] 7th fret, and then while you're there, you do the same thing [E] there. _ _
So just the whole step, [B] slide back and forth between 7 [E] and 5. _ _
And then you land [B] right on your A [A] after that. _ _ _
[B] And I kind of slide back [Bb] a position so I'm ready for the next part of [Ab] the lick. _
[C] _ Or riff. _ _
[Bb] _ Lift.
Here you [Bm] go.
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_ _ _ [D] _ [F] And then for the next [C] one, I [Ab] do a pull-off, I [G] think.
You know, [C] slide also works too, but it's [Bm] probably easier to pull-off.
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_ _ So that's just all, [B] once again, [Ab] now you're back at your [A] basic A [Em] minor box. _
[D] So the whole thing from the start_ _
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_ Clam chowder! _
_ [Ab] Well, you know, I really committed to, you know, oh, and then I, technically [Am] speaking, slide down to my position here, so now I've got to_ _ _
Clam it up.
[C] I've got to stick with it, I've got to commit to that.
_ They're going to point out the fingers, you [A] know. Okay. _
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And then the next part, [G] what I do, you know, and I don't even know if this is what they actually [B] do on the [Db] tune, it's what I hear.
And it's just kind of like [Am] an A [B] power chord, except you're up [A] here. _ _
_ So that would be _
[D] _ [A] 10th fret, _ 7th fret, and _ _ _ then_
Or [D] no, I'm sorry. _
10th fret, [Em] _ [Am] 9th fret, _ 7th fret. _ _ _
[A] So_
You're good, don't worry.
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_ _ So I [C] do one of those, just move it [A] back a whole step.
[G] _ _ _ _ And then for the next one, [Bb] I do [Bm] _
the same thing, I just drop the pinky note there, so [Dm] _ 7th fret, [E] _
[Am] 9th fret.
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Pull that down, [A] so _ [G] it's_
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_ _ _ [Bb] Nice, that sounds like it to me.
So from the [A] top, _
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_ and then you can go into [C] your, you know.
They do a cool break after the first _ _ _ [B]
chorus that's kind of a little organ, [Bb] _
piano type thing, and there's kind [G] of a _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ little [Bb] vamp on it.
We've heard that a [Bm] lot. _ _
_ [B] That's a Marty Schwartz original.
Not an original.
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So basically we have the A minor to the G, [Db] and then [Dm] eventually in the song it just goes down to F, right?
Yeah, [C] yeah.
It's almost like Along the [Am] Watchtower.
It's A, G [B] to F, so you know, when _ Petty _ breaks his [A] thing, you know.
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_ _ _ _ What are you [E] going, I got [C] the feeling you [A] have.
[F] Oh yeah. _ _
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A minor, G, G, G, F.
Yeah.
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Where's that? _ _ _ _
_ _ It's right before the [B] actual _ verse. _
Well, [Bb] they got the line.
Yes, they did.
So that was good. _ _
_ _ I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that. _ _
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