Chords for Tommy Emmanuel Guitar Lesson - Lime House Blues Breakdown

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Okay, I'm going to walk you gently through Limehouse Blues.
_ This song's been around a long time and _ I've heard Django play it,
I heard Barney Kessel and Herb Ellis play it,
_ I heard Chet and Jerry play it,
_ _ Richard Smith does a great version.
_ There are so many people who play _ _ the hell out of this tune.
It's a great song.
_ And you know, there are a lot of good keys to play it in
_ and I ummed and ah'd, I tossed and turned,
I _ _ did everything I know to find the best version for you,
the easiest way to play it.
And _ I _ _ almost convinced myself that I could teach you the song in [C] this key, _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
which is the key that [Ab] Chet and Les [N] Paul play it in.
But as a solo piece, _ the key that I'm teaching you in,
which is the key of C, the song starts in F, _ _
_ _ it's easier than the awkwardness of the end of the other key,
so _ I had to make that executive decision.
_ And I'm not the president, how about that?
So anyway, so here we go, let me teach you this _ [C] Limehouse Blues. _
It's in the key of C, so it starts in F, right?
And I'm using _ _ again my [F] thumb _ over the top _ _ _ _ _ _ like that,
so I've got F, and I've [Eb] got the [B] 7th, the 3rd, _ [A] _ _ there's the [F] melody.
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Now [F] that's F7, _ _ _ _ _ _ this is _ [D] _ _ _ _
D7 _ _ _ _ _ with [Am] the _ F sharp in the bass,
and then _ _ [C] _ I'll [Gm] _ _
[Eb] _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ play that [F] from the start. _
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_ _ _ _ I'm just going, _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] I'm not playing the _ _ _ 5th string,
[Ab] when I'm boom-chicking on the [F] bass, I'm _ going_ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
See how it [Eb] still spells out the chord just as well?
[C] Then_
_ _ _ I _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[G] _ _ [A] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ worked out that that's the best way to play it in this key.
[F] So _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Bm] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [Eb] _ [E] _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[G] _ [Bbm] _ [Am] _ [G] _ _ _ [Gb] now, there you [D] go.
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
So I'm doing the opposite [Bb] to what I did in the other [D]
songs.
I'm starting on that position and sliding up to that one. _ _ _
Remember I _ went_
[Ab] In the other song, [D] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [Gb] so_ _
Let's [F] see_
[Gbm] _ _ [G] Here [Am] _ _ [C] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [E] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [C] we go.
[D] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
[Bbm] _ [Am] _ [G] _ _ Now _ _
[Bbm] [Am] that's_
_ [G] _ _ [Bbm] _ [Am] [G] Which _ _ _ _ [Am] is_
[G] _ _
_ _ [Gb] _ [G] _ _ _ [Bbm] _ [Am] _
[G] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Gb] [Fm] That's a great sound [Bm] there.
_ [Am] _ [G] _ _ [Gb] F sharp, then [F] F _ _ [Am] for [Em] the second time round.
Let me just show you that one [C] more time.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [E] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [Am] _ [G] _ _
_ [Gb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Bm] So I go [Bbm] _ [Am] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _
_ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
_ F sharp [F] 7th, _ _ _ F7. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ So I'll [G] play it from the top again [F] for you. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
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_ [C] _ [A] _ [G] _ [C] _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [Bbm] _ [Am] _ [G] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] Same in the D.
_ _ _ Right, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ now this [Am] part, [C] this has got the big stretch. _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
C_
_ _ _ So _ _ _ here's a C chord, _ _
then I've got _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ A7,
_ with _ a_
_ [E] Then [Dm] I _ go_
_ _ That's a D minor with an open E in it, so you _ get_ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] Sounds nice, doesn't it?
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
You can also hear that when I [Bb] hit the _ A7,
_ _ _ _ [Gbm] _ _
I'm doing that.
I'm playing that harmony with these two [A] fingers
and they're two strings apart.
_ _ Like [Cm] that.
[G] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
F minor, _ _ [Em] _ [Fm] _
and I kind of rock that.
[Em] _ [Fm] _ _
_ _ _ [Em] G, _ _ _
_ [C] _ C.
_ _ [Bb] _ [A] _
_ [F] Back to F. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [B] _ [C] _ _ _ [Em] _ [Eb] _ _
[E] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [Bbm] _ [Am] _ [G] _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ And the big [C] C stretch. _
[A] _ _ _ _ A7, [Dm] D minor.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ [Fm] _
F minor [Em] to G.
_ _ _ [C] _
Now when I played it before,
I threw in the Chet lick on [Dm] the [C] end. _ _
_ _ _ _ Because it fits so [E] perfectly, [Fm] right?
_ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _
[C] Can _ _ _ _ _ you see, when [Bb] you use it in context,
how cool it sounds?
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] OK, _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
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I get to work _ on _