Chords for Treetop Flyer by Stephen Stills & CSN – Acoustic Guitar Lesson Preview from Totally Guitars

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_ _ We're going to [N] take a look at a song I meant to do a lesson on 15, at least 12 years ago,
and never got around to it.
I'm finding a lot of these lately.
You Don't Have to Cry recently was another one.
Anyway, this is of course Tree Top Flyer by Stephen Stills from his 1991 album called
Stills Alone that was mostly _ solo stuff and really cool tunes.
And this one is really fun to play.
It's not as hard as it might seem.
_ Boy, I saw some_
it's in drop D tuning.
That's it.
It's not dadgad.
It's not double drop D.
It's only like three chords.
So we've got a D7 chord and some little thirds [C] _ [D] _
messing [G] around there.
We've got some_
Now he plays, if you watch his hands [D] in this, he plays his G and F chords with his thumb
wrapped around on the G chord playing the fifth string in the [C] bass and the F chord playing
the third string in the bass.
I'm not going to [G] ask you to do that because it works just as well using your third finger
for those bass notes.
_ And then of course, _ everything Stills plays is quite different every time.
So we're not going to talk about_
I'm not going to break down the leads that are on the studio album or any of the ones there.
I'll talk a little bit about _ _ _ [G] _ _
[Dm] _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ the _
_ _ [C] minor pentatonic pattern that he uses in there.
And what I played at the very [Dm] beginning _ _ _ [E] is pretty much exactly what we hear on the original recording.
But every time he plays this, it's just _ 80% improvised just following the chord progression,
which is two measures of D, a measure of G, and a measure of F.
And the D always has a
seventh in it.
We rarely hear a third in here, which is partly what gives [A] it_
Actually, _ no, we [D] never do.
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[Dm] We hear flatted thirds, which is what gives it this bluesy sound.
And then of course, we hear a regular [D] G chord and an F chord, but both of them have some
extra open strings in them that are a bit unusual.
And of course, I'll go into some of the embellishments that we hear in here.
But mostly I'm going to try to give you a fairly _ _ straightforward approach to playing treetop flyer.
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