Chords for Woodstock - CSNY - Intro Solo Lesson

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_ _ Welcome to Vanderbilt.com today.
This is going to be a really quick lesson on the
opening solo to
Woodstock by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
This is a request got yesterday _
_ _ _ This is in a G minor pentatonic and what
_ the main thing that Stills is doing on this is
_ It's in standard tuning, but he's using this _
This G a lot
_ To refer to so he'll be going _ back and forth to it a lot
_ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ [D] I'm playing this through a Les Paul standard and a
Vox AC30 and the only effects I have on here are a little bit of chorus and a compressor
_ So let's get started _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Okay, so it goes like this
[F#m] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [D#] You _ _
_ _ _ [A#] _ _ Okay, _ _ _ _ _ _ so I'm going to walk you through this slowly
_ As I said the whole thing is in the first position of the G minor pentatonic
_ And you're going to [C#] start
You're going to start down on the third fret _ _
On the fourth string
_ And you've got a hammer on
from the three to the five
_ And you go immediately [F#] to the the bass G so it's
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And then you return to
_ You return to this G.
This is _ again the the fourth string fifth fret _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Then you've got a [Bm] bend on the [A#m] third string [D#] third fret _ _ _
_ And
This is a pretty dirty sounding song so if you pick up the the second string third fret that's fine
You know you can either do
_ [A#] _ _ _
Sound a little [F#m] bit better with them
_ so
so far we've got
_ _ _ _ And then you come back and do _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
You
You get that same figure that you started with _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
so again _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ And you hit the the G again _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#m] You _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [D] _ _
_ Third fret six string and _
_ Fifth fret
[F#m] _ _ _
And _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ then you're gonna you're gonna bend the heck out of this
_ _ _ _ Out of this third string fifth fret it's almost a [A#] kind of a Neil Young thing _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ and if you get a little bit of a
Pinch harmonics going on that [D] that's okay, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ okay?
_ _ [F#m] Then it's
_ _ Third string I'm sorry fourth string fifth fret to third string third fret _ _ _ _
_ [D#] bend the third string fifth fret and
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ _ [F#] So you're just getting those two _
_ The first [F#m] and second string on the third fret _
[A#m] _ _ And then you got [G#] a hammer on you got to use I use my pinky you could use
You could use your ring finger if you want and it's
_ _ Second string third fret to second string sixth fret
_ _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A#m] _ _ [A#] _
_ So once you've hit that then you you have a series of
_ _ _ _ Two string _
_ Two string chords if you will you can bend them the first one is
[F#m] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ [D#] _ _ _ _ _ _
And then the second time you you play it you play
_ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So the whole thing there is _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A#] _ _ And then you're you're you're gonna hit the
_ second string fifth fret
_ _ [D#m] _ _ _ Down to the [Gm] second string third fret
[C#] _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] Second string [A#] sixth fret _ _ _
_ _ And [F#] then _ [G#] _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [C#] _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ you're gonna do a [D#] little bend on the actually on the second string
Fourth fret just a little one.
_ It's a little little little half bend
[F#m] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [F#] the
_ _ the third string
Third fret [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ that's pretty much it.
Hope you can pick it up from there.
I'll build some too fast.
Take care
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