Chords for ♪♫ The Doors - Roadhouse Blues (Tutorial)

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_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] What a cool song, Roadhouse Blues.
I [N] did a tutorial for Love Me Two Times not too long
ago and quite a few people wrote to me saying can you do Roadhouse Blues?
_ [Em] _ _ _ Yeah, it's not
one that you do on an acoustic ordinarily, _ but you can get a bit of a [G] nice sound happening
as I hope that just showed.
I'll show you how you can do it.
[E] It's basically, _ [D] you know
on the [Em] electric guitar version, you know you'd just be playing [E] open notes. _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[C] You need to try
and fill it up a little bit I think when [G] you're using an acoustic and if you want to play
it solo [Em] as well.
So _ [B] make an E [E] minor. _
_ _ _ _ Basically just down, up, down, up, down, up, down. _ _
You
got to kind of _ [G] get a bit of a mute happening [Em] as well, you don't want those chords ringing
[E] out.
_ _ _ And you're only basically strumming the bottom three. _ _ _ _
_ _ Then _ [Dm] you just need [B] _ on the fifth
string, the A [Bb] string, [B] [Am] open first [B] second.
_ [G] And then on the fourth string, [D] _
[E] _ open first
second.
So it's up, down, up, down, [A] up, [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
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down.
It takes a little while to get the hang of
it.
Do it slowly. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [D] _ [E] _ _
_ Then _ [G] _ [Ebm] _ [E] it's [G] basically just the open _ _ third string, but [Am] you could also
strum the [G] fourth string.
_ You get that while it's open, _ [F] then back to [Em] E minor.
_ _ _ You can put
some [E] bend on it too if you can manage way down there. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ [G] _ _ [D] _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ Okay, so that's the main riff.
_ Then you need that little bluesy bit, let it [Gbm] roll baby roll. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ [Ab] I like to, well, I'd say like bar
across the, to make the A.
You're not, [Gbm] even though you're not going to play those [A] strings down there,
it's just easier if you bar that finger across [Ab] there.
And use your third and fourth fingers,
or your [G] pinky, whatever you can stretch [Am] best with.
_ _ [Db] _ And onto the [Am] fifth string, hammer on to
the [C] third fret, and [G] then onto the [Am] fourth fret.
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[Db] _ [Am] Then open, _ _ and then onto the fourth string,
fourth [A] fret. _
[Am] If you _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ [A] _ _ _ [Am] _
don't like that little, [Db] _ _ [A] _ _ whatever _ _ [Db] _ _ [E] you please.
I'm not sure exactly what
it is to tell you the truth, that's [Am] just how I like it. _ _ _ _ _
_ I like that sound better.
_ [E] _
Okay,
and then you need [B] the, _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [A]
[Gm] you need to do a B power chord [Bm] here.
[E] There's a bar right across the [C] second
fret, and put [A] your fingers onto the fourth fret on the third and fourth [B] strings. _ _ _
_ _ Slide [C] up one fret
for the C power chord, _ _ [B] _ _ back down for the B power chord.
_ _ Now there'll be plenty of [Em] you who hate
[A] doing bar chords.
[E] You can get away [B] with, _ _
_ [C] _ _ [B] _ _ doesn't sound exactly [F] right, but you could make a [B] B11 there.
_ _ _ [C]
C, [G] C, [B] C.
Back to the B11 if you really want to avoid those power chords, _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [B] _ [Gb] _ [E] _ _ _
but_
[Ab] That would be the right way to do it, [B] I would think. _ _
_ [C] _ _ [B] _ _ [Gbm] And that's the whole song,
and the rest [E] of the, I mean the whole song is basically _ _ _
_ [B] [Em] just_
_ _ [Bb] _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ [E] _ [Am] It's too hard to sing and play at the same time.
Anyway, I [F] hope that's enough [G] for you to start
mucking around with Roadhouse Blues.
That is a cool song.
Love it.