Chords for 🎸 "Game of Thrones" easy guitar lesson (theme song) - no capo, chords & intro tabs

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Hey [G] friends, what's up?
This is David Potts with SongNotes and [C] today I'm going to show you how to pick up your
guitar and play the Game of Thrones theme song.
Now, this is going to be an easy, simplified version of this song.
I'm going to be using no capo.
I'm going to be using no fancy guitar licks or lead riffs.
If you want the sort of full, complicated version, you might want to look elsewhere.
This one is going to be really [G] keeping it as simple as possible.
So you can just pick up your guitar and play this no matter where you [Eb] are on the skill level.
Alright, let's get right [E] to it.
So, big picture, this song has three parts.
Number one is the beginning, sort of, [A] intro riff of the song.
This is the very distinctive thing you hear at the very beginning of the opening credits.
I'm going to teach you that first.
[E] The next part, and this is really the main part of the [Am] song, feels like the very melodic,
recognizable riff of the song.
This part only [Em] uses four chords and they repeat, so it's nice and approachable.
The third and [B] final thing I'll show you, it's a [F] bit more tricky because you have some [C] new
chords in there.
You have an F chord too, which is [Dm] tough, is this sort of ending part of the song.
So I'm going to [Am] teach you that last.
But let's start right [F] off with that beginning part of the song.
[E] And if I may take a quick minute, reminder, check out my website, [C] PlaySongNotes.com to
[Gb] access all these notes and tabs and chord [Gb] progressions if you want to access them outside this lesson.
They're all typed up there for [D] this lesson and all my other lessons.
It's a great resource to check that out.
But otherwise, let's get [G] right to it.
Okay, so this first part of the [Am] song, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
okay, that first part I just played right there,
I'm going to show you that first, okay?
What you want to do is put your hand in an A minor position, okay?
That's open, second, second, first, open.
Starting on the fifth _ _ [A] string, okay?
This is the A string.
This is your starting [Em] string.
You don't want to play the thickest string.
So [Am] A minor, open, second, second, first, open.
Put your hand in that position and then get your pinky ready to go to this third fret
[D] of the second string. _
[C] _ [D] And get used to [C] _ putting it on and off there, but keeping the chord shape still.
And [E] the reason I'm showing you that is because the main part of this [Em] riff is going to use
the open E [A] string, second fret of the G string, which your [A] hand should already be on, [C] _ first
fret of the B string, which your hand will already be on, and then [D] _ _
this third fret of
the B string.
And then [E] you're going to go back up to the E, the high E, and start it all over again.
[Am] So _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ okay, practice repeating that.
What I like to do [E] too is when I play it, I play the chord to start with.
I play it [Am] once in full, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ okay?
Again, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ okay?
That's how it starts.
The next part of this intro [Bb] is you move the [G] same exact thing I just showed you, but the
only difference [B] is your left hand will be in an A major shape instead.
[A] So that's open, second, second, second, open.
_ _ _ Again, look at these two chords, see how they're different.
[Am] A minor, _ _ _ [A] A major.
_ _ A [Am] minor, _
_ [A] A major.
_ Now if your goal is to play this sort of whole intro, I recommend [Gb] being able to switch between
those two chords fluently.
But then [Bm] once you have the A major, same deal.
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_ Okay, so [Am] minor would be _ _ _
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[A] _ major. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] Minor, _
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[A] _ major. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Notice how my [G] picking hand is doing the same string pattern [Gb] each time, right?
So check that out.
And it's cool, the [F] writer of this song said actually when he wrote it, he [Abm] wanted to capture
[G] the sort of change from minor to major [Ab] back to minor.
[Am] Because minor sounds sad, you know, a bit more ominous.
[A] Whereas major sounds victorious and proud, right?
And the show, [E] Game of Thrones, obviously, and the books, forgive me, are, you know,
[Gm] following that general theme for sure.
You know, you have ups and downs that every [F] character has, whether they're a good guy
or a bad guy.
So that's [Am] why you have that sort [A] of minor to major switch sort of in a thematic level, [E] right?
But again, it's just that simple riff.
Alright, so that's the first part of the song.
[Ab] Next, let's dive into this main part, which is the [Am] recognizable_ _ _
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[Em] Game of Thrones, yeah, Game of Thrones, yeah, Game of Thrones, yeah, Game of Thrones, [G] yeah.
You'll see how I'm just going between these four chords.
_ _ [Am] Four counts on each chord.
_ _ _ _ Now for each count, what I mean is you're [D] going to do this [Eb] strumming pattern.
Down, [Ab] down, up, down, up.
Okay?
And you do that four times for each chord.
So, A [Am] minor.
_ _ Two.
_ Three.
_ Four.
[Em] E minor.
Down, down, up, down, up.
Down, down, up, down, up.
Down, down, up, down, up.
Down, down, [G] up, down, up.
G.
_ Down, down, up, down, up.
Down, down, up, down, up.
Down, down, up, down, up.
[Am] Down, down, up, down, up. E minor. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Okay?
[B] That's all you do, and if you want to hum [Gbm] over it for [Am] context_
Down, _ down, down, down, down, down, [Em] down, down, down.
Game of Thrones, yeah, Game of Thrones, yeah.
You can, okay?
[G] _ _ _ _ But otherwise, [Eb] middle part, it's [N] just those four chords.
You do the strumming sequence four times for each chord, okay?
And that's all you need.
Now, if you want to add in the riff, the melody to that part, I will show you this.
I'm [C] not going to spend too much time going in depth, but look at the [Am] tab here.
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_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ Okay?
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] Yeah, if you want to sort of capture that same melody here in the instrumental [G] version,
you can do [Gb] that with that tab and [E] it sounds good.
So, yeah, I wanted to show you that in case it helps.
Again, I'm not going to walk through it, but refer to the tab if you want to see it.
The final part of the song, you have a few [F] more chords.
This is the_
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_ Alright?
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ Alright?
You get the idea.
[E] First chord, F.
Don't [Eb] let this scare you away, [D] okay?
A full F [F] chord is first, third, third, second, first, first.
But if you don't know bar [B] chords yet, just worry [C] about the middle four strings, right?
[F] Third, third, second, first.
_ _ Okay? _ _
_ _ Or you can just do the thinnest four strings, third, second, first, first. _ _
Okay?
But either of those are good enough for an F.
A D minor is going [D] to be open, second, [Dm] third, first. _
_ _ Okay?
And then there's a [C] C, which is third, second, open, first, open. _ _
Okay?
So those are the new chords, but [Gb] in order it sounds like this.
So F for [C] two [F] sequences, _ _ _ _ [C] to C for two sequences, _ [Dm] to D minor for two sequences,
_ [Am] to A minor for two sequences, _ [F] to F for three sequences, _ _ _ _ [G] to G for one, and [Am] then A minor for four.
_ _ _ Again, with humming for [F] context. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Alright? _
_ _ [N] So that's all you need for the whole song.
I want you to pick up your guitar and try this out.
Even if it's just this first [Am] part. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Even if it's just those notes of that one A minor chord, I think it's a fun one to learn.
[B] But again, I hope this was [C] helpful.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
I would really love to [B] do a more advanced version of [Gb] this lesson one day,
where I do some of the [N] lead riffs and kind of the other stuff that's in key and proper.
But that's a bit more intermediate, a bit more advanced,
and I want to start it off something with a bit more _ accessible to people who are earlier in their guitar journey.
But I hope this was helpful for you.
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