It may very well be that Sweet Home Alabama is the undisputed anthem of the south. It is, from experience, one of the most requested songs a musician will get asked to play. I wonder if the guys in Lynyrd Skynyrd had any clue what their three chord ditty would blossom into.
In this lesson we will learn the famous Intro Riff and the rhythm to Sweet Home Alabama. The song is comprised of the D, C add9 and G add5 chords that we have been using in Dixie Style.
In the TAB there are four sections. The first is based around the D chord. If you first form the D chord and then work out the single note picking you will find that it is much easier.
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The same holds true for the next two sections, by working the single picking notes around the chord forms, it will fall into place a lot faster.
I would highly recommend keeping your 3rd finger anchored to the 3rd fret of the 2nd string throughout the entire Intro. This will make your chord transitions much smoother, and when you reach the last measure of the intro you can play the individual notes using your 1st finger while keeping your 3rd in place.
Now we can look at the chart for the rest of the rhythm. It is, for the most part, what you just learned with the Intro Riff. You can simply keep repeating that throughout the verses and then do strumming on the choruses.
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Take some time to work out the single note picking on the Intro Riff. It may take a little while to get all the notes sounding clearly. As always, start slowly and gradually work up your tempo. It will be well worth the effort when your family and friends are in awe as you start to play the first few lines of this song!
It cannot be stressed enough, the importance of anchoring your 3rd finger on the 3rd fret of the 2nd string throughout the entire passage of the Intro Riff. The chords and single note picking will transition much more smoothly by reducing excess finger movement.We can also take the song further beyond the basic riff and chord structure. At several points in the song, lots of lead guitar solo's weave in and out of the picture. We can practice some basic improvising using certain keys to get close to what we hear in the original song - this is a lot more creative and constructive than learning every single note exactly how it was done on this recording.
Further to that, a third section of the song lets us explore the idea of transposition, where a chord shape has been moved up higher than where it normally gets played, to fit with the music around it.
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Move your middle finger up to the A string, 3rd fret, and remove your first finger. Pick the strings as shown in the second bar (C).
After we have played the first round of chords, we play bar 1 - a hammer on, another hammer on joined to a pull-off, and a snappy note on the 3rd fret of the A string.
Repeat the chords in the first line, then play the bar marked 2 - a pull-off followed by an open string, then again, and finally a slide.
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This simple section constitutes large parts of the song. We have our three main chords, D C and G, played in a rhythmic fashion that locks in with the drums and bass guitar.
When you get the chords changing smoothly, and you start to lock in to the drums and bass guitar, try adding a little bit of palm muting to the first two notes in each bar, releasing the mute for the full strum.
The chorus of this song relies on the the same three chords we already established in the Intro and Verse - D C and two bars of G, but with a more open strumming pattern that lifts the section up above the other parts.
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The fourth repetition is almost identical, but the very last bar hits F and C once each, meaning we play D, C, G, then F - C.
Let's start with our first finger at the 7th fret, ready to hold some notes at that fret. The middle finger will hold the 8 on the A string that is played first, and the ring finger hammers on to 9.
For the second bar, we just move the whole shape backwards to frets, and hit those two middle strings together instead of separately as in the last bar.
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The final bar can begin on the first finger, using the middle finger to hammer on. Let that last note ring out for a whole bar.
Well, let's imagine we've moved a G chord up the neck by 7 frets, and counted as we go. From G, one fret up is G#, two frets up is A, three frets up is A#... and so on. When we reach 7 frets up, we are now in the pitch of D, and we should be in the position to play the first bar shown above.
What is lower than D by two frets? That's right, C! And thus we have our second bar, which harmonically matches with the C chord underneath it.
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The final bar is easily identifiable as being based around a G chord, which is of course then chord behind this bar.
Country music is full of wonderful examples of lead instruments playing over the chord changes like this; the notes used for solo and riff sections are actually built out of the chords behind them. Therefore, everything matches harmonically, melodically, and often rhythmically too. Of course, many of the best players know exactly when and how to use notes and rhythms slightly outside of the supporting chords, such as the first note of each bar in this riff; the minor note for each chord! It only makes a very brief appearance before it gets hammered on to the correct note (the major note), creating a slur effect that is a key feature of Blues music, amongst many other styles!
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