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Lynyrd Skynyrd-Sweet Home Alabama - BPM - 95

[Loop section where riff is played over drums for first time and store - then just have solo sound on in background and either play little lead lines or the piano part or that chromatic riff which repeats in certain sections - Can try the F and C section]

[Intro - BPM 98 - riff on own - then riff and drums]
(notes - Wheels, Well I Heard, In Birmingham, Muscle Shoals)

[Verse]   
Big wheels keep on turning 
Carrying me home to see my kin 
Singing songs about the southland 
I'm missing old mammie once again 
And I think it's a sin, yes 
   
[Riff]     
Well I heard Mr. Young sing about her (oo, oo, oo)
Well I heard old Neil put it down  
Well I hope Neil Young will remember 
A southern man don't need him around anyhow 
    
[Chorus]   
Sweet home Alabama  
Where the skies are so blue  
Sweet Home Alabama  
Lord, I'm coming home to you  
    
[Solo 1]       
In Birmingham they loved the governor (oo, oo, oo F to C bit)
Now we all did what we could do  
Now Watergate does not bother me  
Does your conscience bother you?  
Tell the truth   
    
[Chorus]    
Here I come Alabama   
    
[Solo - Alabam ah, ah, ah]   
[Riff]    

[Verse]    
Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers (oo, oo, oo) 
And they've been known to pick a song or two (yes, they do) 
Lord they give me oh so much   
They pick me up when I'm feeling blue  
Now how about you?   
    
[Chorus] F to C bit at end   
[Chorus]         

[Loop Notes]
1. Practise stop for G to F
2. Solo ideas
- start with that bend 15th fret on E
- 2 note phrase then tap high note - 
- that 2 note per string thing seems to work - 35 35 45 45 35 35 
- fast line that works is G - 14 B 12 13 15 13 12
- try a bit of G minor as well but with stay away from minor 3rd
- try the open strings bit - but on G string - 4p2p0 and variations of
- the play the 'ah ah ah' bit - B - 15 13 12 and play the triads around later

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Bill Withers-Just The Two Of Us - CHECK CHORDS - BPM - 95

Capo 1st fret
 
Chords:
Cmaj7    x32000
B7       x21202
Em7      022030 or x7978x
Dm7      xx0211 or x5756x
G7       320001
Ebm7     x11x2x or x6867x
 
[Intro - Half bar each - drums is Bxxx xxxB Bxxx xxxx - double bass figure on second chords]
Cmaj7    B7    Em7    (Dm7  G7)  
Cmaj7    B7    Em7    Em7 
(repeat)
 
[Verse 1]
Cmaj7        B7                Em7
   I see the crystal raindrops fall
        Dm7    G7    Cmaj7
And the beauty of it all
            B7                Em7            
Is when the sun comes shining through

Cmaj7            B7             Em7
   To make those rainbows in my mind
       Dm7      G7      Cmaj7
When I think of you sometime
            B7                   Em7
And I wanna spend some time with you
 
[Chorus]
         Cmaj7      B7        Em7  
Just the two of us,    we can make 
   Ebm7  Dm7
it if we try
G7       Cmaj7     B7           Em7
Just the two of us    (just the two 
of us)
         Cmaj7      B7          
Just the two of us,    building 
Em7     Ebm7   Dm7
castles in the sky
G7       Cmaj7      B7         Em7
Just the two of us,    you and I
 
[Verse 2]
Cmaj7          B7                
   We look for love, no time for 
Em7
tears
       Dm7     G7       Cmaj7
Wasted water's all that is
             B7              Em7
And it don't make no flowers grow
 
Cmaj7                B7            
   Good things might come to those 
    Em7
who wait
            Dm7       G7       Cmaj7
But not for those who wait too late
         B7            Em7
We gotta go for all we know
  
[Chorus]
         Cmaj7      B7        Em7  
Just the two of us,    we can make 
   Ebm7  Dm7
it if we try
G7       Cmaj7     B7           Em7
Just the two of us    (just the two 
of us)
         Cmaj7      B7              
Just the two of us,    building them
 Em7     Ebm7   Dm7
 castles in the sky
G7       Cmaj7      B7         Em7
Just the two of us,    you and I
 
[Solo] (all positions relative to 
capo on 1st fret)
   Cmaj7        B7          Bbmaj7  
e|-7--5-------7--5h7------|-5--3----
B|-5----8--5--4-----------|-3----6--
G|-5----------4-----------|-3-------
D|-5----------4-----------|-3-------
A|------------------------|---------
E|------------------------|---------
     A7        Abmaj7       G7      
---5---------|------------3--1-3---1
3--2---------|-8--6-------0---------
---2---------|-5----8--5--0---------
---2---------|-6----------x---------
-------------|------------x---------
-------------|------------3---------
  Cmaj7   F13
|-7-------10---------|
|-8---8---8----------|
|-9-------8----------| x2
|---------7----------|
|---------8----------|
|--------------------|
 
[Interlude]
Cmaj7    B7    Em7    (Dm7  G7)  
Cmaj7    B7    Em7    Em7
(repeat) 
 
[Verse 3]
Cmaj7         B7                Em7
   I hear the crystal raindrops fall
       Dm7    G7       Cmaj7
On the window down the hall
         B7                Em7
And it becomes the morning dew
 
Cmaj7           B7               
   And darling, when the morning 
Em7
comes
      Dm7     G7      Cmaj7
And I see the morning sun
        B7              Em7
I wanna be the one with you
 
[Chorus]
         Cmaj7      B7        Em7  
Just the two of us,    we can make 
   Ebm7  Dm7
it if we try
G7       Cmaj7     B7           Em7
Just the two of us    (just the two 
of us)
         Cmaj7      B7              
Just the two of us,    building big 
Em7     Ebm7   Dm7
castles way on high
G7       Cmaj7      B7         Em7
Just the two of us,    you and I

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