Beginners

Rock
Guitar
taught by

Fred Sokolow

Notes on the 5th and 6th Strings

5=A
6=E

B
F

C
G

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E
B

D
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C

G
D

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B C
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E F
G

MOVEABLE CHORDS
E
root

BarredE(F)

PowerChord(F)

barre

root

root

1st position
chord

moveable chord
formation

abbreviated
moveable chord
formation

BarredA(B)

PowerChord(B)

root
root

root

m
1st position
chord

moveable chord
formation

15

abbreviated
moveable chord
formation

etc.

I - IV - V CHORD FAMILY
Roots of chords in G chord family

IV
I

Full Chords

3fr.

3fr.

D
5fr.

IV

Dm
5fr.

5fr.

Power Chords

3fr.

3fr.

5fr.

IV

BASIC ROCK PROGRESSION

( la LOUIE LOUIE)
G

C
3fr.

..

D
3fr.

C
5fr.

3fr.

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& 4

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Eddie Cochran lick

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G Blues Box Licks

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BASIC ROCK PROGRESSION SOLOING

(LOUIE LOUIE STYLE)

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BAD BOY
(BACKUP)

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He
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bad little boy moved in-to our neighborhood.

dont do nothin right. His re-port card doesnt look so good.

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doesnt want to go to school to learn to read and write,

&

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just

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n #
sits around the house playin rock and roll music all

night.

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>

says its gotta stop, Juniors head is hard as rock.

Mama

&

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>

Now, Junior, be-have yourself!

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BAD BOY
(SOLO)
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I - IV - V CHORD FAMILY
(5th string roots)
5

A
E

IV

B
5fr.

root

IV

12

5th
6th

I
V

A
6fr.

root

10

7fr.

root

IM

HOG FOR YOU

(BACKUP)

&

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n ...

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>

baby,

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cant get enough of your love.

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hog for you,

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baby,

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cant get enough of your love.

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2ND BLUES BOX (IN E)

#### n
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IM

HOG FOR YOU

(LEAD)

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ALL ALONG

WATCHTOWER

THE

(BACKUP & SOLO)

Am

4
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& 4 .

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1st Box

SOLO

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STAND

BY

ME

(BACKUP & SOLO)

#
& # 44

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BACKUP

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IN

MIDNIGHT HOUR

THE

(BACKUP)
G

3fr.

# # 4 F
& 4

3fr.

F
5fr.

8fr.

# # G . C >
&

C
>
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when my

# # G . C >
&

4fr.

C
>
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Im gonna

wait

til the midnight hour

C
>
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love comes tumblin down.

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>
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wait til the midnight hour

# # G
&

when theres

C
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round.

take you,

Im gonna

Im gonna

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nobody

girl,

else

a-

and hold you,

# # C G C
&
do all the things

&

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that I

told

you in the midnight

hour,

in the midnight

# # F
&

hour.

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IN

THE

MIDNIGHT HOUR SOLO

(SUBSTITUTE SCALE: E)

Key of G

#
& 44

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DOUBLE-NOTE BLUES SCALE (IN G)

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ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN

(SOLO)
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When I find
myself in
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times of trouble,
darkness, she is

Mother
standing

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Mary
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right in front of me,

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PROUD MARY BACKUP

(USING POWER CHORDS)
HOOK

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city,

workin for the man both night and day.

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one minute of sleepin

worryin bout the way things might have been.

CHORUS

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&
Big wheels, keep on

turnin,

Proud Mary keep on

burnin.

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rollin,

rollin on the river.

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