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Free Bird
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Lynyrd Skynyrd
FREE BIRD
The track is based in G , and the 5 minute solo used mainly
the G minor pentatonic scale. I suggest practicing the sliding intro
with your finger first and then get out the bottleneck. Also it's
a good idea to rig your electronic tuner (you do have one?) up so
that when you play the guitar a bend a note you can see how close you get
, you should get a power supply for your tuner so you can turn it on
permanantly when your amp is switched on . This really does improve
you pitch. It is vital that you get the right pitch of the notes with
the slide or it sounds useless. Also add a bit vibrato with the slide
for extra effect. You only need a little bit distortion and not to much
for the solo either. Okay here 'tis.
* 2 use slide now!
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If I leave here tom___orow
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would you still remember me? for I must be
travelling on
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now cause theres to many places i've got to see
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But if I stay here with you girl things just couldn't be the same
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D G D/F#
'Cause i'm free as a bird
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now, and this bird you cannon change oh
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F C D
and this bird you cannot change.
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And this bird you cannot change Lord know I can't change
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Lord help me I can't change_________________________________
Thats the main song covered , this repeats a few times and then when
come to the outro section . You can take your slide of now and
change to some rhythm playing and then it's the solo.
oh yes this is where there is some slight phasing , but also it's
switched off for the main body of the solo and gradually builds up
into the end section.
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Lord_________ I can't change_____________ won't you
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The Guitar Solo
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Now the solo comes in , you guitar should not be totally
screaming for this but should have plenty of gain giving a good impact
the solo is very energetic , in the 2nd and 3rd sections notice
how the feel and timing slightly changed , I am only going to cover
the first part.
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As you can see it uses the same riff repeating a lot it seems daft
writing it all out like I just did so i'll show you the riff
and how many times it repeats
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This is repeated 3 times and on the 4 time play this:
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The next riff which is repeated twice is :
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and this follows:
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