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• This chord progression is used throughout the song.
• It's a great song to practise playing along with so make sure your guitar is in concert pitch. [use your tuner]
• Try to add the riffs that are played just after the 3rd beat of the first E chord.
• If you like to try some improvising use the E blues scale for licks and solo playing over these chords.

Hey Joe uses the CAGED chords... the key is E based.

C / G / D / A /

E / / / E / / /

Guitar Riffs

e --------------------------------------------------------------------

b --------------------------------------------------------------------

g ------------------------------------------------------0--------------

d ---------0---------0----2----------------0---------------2----------

a ----2---------2---------------------2----------2-------------------

e ---------------------------------------------------------------------

     Riff One                    Riff Two

Bass Riff

• *Play the fret hand fingering exactly as shown.
• It's a great exercise in using all 4 fingers
• This is also a great exercise on electric guitar... the top 4 strings are the same notes as on the bass E A D & G

g ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

d ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

a ----3---------------------------2----3----4----5--------------------------4----5----6----7-------

e ----------0----1----2----3---------------------------2----3----4----5----------------------------

      *3              1     2     3       1     2     3      4     1      2     3     4      1    2      3      4

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