Take It Easy Chords & Guitar Lesson
I love the Eagles and this is my Take It Easy chord chart. Very simple chords and strumming make it a good beginner guitar song. Below are the three fingers chords, but if you know the two fingered chords I teach in my beginner guitar course, those will work as well!
All very simple open chords. I would probably use a couple different strumming patterns as the intro has a little bit of a different feel the rest of the song. They will be very similar with 1 little adjustment.
Try playing them back to back to see how the feel changes.
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Take It Easy Guitar Chords:
Take It Easy Strumming Patterns:
Intro Strumming:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
DUD DU D U
Rest Of The Song:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
D DU D U DU
Take It Easy Guitar Lesson:
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Take It Easy Chord Chart:
Intro: G G C D G G C D G
Verse:
G G
Well I'm a runnin' down the road try'n to loosen my load
D C
I've got seven women on my mind
G D
Four that wanna own me, two that wanna stone me
C G
One says she's a friend of mine
Chorus:
Em Em C G
Take it easy, take it easy
Am C Em Em
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
C G C G
Lighten up while you still can Don't even try to understand
Am C G G G G
Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy
Verse:
G G
Well, I'm a standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
D C
Such a fine sight to see
G D
It's a girl my lord in a flat-bed Ford
C G
Slowin' down to take a look at me
Chorus:
Em Em C G
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
Am C Em Em
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
C G C G
We may lose and we may win, though we may never be here again
Am C G
So open up I'm climbin' in, so take it easy
Interlude:
G G D C
G D C G
Em Em C G
Am C Em C
Verse:
G G
Well I'm a runnin' down the road try'n to loosen my load
D C
Got a world of trouble on my mind
G D C G
Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my cover, she's so hard to find
Chorus:
Em Em C G
Take it easy, take it easy
Am C Em Em
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Em Em C G
Come on baby, don't say maybe
Am C Em (hold)
I gotta know of your sweet love is gonna save me
Em Em C G Repeat out
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