Heart Of Gold Lots chords by Neil Young

Chords with lyrics

I've only just started learning the guitar and I'm having trouble working
out the intro to "Heart of gold" by Neil Young.
I play it picking the bottom four strings using the chords

E minorEm x5 D MajorD x1 E minor 7Em7 x1 E minorEm x1

It then has a few notes picked and then played again. With my useless
ear I can't pick out those notes. Any help or corrections would be appreciated

Also would anyone know a riff to play instead of the harmonica parts.


                                  Thanks

                                     Mike.

HEART OF GOLD : NEIL YOUNG

Intro:

E minor 7Em7 / / / / / D MajorD / E minor 7Em7    (Play twice)

Verse:

E minorEm / C majorC / D MajorD / G+G /    (Play three times)

E minor 7Em7 / / / / / G+G / C majorC / /  C majorC G/BG/B Am7Am7 G+G   (play twice)


For the harmonica bit, play the first line of the verse (3 times) then goto
the opening line once

Then verse two is as verse one

The only 'extra' is at the end where the vocals repeat the line:

"Keep me searching for a heart of gold, keep me searching and I'm growing old"

This is sung over the intro line again, so for this we have:

E minor 7Em7 / / / / / D MajorD / E minor 7Em7    (three times)
E minor 7Em7 / / / / / G+G / / / C majorC / /  / G/BG/B Am7Am7 G+G


If you listen to the record it should be clear how the lyrics change with the
chords. The only thing to suss out is the rhythm of the strumming.
For the intro you have 6 strong strums on the E minor 7Em7 , two on D MajorD then back to E minor 7Em7

listen to the record- it's pretty straight forward.

Here are the chord shapes:

 E minor 7Em7    D MajorD     E minorEm     C majorC    G+G    G/BG/B   Am7Am7
022030  xx0232  022000   032010  320003  x2000x  x02010

Howard

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I don't know who originally wrote this, I just added the riff after "old."
I got this from the book "Neil Youn for Guitar" or something like that.


The intro is an E minorEm strum with a brief D: (each / represents a beat)
(This may actually be a E minor 7Em7)

Repeat twice:
     E minorEm E minorEm E minorEm E minorEm E minorEm E minorEm D MajorD    D MajorD  E minorEm
 /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /

e --------0---0---0---0---0---0-|-2-------2---0-----------------|
BB --------0---0---0---0---0---0-|-3-------3---0-----------------|
G+G --------0---0---0---0---0---0-|-2-------2---0-----------------|
D MajorD --------2---2---2---2---2---2-|-0-------0---2-----------0-----|
A augmentedA --------2---2---2---2---2---2-|-------------2-------0-2----2--|
E MajorE 0-------0---0---0---0---0---0-|-------------0-----------------|

[Harmonica intro]

E minorEm    C majorC   D MajorD     G+G
I want to live, I ...
E minorEm     C majorC      D MajorD    G+G
I've been a miner ...
E minorEm      C majorC     D MajorD    G+G
It's these expressions I ...
E minorEm              G+G    D MajorD
That keep me searching ..
C majorC          G+G
And I'm ...
E minorEm           G+G    D MajorD
Keep me searching for ...
C majorC         (riff) G+G
And I'm ....

Riff
-----------3------------------
-----------0------------------
-----------0------------------
-----------0------------------
--3--2--0--2------------------
-----------3------------------

[Harmonica solo]

[Repeat intro Em-D pattern]

E minorEm      C majorC     D MajorD      G+G
I've been to Hollywood, ...
E minorEm        C majorC      D MajorD    G+G
I've crossed the ocean for ...
E minorEm      C majorC    D MajorD      G+G
I've been in my mind, it's ...
E minorEm              G+G    D MajorD
That keeps me searching ...
C majorC         riff G+G
And I'm ...

[Harmonica solo]

E minorEm           D MajorD    E minorEm
Keep me searching ...
  E minorEm            D MajorD    E minorEm
You keep me searching and ...
E minorEm           D MajorD    E minorEm
Keep me searching for a ...
E minorEm           G+G    D MajorD
I've been a miner for a ....

C majorC   G+G
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OK this is what I have for Heart of Gold

Strum an E minor 7Em7 chord 6 times, then 2 on D, then one again on E minor 7Em7

Here's the E minor 7Em7 shape

 EADGBE
 022030

And D MajorD (in case you don't know)

 EADGBE
 xx0232

after the D MajorD and one on E minor 7Em7 I think he plays an E minorEm once (022000) then he picks
these notes:

D------2------
A--0h2--------
E--------0----


where you hammer on from the open A augmentedA to the second fret

Then you go back to the beginning (6 on Em7, 2 on D, 1 on Em7, 1 on E minorEm)

Hope this helps

Howard

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In article ,
 wrote:
> [...]
> I play it picking the bottom four strings using the chords
>
> E minorEm x5 D MajorD x1 E minor 7Em7 x1 E minorEm x1
>
> It then has a few notes picked and then played again. With my useless
> ear I can't pick out those notes. Any help or corrections would be appreciated
> [...]


Hiya... I play

 E minorEm  D MajorD Em[ ]    D MajorD E minorEm
| . . . | . . . | . . . | . . .
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

where the stuff in the brackets [ ] is, in order:
	an open A augmentedA and hammer-on to BB (5th string, 2nd fret)
	the E MajorE (4th string of the E minorEm chord, 2nd fret)
	the BB again
	low E MajorE (open 6th string)
...Oboy, let me try to tab this out. It may rot, though!

	|---------------
	|---------------
	|---------------
	|---------------
	|-------2-------
	|--0-h2---2-----
	|-----------0---

(Hey, not too bad! heh,heh) Now you're ready for the 6 E minorEm strums,
two D MajorD ones, and back to E minorEm again.

...or just screw around!!!  Cheers,

- doug
 viner@virginia