Bob Dylan song just A chord

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Highway 61 is just the A chord…I had lots fun playing along to this and practising strumming. I thought I tell you guys as it’s fun song

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I think the original is in Bb (A-shape chord with capo on 1st fret)
And I think the 4 & 5 (D & E) chords are thrown in there too :thinking:, but yes, cool song to play along to :grinning_face_with_big_eyes:

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Here they say it’s A, D7 and E7.

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Yes - a twist on a I, IV, V 12-bar blues where the structure is all shook up.

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It is indeed very similar to All Shook Up :rofl:

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Being a Dylan fanatic, I had to look this up. Referring to the great site dylanchords.com, I see that the verses are 16 bars long and have this structure:

I   I   I   I
I   I   I   I
IV  IV  I   I
V   V   I   I

This is just a standard 12-bar blues with 4 bars of I added at the beginning. (I suppose it’s actually the “slow-change” or “long-five” or whatever it’s called when you have two bars of V in the final line.)

Justin talks about 16-bar blues in one of his lessons (can’t remember which one), but I do seem to recall him explaining the 4 extra bars of the one chord.

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