Topic: You're No Good

Is a song that was a hit for the Swinging Blue Jeans in the 60s and Linda Rondstadt in the 70s. It has a great lilting Am/D strum that sounds good electric and acoustic open or barred.


I found I got a nice beat combo sound by pulling pickup coils and setting my virtual amp to 17C - Tele Twang. If you have a telecaster this should be the natural sound. Start the first verse with open Am/D then move to barre for the F G C move (thats 3rd fret E shape 5th fret E shape then 5th fret Am shape). Now the tab has the next bit as Am D E, this may be so Rondstadt could soar vocally, it feels to me more like F G C again but then I'm more of a swinging blue jean.


The chorus needs some interpretation too, it's basicly Am/D all the way through with little accents, I'm not sure C and E are right a drop to barre G on 3rd at the 'I'll say it again' bits felt better, you can the slide back up to Am at 5th which sounds cool.

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Re: You're No Good

I prefer playing it in open chords - might just be me but prefer the sound.