Sweet Home Alabama Tabs

If you consider yourself to be a devotee of southern rock, you'll definitely need to find good Sweet Home Alabama tabs to be able to play the genre's signature tune. From the first few guitar licks and Ronnie Van Zant's three word intro Turn it up!, Sweet Home Alabama is one of the most quickly recognizable songs ever recorded. Released as a single in 1974, the song was a huge success for the band at the time and ultimately reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. However, the song transcended its original popularity and truly became a legendary, canonical rock-n-roll song after it proved it was able to stand the test of time despite its contentious origins.

Controversy originally swirled around Sweet Home Alabama. The song was written in response to the Canadian musician Neil Young's two songs Alabama and Southern Man in which the south's civil rights violations in the late 1960s and early 1970s were fiercely criticized. Feeling prideful of their homeland, Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded Sweet Home Alabama in response to what they felt were overly generalized attacks from a northerner. Ronnie Van Zant's lyrics, Well I heard mister Young sing about her/Well, I heard ole Neil put her down/Well, I hope Neil Young will remember/A Southern man don't need him around anyhow called out Young in no uncertain terms. So when you sit down with your Sweet Home Alabama tabs and learn this classic song, keep its history in mind, as the spirit of southern rebellion is intricately woven into the very core of this classic tune.

Luckily, the Internet is your friend when it comes to finding guitar and bass tabs. With the help of the information provided below, you will be up and rocking along with Skynyrd in no time.

• Guitar Chords Magic: Guitar Chords Magic is an excellent guitar tab site because it does a few things the other sites don't do. First of all, it includes an embedded YouTube video of Lynyrd Skynyrd playing the song so you can watch how they perform it. Second, it provides a simple explanation of the guitar chords for the song. Finally, it puts the guitar tabs, in a very easy to read format, right on the same page. You don't have to click around to find what you're looking for at this site, it's all right there in front of your eyes in a well organized, clean layout.
• Guitar Music Tabs: Another interesting tab site, Guitar Music Tabs also posts a tab version of the song right on the first page you open. In addition, they include multiple YouTube videos of the band performing the song live as well as a video for a Karaoke version.
• Guitare Tab: Another version of the song in tab format can be found at Guitare Tab. This site also includes a complete list of the song's lyrics.

If you're interested in playing this song in your band, the bassist is also going to need to know what to play. Have no fear, because there are plenty of sites that publish complete bass Sweet Home Alabama tabs.

• FretPlay: FretPlay provides an excellent bass tab transcription for the song. The site also features a Tip of the Day video at the end of the notation to give musicians a chance to learn a little something else after they've mastered Sweet Home Alabama.

• Bass Masta: Created by bassists and intended for bassists, Bass Masta has got four string players covered. Ten different transcriptions for the song are listed here in an easy-to-view, tabbed-browsing layout. No matter what your playing level, you will be able to find a version of Sweet Home here that you can play with confidence.

Whether your instrument is guitar or bass, with the above resources and the discipline to sit and practice, you'll be able to wow your friends with your version of Sweet Home Alabama in no time. It's not an incredibly difficult song to play once you get the hang of it, so hang in there. Before you know it, you'll be coming home to Alabama.

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