Sweet Home Alabama | TAB
In order to keep Sweet Home Alabama fun to play for years (which will undoubtedly happen, this tune escapes no one!) it’s better to keep it improvised, not memorized.
With that in mind, here’s the main riff, it’s not perfect but rather shows you how this could be played. Learn it, then try to find variations on this theme.

If you play what you see here along with the original recording, you’ll soon discover that what happens in bar 6, should have been the same as bar 2.
As mentioned, you need to mix things up or you’ll end up hating playing this classic! Keep finding more variations in your own time.
Here’s the instrumental riff, this can’t be varied in the same way as the verse and chorus.

And finally, here are those extra chords that pop up twice in Sweet Home Alabama, first at the beginning of verse 3, then at the end of chorus 3.

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After spending almost a decade honing their craft, Lynyrd Skynyrd released their debut album in 1973.
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This guitar lesson by Dan Lundholm features TAB and covers Sweet Home Alabama. Discover more about him and how you can learn guitar with Spytunes.
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