Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd) Guitar Lesson with TAB

Sweet Home Alabama Guitar Lesson + TAB
In this guitar lesson, you'll get a chord analysis and plenty of TAB ideas that you can stick with or develop!


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.

Sweet Home Alabama TAB, main riff ideas.

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.

Sweet Home Alabama TAB, instrumental riff.

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.

Sweet Home Alabama TAB, extra chords.


Sweet Home Alabama TAB | Related Pages


Sweet Home Alabama | Chords + Lyrics

Sweet Home Alabama chords lesson.

You can learn to play Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd using chords, lyrics, chord analysis, a chord chart, and the original recording.

| D5 Csus2 | G (fill) |
Big wheels keep on turnin’…


Five similar tunes | Chords + Lyrics

When you can play the TAB for Sweet Home Alabama, try these five tunes from the songbook.


Lynyrd Skynyrd tunes

Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote Sweet Home Alabama.

After spending almost a decade honing their craft, Lynyrd Skynyrd released their debut album in 1973.

Their two best-known tunes are the epic Free Bird and the party band classic Sweet Home Alabama.


Lynyrd Skynyrd on the web

Listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd on Spotify.


About me | Dan Lundholm

Dan Lundholm wrote this guitar lesson and TAB for Sweet Home Alabama.

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.

Most importantly, find out why you should learn guitar through playing tunes, not practising scales, and studying theory in isolation.


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