The late Tom Petty is an iconic artist known for his anthemic songwriting and simplistic, less-is-more approach. What you won’t find inside of a Tom Petty song is crazy time signatures, over-complicated riffs and jazzy chord extensions.
Petty and the Heartbreakers – that also featured fellow guitarist Mike Campbell – preferred to keep things a little simpler and let the song do the talking, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t cool chord tricks in his catalogue.
