Here's the basic chords to (my version) of Love Won't Let Me Wait

And now for something a little different...

I have always really liked this song by Major Harris, Love Won't Let Me Wait. This is a great romantic soul song, with great melody, chords and smooth singing. It also has some, ah-hem! err...very, very nice "sound effects" at the end of the song!

Anyway-I was just trying to play along with the song one day, and found it not too difficult to "get" the chords to the song. The chord changes are real smooth, melodic, and mimic the vocal lines somewhat. Here is my version. It's based mostly on what I hear, and maybe a tiny bit of looking for the song's chord charts online, so as always, what I'm playing isn't definitive (there's another guy on YT who does this song with way different chords). Hope you like it. I love this f*&%#'n song! (Uhhm-that could be taken literally!)
* Geez! After listening to this I realized the sound and video quality are poor on this one! I need more modern equipment!



Here's the player for the song so you can check it out!


Related Tags: Major+Harris Love+Won't+Let+Me+Wait soul RnB

Foreigner-Cold As Ice-rhythm guitar-main verse/Solo

Here is the main rhythm guitar part (at least what can be played guitar-wise for the song) for Foreigner's Cold As Ice. I am playing it in the key of Eb minor. I am playing a Eb7sus4 to Ebmin, then going to Eb7sus4 transitioning to B, and then B6 to B. I am playing it slightly different from my earlier post, but not much more than having the Eb7sus4 being the transition to the B6 rather than just going from Eb7sus4 to Ebmin; B6 to B. Here is a link back to the older post I had for this song. Foreigner's Cold as Ice -main rhythm part and solo...
It's probably not the exact chords, but I think it sounds good enough.



Here is my version of the solo to this song. I always liked (and still do) Mick Jones' playing! He has great tone, and a great sense of melody! This has always been one of my favorite guitar solos! Hope you like my version. There's another guy who does a slowed down version of this solo Cold as Ice solo slowed down and it's much better than mine. If you like this version, let me know.




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Brighter Than Sunshine

Hey! Here is me playing along to the song Brighter Than Sunshine by Aqualung. I had noted the chords for my first post Welcome to Guitarthrill.blogspot.com! Hope you like this! I was really nervous! My timing was off later in the song, I know, but I think that overall that my playing was ok.

Trying something new out soon!

I am going to try something out soon! What I am planning on doing is taping the songs that I tabbed/described in previous posts, and posting them along with those descriptions. I already did the Brighter Than Sunshine song last night-I just need to edit it a little.

For now, I was thinking about distortion/overdrive sounds, and how they are all different-some are harsh, some are warm and some are a mix of the two. There's the solid state amp sound and the tube amp sound. I like them all, but I do tend to like the old warm overdriven tube amp sound-that classic sound.
Below are some songs with different overdrive/sounds. What do you think? Which kind of sound is your favorite type of crunch?
To me, there seems to be 3 main types-(I know that might be simplifying the sounds too much but in the interests of not getting too crazy and technical-lets say 3) of :crunchiness":
1. warm, tube classic -classic rock, older metal bands, punk
2. "tighter"-heavier, less-nuanced crunch-newer metal bands/thrash
3. mix of the two sounds above-80's metal, "grunge"

*Gonna try to post some songs you might not think of for this discussion of distortion/overdrive:

warm, classic crunch:

Dave Mason-Only You And I Know-I absolutely love the guitar sound in this song! Damn! That tone! &^%*! It just has the warmest, singing tones I have ever heard! When the chords are strummed, you can hear the individual notes, and the lead tone is awesome. As you can tell, one of my favorites in terms of tone!
*I know it says Gordon Lightfoot, but this is mislabeled. It really is Dave Mason!




Three more classic overdrive sounds:

James Gang-Funk #49 and:



The Bomber



One more classic sound:

The Who-Won't Get Fooled Again




The newer metal/thrash sound:
Rammstein-Du Hast



Metallica-Enter Sandman:




Dream Theater Forsaken


If you can think of some band that I missed for this type of sound, let me know-I am not as familiar with the newer metal bands.


Mixture of the two sounds:

Judas Priest-Breaking the Law:



Scorpions-Still Loving You:



So...do you have a favorite overdriven guitar sound, or do you prefer the mixture of both sounds?

Hmmmm....interesting!

Hey gang! I just "re-realized" something! I have been playing a lot on my steel string acoustic guitar lately-even playing and learning lead stuff like Rikki DLTN, Boston songs, Badfinger, and The Rasberries.

I use heavier strings on my acoustic-(.013-.056-Martin Marquis's). I have not been able to take out my electric lately-its kind of pain to haul even the smaller old Rickenbacker amp out and connect adjust, etc, when I can just pull my acoustic out and jam. The only thing is that I can't hit some of those higher notes and sometimes it is really hard to do that heavy bending on some songs!
I guess that all that playing on the acoustic has paid off! I picked up my electric-just unconnected-and tried some of the same stuff that I had been doing on my acoustic. Geez! It felt like I was bending rubber bands! (Kind of!) It was soooo easy to bend and to hit some of those really high notes! And I don't use too light of strings on my electric either (usually .010 to .046's).

I remember quite a while back, I had read in a guitar magazine about how Stevie Ray Vaughn used very heavy strings on his guitars, and the story's author mentioned that a player's finger strength could be increased by using heavier strings. Of course, I wouldn't recommend using heavy strings for a beginning player. I prefer using the heavier strings just because of the feel, and the extra "oomph" I get out of them, but I think the only drawback is that the top (5,6) strings might get a little dead quicker, since they are so heavy. I don't know-maybe that's just my imagination!
If using these heavier strings on my acoustic makes it so much easier to play on an electric guitar, then I will surely continue to do that!

Do any of you play on an acoustic or use heavier strings on one guitar and then move to another? I guess this would be somewhat like what the baseball players do when getting ready to be at bat-swinging with weights on the bat or more than one bat(?)


Related Tags: strings electric+guitar acoustic+guitar

Overkill or pure guitar heaven?

I was checking out guitar clips on YT the other night and found this clip for the song Mediterranean Sundance. I had heard lots about the individual accomplishments of Paco de Lucia, Al Di Meola, and John McLaughlin, and also heard some of their collaborations. This clip here is a beautiful song and all, but to me this is overkill on the solos. Each guitarist just seems to be trying to out-gun the others with speed or complexity. Don't get me wrong-these guys are great guitarists, and granted, this event and others like it are to showcase the guitarist's talents. I guess I am the "weirdo"with this opinion here-comments on Youtube for this clip did not contain one comment with the same feelings I had about it.

What do you think? I am posting the three guitarists together for this song, and then individually to contrast and compare. (I like the individual stuff way better than the "supertrio" types of clips!)To be honest with you, I have to say that I like Al Di Meola's stuff the least-individual and when collaborating with other guitarists.


Paco de Lucia, Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin-Mediterranean Sundance-


John McLaughlin-Cherokee


Paco de Lucia-Entre dos Aguas


Al Di Meola-Orient Blue Suite

This kid is cool!

I was surfing through some guitar clips on YT and found this young guy who likes Led Zep a lot, and does a hell of a great job playing some of Zep's songs on his YT channel! Kid's got very good taste in music! As a big fan of Jimmy P, it's nice to see a young kid jamming some Zep! Check him out! And, he has red hair! My son has red hair-although it's short right now! I told my wife maybe when he's like about 15-16 he'll have hair like that!







Related Tags: Jimmy+Page Led+Zeppelin Mini+Jimmy+Boy

Nothing like a new pair of strings! Restringing and tuning

Last night I changed the strings on my acoustic guitar. I had been putting it off and putting it off some more, but I knew that I really needed to do it. My strings were pretty much dead-they sounded like rubberbands! And old rubberbands at that! The strings I had on it-Martin Marquis's lasted a long time and sounded great for a long time, but they needed to go! Changing the strings gave me a chance to do something with the saddle that I had been wanting to do for a long while also. The action on this guitar was pretty poor especially (as is usually the case) as I neared the 12th fret. I know that you should have a little bit more space in this area so that the strings will not buzz, but this was ridiculous! I think that this amount of "play" in this area was also affecting the accuracy of the tuning for the notes higher up.
Anyway, I took out the saddle and sanded away, but I was a little hesitant to sand too much, since I didn't have a "backup"! I read up on the 'net on how do this and saw too many horror stories about sanding too much and being out of a saddle-heh heh-out of the saddle. Well, I put the saddle back in and tuned up, it was still a little too high. The 6th string pin kept coming out also as I tuned up. More about that later. I resanded, this time more assured that I needed to take a bit off for this to work, and after I tuned up, what do you know-it was still high!
One last time I sanded this time sure it would be perfect, and it was but I still had a little trouble keeping the pin in for that damn 6th string. I did get some great information from Justin Sandercoe, http://www.justinguitar.com/ www.youtube.com/user/JustinSandercoeSongs?ob=1 who's stuff I have liked on Youtube about how to restring your acoustic guitar and how to deal with the pins being pulled out. I thought this was some great information. I really like his idea about giving the ball end of the string a little 45 degree angle! Check this out! (Actually, I still had trouble with this 6th string pin for a while until I was able to get it to wedge in there! I was a little wary of the pin popping out though for a while as I continued to retune after stretching!)



I liked part two of this little "lesson" about restringing, and I tried to do what Justin says he does in regards to how he inserts the string in the tuning pegs and how he winds the string, etc. I checked out several clips about how one should proceed with the tuning peg thing-some people said insert the string all the way and begin tuning with no slack in the string, and some say leave a little string slack" so that this slack can grab the string that's inserted in the tuning peg hole. (Like Justin's method)I chose to do it like Justin, since it seems like some windings around the tuning peg would help to keep the string in place and in tune. I had just done this before when restringing, just not as "neatly" as Justin does, with my windings going kind of haphazardly around the tuning peg!



My new strings are now beginning to stay in tune. I like to stretch them out somewhat, but I like to just play and do some lead stuff with a lot of bending to get them to stretch rather than stretching so much! Once I get the strings in tune or near pitch, I like to use the harmonic method described here by Jennifer Gamble (I think she was a little nervous on this clip-hell I don't blame her-I would be too!) from NextLevelGuitar.com http://www.nextlevelguitar.com/ to tune the strings to each other.



I have used this method for a long time, and it usually works pretty well for strings that are in good condition and if your intonation is ok. I don't do the part where she says to tune the B/2nd string to the B harmonic on the E/6th, and the E string to the E harmonic on the A string. I just use the B on the 3rd string/4th fret, to tune the B, playing the G string and the B string together to get a consonant or nice "G chord" sound. I also play the two strings together with the open G and a the C/1st fret and D/3rd fret to see how those sound-hopefully consonant, otherwise the B string may be too sharp or a little flat. The B string on a guitar can sometimes be the most difficult to get just right! It's kinda touchy and if you are off by not too much it can mess up your tuning!
I use the 5th fret on the B string to tune the E/1st string. I also play the two strings (B and E together) to get consonance. With the G string/C note-B string, G string/D note-B string and the B string/E string played together, what I am looking for is that 5th chord sound. A kind of "mini power chord" type sound.

So...what I'd like to know is-what method do you use to restring and tune up? Does anybody have some tips about bridge pins in a acoustic guitar? I would like to hear if someone has some different ideas about these things.


Related Tags: restringing acoustic+guitar Justin+Sandercoe Justin+Guitar.com Nextlevelguitar.com Jennifer+Gamble tuning

Bo Diddley December 30, 1928-June 2, 2008

I would be remiss if I were not to mention that today the rock and roll world lost one of its great pioneers, one that lived in Los Lunas, NM, just South of ABQ, where I live. Bo Diddley died today of a complications from a stroke and later heart attack.

He moved to Los Lunas, NM in the early 1970's, and was a deputy sherriff for two years in that city. He moved from Los Lunas in 1978 to Archer, Florida, and lived there till his death.

He was and is a icon for rock and roll, blues, American Music. Who could ever forget that riff for "Bo Diddley"? So many people copied that riff! Here is a little video clip to remember Diddley's style and sound.




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Give a Little Bit and Feel Like Makin' Love

For this post, I am going to give my interpretation of some of the often-confused chords and chord progressions for two songs-Give a Little Bit-by Supertramp/Roger Hodgson, and Feel Like Makin' Love, by Bad Company.

I have played these songs by ear for years now, and recently, when I wanted to check on some of the chord voicings and tablature on the Internet, I found tabs and chord charts that had chords and parts that I feel aren't accurate or even missing parts-(Give a Little Bit).

For Give a Little Bit, the basic chords are: A7, D, G, Bmin, F#min, Esus4, E, with some other variations of the main chords thrown in. I have seen information given for this song where the A7 is a "regular A," or where the Esus4 is Emin7 or where the A7 , G and D in the main verse is a harder to play "unopen" A, G and D at the 3rd and 5th fret with the respective 4th string root notes. My point? I just feel that for a beginning guitarist who sees these transcriptions, it would be frustrating to play them when the song doesn't sound like that. Also, this song is fairly easy for a beginning guitarist to play. Many of the chords are two or three-finger chords and many of them are open chords. Why make this song so hard? Play it with those open notes that just ring out! If ever there was a song that was meant to be played with open chords, this is that song! (*I noticed that this mp3 copy is a little sharp. You may have to tune slightly sharp to match the tuning on this version.)



I started off this Give a Little Bit thing with planning a simple explanation of the chords and then I realized that there were some changes I needed to note so I kept going until I had several pages of chord changes completed. Considering the song's title, I guess that's ironic! I made some mistakes and corrected until I got the charts to where I think its understandable.

Below is the main verse part with the chorus and bridge. (click to enlarge)













Next, are some parts of Feel Like Makin' Love by Bad Company. For this song, I saw the opening descending acoustic riff done mostly correctly on one transcription, but I noted it here just in case you're interested in learning it. For this opening progression, you play that descending riff and then the second time it finishes with the open D at the second fret. I do the distorted heavy guitar part on the chorus by muting and quickly playing the C on the 5th string/3rd fret and the open D 4th string and "ending on a "regular" D chord. I do this by holding a D chord and using my middle finger to play the C on the 5th string and then moving to the F# on the 1st string/2nd fret for the D chord. Palm muting is important here as the riff wouldn't sound right if the C and D of the riff are not played in this way-at least for my ears. The C and G chords in this heavy part sound to me like (and are more easily played using these) "regular" C and G chords, and I did note chord names in the tab.

For the first clean solo, I just transcribed how I learned to play it by ear. Where it says barre I am barring the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th strings on that whole little passage with my first finger (and hammering on with my 2nd and 3rd fingers) until it gets to the Bmin/D, and D13 where I barre the 1st, 2nd and 3rd strings, etc. It may be wrong, but I think this way sure sounds similar to the way Mick Ralphs played it. If you have any questions about the lick or anything about these chord for both songs, don't hesitate to leave a line or two about it! Thanks for coming by! (click to enlarge) PM=Palm Mute H=Hammer on











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Guitar Tuner and Metronome

These are pretty cool! They can be found at the bottom of the page also!

Music can be a funny thing

I am gonna try to do some of this and that on this blog from now on. Some posting of music/guitar information and clips, and then occasionally, some music tabs or chord charts to some songs.

I had posted some of St Sanders clips parodying guitarists on my other blog. I just found out-(I guess this is fairly late-it happened in February of this year) and I can't believe that YouTube/Google forced St Sanders(Santeri Ojala) to pull his clips off YouTube. I thought they were hilarious! And I thought they were just parodies-not copyright infringements. Where is this crap gonna stop!?
I love how Ojala synched up his deliberately awful riffing and noodling, and other silly stuff to the guitarist's and band member's playing and motions on the video! Here is a great link to Wired that really explains the situation
Humorless Metalheads Shut Down Popular YouTuber

Copyright Vampires Delete Guitar 'Shred' Videos from YouTube ...


Here is a (Wired again) link to some of these funny vids.
Banned From YouTube: Parody Guitar Videos

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Argent's Hold Your Head Up - main verse, chorus

First off, I think I need to say something about the music I have been describing here on this blog. When I am showing how I hear a riff or solo is being played, I am presupposing that you can read or understand chord charts and names, play barre chords, can play basic scales and simple solos. I think this blog would be one where an intermediate player could get something out of it. Maybe once in a while a "more than intermediate" player might be able to get something out of this site. At least, I hope I can offer something to these types of players. When I am going to describe a lick, riff or solo, I will probably be pretty familiar with it before I try laying out the tab or chord charts. I might check out some videos or some tab sites just to see about positioning, but basically, I will have an idea of how I hear the song being played.

One thing that I know about rock and roll guitar is that usually, the guitar riffs and solos are not quite as complicated as they seem. You probably won't have to stretch and twist your fingers to make an impossible-seeming chord for the riff in a typical rock song, or move over every inch of the fretboard to do that solo. Of course, there are the guitar players like Satriani, Malmsteen, and others players like them that I wouldn't even try to do here. Their solo runs are much too complicated for me to play or describe.

With the Argent song, Hold Your Head Up, Russ Ballard's guitar playing might sound a little complicated at first, but it's really not all that bad. This is a song that can be played a number of ways. First, you can play this song by plucking with your fingers-or with a pick. I like the way this song sounds when I use the fingerpicking style! You can use the open chords that were probably originally played on the song-(according to the videos of the band playing the song) or barre chords, or a variation of the two.

I have transcribed another way to play this song using a combination of barre and open chords that might make for less hand movement (but maybe a bit more stretching for the barre chords). This version may make the chord changes a little smoother as the changes are mostly in the 5th string root "A" barre chord shape, and its just a matter of moving your playing hand between 5th string root barre chords and some variants of those chords. For the chorus section of this song ("Hold your head up...oh! And hold your head up...oh!" part) which is noted also as version one and can be played with the other version one part.

In videos I have seen of the band playing this song "live," the version two chord patterns are used (as far as I can see). For this version, I go from an open D form-sus 4 to D, to the C-I hold this chord like the "bottom end" of the barre G chord, with my index barring the D and G notes at the 3rd fret and my ring holding the C at the 5th fret 4th string, and my pinky holding the E at the 5th fret, string. I just pull off with my pinky to get the Cmaj9 chord. After going back to the open Dsus4, D, Dsus4, I just slide my index on those same last 3 strings, taking my ring and pinky off the strings, while barring the last 3 strings, up to the 5th fret. That makes a smooth transition to the Cmaj9/C6 riff in this version.

I noticed after checking, that some of the chords between the two versions are a little different. Oh well-they are similar enough to sound good! To me, I like both versions, and I like to play both versions fingerstyle or with a pick-it gives a different flavor each way you play it. You may have another way to play this song. Variety is the spice of life. I think that it is great to know several ways of playing a particular song-variations of the chords, different positions, etc-and this song is an excellent way to go about discovering those different variations!

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Foreigner's Cold as Ice -main rhythm part and solo

This is one of my favorite rock songs. I just never have gotten tired of it. For me, some rock songs, especially the ones many could call "classic rock" I've just gotten tired of hearing. Not this one. It just has such a memorable verse and melody, Lou Gramm's great singing, and that great guitar solo! In this post I am going to transcribe to the best of my knowledge, the main verse section of this song (that memorable keyboard part) and the solo.






Now, I have seen this song tabbed different ways-in different keys, with or without solo. Not wanting to get int From what I hear on the mp3, this song is in the key of Eb minor. I have seen it tabbed/described as E minor or C minor, but to my ear, its Eb minor. You can use more open chords to play the song if you tune down to Eb (from the 6th string on up to the 1st string: Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb, Eb) or you can just leave your guitar in standard tuning. For this description, I used standard tuning.

Here are the chord charts I made for the song's main, signature part-It is essentially just a pattern of these chords played together to get that signature Cold as Ice verse: Eb 7 sus4th/Eb minor, (oops-soory this is B6 not B13!) *B13 /B (click to enlarge)




(*these chords are probably not exactly the ones played on the keyboard as they might be Eb sus4th, instead of Eb 7th sus4th, and the (B6)B13 I am not so sure of but they still sound very close, and are easiest to play.)

The tricky part (at least for me) is getting your pinky to cooperate and move where you want it to as this is the finger that moves to form those chords in the verse. I show that I am keeping my 2nd finger on the 7th fret note (F#) so as to be ready when I play the Eb minor chord. You can do an easier version of this by making a Eb7 sus4 chord, and then taking off just your pinky to make a Ebmin7 chord. Also, you could go from the (B6)B13 chord, taking off your pinky again to to form a B7 chord-maybe not as nice-sounding as the "regular" B chord, but ok.

Here is the solo as I hear it. If you think it has any mistakes or flubs let me know. That last harmony guitar part I just ad libbed. Maybe you might have some different ideas about that part. (Click to enlarge)





some notes about the solo:
-those ascending two-note patterns are hammer ons and pull offs, but can be picked as I noted
-both those bends on the 16th fret- 6th string are a quick bend up, not really letting the bent note ring, before hitting the note on the 14th fret 6th string
-I noted that Mick sounds like he slid down the neck before doing the second ascending run, but its hard to tell exactly what is done at that point
-I use my first and second fingers on the ascending runs, just moving those fingers for each little two-note part till I get to the 11th fret -6th string and there I use my first and 4th finger (in a more natural pentatonic lick positioning) You can just as easily use your 3rd and fourth fingers to do that ascending run, then slide your 1st finger up to the 12th fret -5th string for that little two-note lick before the pentatonic lick

check it out-let me know how you like it!!
MG



Related Tags: Foreigner Cold+As+Ice guitar chords guitar+solos classic+rock

David Bowie's Rebel Rebel-Main Verse Section

For this post I am going to give some hints about playing the main verse part for Rebel Rebel by David Bowie. It can be suprisingly tricky to get the notes to ring out accurately while getting your playing hand in position for the next chord (the E chord). It involves palm muting, positioning and anticipating the playing hand positions so that the part sounds smooth.

I have checked out YouTube videos and I have seen different guitarists showing how to play the main verse part in different ways. Some are showing the part being played as a slide up from D to E on the B string and the E chord part that's right after as more open. When I hear this song, I hear more arpeggiated chords than slides or individual notes. If you look at some of the actual David Bowie concert videos (I provide a link to the AOL Sessions video below, a version I love which features a little opening riff for this song that you may have heard in recent live versions of the song, and described in the tab) you will see that the guitarist(s) play the riff as more of a broken chord/arpeggio than sliding up and using more individual notes. Doing the riff like this makes it more smooth and actually (I think) more easy to play.

First off-this song is in regular tuning, its in the key of D. On the original recording, the guitar seems to have a slight delay or echo, maybe a little chorus, and a touch of overdrive.

Here is some tab and stuff to play that main riff:




To play the main verse guitar part, I hold a D suspended 2(nd) chord, and then hit the D string, (letting it ring throughout the first little part of the riff), pick the E string open, and the D on the 3rd fret-B string, hit the A/C# notes on the G and B strings respectively, (which infers an A chord). I slide my 1st finger down to the G# to hold the E chord. See the tab for expanation.

When I get to the E part, I strum up (hence the arrows) from the open B string (of the E chord) twice and then, holding the E chord I pick the E on the 4th string/2nd fret and use my pinky to pull off from the C# to the open B string, picking up in an arpeggio (B, G# E, and then D-4th string open) As the D-4th string is played I slide my 1st finger to the A-2nd fret 3rd string, and place my 3rd finger on the D-3rd fret-which is back to that D sus 2 chord that we began with.

That's pretty much it! Sorry if I made this more complicated than it had to be! I was trying to complement and add to the tab, but I don't know if I succeeded!

Here is the player for the original studio version of Rebel Rebel :



Here is a link for the video which has that cool little intro part:
http://video.aol.com/video/music-david-bowie-rebel-rebel-aol-/1123610

*Next time I will be describing how to play Foreigner's Cold as Ice (the main part that's played on keyboard) with the solo. See you then!


Related Tags: David+Bowie Rebel+Rebel rock+and+roll

Welcome to Guitarthrill.blogspot.com!

Hello-If you came by looking for guitar information, I am hoping that you can get some inspiration, information, and ideas from this blog! From time to time I will offer some ideas on how to play some songs that either are not found in tablature on the internet, or that may be transcribed inaccurately, or just some songs that I find interesting, and I hope you find interesting!

For this first post I am going to describe the chords to the English pop singer Aqualung's "Brighter Than Sunshine"



This is a great song-I really like the British pop sound and this is a song with some great hooks and a really beautiful arrangement. Guitars are not at the forefront of this song, its more keyboard-driven, but the guitar can easily be used to augment the sound of this tune.
Here are the chords I hear in this song. Sorry its a little messy, but I think you'll get the picture if you play along and use these chords. Good luck!

*Repeat then verse

Here is how I hold my hand when I am trying to let the B and E strings ring out for that funny F#/open B, E chord:

continued:



Have fun! This is a really melodically interesting song, with its semi-chromatic chordal progressions in the verse. I like it and I hope you do too!

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