K T Tunstall – Other Side of the World

Nice song. I like K T Tunstall, or what I have heard of her so far. Not too difficult. It has got Gm in it which is really a bar chord at the 3rd fret in an Em shape, a root 6 barchord at the 3rd fret. Use your 3rd and 4th fingers to fret the 5th and 4th strings respectively at the 5th fret while your first finger bars at the 3rd. You bar finger is holding down 4 strings so you can help it out a little by laying your 2nd finger along it. If that is too hard there is an easy Gm which is the open 4th string then the 3rd fret of the 3rd 2nd and 1st. G/F# is the G chord with an F# in the bass and is one of those transitional chords ( you only ever hear this one when you are changing from G to Em ) There is a real nice rundown near the end where the chords go A, A/G, A/F#, A/E just play A all the way through if you like or else I did draw some chords there if ya wanna try it. A very similar chord sequence is in ‘Champagne Supernova” by Oasis – Asus2,   Asus2/G,  Asus2/F#,   Asus2/E  (Asus2 is regular open A but lift off your 3rd finger and let the 2nd string ring open )

Elton John – Your Song

Some tricky chords.

The verses are all the same except that the verse before another verse finishes on A and then Asus4 and the verse before a chorus finishes on D and then Dsus4. The intro pretty much doesn’t sound a lot like the piano intro except for the general chord feel – see what you think. the choruses are all the same except for the last tag chorus where it goes back to D on the last chord ready to repeat the intro. You have to play the intro 3 times, at the start, after the 1st chorus and at the end.

The picking for the intro is   1&2&_&4_  picking the open D string twice gives ya time to change position and is always a good tip for this kind of arpeggiated fill.

There is a chord sequence in this song that you see a lot and is difficult for the solo acoustic guitarist to play. I have written it as Bm to Bm7 to E9 but you often see it as    Bm   Bm/A   Bm/G#.  The note after the / symbol is really an instruction to the bass player and it tells him to play the note after the / as the bass note. This means that we play Bm through the 3 chords while the bass goes  B  A  G#.  This is ok if you have a bass player but if you are playing by yourself on acoustic, in an effort to impress your significant other no doubt, then ya need a way of playing it and this is the best I could come up with for this sequence. E9 in this case if ya stay away from pickin the 6th string is just another name for Bm6 which is just another way of playing Bm/G# lets face it.

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Tell Me Baby

Lyrics

They come from every state to find
Some dreams were meant to be declined
Tell the man what did you have in mind
What have you come to do

No turning water into wine
No learning while you’re in the line
I’ll take you to the broken sign
You see the lights are blue

Come and get it
Lost it at the city limit
Say goodbye
Cause they will find a way to trim it
Everybody
Lookin’ for a silly gimmick
Gotta get away
Can’t take it for another minute

This town is made of many things
Just look at what the current brings
So high it’s only promising
This place was made on you

Tell me baby what’s your story
Where you come from
And where you wanna go this time
Tell me lover are you lonely
The thing we need is
Never all that hard to find
Tell me baby what’s your story
Where do you come from
And where you wanna go this time
Your so lovely are you lonely
Giving up on the innocence you left behind

Some claim to have the fortitude
To shrewd to blow the interlude
Sustaining pain to set a mood
Step out to be renewed

I’ll move you like a baritone
Jungle brothers on the microphone
Getting over with an undertone
It’s time to turn to stone

Chitty chitty baby
When your nose is in the nitty gritty
Life could be a little sweet
But life could be a little shitty
What a pity
Boston and a kansas city
Looking for a hundred
But you only ever found a fitty

Three fingers in the honeycomb
You ring just like a xylophone
Devoted to the chromosome
The day that you left home

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