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.

~ by jdguitar on August 10, 2006.