Chords for How To Play David Crosby Music is Love (preview only)
Tempo:
123.8 bpm
Chords used:
C
Cm
Eb
E
Ab
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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David Crosby's music is love and we're in a modal C tuning for this one.
Let's get in tune first of all.
Take your first [Cm] string down to C,
second string down to [G] G,
[Eb] third string way down [C] to C,
[Cm] fourth string down to C,
fifth string down to G, [G] and
sixth string away down to C.
[Eb] What we've got now is a modal C chord on the open [Cm] strings,
which has no third in it.
Those of you who know some music theory will [Ab] know that means this chord is neither major
[C] nor minor and that gives this song an interesting sound.
Once we're in [F] this tuning, it's not that hard to play.
It starts for the only time on a little melody on the first string.
Here is the top line of your tab.
[C]
[Bb] [C]
[E] All right, it's coming in very quietly.
Keep this just on the very highest strings.
You [Cm] want the open
strings, maybe the top three or top two, it doesn't matter, then to the second fret, then to the fourth fret of the first string.
[C]
All those down strokes, and then you're just padding it out with touches [Cm] around the middle of the chord.
The tab says very precisely hit the fourth string.
It's not as precise as that anywhere in this song.
Just use that kind of thing to indicate, oh, I just need to touch the middle of the chord somewhere.
So, oh two [C] four touch, four touch, touch, touch.
[Cm] Do not worry that the tab says four three four.
[C] One and two and three and four.
Repeat that two more times.
Well, [Cm] the third time it does something very slightly different.
[E] You're going to go to the [Cm] next two chords in this song.
You want the fifth string third fret and the second string third fret.
And that's going to go down, that shape is going [C] to go down one fret.
[Cm] Now that comes up everywhere in this song, but he often, throughout the [Eb] course of this song, does what he does here for the first
time in bar three and bring the low end of this chord in half a beat early.
It comes in on the and of four of the previous bar like this.
[D] One [C] and two and three and four [Bb] and one and two and three and four and.
Now that gives [Eb] us the first example of something that we're going to find [F] all the time in this song.
Which is that the strum pattern is never the same really in any two bars of the whole song.
So although [Eb] when we get into the main thing I'll give you a strum pattern you can use, it varies all the time.
And here's the first example of that.
He sometimes will bring the low end of this [C] first chord, this third fret chord in, half a beat early.
[F] And sometimes he doesn't.
Sometimes he leaves it to [C] come on the first beat of its own bar.
[Cm] So feel free to do what he does and mix those two things [Ab] up and don't worry about where he does it or where he doesn't.
[E] It's just an instinctive thing in that moment that the microphone caught him playing it in the studio.
All right, [Eb] that's the first four bars of the otappe, the first part of the intro.
[C]
[C]
[E] Essentially on the strum pattern on this, think of it as going bass, down, [Am] down, up, bass, down, down, up.
[C] One, two and a three, four and a.
[Ab] For the second line of the
Let's get in tune first of all.
Take your first [Cm] string down to C,
second string down to [G] G,
[Eb] third string way down [C] to C,
[Cm] fourth string down to C,
fifth string down to G, [G] and
sixth string away down to C.
[Eb] What we've got now is a modal C chord on the open [Cm] strings,
which has no third in it.
Those of you who know some music theory will [Ab] know that means this chord is neither major
[C] nor minor and that gives this song an interesting sound.
Once we're in [F] this tuning, it's not that hard to play.
It starts for the only time on a little melody on the first string.
Here is the top line of your tab.
[C]
[Bb] [C]
[E] All right, it's coming in very quietly.
Keep this just on the very highest strings.
You [Cm] want the open
strings, maybe the top three or top two, it doesn't matter, then to the second fret, then to the fourth fret of the first string.
[C]
All those down strokes, and then you're just padding it out with touches [Cm] around the middle of the chord.
The tab says very precisely hit the fourth string.
It's not as precise as that anywhere in this song.
Just use that kind of thing to indicate, oh, I just need to touch the middle of the chord somewhere.
So, oh two [C] four touch, four touch, touch, touch.
[Cm] Do not worry that the tab says four three four.
[C] One and two and three and four.
Repeat that two more times.
Well, [Cm] the third time it does something very slightly different.
[E] You're going to go to the [Cm] next two chords in this song.
You want the fifth string third fret and the second string third fret.
And that's going to go down, that shape is going [C] to go down one fret.
[Cm] Now that comes up everywhere in this song, but he often, throughout the [Eb] course of this song, does what he does here for the first
time in bar three and bring the low end of this chord in half a beat early.
It comes in on the and of four of the previous bar like this.
[D] One [C] and two and three and four [Bb] and one and two and three and four and.
Now that gives [Eb] us the first example of something that we're going to find [F] all the time in this song.
Which is that the strum pattern is never the same really in any two bars of the whole song.
So although [Eb] when we get into the main thing I'll give you a strum pattern you can use, it varies all the time.
And here's the first example of that.
He sometimes will bring the low end of this [C] first chord, this third fret chord in, half a beat early.
[F] And sometimes he doesn't.
Sometimes he leaves it to [C] come on the first beat of its own bar.
[Cm] So feel free to do what he does and mix those two things [Ab] up and don't worry about where he does it or where he doesn't.
[E] It's just an instinctive thing in that moment that the microphone caught him playing it in the studio.
All right, [Eb] that's the first four bars of the otappe, the first part of the intro.
[C]
[C]
[E] Essentially on the strum pattern on this, think of it as going bass, down, [Am] down, up, bass, down, down, up.
[C] One, two and a three, four and a.
[Ab] For the second line of the
Key:
C
Cm
Eb
E
Ab
C
Cm
Eb
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ David Crosby's music is love and we're in a modal C tuning for this one.
Let's get in tune first of all.
Take your first [Cm] string down to C, _ _
_ second string down to [G] G, _ _
_ _ [Eb] third string way down [C] to C, _
_ _ _ [Cm] _ fourth string down to C,
_ _ _ _ fifth string down to G, [G] _ _ and
sixth string away down to C.
_ _ [Eb] What we've got now is a modal C chord on the open [Cm] strings, _ _ _ _ _ _
which has no third in it.
Those of you who know some music theory will [Ab] know that means this chord is neither major
[C] nor minor and that gives this song an interesting sound.
_ Once we're in [F] this tuning, it's not that hard to play.
It starts for the only time on a little melody on the first string.
Here is the top line of your tab.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] All right, it's coming in very quietly.
Keep this just on the very highest strings.
You [Cm] want the open _
strings, maybe the top three or top two, it doesn't matter, then to the second fret, then to the fourth fret of the first string.
[C] _ _ _
All those down strokes, and then you're just padding it out with touches [Cm] around the middle of the chord.
The tab says very precisely hit the fourth string.
It's not as precise as that anywhere in this song.
Just use that kind of thing to indicate, oh, I just need to touch the middle of the chord somewhere.
_ _ So, oh two [C] four touch, four touch, touch, touch.
[Cm] Do not worry that the tab says four three four.
_ _ _ [C] One and two and three and four.
_ Repeat that two more times. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Well, [Cm] the third time it does something very slightly different.
[E] You're going to go to the [Cm] next two chords in this song.
You want the fifth string third fret and the second string third fret.
_ And that's going to go down, that shape is going [C] to go down one fret. _ _
[Cm] Now that comes up everywhere in this song, but he often, throughout the [Eb] course of this song, does what he does here for the first
time in bar three and bring the low end of this chord in half a beat early.
It comes in on the and of four of the previous bar like this.
[D] One [C] and two and three and four [Bb] and one and two and three and four and. _ _ _ _
_ Now that gives [Eb] us the first example of something that we're going to find [F] all the time in this song.
_ Which is that the strum pattern is never the same really in any two bars of the whole song.
So although [Eb] when we get into the main thing I'll give you a strum pattern you can use, it varies all the time.
And here's the first example of that.
He sometimes will bring the low end of this [C] first chord, this third fret chord in, half a beat early.
[F] And sometimes he doesn't.
Sometimes he leaves it to [C] come on the first beat of its own bar.
[Cm] So feel free to do what he does and mix those two things [Ab] up and don't worry about where he does it or where he doesn't.
[E] It's just an instinctive thing in that moment that the microphone caught him playing it in the studio.
_ All right, [Eb] that's the first four bars of the otappe, the first part of the intro.
_ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] Essentially on the strum pattern on this, think of it as going bass, down, [Am] down, up, bass, down, down, up.
_ [C] One, two and a three, four and a.
_ _ [Ab] For the second line of the
_ _ _ _ David Crosby's music is love and we're in a modal C tuning for this one.
Let's get in tune first of all.
Take your first [Cm] string down to C, _ _
_ second string down to [G] G, _ _
_ _ [Eb] third string way down [C] to C, _
_ _ _ [Cm] _ fourth string down to C,
_ _ _ _ fifth string down to G, [G] _ _ and
sixth string away down to C.
_ _ [Eb] What we've got now is a modal C chord on the open [Cm] strings, _ _ _ _ _ _
which has no third in it.
Those of you who know some music theory will [Ab] know that means this chord is neither major
[C] nor minor and that gives this song an interesting sound.
_ Once we're in [F] this tuning, it's not that hard to play.
It starts for the only time on a little melody on the first string.
Here is the top line of your tab.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] All right, it's coming in very quietly.
Keep this just on the very highest strings.
You [Cm] want the open _
strings, maybe the top three or top two, it doesn't matter, then to the second fret, then to the fourth fret of the first string.
[C] _ _ _
All those down strokes, and then you're just padding it out with touches [Cm] around the middle of the chord.
The tab says very precisely hit the fourth string.
It's not as precise as that anywhere in this song.
Just use that kind of thing to indicate, oh, I just need to touch the middle of the chord somewhere.
_ _ So, oh two [C] four touch, four touch, touch, touch.
[Cm] Do not worry that the tab says four three four.
_ _ _ [C] One and two and three and four.
_ Repeat that two more times. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Well, [Cm] the third time it does something very slightly different.
[E] You're going to go to the [Cm] next two chords in this song.
You want the fifth string third fret and the second string third fret.
_ And that's going to go down, that shape is going [C] to go down one fret. _ _
[Cm] Now that comes up everywhere in this song, but he often, throughout the [Eb] course of this song, does what he does here for the first
time in bar three and bring the low end of this chord in half a beat early.
It comes in on the and of four of the previous bar like this.
[D] One [C] and two and three and four [Bb] and one and two and three and four and. _ _ _ _
_ Now that gives [Eb] us the first example of something that we're going to find [F] all the time in this song.
_ Which is that the strum pattern is never the same really in any two bars of the whole song.
So although [Eb] when we get into the main thing I'll give you a strum pattern you can use, it varies all the time.
And here's the first example of that.
He sometimes will bring the low end of this [C] first chord, this third fret chord in, half a beat early.
[F] And sometimes he doesn't.
Sometimes he leaves it to [C] come on the first beat of its own bar.
[Cm] So feel free to do what he does and mix those two things [Ab] up and don't worry about where he does it or where he doesn't.
[E] It's just an instinctive thing in that moment that the microphone caught him playing it in the studio.
_ All right, [Eb] that's the first four bars of the otappe, the first part of the intro.
_ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] Essentially on the strum pattern on this, think of it as going bass, down, [Am] down, up, bass, down, down, up.
_ [C] One, two and a three, four and a.
_ _ [Ab] For the second line of the