Always Like This Chords & Tabs
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Always Like This - Bombay Bicycle Club
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Tabbed by: pauli
Email: pauli.ahashakeheartbreak@hotmail.co.uk
taken from the album 'I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose'
if you'd like a tab for any other bombay bicycle club song, please make a request
and i'll happily give it a go.
anyway, enjoy :)
Tuning: EADGBe
Intro - 'light chords' (chords played lightly over the bassline)
e|-----x---------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-9---13--------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-10--13--------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-11--13--------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-11------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Riff I (0:31)
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----10------------------10-------------------------------------------------|
D|------11------11-13-------11-----------------------------------------------|
A|--------11-11------13-13----88-9-11----------------------------------------|
E|-9-9-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
chords played over the top of riff I and bassline (1:04)
e|-x---x---x-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-9--11--13-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-10-11--13-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-11-11--13-----------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-11------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Chorus (1:20)
these chords are shared between two guitars.
it's easily recognisable which guitar plays which chord.
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/bombay_bicycle_club/always_like_this_tab_ver_2.html ]
(repeat this untill last chord)
e|-22-----x----x----9-9-----------------------------------------------------|
B|-22-----x----x----9-9-----------------------------------------------------|
G|-33-----1313-1111-1010----------------------------------------------------|
D|-44-8-8-1313-1111-1111-11-11----------------------------------------------|
A|-44-9-9-1111-9-9--1111-11-11----------------------------------------------|
E|-22---------------9-9-----------------------------------------------------|
the last chord before chorus ends
on the final strum, strum the chord 3 times (up, down up) very rapidly to achieve the
effect in the song.
e|-44-44-44-44-444-----------------------------------------------------------|
B|-44-44-44-44-444-----------------------------------------------------------|
G|-55-55-55-55-555-----------------------------------------------------------|
D|-66-66-66-66-666-----------------------------------------------------------|
A|-66-66-66-66-666-----------------------------------------------------------|
E|-44-44-44-44-444-----------------------------------------------------------|
back to riff I including the 'light' chords played over the top but at full volume this
(1:58)
after this only the vocals can be heard. play the light chords over the top. (2:14)
just the vocals, bass and drums can be heard now until 2:58 where the chorus parts are
again.
at 3:13 you can make out another riff in the background with a strange effect to it.
is how it goes.
e|-------11----------9-------------------------------------------------------|
B|---11----11----11---11-----------------------------------------------------|
G|-----11----11----11---11---------------------------------------------------|
D|-11----------11------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
(repeat according to song)
after this riff I including the chords over the top are played.
however riff is changed slightly on the third time (3:53) as you probably can hear. it
like this.
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----11p10---------------10-------------------------------------------------|
D|--------13-11--------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------13-11-13-13--88-9-11------------------------------------------|
E|-9-9-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
end of song.
please rate, thanks :)
| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
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