Six Bells Chime Chords & Tabs
This is how I play Six Bells Chime from the legendary Room of Lights album. (Otherwise
known as the Wings of Desire song). This song follows a basic blues progression.
Chords: Em | Am7| B7
Em
Riff: e-------------|
B-------------|
G-------------|
D--------2----|
A------2------|
E-0--3--------|
After Riff, play Am7 (with open E (6th) string. As if playing Em-shape with the G and B strings.)
Play Riff, then back to Em
Play Riff, then play Am7
Play Riff, Em
Repeat this up until after "Six Bells, they chime…" Play B7
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/c/crime_and_the_city_solution/six_bells_chime_crd.html ]
This next part I am unsure of, but it is a pentatonic-minor scale. (I assume Em)
Play Em chord.
"You will sleep sound…"
B7, then arrpegiate the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st strings of B7; back again
Play Em chord.
"You're seventeen…"
B7.
"You're seventeen at this time…"
Repeat Riff, Em, Am7 (after Am7, you will play the B string: B--0-2-0-----
You repeat all over again.
To get Rowland's sound, crank your reverb and use your tremolo. I play this song with my
guitar's bridge pickup, Alexander Hacke also played this song with his guitar in the
bridge pickup. It was a tele style guitar with a hum bucker in the bridge, and mine is a
LP-style guitar with dual hum buckers. It might not make a difference for you, but it does
to me.