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| DEL AMITRI'S "ROLL TO ME" - BEGINNER VERSION |
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Just wanted to post an easier version of the song I came up with. You
can play the whole tune, including the more complex chords, by fretting
only power chords on the bottom three strings, and leaving the top
three strings open. Just tune your A and D strings up one step, and
your G string up one half step, so that you have an open E Major tuning,
then use a capo if you want different keys. Not the exact chords, but
they work.
Now get a 2nd guitar to play arpeggios, and a bass to play the roots,
and you've got a song your band can learn in about 10 minutes. :-)
TUNING: [-E-B-E-G#-B-E-] (open E major)
KEY: E Major (open) or F Major (capo I)
/ = strum: down on beats, up in between
// \\
||: :|| = repeat enclosed sections as marked
\\ //
X ___ = hold chord X
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| CHORDS USED |
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||E ||------0---------0---------0---------0---------0------||
||B ||------0---------0---------0---------0---------0------||
||G#||------0---------0---------0---------0---------0------||
||E ||------0---------2---------4---------5---------7------||
||B ||------0---------2---------4---------5---------7------||
||E ||------0---------2---------4---------5---------7------||
Power: E F# G# A B
Full: E F#9sus4 G#m(b6) Amaj9(no3) B6sus4
Sequence:
Intro
Verse #1 (no repeat)
Verse #2 (no repeat)
Bridge #1
Verse #3 (with repeat)
Bridge #2
Verse #4 (partial)
Coda
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| INTRO |
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| | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ||
|4 /| | ||
| / | A _____________________ | ________________________ ||
|/ 4| | ||
| | | ||
| |// 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + \\
|4 /|| | ||
| / ||: E / / / / / / / | F# / / / / / / / :||
|/ 4|| | ||
| |\\ | (2x) //
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| VERSE |
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| | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
|4 /| | |
| / | E / / / / G# / / | F# / / / / A / / |
|/ 4| | |
| | | |
1) Look around your world, pretty baby, is it
2) Look into your heart, pretty baby, is it
3) don't try to deny it, pretty baby, you've been
4) look around your world, pretty baby, is it
| | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
|4 /| | |
| / | E / / / / G# / / | F# / / / / B / / |
|/ 4| | |
| | | |
1) everything you hoped it would be?
2) aching with some nameless need? Is there
3) down so long you can hardly see. When the
4) everything you hoped it would be?
| | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
|4 /| | |
| / | E / / / / G# / / | F# / / / / A / / |
|/ 4| | |
| | | |
1) The wrong guy? The wrong situation?
2) something wrong and you can't put your finger on it?
3) engine's stalled and it won't stop raining, it's the
4) The wrong guy? The wrong situation?
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/d/del_amitri/roll_to_me_easy_crd.html ]
| | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | | 1 + 2 + | |
|4 /| |2 /| |4 /|
| / | E / / / / F# / / | / | A / / / | / |
|/ 4| |/ 4| |/ 4|
| | | | | |
1) The right time to roll to
2) Right then, roll to
3) right time to roll to
4) The right time to roll to [[to CODA]]
| |// 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
|4 /|| | |
| / ||: E / / / / / / / | F# / / / / / / / |
|/ 4|| | |
| |\\ | |
1) me.
2) me.
3a) me, roll to
3b) me.
| | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + \\
|4 /| | ||
| / | E / / / / / / / | F# / / / / / / / :||
|/ 4| | (repeat on v.3 only) ||
| | | //
1) [[to V.2]]
2) And I [[to B.1]]
3a) me, roll to
3b) And I [[to B.2]]
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| BRIDGE |
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| | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
|4 /| | |
| / | E / / / / / / / | A / / / / / / / |
|/ 4| | |
| | | |
1) Don't think I have ever seen a
2) Don't think I have ever seen a
| | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
|4 /| | |
| / | G# / / / / / / / | F# / / / / / / / |
|/ 4| | |
| | | |
1) soul so in des- -pair, so
2) soul so in des- -pair, so
| | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
|4 /| | |
| / | G# / / / / / / / | A / / / / / / / |
|/ 4| | |
| | | |
1) if you want to talk the night through,
2) if you want to talk the night through,
| | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + // 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + \\
|4 /| || ||
| / | F# / / / / / / / ||: B / / / / / / / :||
|/ 4| || ||
| | \\ //
1) guess who will be 1a) there.
1b) So, [[to V.3]]
2) guess who will be 2a) there.
2b) So, [[to V.4]]
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| CODA |
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| |// 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + \\
|4 /|| | ||
| / ||: E / / / / / / / | F# / / / A / / / :||
|/ 4|| | ||
| |\\ | //
1a) me, the right time to roll to
1b) me, the right time to roll to
| | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
|4 /| | |
| / | F# ____________________ | ________________________ |
|/ 4| | |
| | | |
1) me. Oooh...
| | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ||
|4 /| | ||
| / | E / / / F# / / / | A / / E ____________ ||
|/ 4| | ||
| | | || [[ end ]]
