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Cheating - John Newman
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Tabbed by: ND
E-mail: ndermawan@yahoo.com
Tuning: Standard
OFFICIAL SITE
http://www.black-butter.co.uk/john-newman/
Tumblr
http://johnnewmanmusic.tumblr.com/
This guy is the singer from Rudimental's song 'Feel the Love'
Really good voice in my opinion and I want to tab this out for myself as much as
I'm also doing it for those of you who know and want to play this song.
Think he's gonna make it big soon!
Referencing this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd0WmZS-5OU
Chords progressions are: Bm, A & E for the Chorus
basically and: Bm, E, D & F7 for verses
Bm = Barre on 2 or 7
A = Barre on 5 or open strings on 2
E = open strings
D = open strings on chord on x5777x
F7 = chord on x 9 11 9 11 x
Intro - you can also play this using the lower chord positions, but I'm too
lazy to tab that out sorry, should be simple enough - edit. i did it anyway
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------7--9--7----9p7---------------7--9--7-----------7---------------------|
G|------7--9--7----9p7---------------7--9--7----9p7h9-----7h9p7--------------|
D|----------------------9--7h-8--9-------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---7-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
Alternate ending goes like: In shape of Bm
e|---------2---------------------|
B|--5p3h5-----3h5p3--------------|
G|--------------------4----------|
Chorus
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Bm
I could love you
A
Better,
E E
Better than you once knew
Bm
If you're cheatin'
A
cheat on yeah
E
Cause cheating's just a thing you do,
E
its just a thing you do yeah
- play 2nd half of intro lick on LOW Bm as the filler
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----3--5--3---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----4--2--4---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----4--4--4----2p0h2--4--0h2p0--------------------------------------------|
A|--2--------------------------------2-- Go straight to verse 2 ------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Verse 1
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Bm E
So you're sunday monday aah
D F7
Hanging with your boy again
Bm E
Came a' back on the tuesday
D F7
I told him to come here again
Filler 1st part Bm lick (high)
Well its time to tell you
Filler 2nd part Bm lick (low)
yeah its time to tell you
Chorus
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Bm
I could love you
A
Better
E E
Better than you once knew na na na
Bm
If you're cheatin'
A
cheat on
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/john_newman/cheating_crd.html ]
E
Cause cheating's just a thing you do
E
its just a thing you do yeah
Filler 1st part Bm lick (high)
Verse 2
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Bm E
So you're friday saturday
D F7
Groovin' with that boy again
Bm E
You came home a' cryin
D F7
I told you to leave again' nah na
Bm - lick, same goes.
Time to tell you
Bm
Yeah its time to tell you
Chorus
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Bm
I could love you
A
Better aw na
E E
Better than you once knew no no no
Bm
If you're cheatin'
A
cheat on yeah
E E
Cause cheating's just a thing you do
aw yeah
Bridge strumming thing
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----4-44-44-4-----4-44-44-4-----4-44-44-4-----4-44-44-4-------------------|
D|------------------------------2-------------2------------------------------|
A|--2-------------4----------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----4-44-44-4-----4-44-44-4-----4-44-44-4-----4-44-44-4-------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--2-------------4----------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------0-------------0------------------------------| X2
We need to talk now baby
wooo so serious now alright
you done some things so bad to me o oh
you went behind my back
you made me feel sorry
you went behind my back
you made me feel sorry
you went behind my back
you made me feel sorry
you went behind my back
*Start strumming Bm to go into chorus again*
woooo na
Chorus
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Bm
I could love you
A
Better aw na
E E
Better than you once knew nah nah nah
Bm
If you're cheatin'
A
cheat on yeah
E E
Cause cheating's just a thing you do
mmm mmmm mmm
e|-------------------------------------------------|
B|------7--9--7-----------7--9--7b-----------------|
G|------7--9--7-----------7--9--7b-----------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------|
A|---------let ring----------------bend up---------|
E|---7-----------------7---------------------------|
As for the adlibs....figure it out yourself, should be easily audible but a pain to tab, sorry.
Hope it makes sense! enjoy.
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| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
| b Bend
| pb Pre-bend
| br Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend
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