This is how Jon plays Only Hope live:
Chords for the verses (he picks through them):
(numbers with no parentheses = frets
numbers in parentheses = fingers...
ex: --(3)7-- means your 3rd finger goes on the 7th fret)
e|-------------------------------(4)3---(4)3---(4)3---------------|
b|------------0------------------(3)3---(3)3---(3)3------0--------|
g|--(4)7---(2)4---------------------0------0------0---(4)4--------|
d|--(1)5---(4)5---(1)7----(3)4---(1)2------0---(1)2---(3)4--------|
a|--(3)7---(3)5---(4)10---(1)2---(2)3---(1)2---(2)3---(1)2--------|
e|---------(1)3---(1)7-------0----------(2)3-------------0--------|
Picking for Verse and Out Chorus: (he slides between the chords...just kinda flowing
it....you dont always hit the notes exactly like i typed them. Check out the live
and the video i put at the end of the tab to figure out the strumming pattern)
count::1.....2.......3......4::.....1.......2........3.....4.......::
|---------------------------------------3--------3-------3-----0-----|
|---------------------------------------3--------3-------3-----0-----|
|---------7------4------------------------0--------0-----0-----4-----|
|--------5----------------7-----4------2----------------------4------|
|-------7---7\--5-------10-----2-2---3---------2------2h3-3-2---2----|
|-------------3---3-3/7----7/0---------------3-----------------------|
Chords used in the Chorus:
(again, numbers in parentheses are fingers, numbers that arent are frets)
::E5:: ::B5:: ::A5:: ::C#m:: ::Cm::
|-----0--||-----0--||-----0--||-----0--||-----0--|
|-----0--||-----0--||-----0--||--(2)5--||-----0--|
|--(4)9--||--(2)8--||--(2)6--||--(4)6--||--(4)5--|
|--(3)9--||--(3)9--||--(3)7--||--(3)6--||--(3)5--|
|--(1)7--||--(1)x--||--(1)x--||--(1)4--||--(1)3--|
|-----0--||--(1)7--||--(1)5--||--------||--------|
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/switchfoot/only_hope_tab_ver_12.html ]
The Chord progression for the chorus goes:
E5 B5 A5 B5
So i lay my head back down
E5 B5 A5
and i lift my hands and pray
C#m A5 C#m
to be only yours. I pray to be only yours
Cm
i know now you're my only hope
Verse Riff (out chorus)
Verse
Chorus
Out 2nd Chorus:
:strum the chords here:
|---------------------------------------------3-----3----3-3----0----------|
|---------------------------------------------3-----3----3-3----0----------|
|--------7-7-----4-4--------------------------0-----0----0-0----4----------|
|--------5-5-----5-5-----7--7------4-4------2-2-----0----x-2----4----------|
|------7-----------------10-10-----2-2----3---3-----2----2h3----2----------|
|--------------3-------7---------0------------------3----------------------|
Chords for the Bridge:
::Gadd2:: ::E/B:: ::F#m:: ::A::
|--------||--------||-----x--||-----0--||
|-----0--||-----0--||-----0--||-----0--||
|--(1)2--||--(4)4--||--(2)3--||--(4)4--||
|-----0--||--(3)4--||--(4)4--||--(1)2--||
|-----0--||--(1)2--||--(3)4--||-----0--||
|--(2)3--||-----0--||--(1)2--||--------||
Chord Progression for Bridge:
Gadd2 E/B
I give you my empathy
Gadd2 E/B
I'm giving you all of me
Gadd2 E/B
I want Your symphony
F#m E/B
Singing in all that i am
A E/B A E/B
at the top of my lungs I'm giving it back.
Chorus
Out Chorus
End with E5 (079900)
live recordings of this song at
www.switchfootbootlegs.com
-the Baltimore and Burlington shows both have it
www.switchfeed.com/2007/02/watch-videos-remaining-songs-from.html
-video of it from vancouver (credit to Cookie for the vid and Phil with Switchfeed.com for posting it)
hope my tab is readable
Peace Amigo-gos and fellow SF fams,
Adam (aka faceless_combatant from the boards)
