The Police - Message In A Bottle Chords & Tabs

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From stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Steve Portigal)
Subject: Message in a Bottle TAB (repost)
Date: 8 Oct 1993 14:22:18 -0500

Sting spake:
>From uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!rpi!bu.edu!dartvax!coos.dartmouth.edu!mozart
Wed May 13 15:51:14 PDT 1992
Article: 3632 of alt.guitar
>From: mozart@coos.dartmouth.edu (Sting)
Subject: Message in a Bottle
Date: 12 May 92 15:46:16 GMT

The chord outline for Message looks like this:

Verse:
C#add9  Aadd9  Badd9  F#add9 (sliding up to m3)  :|

"Chorus" 1  (I'll send an S.O.S....)
A   D  E   :|

"Chorus" 2  (I hope that some one gets my...)
F#m   D    :|

"Chorus" 3  (Message in a bottle...)
C#m   A   (repeat)  resolve to F#m then back to verse.
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/the_police/message_in_a_bottle_crd.html ]
>From watching the old Police live tapes, you can see that
Andy plays the add9 chords something like this:

1---------------------------------------------------------------------1-|
2---------------------------------------------------------------------2-|
3----------8-----------4----------6-----------------------------------3-|
4------6-----------2----------4--------------6-7----------------------4-|
5--4-----------0----------2--------------4----------------------------5-|
6------------------------------------2--------------------------------6-|

I recommend doing the troups of three with fingers 1, 3, 4.  This way,
you can slide up from 6-7 on the final chord with your pinky and your
index will be in position over fret 4 to begin the cycle again.

I recommend barres for the chorus chords, to reproduce the original
feeling.  Try the 5th position A and D, 7th position E, 2nd position
F#m, and 4th position C#m.

Enjoy!
-Michael


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Michael J. Fromberger                   |
Composer, Guitarist                     |
Sting@Dartmouth.EDU                     |
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