Beautiful South - Rotterdam Or Anywhere guitar chord
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Subject: b/beautiful_south/rotterdam_or_anywhere.crd
Song - Rotterdam (Or Anywhere)
Artist - Beautiful South
Album - Blue is the Colour
Tabbed by Mike Castle (michael.castle@btinternet.com)
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Define chords;
Fmaj7 G Am C/G C G7 D/F E E7
-e----0----3----0----0----0----1----2----0----0
-B----1----0----1----1----1----0----3----0----3
-G----2----0----2----0----0----0----2----1----1
-D----3----0----2----2----2----0----0----2----2
-A----3----2----0----3----3----2----0----2----2
-E----x----3----x----3----x----3----2(T)-0----0
=20
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=20
Define playing styles;
Style 1: - Strummed chords - each beat is a triplet.
Play Dah-de Dah-de Dah-de Dah-de=20
Style 2: - Each beat is a triplet (except the half-beats
shown on the tab at *). The slide is played
with 3rd finger barred across e and B strings
Beat: 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Fmaj7
-e-----------3/5-0-----0-----------------------0-------|
-B-----------3/5-1-----1----------0------1-----1-------|
-G---------------2-----2-----0----0------2-----2-----0-|
-D---------------3-----3-3---------------3-----3-3-----|
-A-----3-----------------------3-----------------------|
-E-----------------------------------------------------|
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* on the half-beat
Style 3 (at end of chorus)
Beat: 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
G7
a-lone--------- Anywhere a-
$ quarter bend up with 4th
| finger
-e-----1-----1--1-----------------------------3--------|
-B-----0-----0--0--------------------0-----3-----------|
-G-----0-----0--0--------0---3b------------------------|
-D-----0-----0--0--------------------------------------|
-A-----2-----2--2--------------------------------------|
-E-----3-----3--3--------------------------------------|
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* half beat * half beat
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INTRO:
Style 2 Fmaj7 twice, solo guitar. Bass and percussion come
in 3rd time through, repeat a 4th time
VERSE 1:
Keep playing Style 2 Fmaj7 through 1st verse a total of
4 times
BRIDGE:
Style 1
G
The whole place ....
Am
The people..... sure
G
And no-one.....
C E E7
Than they ever would do in a jar----
CHORUS:
Style 1
This could be
Am C/G
Rotterdam or anywhere
Am C/G
Liverpool or Rome, Cause
Am C/G
Rotterdam is anywhere
D G7 (Style 3)
Anywhere a-lone, Anywhere a-
Style 2 Fmaj7 twice
-lone
VERSE 2
Same as VERSE 1
BRIDGE
Same as before
CHORUS
Same again
Style 2 Fmaj7 four times, then straight into:
BRIDGE
Same as before
CHORUS/CHORUS (don't do the fiddly bit, just segue=20
into the chorus again from the G7 -=20
listen to the track - you'll see it!)
Style 2 Fmaj7 lots of times, singing the words of the
chorus in a jazzy style to fade out...
