Police - Message In A Bottle guitar tab

From stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Steve Portigal)

Sting spake:

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Wed May 13 15:51:14 PDT 1992

Article: 3632 of alt.guitar

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.

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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