The Fray - How To Save A Life (2) guitar tab

I was really frustrated to only find tabs out there requiring a

capo, hence (cheating), and really impractical for a lot of us

who like to pick up a guitar and just play something, even if

it's just another guitar at someone's home. It was indeed difficult

to transpose a piano song to guitar, but this works really well.

The original is in Bb, so you will have to either uptune your

guitar a half step to F if you want to play along with the song,

otherwise you're technically playing it in the Key of A, which

is completely unnoticeable around a campfire.

The verses are all over A major and A sus2, with the bass notes

played along with it. Use the 3 finger form for A major so you

can lift finger 3 to make it A sus2 and also play the bass note

on fret 4 (with that 3rd finger or the pinky. You'll also want

to be creative and use your thumb for the bass note on the E

string for fret 2 when it happens. Anyone with some experience

should be familiar and able to do this in a pinch, after all it's

a piano song! Play the notes of the chords individually starting

with the bass note, let it and all notes ring.

Verses:

A G#/Asus2 F#/Asus2 G#/Asus2 A(starts repeat)

--0------------------0----------------0---------------------

--2---------0--------0--------0-------2---------------------

--2---------2--------2--------2-------2---------------------

--2---------2--------2--------2-------2---------------------

--0---------x--------x--------x-------0---------------------

------------4--------2--------4-----------------------------

Thumb!

Chorus: This is much easier now, strum all.

D E F#min (don't know..just do it) (repeat)

--2------0--------2-----------2--------------------------

--3------0--------2-----------2--------------------------

--2------1--------2-----------2--------------------------

--0------2--------4-----------2--------------------------

--0------2--------4-----------2--------------------------

--x------0--------2-----------4--------------------------

Hope this helps!

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