U2

U2 - Achtung Album guitar tab

VARIOUS SONGS

by U2

from ACHTUNG BABY

SONGS: Zoo Station

Even Better Than The Real Thing

One

Until The End Of The World

Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

So Cruel

The Fly

Mysterious Ways

Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World

Ultraviolet (Light My Way)

Acrobat

Love Is Blindness

EXTRA: Satellite Love (B-Side for "One")

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"Zoo Station"

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Use heavy distortion and make the slides heard.

Intro: (Repeat about 12 times)

E---------------------------------------

B---------------------------------------

G---------------------------------------

D---------------------------------------

A-12/-----------------------------------

E-----3-5-------------------------------

(The / means to slide all the way down the string)

Second Part of Intro & Also used in Chorus:

E-----10---------10--------5--------5---

B---8----8-----8----8----3---3----3---3-

G-7----------7---------2--------2-------

D---------------------------------------

A---------------------------------------

E---------------------------------------

A

I'm ready, ready for the laughing gas

G D A

I'm ready, ready for what's next

Ready to duck, ready to dive

Ready to say I'm glad to be alive

G D A

I'm ready, I'm ready for the push

In the cool of the night, the warmth of the breeze

G D A

I'll be crawling around on my hands and knees

Gadd9 D A

She's just down the line ... Zoo Station

Gadd9 D A

Got to make it on time ... Zoo Station

I'm ready, I'm ready for the gridlock

I'm ready to take it to the street

Ready for the shuffle, ready for the deal

Ready to let go of the steering wheel

I'm ready, ready for the crush

She's just down the line ... Zoo Station

Got to make it on time ... Zoo Station

Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright

It's alright...it's alright...it's alright...it's alright

Hey baby...hey baby...hey baby...hey baby

it's alright, it's alright

D/A A

Time is a train, makes the future the past

G D

Leaves you standing in the station

A

Your face pressed up against the glass

I'm just down the line from your love...Zoo Station

Under the sign of your love...Zoo Station

I'm gonna be there...Zoo Station

Tracing the line...Zoo Station

I'm gonna make it on time...make it on time...Zoo Station

Just two stops down the line...Zoo Station

Just a stops down the line...Zoo Station

Solo at end:

E--------------------------------------------------------------------------

B--------------------------------------------------------------------------

G-----------------------9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-11--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-11---------

D-11---9--7---11---9--7----------------------------------------------------

A--------------------------------------------------------------------------

E--------------------------------------------------------------------------

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"Even Better Than the Real Thing"

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Heavy distortion recommended. :)

Intro: (Riff below is repeated during verses)

E--------5-5-----|------------------------------------------

B----------------|------------------------------------------

G----------------|-----------6/76--------------------------

D----------------|------------------5--4--------------------

A----------------|------------------------------------------

E--5-5-----------|------5-----------------------------------

A Dsus4 D/A A

Give me one more chance, and you'll be satisfied

D Dsus4 D A

Give me two more chances you won't be denied

Gadd9

Well my heart is where it's always been

Bm7

My head is somewhere in between

D Dsus4 D A

Give me one more chance let me be your lover tonight

(Check it out)

A G D A G D

You're the real thing, yeah the real thing

A G D

You're the real thing

A G D A

Even better than the real thing

Give me one last chance and I'm gonna make you sing

Give me half a chance to ride on the waves that you bring

You're honey child to a swarm of bees

Gonna blow right through you like a breeze

Give me one last dance, we'll slide down the surface of things

You're the real thing, yeah the real thing

You're the real thing

Even better than the real thing

D G

We're free to fly the crimson sky

D G

The sun won't melt our wings tonight

A G D

Oh now, here she comes

Take me higher, take me higher

Can you take me higher?

Will you take me higher?

You're the real thing, yeah the real thing

You're the real thing

Even better than the real thing

Even better than the real thing

Even better than the real thing.

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"One"

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Intro: h=hammer on

p=pull off

/=slide up

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---------------h-p-h-----------h-p-h-----------h-p-h------------------------

---h---5--/9--7-9-7-9-------7-5-7-5-7---/7--9-7-9-7-9-7--------------h--p---

--5-7-------------------/7--7-5-7-5-7---/7--7-7-7-7-7-7---7/9---10--9-10-9--

-------0----------------/5--------------/8----------------8/10--10--10------

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Chords:

Am Dadd2

Is it getting better

Fmaj7 G6+

Or do you feel the same

Am Dadd2

Will it make it easier on you

Fmaj7 G6+

Now you got someone to blame

You say

C Am

One love, one life

Fmaj7 C

When it's one need in the night

Am

It's one love we get to share it

Fmaj7 C

It leaves you baby if you don't care for it

Am-Dadd2-Fmaj7-G6+

Did I disappoint you

Or leave a bad taste in your mouth

You act like you never had love

And you want me to go without

Well it's too late tonight

To drag the past out into the light

We're one, but we're not the same

We get to carry each other, carry each other

One

[Solo]

Have you come here for forgiveness?

Have you come to raise the dead?

Have you come here to play Jesus

To the lepers in your head?

Did I ask too much, more than a lot

You gave me nothing, now it's all I got

We're one, but we're not the same

We hurt each other then we do it again

You say

C Am

Love is a temple, Love a higher law

C Am

Love is a temple, Love the higher law

C G

You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl

Fmaj7

And I can't be holding on to what you got

C

When all you got is hurt

One love, one blood

One life, you got to do what you should

One life with each other

Sisters, brothers

One life, but we're not the same

We get to carry each other, carry each other

One. One.

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|-------15-15-13-13-15----|----------------15-13-|

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"Until The End Of The World"

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INTRO:

E5 D/E

E E E E E E Esus4 E (Play this sequence 4 times)

D/E

Bm D

Haven't seen you in quite a while

Em

I was down the hold, just passing time

Bm D

Last time we met was a low-lit room

Em

We were as close together as bride and groom

D9 A9

We ate the food, we drank the wine

Em D/G

Everybody having a good time

D9

Except you

A9

You were talking about the end of the world

E E E E E E Esus4 E (4 times)

I took the money, I spiked your drink

You miss too much these days if you stop to think

You led me on with those innocent eyes

You know I love the element of surprise

In the garden I was playing the tart

I kissed your lips and broke your heart

You, you were acting like it was the end of the world

E E E E E E Esus4 E (4 times)

GUITAR SOLO

D/E Bm

La la la la

D

La la la la

Em

La la la la la la

Bm

La la la la

D

La la la la

Em

La la la la la la

In my dream I was drowning my sorrows

But my sorrows they learned to swim

Surrounding me, going down on me

Spilling over the brim

Waves of regret, waves of joy

I reached out for the one I tried to destroy

You, you said you'd wait 'til the end of the world.

E E E E E E Esus4 E (4 times)

OUTRO:

E5 D5/E E5 D5/E E5 D5/E E5 D5/E

E5 D5/E E5 D5/E E5 D5/E E5 Em

CHORD FORMATIONS:

D/E x 7 7 7 7 x D9 x x 0 2 3 0

E x 7 9 9 9 x A9 x 0 7 6 0 0

Esus4 x 7 9 9 10 x D/G 3 x 0 2 3 2

Bm x 2 4 4 3 2 E5 0 7 9 9 x x

D x 5 7 7 7 x D5/E 0 7 7 7 x x

Em x 7 9 9 8 7

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"Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?"

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G C

You're dangerous, 'cos you're honest

G C

You're dangerous, 'cos you don't know what you want

G C

Well you left my heart empty as a vacant lot

G C

For any spirit to haunt

D C D C

Hey hey sha la la, hey hey

You're an accident waiting to happen

You're a piece of glass left there on the beach

Well you tell me things I know you're not supposed to

Then you leave me just out of reach

Hey hey sha la la, hey hey sha la la la

G D C

Who's gonna ride your wild horses?

G D C

Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?

G D C

Who's gonna ride your wild horses?

G D C

Who's gonna fall at the foot of thee?

Well you stole it 'cos I needed the cash

And you killed it 'cos I needed revenge

Well you lied to me 'cos I asked you to

Baby...can we still be friends?

Hey hey sha la la, hey hey sha la la la

Who's gonna ride your wild horses?

Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?

Who's gonna ride your wild horses?

Who's gonna fall at the foot of thee?

Am Em

The deeper I spin

G D

The hunter will sin ... for your ivory skin

Am

Took a drive in the dirty rain

Em

To a place where the wind calls your name

G

Under the trees the river laughing

D

At you and me...

Am

Hallelujah, heavens white rose

F D

The doors you open I just can't close

G D C

Don't you turn around, don't you turn around again

G D C

Don't you turn around your gypsy heart

Don't turn around, don't turn around again

Don't turn around, and don't look back

C D

Come on now love, don't you look back

Who's gonna ride your wild horses?

Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?

Who's gonna taste your salt water kisses?

Who's gonna take the place of me?

Who's gonna ride your wild horses?

Who could tame the heart of thee?

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"So Cruel"

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Intro: E-----10----9-5-----10----9-5---

A Asus4

We crossed the line

A Asus4

Who pushed who over?

A Asus4

It doesn't matter to you

A Asus4

it matters to me

A Asus4

We're cut adrift

A Asus4

But still floating

A Asus4

I'm only hanging on

A E A

To watch you go down...my love

I disappeared in you

You disappeared from me

I gave you everything you ever wanted

It wasn't what you wanted

The men who love you, you hate the most

They pass through you like a ghost

They look for you but your spirit is in the air

Baby...you're nowhere

A-D-E-A

Aaaaaaah,

A D E A

You say in love there are no rules

A D E A E

Oh......love Sweetheart

A

You're so cruel

Desperation is a tender trap

It gets you every time

You put your lips to her lips

To stop the lie

Her skin is pale like God's only dove

Screams like an angel for your love

Then she makes you watch her from above

And you need her like a drug

You say in love there are no rules

Oh......love Sweetheart, you're so cruel

F#m

She wears my love

D

Like a see-through dress

A

Her lips say one thing

E

Her movements something else

C#m

Oh love, like a screaming flower

A

Love, dying every hour

And you don't know if it's fear or desire

Danger the drug that takes you higher?

Head of heaven, fingers in the mire

Her heart is racing... you can't keep up

The night is bleeding like a cut

Between the horses of love and lust

We are trampled underfoot

You say in love there are no rules

Oh......love Sweetheart

You're so cruel

To stay with you I'd be a fool

D C#m A E

oh....hah hah Sweetheart

A

You're so cruel.

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"The Fly"

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Intro goes like this:

E-------------------|-------------------|

B-------------------|-------------------|

G-------------------|-------------------|

D-------------------|-------------------|

A---7-7-5-7-5-7-7-5-|---7-7-5-7-5-7-7-5-|

E-0------h---h------|-0------h---h------|

E

It's no secret that the stars are falling from the sky

It's no secret that our world is in darkness tonight

A D

They say the sun is sometimes eclipsed by a moon

E

You know I don't see you when she walks in the room

It's no secret that a friend is someone who lets you help

It's no secret that a liar won't believe anyone else

They say a secret is something you tell one other person

So I'm telling you, child

C#m E

(Love, we shine like a A man will beg

A

Burning star A man will crawl

We're fallin' from On the sheer face of love

C#m E A Like a fly from the wall

The sky... tonight) It's no secret at all

It's no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pest

It's no secret that ambition bites the nails of success

Every artist is a cannibal Every poet is a thief

All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief

Solo: B E-A-D-E-B-C#m-E-A

(Love, we shine like a A man will rise

Burning star A man will fall

We're falling from From the sheer face of love

The sky... tonight) Like a fly from the wall

It's no secret at all

E

It's no secret that the stars are falling from the sky

The universe exploding 'cosa one man's lie

Look I gotta go, yeah I'm running out of change

There's a lot of things if I could I'd rearrange

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"Mysterious Ways"

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(Heavy distortion recommended)

This song can be played with a capo on the 8th fret, if you can do that.

Then it becomes fairly simple just playing D instead of A, etc. (see the

chord formations). Or you can play it with a capo on 1st fret, which is

how I've finally put the chords. [Editor's Comment]

Intro/transitions: (Repeated about 9 times)

E--------------------------------------

B------10-10---------------------------

G-------9--9---------------------------

D----7--7--7---------------------------

A-10-----------------------------------

E--------------------------------------

(Note: the above is basically the A chord played on a few strings)

(Note: chords given below generally are played by an organ in background)

A D

Johnny took a walk with your sister the moon

A E

Let her pale light in to fill up your room

A D

You've been living underground, eating from a can

A E A

You've been running away from what you don't understand (love)

Chorus: (the chorus basically just switches back between the A and D chords)

E--------------10-10-|-----------------

B------10-10---10-10-|-----------------

G-------9--9----7--7-|-----------------

D-------7--7---------|-----------------

A--------------------|-----------------

E--------------------|-----------------

(A) (D)

(So, when you see A or D, play the above chord formations, respectively)

A D

She's slippy, you're sliding down

A D

She'll be there when you hit the ground

A D

It's alright...it's alright...it's alright

C G

She moves in mysterious ways

A D

It's alright...it's alright...it's alright

C G

She moves in mysterious ways

Johnny take a dive with your sister in the rain

Let her talk about the things you can't explain

To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal

If you want to kiss the sky

Better learn how to kneel (...on your knees boy!)

She's the wave, she turns the tide

She sees the man inside the child

It's alright...it's alright...it's alright

She moves in mysterious ways (x3)

It's alright...it's alright...it's alright

Lift my days...light up my nights

Guitar Solo:

E-15-17-15-17-15-17-15-17-15-17-------

B-------------------------------------

G-------------------------------------

D-------------------------------------

A-------------------------------------

E-------------------------------------

(Repeat above riff 5 times)

E--9--9--9--9--9--9-10--9--7----------

B-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10----------

G--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9----------

D-------------------------------------

A-------------------------------------

E-------------------------------------

(Repeat above riff 6 times) (Note: this is just a "play" on the A chord)

Bridge: (Strum each chord once, and let ring)

Am D Am

One day you'll look back and you'll see

G A

Where you were held how by this love

D

While you could stand there

C

And not move on this moment

G

Follow this feeling

It's alright...it's alright...it's alright

She moves in mysterious ways

It's alright...it's alright...it's alright

We move through miracle days

Spirit moves in mysterious ways

She moves with it, she moves with it

C G A

Lift my days and light up my nights

CHORD FORMATIONS: (8th fret equivalence)

A x x 7 9 10 9 (D chord formation)

D 10 9 7 7 10 10 (G/D chord formation)

E x 7 9 9 9 x (A chord formation)

C 8 10 10 9 8 8 (F chord formation)

G 7 10 9 7 8 x (C chord formation)

Am x x 7 9 10 8 (Dm chord formation)

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"Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World"

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A D

Six o'clock in the morning

A D

You're the last to hear the warning

A D A D

You've been trying to throw your arms around the world

You've been falling off the sidewalk

Your lips move but you can't talk

Tryin' to throw your arms around the world

A D A D A D-A-D

I'm gonna run to you...run to you...run to you...be still

A D A D A D-A-D

I'm gonna run to you...run to you...run to you...woman I will

Sunrise like a nosebleed, your head hurts and you can't breathe

You been tryin' to throw you arms around the world

How far are you gonna go before you lose your way back home?

You've been trying to throw your arms around the world

I'm gonna run to you...

I dreamed that I saw Dali with a supermarket trolley

He was trying to throw his arms around a girl

He took an open top beetle through the eye of a needle

He was tryin' to throw his arms around the world

I'm gonna run to you...

Bridge: A-E-D-A A-E-D A-D-A-D-.....

Nothin' much to say I guess, just the same as all the rest

Been trying to throw your arms around the world

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle

When you're tryin' to throw your arms around the world

I'm gonna run to you...run to you

I'm gonna run to you...run to you

I'm gonna run to you...run to you

Woman be still...woman be still

Be still...woman be still, woman I will

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"Ultraviolet (Light My Way)"

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[Keyboard plays a C#m on this sentence]

"Sometimes I feel like I don't know, sometimes I feel like checking out

I wanna get it wrong, can't always be strong, and love it won't be long"

Intro: E G#m A (this is structure (1))

(1) Oh sugar, don't you cry,

oh child wipe the tears from your eyes

You know I need you to be strong,

and the day's as dark as the night is long

C#m B

(2) Feel like trash, you make me feel clean

A

I'm in the black, can't see or be seen

C#m B A

Baby, baby, baby, light my way

C#m B A

Baby, baby, baby, light my way

(1) You bury your treasure where it can't be found

But your love's like a secret that's been passed around

There is a silence that comes to a house where no one can sleep

(2) I guess it's the price of love, I know it's not cheap

Oh, come on, baby, baby, baby, light my way

Oh, come on, baby, baby, baby, light my way

E B C#m A (twice)

(3) Ooooh, ultraviolet...

C#m B E A

Baby, baby, baby, light my way

(1) I remember when we could sleep on stones

But now we lie together in whispers and moans

When I was all messed up, and I heard opera in my head

(2) Your love was a lightbulb hanging over my bed

Baby, baby, baby, light my way

Baby, baby, baby, light my way

(3) Ooooh, ultraviolet...

G#m A E B

(4) Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,

C#m B E

Baby, baby, baby, light my way

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"Acrobat"

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Intro: Em7 Am

Am G Fmaj7 Em/D

Don't believe what you hear, don't believe what you see

Am G Fmaj7 Em/D

If you just close your eyes you can feel the enemy

When I first met you girl, you had fire in your soul

What happened your face of melting snow?

C

Now it looks like this

Am7

and you can swallow or you can spit

F G

You can throw it up or choke on it

And you can dream, so dream out loud

F G Am7

You know that your time is coming 'round

F G Am

... Don't let the bastards grind you down

No nothing makes sense, nothing seems to fit

I know you'd hit out if you only knew who to hit

And I'd join the movement if there was one I could believe in

Yeah I'd break bread and wine if there was a church I could receive in

'Cos I need it now

To take the cup, to fill it up

To drink it slow, I can't let you go

And I must be an Acrobat to talk like this and act like that

And you can dream, so dream out loud

... Don't let the bastards grind you down

What are we going to do now it's all been said?

No new ideas in the house, and every book has been read

And I must be an acrobat

To talk like this and act like that

And you can dream, so dream out loud

And you can find your own way out

You can build and I can will

And you can call I can't wait until

You can stash and you can seize

In dreams begin responsibilities

And I can love, and I can love

I know that the tide is turning 'round

...Don't let the bastards grind you down

CHORD FORMATIONS

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Am7 x 0 2 0 1 0 Em/D 0 2 0 0 0 0

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"Love Is Blindness"

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Bm A

Love is blindness, I don't want to see

G Em

Won't you wrap the night around me

Bm F# Bm

Take my heart, love is blindness

In a parked car, in a crowded street

You see your love made complete

Thread is ripping, the knot is slipping, love is blindness

Love is clockworks, and cold steel

Fingers too numb to feel

Squeeze the handle, blow out the candle, love is blindness

Love is blindness, I don't want to see

Won't you wrap the night around me

Oh my love, blindness

C G/B

A little death, without mourning

F# Bm

No call, and no warning

C G/B

Baby... a dangerous idea

F#

That almost makes sense

Solo: Bm A G Em Bm F# Bm

Love is drowning in a deep well

All the secrets and no one to tell

Take the money, honey, blindness

Love is blindness, I don't want to see

Won't you wrap the night around me

Oh my love, blindness

End: Bm A G Em Bm F# Bm

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"Satellite Love"

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G A7 C D

Satellites gone up to the sky (Riff 1)

G A7 C D

Things like that drive me out of my mind (Riff 1)

Em(VII) D(V) C(III)

I watched it for a little while (Riff 2)

Am C (Riff 3)

I love to watch things on TV

Chorus:

G(X) D(X)

Oh Satellite of Love

F(VIII) C(VIII)

Ah Satellite of Love

G(X) D(X)

Satellite of Love

G(X) D(X) C(VIII) D(X)

Sa - tel - lite

(The above chording throughout the versus and for the chorus is the same

for the rest of the song except where noted.)

Satellites gone, way up to Mars

Soon it will be filled with parking cars

I watched it for a little while

I like to watch things on TV

Chorus

I've been told that you've been bored

With Harry, Mark and John

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday,

Harry, Mark and John

Satellites gone up to the sky

Things like that drive me out of my mind

I watched it for a little while

I love to watch things on TV

Chorus

Ending: G A C(VIII)

CHORDS:

A7 X 0 2 0 2 0 Em(VII) 7 7 9 9 8 7

D(V) 5 5 7 7 7 X C(III) 3 3 5 5 5 X

G(X) 10 10 12 12 12 10 D(X) 10 12 12 11 10 10

F(VIII) 8 8 10 10 10 8 C(VIII) 8 10 10 9 8 8

Experiment with the following riffs!

Riff 1: Riff 2:

D

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

--3------------------- ----------------------

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

---------------------- ----------------------

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

---------------------- ----------------------

Riff 3

C 2x

-----3-----|-3--------

-------1---|---1------

---------0-|-----0----

---2-------|----------

-3---------|----------

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Chord Formations:

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A x x 2 2 2 0 Am x x 2 2 1 x

Asus4 x 0 2 2 3 0 Bm7 x x 0 4 3 2

Bb x x 3 3 3 1 C x 3 2 0 1 0

C9 x 3 2 0 3 3 C#m x 4 6 6 5 4

D x 0 0 2 3 2 Dsus2 x x 0 2 3 x

D/F# 2 0 0 2 3 2 D/A x x 4 2 3 0

Dm x x 0 2 3 1 Dm/C x 3 0 2 3 1

Em 0 2 2 0 0 0 Em7 7 7 9 7 8 7

F 1 3 3 2 1 1 Fmaj7 x x 3 2 1 0

F9 x x 3 2 3 3 F/C x 3 3 2 1 1

F#m 2 4 4 2 2 2 G 3 2 0 0 3 3

Gadd9 3 5 7 4 3 3 (bar3) G/D x x 0 0 3 3

G#m 4 6 6 4 4 4 Gsus4/C x 3 2 0 1 3

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