Introduction
In this lesson we'll learn all the chords for "Tears Dry On Their Own" by Amy Winehouse.
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Content
Okay, we're going to start on an E chord and we're going to play that here kind of rooted on uh, the uh, a string, but we're actually going to play an E6 chord and we're gonna actually put a B in the bass.
So, if you think about like this, we're really playing the seventh fret of the E and the a string and then on the d g b and e we're just going to play the ninth fret on all the rest of that.
So you get this kind of chord.
Okay, so there's our first chord, then we go to a uh, a B flat, minor, seven flat five.
So what we're gonna do we're just going to come down here to the B flat and we're going to play that and um? That's the sixth fret of your low E string and then we're going to play the sixth fret of the D, the G and the fifth fret of the B string.
So there's a couple different ways: you could kind of you know play this um.
This might be a good fingering for it um with the the bass not being your middle finger.
Some people might also wrap their thumb, and that way, you kind of can see this a minor shape that you might already kind of be familiar with right and you can just play that and wrap your thumb.
We do want to avoid that a string, so we got E6 over B we're gonna go the B flat, half diminished.
Now we're going to go to a major seven and a good way to do that from where we are.
Is we're just going to play the fifth fret of the low E string again we're going to skip that a string? Although I guess you could play it and just double that up, but there's no need for that.
You want to play the sixth fret of the D, the sixth fret of the G, and then we're going to Bar this across.
So we get the fifth fret of that b string.
That's our a major seven! So so far, now that B flat half diminished and the a major seven link up pretty easily.
If you look at that this way, so although they might seem a little cumbersome at first I'd recommend these voicings just for ease, maybe of playing it quickly and the next chord we're going to go to is a G sharp minor seven.
So what we're going to do is we're just going to slide down one fret and we're going to Bar there on the fourth fret and we're just going to play the uh sixth fret of the a string and and that's it.
So we can.
We get a G sharp minor, seven right there and then we're going to play an F, sharp minor seven we're just going to take that exact same shape and we're just gonna bar it on the second fret.
So now we got the second fret so and then the fourth fret of the a string.
So these are our chords so far, okay, now what we're going to do is we're just going to use some octaves to get us right back where we need to be to start over, so we're just going to play the fourth fret of the low E string and the sixth fret of the D string.
These are both G Sharps and we're just gonna go G sharp, a B flat or a sharp right there until we're back to the seventh fret, and once we get to the seventh fret we're going to play that E6 chord over B again so and we're right back where we started it kind of kind of works out really well, so here's the verse chord slowly, okay, so the verse is going to pretty much repeat this over and over until the very last time and the very last time we're gonna go from the G sharp minor, seven like we have to the F sharp minor seven just like we have and then instead of walking up we're just actually going to play a G sharp minor, seven chord again.
So the last time would sound like this four chords is going to repeat most often so we're gonna start down here with an a major seven we're going to play it differently.
This time.
We're gonna play it here, because it's going to flow a little bit easier.
So we're gonna play the open, a string.
The second fret of your D, the first fret of your G and the second fret of your B string right.
There I want to play an F, sharp, minor, seven chord again so just like we had earlier nothing changed and now we're going to play a G, sharp minor, seven chord, that's just like we had earlier as well.
So we have a major seven F, sharp minor, seven G, sharp minor, seven and now we're gonna play a C, sharp minor, seven rooted on the a string.
So we're gonna go fourth fret with our bar and we'll play the sixth fret of your D string and we'll play the fifth fret of your B string just like that.
So the chorus.
Let's go like this and we're going to play that three times and then on the fourth time we're gonna go to an F, sharp, seven chord.
So what we're going to do is we're going to borrow on the second fret and we're going to play the fourth fret of the a string and the third fret of your G there's your F sharp, seven chord and then we're gonna go right to a regular, a chord Okay.
So I should say this too, because you have an A.
You could also do F sharp seven and then do an a bar chord to get you a little bit closer to where we're going back.
So here's the whole course foreign.
Thank you now, after the course, you basically go right back into the verse and everything kind of repeats the exact same, and then we go back into a chorus again.
So everything's kind of exactly just like we've played it the chorus.
The second time it's going to have this kind of bridge interlude they're, just going to change just just a little bit.
So the last part of the course is the exact same.
We have the F sharp seven and then we'll go to an A, and so this time, what we're going to do is we're going to right, after that, a we're going to add the B and the base.
So we get this cord just kind of like a b11, and this is the we are history.
Shadow covers me kind of a bridge section and that builds up and they want to go to a G, sharp sus4 chord.
So we're gonna.
Think of the fourth fret of the B, the fifth fret of your G and the sixth fret of your D and that's the Triad and we're just gonna add our pinky down.
So that's gonna give us our sus4.
If you wanted to, you know bar to get that base note, you could right and then we're going to go to a regular, G sharp.
So we have this kind of movement, okay, so sus and then we're just going to let go of the pinky.
We got a regular G sharp again.
If you wanted to you, did that or either way would work and then we're gonna go right over to a C, sharp minor, seven again and then we're gonna go back to an a and then we're going to go to F sharp minor seven to our B7, and this will kind of build again until we go back into another verse.
So, all together, this part kind of sounds like this, and then we go right back into the verse and for the most part the song is going to kind of repeat really all the same elements we've used.
So you have the verse chords.
You have the chorus, chords and it'll kind of go back and forth from there.
If you have any questions, just let me know thank you.
