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Friday, May 25, 2007

About a Girl (Nirvana)

Let's make it interesting at the beginning, and start with one easy song. "About a Girl" by group called Nirvana. It mainly uses 4 very basic chords... Let's start with video lesson:


Here's the Chord Progression for this song:

Intro:

E5 G E5 G E5 G E5 G
E5 G E5 G E5 G E5 G


Verse:

E5 G E5 G
I need an easy friend
E5 G E5 G
I do with an ear to lend
E5 G E5 G
I do think you fit this shoe
E5 G E5 G
I do but you have a clue

Chorus:

C# C#/G# F#7
Take advantage while
C# C#/G# F#7
You hang me out to dry
E5 A C E5 G E5 G
But I can't see you every night for free
E5 G E5 G
I do


and the CHORDS are:

E5 (022x00)
G (320003)
C# (x4666x)
C#/G (44666x)
C (x3555x)
A (x0222x)
F#7 (244300)


The bass tab is:

|------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------
|---0-0-0-3-3-3-0-0-0-3-3-3-3---------------

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

|------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------
|-----------0-0-3-------------------------------
|--0-0-0-0-------------------------------------