Further tabs
Saturday July 20, 2002 – 1:30 amSomebody asked me for the tabs to my song Further. I should have just made a little chart but instead I wrote it all out for her. Wanna see?
FURTHER: The first chord is a normal C-major chord, in the open position (not barred). The descending note thingy happens (use your middle finger for that!) and then you’re at an E-minor chord. Then it just sort of toggles between those two chords for awhile. The first weird chord happens at the word "flicker" — the C-major turns into a major-7. That’s easy to make, you just add your pinky to the other 3 fingers. Then at the next word "glowing" it changes to F-major, and quickly to F-minor. I do my F chords as a bar-chord on the 1st fret, it’s easier on my hands than doing the open F chord. The bar-chord is easy to minor-ize because you only remove 1 finger. So, let’s continue. You do another line the same way. The next section (“I know how you blah blah blah) just toggles between a normal A-minor (open chord, 3 fingers required) and E-major (same shape, but moved over). Then the next chord is umm, C-major (“somethin’ that should be…”) then the F-minor bar chord again (“saved and locked a-”) and back to C-major (“way”). Here comes the chorus, and it’s just like the first part of the song, toggling between C-major and E-minor, and going to F-minor (“knock me down and leave me…”). The turnaround (“further behind”) is a quick D-minor to G-major (open chords) and finally resolving to C-major. Then there’s the instrumental section (using C -> Emin -> C), and then you start all over for the 2nd verse. I think it’s all the same as the first verse, until the very end when there’s the funny ending… that’s just the same as the turnaround I described before, except instead of resolving the D-minor/G straight to the root (C) it decides to throw an F-minor in there, and finally mercifully goes to the C.







November 24th, 2005 at 7:12 pm
i just started playing guitar and i was wondering if you had a guitar tab of your song "true"
happy thanksgiving :)
November 24th, 2005 at 7:49 pm
Uh. You have to use bar chords, or transpose it to something easier ‘cuz it’s a little screwy. The intro is E / F# / G#. The verses are G# / E / G# / E , then B / F# / C#, B / F# / G#. Then back to the intro thing for the break. Repeat the verse, doing the last B / F# / G# thing twice. Then you’re back at the E / F# / G# thing a couple of times for the ending.
January 24th, 2010 at 1:18 am
hi… i absolutely love your song “a mirage” (among every other song you’ve created), but particularly, “a mirage”…i was wondering if you could maybe post a tab or some chords for it? so pretty :o)
January 25th, 2010 at 7:58 am
Thanks so much! I don’t have the chords written down but it’s just a standard country progression, nothing to it. If you can play the one, four and five chords in the key of E, you’re golden!