Echo Beach (Martha and the Muffins) Guitar Lesson with TAB

Echo Beach Guitar Lesson + TAB
In this guitar lesson, you get the TAB for how to play Echo Beach's intro, verse, chorus, and outro.


Echo Beach | TAB


Let’s go through the various sections of Echo Beach, here’s the intro:

Echo Beach TAB, Intro.

This could be in the key of C or G meaning the Am is Aeolian or Dorian. The ambiguity of this is what gives it a harmonic edge.

In G we move II – V – IV, In C we move VI – II – I.

The Am9 does contain m3rd, 9, b7. D has no 3rd. The C is first maj7, then C, this is the only variation to the riff.

Here’s the next section which is later the outro. This is very clever, they’ve planted a seed.

Echo Beach TAB, intro and outro.

We are now definitely in the key of Am so: VI – V – III – IV – V.



Here’s the verse, now we’re in the key of G, so Am is II, not VI as we go to V – IV, then II – V – VI.

Echo Beach TAB, verse.

The chorus is still in the key of G as we go I – V, and then II – VI.

Echo Beach TAB, chorus.


Echo Beach TAB | Related Pages


Echo Beach | Chords + Lyrics

Echo Beach chords lesson.

You can learn to play Echo Beach by Martha and the Muffins using chords, lyrics, chord analysis, a chord chart, and the original recording.

||: Am | D C | Am | D E5 :||
I know it’s out of fashion, and a trifle uncool.


Five similar tunes | Chords + Lyrics

When you can play the TAB for Echo Beach, try these five tunes from the songbook.


Martha and the Muffins tunes

Martha and the Muffins wrote Echo Beach.

Best known for the international New Wave hit Echo Beach, Martha and the Muffins also handed Daniel Lanois his debut as a producer.

Apart from Echo Beach, the band also had some success with the anti-racist single WhiteStation/Black Station in 1984.


Martha and the Muffins on the web

Listen to Martha and the Muffins on Spotify.


About me | Dan Lundholm

Dan Lundholm wrote this guitar lesson and TAB for Echo Beach.

This guitar lesson by Dan Lundholm featuring TAB covers Echo Beach. Discover more about him and how you can learn guitar with Spytunes.

Most importantly, find out why you should learn guitar through playing tunes, not practising scales, and studying theory in isolation.


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