End Of The Line | TAB
Let’s take a look at how this perfect tune was put together. I’m gonna give you the TAB for how to strum this on an acoustic guitar in a band setting.
The way I’ve written the chords for the intro and outro for End Of The Line chords and lyrics is slightly misleading, you need TAB to understand what’s going on here, so let’s look at this straight away.
First of all, the rhythm starts on beat 2 with a G chord. The following D is then held until the next beat 2. The variation of putting an A in is genius. So simple.
The next change is in bar 6 where we move up quickly using chords IV – V – IV (different shape) – IIx – I.
I’ve written D/A because I want that chord to sound bigger than if we just started on string 4. The actual bass plays a D.
Using these shapes means we get that climbing feeling of the original recording, and, it works on just one little guitar.
On a final note about the intro, watch the music video and you’ll see how George plays different shapes to what my TAB says. My arrangement is for just one guitar and as you see in video two in the playlist above, this is a layered masterpiece!
Let’s move on, here is the End Of The Line’s chorus in TAB:
Play exactly as the TAB says along with the original recording and you’ll see how this works really well. However, once you can do it, play it on your own and you’ll notice how without bass and drums, the part feels too empty.
Here is the verse.
The same goes for the verse as we had for the chorus, this works great, as long as there’s bass and drums!
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