Got To Be Real | TAB
This is not easy, there is going to be a lot of TAB, here’s the intro and outro.
What we have here is rhythmic displacement. Four 16th notes, one 8th note rest. The notes are not minor pentatonic but it’s close, the last note is a b6, not a 5th.
For the outro, we have transposed up a 5th which is strange as the song has only been transposed up a tone before this. I guess this is what happens when you put a band together of the finest session players in existence.
Here’s the chorus chords if we just try to play the keyboard chords on the guitar, it is almost impossible, play slowly.
Here’s a modified part that you can try along with the recording, I’ve mainly taken out the lowest note to turn that keyboard part into a guitar part.
Here’s the original guitar part, aim to see how the intervals are working with those keyboard chords.
As you can see, some new notes are played, changing the chord names! You’ll need to study this closely to understand it.
I’ve modified it a bit, I think this is a good idea; to dive deeper into the song and learn more from it. You could learn both parts, blend them then go even further!
Let’s now move on to the verse chords, starting with the keyboard chords.
I like how it goes from min7 to min7b5, sounds great! The chords are so complex it’s almost impossible to put Roman numerals on them. Ebmaj7 feels like a IV chord. Eb/F is F11, so chord V.
Here’s the original guitar part for this verse.
This is a great example of why just working out what the original part is is not enough. As the guitar drops out during two bars, what happens if you get asked to play here too?
You simply must know all the chords for a song, even if you don’t play in some sections.
Here’s a developed guitar part, playing all the way through.
If you take every song you play this seriously, you’ll find writing parts for original songs much easier.
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