Great Balls Of Fire | TAB
I’m going to give you some TAB for how you could play Great Balls Of Fire’s chords on the guitar, work your way through these, and then decide for yourself which parts you want to use. Most parts work for all sections.
Let’s start with the first verse, which we could also call an intro.
The climb up to C is diatonic, and so is the one to F. Going to G, we play chromatically. To go down to F, we repeat a G and then move chromatically.
For the chords after the bass line, just play triads as shown in the TAB. If this is too difficult, just play the root note.
Here’s the next part, which is the piano part (right hand) adapted to the guitar. If there is a piano player at the gig, don’t play this for the verses!
The bridge could be played with these types of chords as well although let’s look at playing that bass line instead, it looks like this.
This bass line approach is what you should do for the verse as well if there is a piano player present!
Here are some 6 chords as an alternative to this bass line stuff, below displayed for the solo progression but just like above, any of these ideas could be adapted to any of the sections.
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