Levitating | TAB
Let’s use TAB to look at a bunch of ideas for how you could play Levitating on the guitar in a band. We start with the intro, which you could play if you fired the keyboard player.

Play along with the original recording to see if this makes sense. You may find it difficult.
If you haven’t fired the keyboard player, consider how you could play this together. Maybe you need to change the amount of strings.

I reckon with or without keyboards, it’s better to play it as the refined idea above.
Here’s Levitating‘s verse in TAB.

I’ve included some variation here which you could explore further by applying the different rhythms to the other chords.
Notice the little dot above the 8th notes, it means to “play short” and is used to avoid writing too many 16th notes and 16th note rests.
Here’s another idea for how to play the verse (check the dots and play along to the loop in the playlist).

This time the rhythm is more consistent but the chord shapes are new.
When you can play both ideas for the verse, can you find new chord shapes and use other rhythms? Can you improvise the way you play the verse using these two ideas as the foundation?
Here’s the bridge, now we don’t “play short”.

This was much more consistent and simple compared to the verse, it’s a good idea to use contrast like this.
Here’s another bridge idea, this time we move around more.

Let’s check out how to play Levitating‘s chorus, I’ve kept the bridge rhythm here and then expanded on it.

Could you tell that this was a combination of the bridge and verse rhythm?
Here’s another idea for the chorus.

What happened here was just a play on the chord shapes, live, you should do this in an improvised way, it’ll keep you engaged.
Here’s the chorus tag in TAB. Notice the dot on beat 3, bar 2. That 8th note needs to be short!

This was yet another way to play this chord progression. Having absorbed all these ideas, what will naturally happen if you just have a chord chart for Levitating?
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Dua Lipa’s first album had singles from between 2015-2018. After 8 singles she released the tune that took her to superstardom.
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