Mercy (Duffy) Guitar Lesson with TAB

Mercy + TAB
In this guitar lesson, you'll find TAB for how to play the various riffs, transcribed from the original recording and adapted to the guitar!


Mercy | TAB


Let’s look at how you could play the chords of Mercy in a band using TAB. Here’s the first riff.

Use this for the intro and verse.

Mercy TAB, intro and verse.

Notice how if you added all notes up, it should really say G7omit3 as F is a b7, and there is no third. However, I feel like this would invite you to play a G7, which doesn’t sit right. That F is a bass line-like note only.

Next, we play another riff which takes us to a turnaround, use this for the intro and verse:

Mercy TAB, verse and turnaround.

Finally, here’s the chorus TAB:

Mercy TAB, chorus.


Mercy | TAB | Related Pages


Mercy | Chords + Lyrics

Mercy chords lesson.

You can learn how to play Mercy by Duffy using chords, lyrics, chord analysis, and the original recording.

G5 (D F) | G5 (D F) | G5 (D F) | G5 (D F) |
I love you, but I gotta stay true…


Five similar tunes | Chords + Lyrics

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


Duffy tunes

Duffy wrote Mercy.

With her debut album Rockferry, Duffy took the world by storm, charting in the top 10 in 23 countries before she mysteriously disappeared.

Her best tunes on the debut include Mercy, Warwick Avenue, Syrup & Honey, and Stepping Stone.


Duffy on the web

Listen to Duffy on Spotify.


About me | Dan Lundholm

Dan Lundholm wrote this guitar lesson and TAB for Mercy.

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

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


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