Intermediate Acoustic, Intermediate Electric, Songbook + TAB

Rolling In The Deep (Adele) Guitar Lesson with TAB

In this guitar lesson, we look at TAB for how to play this on the electric guitar in a band, we also look at custom TAB arranged for just one acoustic guitar!

Rolling In The Deep | TAB

On the electric guitar, playing in a band, you need to be very disciplined and play pumping power chords throughout.

Leave the full triads to the keyboard player, your role is to pump power chords! Here’s what the verse looks like in TAB – only the rhythm is slightly tricky.

Notice the little dot on the chord on beat 1 in bars 2 and 3, this means play short, giving you time to go to the next chord.

Here’s an arrangement for how to play Rolling In The Deep’s verse on the acoustic, without a band.

Rolling In The Deep TAB, verse acoustic.

I’m using the 123, 123, 12 rhythm to breathe life into the part. I’m changing the rhythm in the last bar. Often, when playing on just one guitar, you have to change things, even deviate from the original recording to make it work.

Here’s the bridge, first on the electric.

Play along with the original recording, and make sure you can stay disciplined!

Here’s an acoustic arrangement for the bridge.

Rolling In The Deep TAB, bridge acoustic.

It’s still that 123, 123, 12 rhythms but now we play the chord, then bass. The size of the chord is varied to provide more excitement. If you make it too static it gets boring. In a band, you provide one element, on the acoustic, you must mix it up.

Here’s the chorus.

This is the simplest part, the rhythm is very straightforward, Using what you learned, can you play with discipline to the original recording?

There’s a tag as well, apply the same concept to it and make sure you play your role in the band; to provide the chugging!

Here’s the chorus on the acoustic.

Rolling In The Deep TAB, chorus acoustic.

Now I’m playing a bigger 1, using the full chord with a bass note, the rhythm is still there but I again deviate from the original.

There’s an open E in bar 2 to get you to F, there are also open strings in bar 4 one 8th note too early to get you to G.

When you can play all acoustic parts, play along to the original recording. Finally, using all you’ve learned, see if you can come up with how to play the tag on the acoustic without my help.

Rolling In The Deep TAB | Related Pages

Rolling In The Deep | Chords + Lyrics

You can learn how to play Rolling In The Deep by Adele using chords, lyrics, chord analysis, TAB, and the original recording.

| Cm | Cm G |
There’s a fire starting in my heart…

Five similar tunes | Chords + Lyrics

When you can play the TAB for Rolling In The Deep, try these five tunes from the songbook.

Adele tunes

After finishing Brit School, Adele quickly acquired a record deal to release her own tunes and a late Bob Dylan cover.

Her best tunes include Rolling In The Deep, Hello, Skyfall, When We Were Young, Chasing Pavements, Someone Like You, and Set Fire To The Rain.

Adele on the web

About me | Dan Lundholm

Dan Lundholm wrote this guitar lesson and TAB for Rolling In The Deep.

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

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