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Lynyrd Skynyrd-Sweet Home Alabama - BPM - 85

[Loop section where riff is played over drums for first time and store - then just have solo sound on in background and either play little lead lines or the piano part or that chromatic riff which repeats in certain sections - Can try the F and C section]

[Intro - BPM 98 - riff on own - then riff and drums]
(notes - Wheels, Well I Heard, In Birmingham, Muscle Shoals)

[Verse]   
Big wheels keep on turning 
Carrying me home to see my kin 
Singing songs about the southland 
I'm missing old mammie once again 
And I think it's a sin, yes 
   
[Riff]     
Well I heard Mr. Young sing about her (oo, oo, oo)
Well I heard old Neil put it down  
Well I hope Neil Young will remember 
A southern man don't need him around anyhow 
    
[Chorus]   
Sweet home Alabama  
Where the skies are so blue  
Sweet Home Alabama  
Lord, I'm coming home to you  
    
[Solo 1]       
In Birmingham they loved the governor (oo, oo, oo F to C bit)
Now we all did what we could do  
Now Watergate does not bother me  
Does your conscience bother you?  
Tell the truth   
    
[Chorus]    
Here I come Alabama   
    
[Solo - Alabam ah, ah, ah]   
[Riff]    

[Verse]    
Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers (oo, oo, oo) 
And they've been known to pick a song or two (yes, they do) 
Lord they give me oh so much   
They pick me up when I'm feeling blue  
Now how about you?   
    
[Chorus] F to C bit at end   
[Chorus]         

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Coldplay-Yellow - BPM - 85

[Intro - No drums 
just play low notes for verse and higher notes for chorus to simulate guitar on record]

[A]xxx [A]xxx [A]xx[Asus4] xx[Asus4]x - Repeat

(Full drums in * G move through Gsus4 3x0033 3x0013 **D descend to Dsus2)
[Distorted Riff] CAPO 4
     [A]         [E]       [Bm/D][D] [A]
E ---------------2--*2p0---0-----0---------------
B ---s3--*3p1----3-----3---1-----1----3--*3p1---
G ----0----------2-----2---2--*2p0----0-------
D ----0--------------------x-----2----0------
A ----x--------------------3-----3----x-----
E ---s3-------------------------------3-------
 
[Verse 1 - Light drums - Pluck chords on first note then chug their bass note to simulate record]
[A] Look at the stars
Look how they shine for [E] you
And everything you do [Dmaj7]      
Yeah, they were all yellow
[A] I came along
I wrote a song for [E]  you
And all the things you do [Dmaj7]      
And it was called "Yellow"
[A] ...........  So then I took my [E]  turn
Oh, what a thing to have done [Dmaj7]      
And it was all yellow  [A] ([Gsus4] [A])  
 
[Chorus 1]
[Dmaj7] Your skin
[F#m7] Oh yeah, your [E] skin and bones
[Dmaj7] Turn in....  to [F#m7]something [E] beautiful
[Dmaj7] You know,  [F#m7] you know I  
[E] love you so [Dmaj7]  (drums stop)
You know I love you so
 
[Instrumental- as per intro Gsus4 Dsus2 and Cadd6 in there]
[A]    [E]    [D]    ([A]  [Gsus4])
 
[Verse 2]
[A]   I swam across
I jumped across for [E]  you
Oh, what a thing to do [Dmaj7]      
'Cause you were all yellow
[A]  I drew a line
I drew a line for [E] you
Oh, what a thing to do [Dmaj7]      
And it was all yellow  [A]     [Gsus4]      
 
[Chorus 2]
[D] Your skin
[F#m7] Oh yeah, your  [E] skin and bones
[Dmaj7] Turn in.... [F#m7] to something [E] beautiful
[Dmaj7] And you know [F#m7] For you I  
[E] bleed myself  [Dmaj7] dry (drums stop)
For you I bleed myself dry
 
[Instrumental- as per intro Gsus4 Dsus2 and Cadd6 in there]
[A]    [E]    [D]    ([A]  [Gsus4])
 
[Bridge]
It's  
[A] true... oooh, look how they shine for  
[E] you.... oooh
Look how they shine for  [Dmaj7] you.... oooh 
Look how they shine for  [A] 
Look how they shine for  [E] you.... oooh
Look how they shine for  [Dmaj7] you.... oooh
Look how they shine (stop drums)
 
[Outro]
[A]   Look at the stars
Look how they shine for [Dm7]  you
And all the things that you [Dmaj7] do 
[End]

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