Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 11:46:16 -0600
From: Chris Brown
Subject: CRD: r/radiohead/how_can_you_be_sure.crd
How can you be sure? by Radiohead
>From the "High & Dry" CD single... played at a deliberate, medium tempo.
The bass actually echoes most of the melody in the song, so it can sound a
little wack on an acoustic guitar. Try walking the E up to the A on the
"good things and bad" parts to fill things out a little bit.
Verse:
E B E A2->A
Seen all good things and bad
E B E A2
running down the hill
E B E A
All so battered and brought to the
E B E A2
ground
E B E A2->A
I am hungry again
E B E A2
I am drunk again
E B E A
With all the money I owe to my
E B E
friends
Pre-chorus:
A G#m F#m E5
When I'm like this
B A G#m F#m
How can you be smiling, saying
Chorus (inhale deeply!):
E B E A
Ho-o-w can you be sure?
E B E A
Ho-o-w can you be sure?
Verse:
If you walk out that door, will I see you again
if so much of me lies in your eyes?
I am hungry again, I am drunk again
With all the money I owe to my friends
Pre-Chorus
Chorus x2
Chorus (instrumental)
Chorus w/ "I don^Ňt want you anymore" vocals overdubbed
end
Notes on the chords:
I'm not sure what to call the B that I hear in the song, but I think it
might be a B5. It's fingered thusly; essentially just a power chord.
e--X---
B--0---
G--4---
D--4---
A--2---
E--X---
Also, the A2->A is accomplished through a hammer-on, like so:
e--0---2-2
B--0---0h2
G--2---2-2
D--2---2-2
A--0---0-0
E--0---0-0
I think the G#m employed in the chorus is played with some open strings:
e--0
B--0
G--4
D--6
A--6
E--x
And finally, the E5 in the chorus is played like an open D, but barred up 2
frets (kinda like how you might play an Eb)
e--x
B--5
G--4
D--2
A--2
E--0
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