Every Breath You Take Tab
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| Tuning: | E A D G B E |
|---|---|
| Capo: | no capo |
Play the riffs with plectrum and palm-muted, and the chords should be
strummed. Use overdrive at the chords. The guitar player from Sting uses
a capo on the first fret. But you could also not use the capo of course.
Gadd9 Emadd9 Csus2
E|-----------------| e|-----------------| e|-----------------|
B|---------0-------| B|-----------------| B|-----3-----------|
G|-----2-----2---2-| G|---------0-------| G|---------5-------|
D|---0---0-----0---| D|-----4-----4---4-| D|---5---5---5---5-|
A|-----------------| A|---2---2-----2---| A|-3-----------3---|
E|-3---------------| E|-0---------------| E|-----------------|
Dsus2 C7sus2 Aadd9
E|-----------------| e|-----------------| e|-----------------|
B|-----5-----------| B|-----3-----------| B|---------2-------|
G|---------7-----7\| G|---------3-------| G|-----4-----4---4-|
D|---7---7---7-----| D|---5---5---5---5-| D|---2---2-----2---|
A|-5-----------5---| A|-3-----------3---| A|-0---------------|
E|-----------------| E|-----------------| E|-----------------|
Eb Eb F F
e|--3--| e|-(6)-| e|--5--| e|-(8)-|
B|--4--| B|--8--| B|--6--| B|--10-|
G|--3--| G|--8--| G|--5--| G|--10-|
D|--5--| or D|--8--| D|--7--| or D|--10-|
A|--6--| A|--6--| A|--8--| A|--8--|
E|--x--| E|--x--| E|--x--| E|--x--|
[Intro]
Gadd9 | Gadd9 | Emadd9 | Emadd9 | Csus2 | Dsus2 | Gadd9 | Gadd9
[Verse]
Gadd9 | Gadd9 | Emadd9 | Emadd9 | Csus2 | Dsus2 | Emadd9 | Emadd9
Gadd9 | Gadd9 | Emadd9 | Emadd9 | Csus2 | Dsus2 | Gadd9 | Gadd9
[Bridge]
“O can’t you see...”
Csus2 | C7sus2 | Gadd9 | Gadd9 | Aadd9 | Aadd9 | Dsus2 | Dsus2
“Every move your make...”
Gadd9 | Gadd9 | Emadd9 | Emadd9 | Csus2 | Dsus2 | Emadd9 | Emadd9
[Interlude]
“Since you’re gone...”
Eb | Eb | F | F
Eb | Eb | F | F
Eb | Eb |
Gadd9 | Gadd9 | Emadd9 | Emadd9 | Csus2 | Dsus2 | Emadd9 | Emadd9
Gadd9 | Gadd9 | Emadd9 | Emadd9 | Csus2 | Dsus2 | Gadd9 | Gadd9
[Bridge]
“O can’t you see...”
Csus2 | C7sus2 | Gadd9 | Gadd9 | Aadd9 | Aadd9 | Dsus2 | Dsus2
[Verse]
“Every move your make...”
Gadd9 | Gadd9 | Emadd9 | Emadd9 | Csus2 | Dsus2 | Emadd9 | Emadd9
Csus2 | Dsus2 | Emadd9 | Emadd9 | Emadd9| Emadd9
[Outro]
“I’ll be watching you...”
|: Gadd9 | Gadd9 | Emadd9 | Csus2 :| repeat and fade out
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Every Breath You Take – The Police
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Nice tab, don't mind the pricks commenting.
+6
In the comments of the tab is commented that the song is actually played with a capo on the first fret, so I don't really understand the comment of AndyGray.
Concidering the open strings: you can play it the hard way and play the Gadd9 as E-3- A-5- D-7- G-4-, but that is something that every guitarplayer should decide for himself. If you think it sounds better, then you should play it in that position.
In general, someone should decide for himself in which position he wants to play certain things, because every guitar sounds different. For instance, at my crappy acoustic both positions of the Gadd9 sounds exactly the same. It only makes the left hand work harder. If someone's guitar actually has a really bad open-string sound, then he should decide to play everything in an other position. This is not something on which I am going to base my tab, because someone else could say that it is crappy and useless because it sounds exactly the same on his guitar.
A guitar player should be able to interpret a tab in several ways, so he or she can decide which is best. My version is the basic way of playing it, in which it does still sound spot on IMO.
+6
*** off dude, this ain't from a book, this is just a different tab-layout, i didn't know some people could be so short-minded, too bad
+5