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Couldnt Get It Right by Climax Blues Band - Guitar Chords
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Version 1
Song: Couldn't Get It Right
Artist: Climax Blues Band
Album: Gold Plated
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar-) 18th June 2013
CAPO: 2nd fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of Bm)
If you prefer not to use a capo, set the transpose function to +2
to display the chords in the key of Bm.
There's a couple of quick chords, Abmaj7-5 to Bbm7, but they are
relatively easy by using the index finger to barre the top three
strings and with the addition of the little finger at the 3rd fret
you have the Abmaj7-5, then just lift that little finger off and you
still have the barre, that is the Bbm7.
Abmaj7-5 Bbm7
e |---3--3----1--1---|
B |---1--1----1--1---|
G |---1--1----1--1---|
D |---0--0----0--0---|
A |------------------|
E |------------------|
NOTE: Please IGNORE ANY POP-UP CHORD BOXES the website might
automatically suggest and use the typed shapes shown below:
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Am = x02210 or 577555 Abmaj7-5 = xx0113 Dm = xx0231
A4 = x02230 or 577755 Bbm7 = xx0111 Em = 022000
G = 355433 D = xx0232 Bb = x13331
F = 133211 C = x32010 ^ = Emphasise the beat
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[Intro]
Am A4 Am A4
||: / / / / | / / / / :||[x2]
[Verse 1]
Am A4 Am Am G F
Time was drift - ing, this rock had got to roll,
^ ^ ^
Am Abmaj7-5 Bbm7
So I hit the road, and made my getaway, /_/ /_/
^ ^ ^ ^
Am A4 Am Am G F
Restless feel - in' ...really gotta hold,
^ ^^ ^
D D
I started searching for a better way
^ ^
[Chorus]
C G Dm
And I kept on looking for a sign in the middle of the night,
Dm Em F C G
But I couldn't see the light, ^^ ^ no, I couldn't see the light,
C G Dm
I kept on lookin' for a way to take me through the night---,
Em Bb D
Couldn't get it right, I couldn't get it right
[Verse 2]
Am A4 Am A4
| / / / / | / / / / |
Am A4 Am Am G F
L.A. fev - er, made me feel al - right,
^ ^ ^
Am Abmaj7-5 Bbm7
But, I must admit, it got the best of me, /_/ /_/
^ ^ ^ ^
Am A4 Am Am Am G F
Gettin' down, so deep I could've drowned,
^ ^ ^ ^
D D
Now I can't get back the way I used to be
^ ^
[Chorus]
C G Dm
But I kept on looking for a sign in the middle of the night,
Dm Em F C G
But I couldn't see the light, no, I couldn't see the light,
C G Dm
I kept on lookin' for a way to take me through the night---,
Em Bb D
Couldn't get it right, I couldn't get it right
[Verse 3 - Instrumental]
Am A4 Am Am G F Am Abmaj7-5 Bbm7
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / /_/ /_/ |
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Am A4 Am Am G F D D
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
[Verse 4]
Am A4 Am Am G F
New York Ci - ty, took me with the tide,
^ ^ ^ ^
Am Abmaj7-5 Bbm7
I nearly died from hospi - tality, /_/ /_/
^ ^ ^ ^
Am A4 Am Am G F
Left me strand - ed, took away my pride,
^ ^ ^
D D
Just another no account fa - tali - ty
^ ^
[Chorus]
C G Dm
||: I kept on looking for a sign in the middle of the night,
Dm Em F C G
But I couldn't see the light, no, I couldn't see the light,
C G Dm
I kept on lookin' for a way to take me through the night,
Em Bb D
Couldn't get it right, couldn't get it right! :|| [x3]
[Suggestion for coda, slow down over the last two bars]
Am A4 Am Am G F Am Abmaj7-5 Bbm7 Am
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / /_/ /_/ | / ||
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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At the end of the choruses the bass does an octave rundown. Playing in
Am you can't get that last bottom note without detuning your 6th string,
but this riff is close:
D
E |--2--------2------|
B |--3--------3------|
G |--2--------2------|
D |--0--------0------|
A |-----3--0---------|
E |------------------|
If you're playing without a capo, in Bm, you can get the full bass riff:
E
E |--0---------------|
B |--0---------------|
G |--1---------------|
D |--2--0------------|
A |--2-----2---------|
E |--0--------0------|
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