Slide Chords & Guitar Lesson
Welcome to my Slide guitar lesson with chord diagram. This is such a fun song by the Goo Goo Dolls and one I thoroughly enjoyed performing with my band when I played live. I actually did this at my live event in 2023 with some of the online students and we had a blast!
The chords of this song are not difficult at all. You can easily use my stuck like glue chords, it's really the speed at which this is played, the intricacy of the strumming and the addition of picked guitar lines in between that pushes this song more into the intermediate realm.
Let's take a look!
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Slide Guitar Chords:
Slide Strumming Patterns:
Verse Strum:
1 + 2 + a 3 e + 4 e + a
DDD U DU D DU DU
Chorus Strum:
C G
1 + 2 + a 3 e + a 4 +
D D DU UD U D D
Slide Intro Guitar Part: This doubles at the outro as well except you strum a G chord on the end
Slide Prechorus Lick:
Slide Guitar Lesson:
This song does not have a video lesson yet but it definitely will soon so keep checking back.
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Slide Chord Chart:
Intro: Picking Pattern
VERSE:
Em7 Dsus4
Could you whisper in my ear
Cadd9
The things you wanna feel
Cadd9
I'd give you anything
Em7
To feel it comin'
Dsus4
Do you wake up on your own
Cadd9
And wonder where you are?
|Cadd9 Lick|
You live with all your faults
PRECHORUS:
Lick
I wanna wake up where you are
I won't say anything at all
Chorus:
|Cadd9 G| |Cadd9 G| |Cadd9 G|
So why don't you slide
Dsus4 Dsus4 |Cadd9 G| |Cadd9 G| |Cadd9 G|
Yeah, I'm gonna let it slide
Dsus4 Dsus4
VERSE:
Em7 Dsus4
Don't you love the life you killed?
Cadd9
The priest is on the phone
Cadd9
Your father hit the wall
Em7
Your ma disowned you
Dsus4
Don't supposed I'll ever know
Cadd9
What it means to be a man
Cadd9
It's somethin' I can't change
Cadd9 (strum & hold)
I'll live around it
PRECHORUS:
Lick
I wanna wake up where you are
I won't say anything at all
CHORUS:
|Cadd9 G| |Cadd9 G| |Cadd9 G|
So why don't you slide Ooo slide
Dsus4 Dsus4
BRIDGE:
. |Cadd9 G|
And I'll do anything
. |Cadd9 G|
You ever dreamed to be complete
. |Cadd9 G| Dsus4 Dsus4
Little pieces of the nothin that fall
Em7
Oh, May
Dsus4
Put your arms around me
. |Cadd9 G|
What you feel is what you are
|Cadd9 G|
And what you are is beautiful
Em7
Oh, May
Dsus4
Do you wanna get married
Cadd9 Cadd9
Or run away?
INTERLUDE:
|Cadd9 G| |Cadd9 G| |Cadd9 G| Dsus4 Dsus4
BRIDGE:
|Cadd9 G|
And I'll do anything
. |Cadd9 G|
You ever dreamed to be complete
. |Cadd9 G| Dsus4 Dsus4
Little pieces of the nothin that fall
Em7
Oh, May
Dsus4
Put your arms around me
. |Cadd9 G|
What you feel is what you are
|Cadd9 G|
And what you are is beautiful
Em7
Oh, May
Dsus4
Do you wanna get married
Cadd9 |Cadd9 Lick| Lick
Or run away? I wanna wake up where you are
BRIDGE:
. |Cadd9 G|
Yes I'll do anything
. |Cadd9 G|
You ever dreamed to be complete
. |Cadd9 G| Dsus4 Dsus4
Little pieces of the nothin that fall
. |Cadd9 G|
Yes I'll do anything
. |Cadd9 G|
You ever dreamed to be complete
. |Cadd9 G| Dsus4 Dsus4
Little pieces of the nothin that fall
|Cadd9 G| |Cadd9 G| |Cadd9 G| |Cadd9 G|
Oh, May Just slide to my room Just slide to my room
Dsus4 Intro Lick end on G
And I will run away run away run away
This file is the author’s own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It’s intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.
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