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No Surprises
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00:00 Song Demo
00:50 Lesson Intro
01:30 Strumming Pattern
02:57 Intro (picking part)
04:26 Intro (strumming part)
06:37 Main Verse
08:57 Chorus A
11:16 Chorus B
13:48 Bridge
16:28 Chorus C
17:23 Lesson Outro

It's not WHAT you strum...

...But HOW you strum it!

Not sure what to strum for these songs?

How do you come up with strumming patterns?

Fed up strumming D DU UDU all the time?

You need to LEVEL UP YOUR STRUMMING!

CAPO 3

 

[Intro (Riff)]

   D                                      Gm   

|--2-----------2-----------|--2--------------------0--|

|--3-----3-----3-----3-----|--3-----3-----------3-----|

|--2--2-----2--2--2-----2--|--2--2-----2--0--3--------|

|--0-----------0-----------|--0-----------------------|

|--------------------------|--------------------------|

|--------------------------|--------------------------|

 

 

[Intro (Chords)]

|D       |D  Gm  |D       |D  Gm  |

 

[Verse 1]

   D                           Bm

A heart that's full up like a landfill

                  Em

A job that slowly kills you

  A                  D   Gm

Bruises that won't heal

 D

You look so tired, unhappy

  Bm

Bring down the government

 Em           A                  D   Gm

They don't, they don't speak for us

 

[Verse 2]

D

I'll take a quiet life

   Bm

A handshake of carbon monoxide

    Em             A

And no alarms and no surprises

Em             A

No alarms and no surprises

Em             A
No alarms and no surprises

 D     Gm  D     Gm

Silent,   silent

 

[Verse 3]

  D     

This is my final fit

    Bm

My final bellyache with

Em             A

No alarms and no surprises

Em             A

No alarms and no surprises

Em             A               D   Gm

No alarms and no surprises, please

 

[Bridge]

|A       |Gm     |A       |Gm      |

|Em      |Gm     |

 

 

[Verse 4]

D       

Such a pretty house

     Bm

And such a pretty garden

Em             A

No alarms and no surprises

Em             A

No alarms and no surprises

Em             A               D  Gm D  Gm  D

No alarms and no surprises, please