Street Jesus Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays537

Street Jesus by Aerosmith is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D and B. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D
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Intro Riff: 
e|-----------------------------------------------------| 
B|------------5----7----7b8----7----5~~~~~~------------| 
G|-------7----5----7----7b8----7----5~~~~~~------------| 
D|-------7---------------------------------------------|    x3 
A|-----------------------------------------------------| 
E|-----------------------------------------------------| 

e|----------------------------------------| 
B|------------5----7----5~~~~~~~~~--------| 
G|-------7----5----7----5~~~~~~~~~--------| 
D|-------7--------------------------------|    x1 
A|----------------------------------------| 
E|----------------------------------------| 

Repeat that a few times, then you get that electronic dip thingy. Might be able to  
get that with some good tremolo bar. 

Anyway the verse is pretty simple, 

Verse: 
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
D|------2------2--2----2--2---2------2--2----2--2---2------2--2----2--5---7--------| 
A|------2------2--2----2--2---2------2--2----2--2---2------2--2----2--5---7---5----| 
E|------3p0----0--0----0--3p0-3p0----0--0----0--3p0-3p0----0--0----0--3---5---5----| 

Rinse and repeat a few times. 

On a side note, you could just play in drop D and hit the whole power chord for  
those last 3, but that makes the E's more inconvenient because of the pull-off on  
the 6th string. But here's the tab anyhow: 

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
D|------2------2--2----2--2---2------2--2----2--2---2------2--2----2--5---7---0----| 
A|------2------2--2----2--2---2------2--2----2--2---2------2--2----2--5---7---0----| 
D|------5p2----2--2----2--5p2-5p2----2--2----2--5p2-5p2----2--2----2--5---7---0----| 

Then you get to that "Placate and vacate your mind" part. just a B and an A like so: 

        "Placate and..."         "miiiiiiinnnndd" 
e|--------------------------------------------------| 
B|------4------------------------2------------------| 
G|------4------------------------2------------------| 
D|------4------------------------2------------------| 
A|------2------------------------0------------------| 
E|--------------------------------------------------| 

Haven't worked out any of the fills or any of the solo (because I'm lazy), so if  
anyone is on it with those, go ahead and shoot me an email and I'll throw it in  
here cited to your email because plagiarism is bad. 

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| /   slide up 
| \   slide down 
| h   hammer-on 
| p   pull-off 
| ~   vibrato 
| +   harmonic 
| x   Mute note 
| b   Bend 
| pb  Pre-bend 
| br  Bend release 
| pbr Pre-bend release 
| brb Bend release bend 

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Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante