Accentuate The Positive (acoustic) Chords

KeyE CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays652

Accentuate The Positive (acoustic) by Bing Crosby is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, E6, E7, A, F#m7, B7 and C#7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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               E      E6        E7       A                   F#m7 
You've got to ac-cen - tuate the positive, elim - inate the negative 

E           E6  E7            F#m7            B7            E       
Latch on to the af-firmative, don't mess with Mr. In Be-tween 

E             E6                   E7      A   
You've got to spread joy up to the maximum, bring gloom down to the minimum 

E       E6           E7     F#m7     B7            E 
Have faith or pande-monium liable to walk upon the scene 

E6       E                       E7            A     
To illus-trate my last re-mark, Jonah in the whale, noah in the ark 

A             E                                  C#7 
What did they do, just when everything looked so dark, man they said, we better 

E        E6         E7        A                F#m7 
ac-cen - tuate the positive, elim-inate the negative an' 

E           E6  E7            F#m7            B7            E 
Latch on to the af-firmative, don't mess with Mr. In Be-tween, no,  

C#7             F#m7 
Don't mess with Mr. In Be-tween, (etc)  
    	

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).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante