Strings Chords

KeyEm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays559

Strings by Charly Bliss is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords G, C, B, D, Em and Em9. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Em
Text
16
Speed
  			
Verse: 1 
G              C            G       B 
Strings you're attached to a stolen ship 
        G           C                 D      G 
Drag me through the rough to bring me out of it 
Em Em9  G         C                G     B 
I  will mend this branch from this olive tree 
       G          C                  D    G 
I will keep these friends that stand over me 

Solo 
G C G B (x4) 

Verse: 2 
G         C        G                 B               G 
You don't have its break before they made our planet die 
       C                  D            G 
Man of grace, you spoil a plot in your shape 
Em  Em9 G           C             G           B 
But the shape can't stop what the shape don't know 
      G    C          D          G 
Lives underground and breathes below 


G  Em9 Em      B         C       G 
Oh but I won't make that same mistake 
G   Em9  Em   B    C       G 
Spitting out every swollen taste 
G Em9   Em    B           C       G 
I won't pull apart what I call my home 
G Em9  Em        B            C       G 
I will love this place that I call my own 

Solo 2 
G C G B (x2) 

Bridge 
B    Em         D       C  G  C 
Even though you left me on my bed 
B   Em       D     C   Em   C 
I'm swimming in between the cracks 
B         D 
ooooohhhh ahhhhhhh 

Solo 3 
G C G B 
G C D G 


G  Em9 Em      B         C       G 
Oh but I won't make that same mistake 
G   Em9  Em   B    C       G 
Spitting out every swollen taste 
G Em9   Em    B           C       G 
I won't pull apart what I call my home 
G Em9  Em        B            C       G 
I will love this place that I call my own 

Outro 
G C G B (x2) 
G 
    	

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