Letting Go Chords

KeyEm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays426

Letting Go by Mayday Parade is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords D, G6, Em/F#, G, Gm, A, Am and Em. 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
  			
Intro: D G6 D G6

verse 1
 
    D                 G6 
  Glass tabletop for two  
    D                  G6  
  Shatters across the room 
   D                        G6                  D     G6 
  It's been this way, it stays this way since June 
   D               G6 
  Gravity pulls me in  
   D               G6 
  Further from my skin 
  D                G6                  D     G6 
  I run but my feet don't touch the ground 


 Em/F# 
  If you're letting go  
   G            D 
  Let me go slowly 
 Em/F# 
  If you're letting go  
   G            D     Gm D Gm 
  Lay me down softly 


verse 2
 
   D                    G 
  Smoked out the back room  
   D                          G 
  To get rid of the scent of you 
   D                       G                 D    A 
  I've been this way, I stay this way since June 

 
 Em/F# 
  If you're letting go  
   G            D 
  Let me go slowly 
 Em/F# 
  If you're letting go 
   G            D      
  Lay me down softly 


Solo: 

G  D Am G D Am Em G A  


 Em/F# 
  If you're letting go  
   G            D 
  Let me go slowly 
 Em/F# 
  If you're letting go 
   G            D     A 
  Lay me down softly 

Ending Bridge 

  G 
  If you're letting go  
               D    A Em G 
  Let me go slowly 


Ending Verse
 
    D                 G6 
  Glass tabletop for two  
    D                  G6  
  Shatters across the room 
   D                        G6                  D     G6 
  It's been this way, it stays this way since June 
    	

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