Its Just A Song Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays667

Its Just A Song by Ordinary Boys is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
G
Text
16
Speed
  			Tom: G 

|----------------------------------------| 
|----------------------------------------| 
|-7-7-6-4---7-6-4-4---6-6-------6--------| 
|-(b9)(b9)7-5---(b9)7-5-5---7-7-7-4---7-7-4-4--| 
|-------------------------(b9)5-----(b9)5-5--| 
|----------------------------------------| 

Also Preston play the Rythym Guitar which goes like this throughout the verses: 

|------------| 
|------------| 
|-----7------| 
|--5--7------| 
|--5--5------| - You should be able to work out the strumming pattern. 
|--3---------| 


However in the chorous Preston changes his Pattern to: 

|----------------------------------------| 
|----------------------------------------| 
|----------------------------------------| 
|-------------------4-2------------------| 
|-2--5--7--2--5--7--2-0--2--5--7---------| 
|-0--3--5--0--3--5-------0--3--5---------| 

(Cant be bothered to write each individual strum) 

Chorous Solo: Riff 1 

|--------------------------------------------------------| 
|----------------7------------10----12p10----------------| 
|-----7-10-----7-------7-9s11----11-------11s(b9)----------| x2 
|-7h(b9)-----7h(b9)----7h(b9)----------------------------------| 
|--------------------------------------------------------| 
|--------------------------------------------------------| 

Riff 2 
|----------------------------------------| 
|-------7--7--7-------7-7-8p7------------| 
|-----7--7--7--7-----7-7-7---7-----------| 
|-7h(b9)-----------7h(b9)--------------------| - After this Repeat Riff 1. 
|----------------------------------------| 
|----------------------------------------| 

Post 1st chorous Solo: (use continuous quater tone bending where a bend is implicated) 

|----------------------------------------| 
|----------------------------------------| 
|-7b-7b-7b-7b-(b9)(b9)(b9)11b-11b-11b-11b-11b-9| x2 
|----------------------------------------| 
|----------------------------------------| 
|----------------------------------------| 



|----------------------------------------------------------| 
|----------------------------------------------------------| 
|-12-12-12p11---11--12-12-12p11----11--14-12-11-12-11-12-11| 
|-------------12----------------12-----12-12-12-12-12-12-12| 
|----------------------------------------------------------| 
|----------------------------------------------------------| 



|--------------------------------------------| 
|--------------------------------------------| 
|-12-12-12p11--11--12-12-12p11--11-14-14-14--| 
|------------12---------------12---12-12-12--|  
|--------------------------------------------| 
|--------------------------------------------| 

Throughout the solo preston plays Riff 1 on his Guitar. After this go back to verse riffs. 

After 2nd chorous: 




|----------------------------------------| 
|-7h8-7h8-7h8-7h8-7h8-7h8-7h8-7h8-10t----| 
|----------------------------------------| 
|----------------------------------------| x2 
|----------------------------------------| 
|----------------------------------------| 



|--------------------------------------------------------| 
|--------------------------------10--12--14--14--15------| 
|-12-12-12p11--11--12-12-12p11---12b-14b-16b-16b-17b-----| 
|------------12---------------12-------------------------| 
|--------------------------------------------------------| 
|--------------------------------------------------------| 



|----------------------------------------| 
|----------------------------------------| 
|-12-12-12p11---11--12-12-12p11---11-14--| 
|-------------12----------------12---12--| 
|----------------------------------------| 
|----------------------------------------| 

Outro: 

|----------------------------------------| 
|----------------------------------------| 
|-7--(b9)-11b-11p(b9)7-7--(b9)-11--(b9)-4--------|  
|----------------------------------------| 
|----------------------------------------| - Bend 3rd note up and down. 
|----------------------------------------| 

Key: 
b = bend (unless stated otherwise) 
p = Pull off 
h = Hammer on 
    	

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