Tomorrow Never Knows Chords

KeyE CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays434

Tomorrow Never Knows by Phil Collins is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, A, D, G, B, Bb/C and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
E
Text
16
Speed
  			
RIFF 

  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +   
e|----------------|----------------| 
B|----------------|----------------| 
G|------5-----3---|------5-----3---| 
D|----35----35---5|----35----35---5| 
A|3----h-----h----|3----h-----h----| 
E|----------------|----------------| 

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CHORDS 

      E-A-D-G-B-e 
Bb/C  x-3-x-3-3-1 

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INTRO 
| C | % | % | % | 


VERSE 
     C 
Turn off your mind relax and float downstream 
          Bb/C             C 
It is not dying  It is not dying 

    C 
Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void 
      Bb/C           C 
It is shining  It is shining 

     C 
That you may see the meaning of within 
      Bb/C         C 
It is being  It is being 


SOLO 
| C | % | Bb/C | % | 
| Bb/C | % | C | % | 


VERSE 
     C 
That love is all and love is everyone 
      Bb/C           C 
It is knowing  It is knowing 

     C 
That ignorance and haste they mourn the dead 
        Bb/C             C 
It is believing  It is believing 

    Bb/C 
But listen to the colour of your dream 
          Bb/C              C 
It is not living  It is not living 


   Bb/C                           C 
Or play the game existence to the end 
         Bb/C              C 
Of the beginning  Of the beginning   


CODA 
         Bb/C             C 
Of the beginning Of the beginning   
         Bb/C             C 
Of the beginning Of the beginning   

         Bb/C             C 
Of the beginning Of the beginning   
         Bb/C             C 
Of the beginning Of the beginning   

         Bb/C             C 
Of the beginning Of the beginning   
         Bb/C             C 
Of the beginning Of the beginning   

(repeat and fade) 
    	

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