Waking Up Chords

KeyG#m CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays472

Waking Up by Starset is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G#m. It uses the chords E, Abm, Gb and Dbm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
G#m
Text
16
Speed
  			Intro: E  Abm  Gb  Dbm 
       
        E 
Is this real? 
              Abm 
Cause I can't feel 
  Gb 
I reach into the darkness 
    Dbm 
And there's nothing to hold 
       E 
Try to heal 
            Abm 
But spin my wheels 
    Gb 
The more I try to stop this 
    Dbm 
The more I lose control 

E                        
Am I just a ghost in my own machine 
Abm                   
In a sandbox in the entropy? 
Gb 
 Some reality got ahold of me 
Dbm 
And I don't think I'll escape 
E 
Am I too attached a memory? 
Abm 
Stuck in my head for eternity 
Gb 
 Am I in a dream 

Or the in between? 
Dbm 
I don't think 

                      E 
'Cause I'm not waking up up up 
       Abm 
Waking up up up 
       Gb 
Waking up up up 
       Dbm 
Waking up up 
               E 
I'm not waking up up up 
       Abm 
Waking up up up 
       Gb 
Waking up up up 
       Dbm 
Waking up up 

      E 
Conversations 
         Abm 
With simulations 
     Gb 
They say there's no escaping 
       Dbm 
It's a never ending road 
      E 
My salvation 
                  Abm 
Is lost in translation 
    Gb 
The more I can't explain it 
    Dbm 
The more I lose control 

E                        
Am I just a ghost in my own machine 
Abm                   
In a sandbox in the entropy? 
Gb 
 Some reality got ahold of me 
Dbm 
And I don't think I'll escape 
E 
Am I too attached a memory? 
Abm 
Stuck in my head for eternity 
Gb 
 Am I in a dream 

Or the in between? 
Dbm 
I don't think 

                      E 
'Cause I'm not waking up up up 
       Abm 
Waking up up up 
       Gb 
Waking up up up 
       Dbm 
Waking up up 
               E 
I'm not waking up up up 
       Abm 
Waking up up up 
       Gb 
Waking up up up 
       Dbm 
Waking up up 

                E  Abm  Gb   
I'm not waking 
Dbm                   E  Abm  Gb 
     (I'm not waking) 
Dbm                   E  Abm  Gb  Dbm 
     (I'm not waking) 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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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