All The Kings Men Chords

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All The Kings Men by Wild Beasts is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, C and Bb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			I noticed a lack of Wild Beasts tabs on this site. Here is more or less how Tom plays 
the guitar on All The King's Men. There are just a few chords and they are finger picked, 
I'm not sure about the finger picking pattern, but play around with it and you should be  
able to figure out something that sounds nice, even if it's not exactly the same pattern 
as the original. 

I figured this out from studying a few live performances, and I'm pretty sure the tuning 
is correct and everything is fairly accurate. The other guitarist (Ben) plays his part 
as well, but I haven't figured that out. You can just play Tom's part all the way  
through if you're playing by yourself. 

Tuning: D G C G Bb D 
So basically from standard tuning, detune the 6th, 5th, 4th and 1st strings by a whole 
step, leave the 3rd string as it is, and detune the 2nd string half a step. 

Intro: 
D |0------0-----0------0------------| 
Bb|9------0-----0------0------------| 
G |0------0-----0------0------------| 
C |10-----10----12-----10-----------| 
G |8------10----12-----10-----------| 
D |10-----8-----10-----8------------| 

Verses: 
D |7-----7--------------------| 
Bb|9-----9--------------------| 
G |10----7--------------------| 
C |7-----7--------------------| 
G |7-----7--------------------| 
D |8-----8--------------------| 

So you're basically just lifting your smallest finger up and down off the 3rd string 
during the verse. 

For the Chorus (when he starts singing "Now no one will find your limit..."), play the 
same chords from the intro once. Then, play the 3rd and 4th chords from the intro over a 
few times. After the last Chorus, end on the 3rd chord from the intro. 

That's pretty much it, let me know if you have any corrections! 
    	

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