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Getting Started - by BeatBattler
To learn Mac DeMarco - For the First Time chords with lyrics, your practice should emphasize these chord progressions: Fm, Ab, Fm, Ab, Eb, Gm, C, Ab, Fm, Eb, Ab. Ease into the song by practicing at 37 BPM before reaching the track's full tempo of 76 BPM. Given the song's key of Eb, adjust the capo to align with your vocal range and chord preference.
Fm While she's been away living
Ab day to day.
Eb Without _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
Ab my side.
Fm Simply being
Ab alive _ .
Eb No, _ _ _ _ _
Ab she won't be gone forever.
There
Fm are many times I
Eb find it feels that way _ _ _ _ .
Ab I'm not trying to forget her.
Just understand how I'll be
C feeling that day.
_ _
Ab Just like seeing her for the first time.
Gm Again.
_ _
C Just _
Cm like
Ab seeing her for the first
Fm time _ .
Cm again _ _ _ _ _ _ .
Ab Time she's not around.
Somewhere out of town.
Eb _ Somehow _ _ _ _ _ .
Fm _ this old heart.
Found time to work it out
Eb It's far.
No, _ _ _ _
Ab I know she's coming home soon.
There are times I find it
Eb hard to feel that way.
It's _ _
Ab not inside me to forget her.
Understand how I'll be
C feeling that day.
_ Just
Ab like seeing her for
Fm the first time.
Gm Again.
_ _ So
C _ just
Ab like seeing her.
For the first time _
Cm again.
Just _
C _ _ .
Ab like seeing her for the first time _ .
_
Gm _ Again.
_
C _ Just
Ab like seeing her for the first time _ .
Eb again _ _ _ _ _ _ .