Chords for Guitar Lesson: How To Play Wide Awake - Chris Cornell Solo Acoustic Style
Tempo:
119.7 bpm
Chords used:
Dm
Bb
A
F
C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Getting back to our roots, Wide Awake, but not the audio slave way of playing Wide Awake, the Chris Cornell
solo acoustic way of playing Wide Awake for Jamie Stewart, Carlos Huerta, and Prem Ford.
Supporter of the cause, Prem, Mr.
Ford, thank you so much for the food.
Let's go!
The first step in an operation such as this is to put your guitar into Drop D.
So your low E string is now a low D string.
One of [N] my favorite things about playing guitar is
when you're in Drop D and you play a D chord, you now get to strum all of [D] the strings.
Because it's no longer the E note that doesn't belong in the D chord, and the A note's okay too.
That's in our D chord, but this also works for your D minor chord, which [Dm] is the chord
everyone always forgets.
It's E1, G2, [A] and B3, strum everything.
[Dm] And then we're going to reach
[A] for that used to be [D] E string third fret, and you can [G] abandon your pointer finger, leave your ring
finger where it is, out of [Dm] your D chord.
Go 3-3-2.
[D]
[Dm]
[D]
[Dm] There's some question in my mind whether
he or not he's playing the whole
you [Db] could smash down two or three strings there, and then
you'd have like a little [F] power chord.
[Dm]
[A] I [N] don't know, he even used his thumb sometimes, so I'd say do
that if you feel like it, and don't do it if you don't feel like it.
I like the single notes better
than the power chords personally, but yeah, you pick.
The verse is a four sets of four thing, like
often tends to happen, starting on your D minor.
Remember you can still strum [Dm] all the strings for
your D minor.
Two of them, and then F.
[F] This is F, the power chord on the third fret.
It used to be where G
was, but now this string is two notes lower than it used to be, right?
So 3-3-3, we're gonna call it F.
Not this, this, [Dm] for this version of this song.
Anyways, D minor, [F] F, [Dm] C minor, repeat.
D, D, [F] F,
[Dm]
D.
Now the F's are gonna change to B flat for three and four.
[Bb] [Dm]
[Bb] And then there's an [Dm] end tag, it's A [A] suspended, four to A regular.
So B flat, the chord, you [F] know,
this chord nobody likes.
We got the chord that no one remembers how to play, and the chord no one
likes to play.
So [Bb] two for two on this song.
It's 1-3-3-3 on A, D, G, B is [A] B flat, and our A suspended
four from your regular A, you move your ring finger up one fret there to that B string third fret.
So whole verse, [Dm] D minor, [F] F,
[Dm] D minor.
Again,
[F] [Dm]
now the F's are gonna become B flats,
[Bb] [Dm]
[Dm] and one measure of [A] A suspended four, and A regular.
[Bm] Also, you can play around [Dm] whenever you go back to
that D minor, taking your pointer finger off the E string, the baby E string, or you hear Chris do
that a bunch in a bunch of the
yeah.
Chorus is no problem, D minor, then F but regular the way
you [F] think about it, F, followed by B [Bb] flat, sorry, D minor, [Dm]
and then [C] C.
So that's it, do it again.
[Dm] D minor, a long one, [F] F, a long one, [Bb] B flat short, [Dm] D minor short, and C [C] long.
Back to the [A] intro.
[Dm]
[D] [Dm]
[N] The second verse is the same as the first verse, but I think Chris caught a case of an affliction.
I'm often afflicted with which?
Oh man, prepositions.
Run out of words disease, so that
there's only three lines, not four.
There's only one B flat one, [Dm] and then it goes to the [A] D minor at
the end, and the A sus, regular A thing.
Into the chorus.
I found you guilty of the crime, ah this I
know at the end of the second [N] chorus is going to be, I'm going with the live in Sweden one on YouTube
that doesn't have the video, because the one that has the video from a while ago, he sort of fizzled
out here on the guitar, and he did.
Anyway, so [Bb] it's B flat, A, [A]
[Dm] D minor, and G with a [G] B in the bass.
We would
love to play the entire G, but we cannot, because we're in drop D, so we're gonna have to settle with G
with a B in the bass, which is everything about G except no low string.
A2, B3, E3.
[Bb]
B flat, [A] A, [Dm]
D minor, this [G] I know.
Now pay attention [N] 007, the last chorus is a little different, so it's going to start the [G] same,
[Dm] and it's chill right?
D minor, but instead of F it's [C] C.
B flat, D minor [Bb] like regular,
[Dm]
and on C [C] like regular, so it's regular except that first F was a C instead.
Second [Dm] time is all the
way regular, D minor, [F] F, B [Bb] flat, D minor, [Dm] and then [C] C, and then he starts yelling, and it is D minor, C, B flat, [Bb]
[C] C,
and it on [Dm] D minor.
[Eb] An easy way to remember that progression is [D] if you look at your roots on the
A string, D is here right?
C [C] is here, [Bb] and B flat is here, so you can think of it as starting here, [D] going down,
[Bb] three blind my style, [C] and then [Dm] back to the end of it.
Of course I wouldn't play the bar chords, but
just to think of it, you'll [C]
remember.
[Bb]
[A]
Awesome, Prem Ford, thank you again so much.
Everybody else, thank
you for being here.
I hope that was helpful, and I'll see you next time with more
solo acoustic way of playing Wide Awake for Jamie Stewart, Carlos Huerta, and Prem Ford.
Supporter of the cause, Prem, Mr.
Ford, thank you so much for the food.
Let's go!
The first step in an operation such as this is to put your guitar into Drop D.
So your low E string is now a low D string.
One of [N] my favorite things about playing guitar is
when you're in Drop D and you play a D chord, you now get to strum all of [D] the strings.
Because it's no longer the E note that doesn't belong in the D chord, and the A note's okay too.
That's in our D chord, but this also works for your D minor chord, which [Dm] is the chord
everyone always forgets.
It's E1, G2, [A] and B3, strum everything.
[Dm] And then we're going to reach
[A] for that used to be [D] E string third fret, and you can [G] abandon your pointer finger, leave your ring
finger where it is, out of [Dm] your D chord.
Go 3-3-2.
[D]
[Dm]
[D]
[Dm] There's some question in my mind whether
he or not he's playing the whole
you [Db] could smash down two or three strings there, and then
you'd have like a little [F] power chord.
[Dm]
[A] I [N] don't know, he even used his thumb sometimes, so I'd say do
that if you feel like it, and don't do it if you don't feel like it.
I like the single notes better
than the power chords personally, but yeah, you pick.
The verse is a four sets of four thing, like
often tends to happen, starting on your D minor.
Remember you can still strum [Dm] all the strings for
your D minor.
Two of them, and then F.
[F] This is F, the power chord on the third fret.
It used to be where G
was, but now this string is two notes lower than it used to be, right?
So 3-3-3, we're gonna call it F.
Not this, this, [Dm] for this version of this song.
Anyways, D minor, [F] F, [Dm] C minor, repeat.
D, D, [F] F,
[Dm]
D.
Now the F's are gonna change to B flat for three and four.
[Bb] [Dm]
[Bb] And then there's an [Dm] end tag, it's A [A] suspended, four to A regular.
So B flat, the chord, you [F] know,
this chord nobody likes.
We got the chord that no one remembers how to play, and the chord no one
likes to play.
So [Bb] two for two on this song.
It's 1-3-3-3 on A, D, G, B is [A] B flat, and our A suspended
four from your regular A, you move your ring finger up one fret there to that B string third fret.
So whole verse, [Dm] D minor, [F] F,
[Dm] D minor.
Again,
[F] [Dm]
now the F's are gonna become B flats,
[Bb] [Dm]
[Dm] and one measure of [A] A suspended four, and A regular.
[Bm] Also, you can play around [Dm] whenever you go back to
that D minor, taking your pointer finger off the E string, the baby E string, or you hear Chris do
that a bunch in a bunch of the
yeah.
Chorus is no problem, D minor, then F but regular the way
you [F] think about it, F, followed by B [Bb] flat, sorry, D minor, [Dm]
and then [C] C.
So that's it, do it again.
[Dm] D minor, a long one, [F] F, a long one, [Bb] B flat short, [Dm] D minor short, and C [C] long.
Back to the [A] intro.
[Dm]
[D] [Dm]
[N] The second verse is the same as the first verse, but I think Chris caught a case of an affliction.
I'm often afflicted with which?
Oh man, prepositions.
Run out of words disease, so that
there's only three lines, not four.
There's only one B flat one, [Dm] and then it goes to the [A] D minor at
the end, and the A sus, regular A thing.
Into the chorus.
I found you guilty of the crime, ah this I
know at the end of the second [N] chorus is going to be, I'm going with the live in Sweden one on YouTube
that doesn't have the video, because the one that has the video from a while ago, he sort of fizzled
out here on the guitar, and he did.
Anyway, so [Bb] it's B flat, A, [A]
[Dm] D minor, and G with a [G] B in the bass.
We would
love to play the entire G, but we cannot, because we're in drop D, so we're gonna have to settle with G
with a B in the bass, which is everything about G except no low string.
A2, B3, E3.
[Bb]
B flat, [A] A, [Dm]
D minor, this [G] I know.
Now pay attention [N] 007, the last chorus is a little different, so it's going to start the [G] same,
[Dm] and it's chill right?
D minor, but instead of F it's [C] C.
B flat, D minor [Bb] like regular,
[Dm]
and on C [C] like regular, so it's regular except that first F was a C instead.
Second [Dm] time is all the
way regular, D minor, [F] F, B [Bb] flat, D minor, [Dm] and then [C] C, and then he starts yelling, and it is D minor, C, B flat, [Bb]
[C] C,
and it on [Dm] D minor.
[Eb] An easy way to remember that progression is [D] if you look at your roots on the
A string, D is here right?
C [C] is here, [Bb] and B flat is here, so you can think of it as starting here, [D] going down,
[Bb] three blind my style, [C] and then [Dm] back to the end of it.
Of course I wouldn't play the bar chords, but
just to think of it, you'll [C]
remember.
[Bb]
[A]
Awesome, Prem Ford, thank you again so much.
Everybody else, thank
you for being here.
I hope that was helpful, and I'll see you next time with more
Key:
Dm
Bb
A
F
C
Dm
Bb
A
_ Getting back to our roots, Wide Awake, but not the audio slave way of playing Wide Awake, the Chris Cornell
solo acoustic way of playing Wide Awake for Jamie Stewart, Carlos Huerta, and Prem Ford.
Supporter of the cause, Prem, Mr.
Ford, thank you so much for the food.
Let's go! _
The first step in an operation such as this is to put your guitar into Drop D.
So your low E string is now a low D string.
One of [N] my favorite things about playing guitar is
when you're in Drop D and you play a D chord, you now get to strum all of [D] the strings.
_ Because it's no longer the E note that doesn't belong in the D chord, and the A note's okay too.
That's in our D chord, but this also works for your D minor chord, which [Dm] is the chord
everyone always forgets.
It's E1, G2, [A] and B3, strum everything.
_ [Dm] _ And then we're going to reach
[A] for that used to be [D] E string third fret, and you can [G] abandon your pointer finger, leave your ring
finger where it is, out of [Dm] your D chord. _ _
_ Go 3-3-2.
_ [D] _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [Dm] There's some question in my mind whether
he or not he's playing the whole_
you [Db] could smash down two or three strings there, and then
you'd have like a little [F] power chord.
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ I [N] don't know, he even used his thumb sometimes, so I'd say do
that if you feel like it, and don't do it if you don't feel like it.
I like the single notes better
than the power chords personally, but yeah, you pick.
The verse is a four sets of four thing, like
often tends to happen, starting on your D minor.
Remember you can still strum [Dm] all the strings for
your D minor.
_ Two of them, and then F.
[F] This is F, the power chord on the third fret.
It used to be where G
was, but now this string is two notes lower than it used to be, right?
So 3-3-3, we're gonna call it F.
Not this, this, [Dm] for this version of this song.
Anyways, D minor, _ _ _ _ [F] F, _ [Dm] C minor, repeat.
_ D, _ D, _ [F] _ F,
_ [Dm]
D.
Now the F's are gonna change to B flat for three and four.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ And then there's an [Dm] end tag, it's A [A] suspended, four to A regular.
So B flat, the chord, you [F] know,
this chord nobody likes.
We got the chord that no one remembers how to play, and the chord no one
likes to play.
So [Bb] two for two on this song.
It's 1-3-3-3 on A, D, G, B is [A] B flat, and our A suspended
four from your regular A, you move your ring finger up one fret there to that B string third fret.
So whole verse, _ [Dm] D minor, _ _ _ _ [F] _ F, _
[Dm] D minor.
Again, _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Dm]
now the F's are gonna become B flats, _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ and one measure of [A] A suspended four, and A regular. _ _
[Bm] Also, you can play around [Dm] whenever you go back to
that D minor, taking your pointer finger off the E string, the baby E string, or you hear Chris do
that a bunch in a bunch of _ the_
yeah.
Chorus is no problem, D minor, _ _ then F but regular the way
you [F] think about it, F, _ _ followed by B [Bb] flat, sorry, D minor, [Dm]
and then [C] C.
_ _ _ So that's it, do it again.
[Dm] D minor, a long one, _ _ _ [F] F, _ a long one, [Bb] B flat short, [Dm] D minor short, and C [C] long. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Back to the [A] intro.
_ [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ The second verse is the same as the first verse, but I think Chris caught a case of an affliction.
I'm often _ afflicted with which?
Oh man, prepositions.
Run out of words disease, so that
there's only three lines, not four.
There's only one B flat one, [Dm] and then it goes to the [A] D minor at
the end, _ _ _ and the A sus, regular A thing.
Into the chorus.
I found you guilty of the crime, ah this I
know at the end of the second [N] chorus is going to be, I'm going with the live in Sweden one on YouTube
that doesn't have the video, because the one that has the video from a while ago, he sort of fizzled
out here on the guitar, and he did.
Anyway, so [Bb] it's B flat, _ A, [A] _
_ [Dm] D minor, and G with a [G] B in the bass.
We would
love to play the entire G, but we cannot, because we're in drop D, so we're gonna have to settle with G
with a B in the bass, which is everything about G except no low string.
A2, B3, E3.
[Bb] _
B flat, _ [A] _ A, _ [Dm]
D minor, this [G] I know. _ _ _
Now pay attention [N] 007, the last chorus is a little different, so it's going to start the [G] same,
[Dm] and it's chill right?
D minor, but instead of F it's [C] C. _ _ _
B flat, D minor [Bb] like regular,
_ _ _ [Dm]
and on C [C] like regular, so it's regular except that first F was a C instead.
Second [Dm] time is all the
way regular, _ D minor, [F] _ F, _ _ B [Bb] flat, D minor, _ [Dm] _ _ and then [C] C, and then he starts yelling, and it is D minor, _ _ _ _ _ _ C, _ _ _ _ B flat, [Bb] _
_ [C] C,
_ and it on [Dm] D minor.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] An easy way to remember that progression is [D] if you look at your roots on the
A string, D is here right?
C [C] is here, [Bb] and B flat is here, so you can think of it as starting here, [D] going down,
[Bb] three blind my style, [C] and then [Dm] back to the end of it.
Of course I wouldn't play the bar chords, but
just to think of it, you'll _ _ _ [C] _
remember.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ Awesome, Prem Ford, thank you again so much.
Everybody else, thank
you for being here.
I hope that was helpful, and I'll see you next time with more
solo acoustic way of playing Wide Awake for Jamie Stewart, Carlos Huerta, and Prem Ford.
Supporter of the cause, Prem, Mr.
Ford, thank you so much for the food.
Let's go! _
The first step in an operation such as this is to put your guitar into Drop D.
So your low E string is now a low D string.
One of [N] my favorite things about playing guitar is
when you're in Drop D and you play a D chord, you now get to strum all of [D] the strings.
_ Because it's no longer the E note that doesn't belong in the D chord, and the A note's okay too.
That's in our D chord, but this also works for your D minor chord, which [Dm] is the chord
everyone always forgets.
It's E1, G2, [A] and B3, strum everything.
_ [Dm] _ And then we're going to reach
[A] for that used to be [D] E string third fret, and you can [G] abandon your pointer finger, leave your ring
finger where it is, out of [Dm] your D chord. _ _
_ Go 3-3-2.
_ [D] _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [Dm] There's some question in my mind whether
he or not he's playing the whole_
you [Db] could smash down two or three strings there, and then
you'd have like a little [F] power chord.
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ I [N] don't know, he even used his thumb sometimes, so I'd say do
that if you feel like it, and don't do it if you don't feel like it.
I like the single notes better
than the power chords personally, but yeah, you pick.
The verse is a four sets of four thing, like
often tends to happen, starting on your D minor.
Remember you can still strum [Dm] all the strings for
your D minor.
_ Two of them, and then F.
[F] This is F, the power chord on the third fret.
It used to be where G
was, but now this string is two notes lower than it used to be, right?
So 3-3-3, we're gonna call it F.
Not this, this, [Dm] for this version of this song.
Anyways, D minor, _ _ _ _ [F] F, _ [Dm] C minor, repeat.
_ D, _ D, _ [F] _ F,
_ [Dm]
D.
Now the F's are gonna change to B flat for three and four.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ And then there's an [Dm] end tag, it's A [A] suspended, four to A regular.
So B flat, the chord, you [F] know,
this chord nobody likes.
We got the chord that no one remembers how to play, and the chord no one
likes to play.
So [Bb] two for two on this song.
It's 1-3-3-3 on A, D, G, B is [A] B flat, and our A suspended
four from your regular A, you move your ring finger up one fret there to that B string third fret.
So whole verse, _ [Dm] D minor, _ _ _ _ [F] _ F, _
[Dm] D minor.
Again, _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Dm]
now the F's are gonna become B flats, _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ and one measure of [A] A suspended four, and A regular. _ _
[Bm] Also, you can play around [Dm] whenever you go back to
that D minor, taking your pointer finger off the E string, the baby E string, or you hear Chris do
that a bunch in a bunch of _ the_
yeah.
Chorus is no problem, D minor, _ _ then F but regular the way
you [F] think about it, F, _ _ followed by B [Bb] flat, sorry, D minor, [Dm]
and then [C] C.
_ _ _ So that's it, do it again.
[Dm] D minor, a long one, _ _ _ [F] F, _ a long one, [Bb] B flat short, [Dm] D minor short, and C [C] long. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Back to the [A] intro.
_ [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ The second verse is the same as the first verse, but I think Chris caught a case of an affliction.
I'm often _ afflicted with which?
Oh man, prepositions.
Run out of words disease, so that
there's only three lines, not four.
There's only one B flat one, [Dm] and then it goes to the [A] D minor at
the end, _ _ _ and the A sus, regular A thing.
Into the chorus.
I found you guilty of the crime, ah this I
know at the end of the second [N] chorus is going to be, I'm going with the live in Sweden one on YouTube
that doesn't have the video, because the one that has the video from a while ago, he sort of fizzled
out here on the guitar, and he did.
Anyway, so [Bb] it's B flat, _ A, [A] _
_ [Dm] D minor, and G with a [G] B in the bass.
We would
love to play the entire G, but we cannot, because we're in drop D, so we're gonna have to settle with G
with a B in the bass, which is everything about G except no low string.
A2, B3, E3.
[Bb] _
B flat, _ [A] _ A, _ [Dm]
D minor, this [G] I know. _ _ _
Now pay attention [N] 007, the last chorus is a little different, so it's going to start the [G] same,
[Dm] and it's chill right?
D minor, but instead of F it's [C] C. _ _ _
B flat, D minor [Bb] like regular,
_ _ _ [Dm]
and on C [C] like regular, so it's regular except that first F was a C instead.
Second [Dm] time is all the
way regular, _ D minor, [F] _ F, _ _ B [Bb] flat, D minor, _ [Dm] _ _ and then [C] C, and then he starts yelling, and it is D minor, _ _ _ _ _ _ C, _ _ _ _ B flat, [Bb] _
_ [C] C,
_ and it on [Dm] D minor.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] An easy way to remember that progression is [D] if you look at your roots on the
A string, D is here right?
C [C] is here, [Bb] and B flat is here, so you can think of it as starting here, [D] going down,
[Bb] three blind my style, [C] and then [Dm] back to the end of it.
Of course I wouldn't play the bar chords, but
just to think of it, you'll _ _ _ [C] _
remember.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ Awesome, Prem Ford, thank you again so much.
Everybody else, thank
you for being here.
I hope that was helpful, and I'll see you next time with more