Chords for How To Play Leonard Cohen Dance Me To The End Of Love Introduction
Tempo:
140.7 bpm
Chords used:
Gm
G
Dm
F
Eb
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Dance Me to the End of Love, of course, has no guitar on the original [F] record.
So, here we're having to make an arrangement that is not, as we usually do, exactly as it's played by the original artist,
but an arrangement [Bb] as it probably would be [Gb] played by Leonard [F] Cohen, maybe when he was writing the song, you know.
Plus, a couple of embellishments that I've put in that, to me, add a little bit of variety to the accompaniment,
and you can choose whether or not you want to put those in, too.
The basic accompaniment is very simple.
We're capping at fret 3, we're playing in the key of E minor,
and we're going to use standard chord shapes.
There are only four chords in the whole song, E minor, A minor, B7, and D.
Have your song sheet in front of you, I think that's probably easiest to follow.
We're going to start with the introduction on an E minor chord, where we're going to set up this alternating pattern of 6th string [G] with the thumb,
top 3 strings plucked with fingers [Eb] 1, 2, and 3, [Gm]
5th string, and the 3 strings again.
[Eb] So, we set up this kind of [Gm] pattern, and that would be one bar.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and, taking us [G] to A minor,
[F] and on A minor, we're going to pluck, [C] or we're going to play, [Cm] 5 pluck, 6 pluck, 5 pluck, 4 pluck.
[G] Back again to E minor, [Gm]
and then B7, [G] wherever B7 comes, we're going to [Dm] pluck 5 pluck 6, but move that middle finger from the 5th string [G] to the 6th string.
[A] [Dm] 5 pluck [Am] 6 [Dm] pluck, so 5 6 5 6.
Then you can see the [F] second line of the intro, E minor A minor, [Eb] E minor B7, E minor, just as we played them before.
So here is the whole intro, [Gm]
and if you want to sing, by the way, [Ab] you can do the la la la la's that are on the [Eb] original, so let's do that again.
[Gm]
[C] [Cm]
[Gm]
[Am]
[Dm] [A] [Gm]
[Cm]
[Gm]
[Dm]
[Gm]
That's our intro, [G] and then we're into verse 1, A [N] minor
So, here we're having to make an arrangement that is not, as we usually do, exactly as it's played by the original artist,
but an arrangement [Bb] as it probably would be [Gb] played by Leonard [F] Cohen, maybe when he was writing the song, you know.
Plus, a couple of embellishments that I've put in that, to me, add a little bit of variety to the accompaniment,
and you can choose whether or not you want to put those in, too.
The basic accompaniment is very simple.
We're capping at fret 3, we're playing in the key of E minor,
and we're going to use standard chord shapes.
There are only four chords in the whole song, E minor, A minor, B7, and D.
Have your song sheet in front of you, I think that's probably easiest to follow.
We're going to start with the introduction on an E minor chord, where we're going to set up this alternating pattern of 6th string [G] with the thumb,
top 3 strings plucked with fingers [Eb] 1, 2, and 3, [Gm]
5th string, and the 3 strings again.
[Eb] So, we set up this kind of [Gm] pattern, and that would be one bar.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and, taking us [G] to A minor,
[F] and on A minor, we're going to pluck, [C] or we're going to play, [Cm] 5 pluck, 6 pluck, 5 pluck, 4 pluck.
[G] Back again to E minor, [Gm]
and then B7, [G] wherever B7 comes, we're going to [Dm] pluck 5 pluck 6, but move that middle finger from the 5th string [G] to the 6th string.
[A] [Dm] 5 pluck [Am] 6 [Dm] pluck, so 5 6 5 6.
Then you can see the [F] second line of the intro, E minor A minor, [Eb] E minor B7, E minor, just as we played them before.
So here is the whole intro, [Gm]
and if you want to sing, by the way, [Ab] you can do the la la la la's that are on the [Eb] original, so let's do that again.
[Gm]
[C] [Cm]
[Gm]
[Am]
[Dm] [A] [Gm]
[Cm]
[Gm]
[Dm]
[Gm]
That's our intro, [G] and then we're into verse 1, A [N] minor
Key:
Gm
G
Dm
F
Eb
Gm
G
Dm
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Dance Me to the End of Love, of course, has no guitar on the original [F] record.
So, here we're having to make an arrangement that is not, as we usually do, exactly as it's played by the original artist,
but an arrangement _ [Bb] as it probably would be [Gb] played by Leonard [F] Cohen, maybe when he was writing the song, you know.
_ _ Plus, a couple of embellishments that I've put in that, to me, add a little bit of variety to the accompaniment,
and you can choose whether or not you want to put those in, too.
The basic accompaniment is very simple.
We're capping at fret 3, we're playing in the key of E minor,
and we're going to use standard chord shapes.
There are only four chords in the whole song, E minor, A minor, B7, and D. _ _
_ Have your song sheet in front of you, I think that's probably easiest to follow.
We're going to start with the introduction on an E minor chord, where we're going to set up this alternating pattern of 6th string [G] with the thumb,
top 3 strings plucked with fingers [Eb] 1, 2, and 3, [Gm] _ _
5th string, _ and the 3 strings again. _
_ [Eb] So, we set up this kind of [Gm] pattern, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and that would be one bar.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and, _ taking us [G] to A minor,
[F] and on A minor, we're going to pluck, [C] or we're going to play, _ [Cm] 5 pluck, 6 pluck, 5 pluck, 4 pluck. _
_ [G] Back again to E minor, [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ and then B7, [G] wherever B7 comes, we're going to [Dm] pluck 5 pluck 6, but move that middle finger from the 5th string [G] to the 6th string.
[A] _ _ [Dm] _ 5 pluck [Am] 6 [Dm] pluck, so 5 6 5 6.
_ Then you can see the [F] second line of the intro, E minor A minor, [Eb] E minor _ B7, E minor, just as we played them before.
So here is the whole intro, _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
_ and if you want to sing, by the way, [Ab] you can do the la la la la's that are on the [Eb] original, so let's do that again.
[Gm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ That's our intro, [G] and then we're into verse 1, A [N] minor
_ _ _ _ _ Dance Me to the End of Love, of course, has no guitar on the original [F] record.
So, here we're having to make an arrangement that is not, as we usually do, exactly as it's played by the original artist,
but an arrangement _ [Bb] as it probably would be [Gb] played by Leonard [F] Cohen, maybe when he was writing the song, you know.
_ _ Plus, a couple of embellishments that I've put in that, to me, add a little bit of variety to the accompaniment,
and you can choose whether or not you want to put those in, too.
The basic accompaniment is very simple.
We're capping at fret 3, we're playing in the key of E minor,
and we're going to use standard chord shapes.
There are only four chords in the whole song, E minor, A minor, B7, and D. _ _
_ Have your song sheet in front of you, I think that's probably easiest to follow.
We're going to start with the introduction on an E minor chord, where we're going to set up this alternating pattern of 6th string [G] with the thumb,
top 3 strings plucked with fingers [Eb] 1, 2, and 3, [Gm] _ _
5th string, _ and the 3 strings again. _
_ [Eb] So, we set up this kind of [Gm] pattern, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and that would be one bar.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and, _ taking us [G] to A minor,
[F] and on A minor, we're going to pluck, [C] or we're going to play, _ [Cm] 5 pluck, 6 pluck, 5 pluck, 4 pluck. _
_ [G] Back again to E minor, [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ and then B7, [G] wherever B7 comes, we're going to [Dm] pluck 5 pluck 6, but move that middle finger from the 5th string [G] to the 6th string.
[A] _ _ [Dm] _ 5 pluck [Am] 6 [Dm] pluck, so 5 6 5 6.
_ Then you can see the [F] second line of the intro, E minor A minor, [Eb] E minor _ B7, E minor, just as we played them before.
So here is the whole intro, _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
_ and if you want to sing, by the way, [Ab] you can do the la la la la's that are on the [Eb] original, so let's do that again.
[Gm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ That's our intro, [G] and then we're into verse 1, A [N] minor