Chords for How to play One of These Things First by Nick Drake

_ This is how I think the song from the morning off the album brighter later by Nick Drake was played
_ There's a popular tablature out there that puts in a tuning that I don't think that it's in
I think it's in be be be which is a tuning that Nick used for [G#] a lot of songs like [A#] [E] fly _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [G#] and
From the [F#] morning [B] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A#] and
man in a [E] shed _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A#] anyway, _ [E]
I
Think it's in this tuning and the first figure starts out with just an E major [N] chord.
Oh by the way
I'm gonna refer to the strings as their standard tuning names because otherwise my puny brain _
Explodes and that wouldn't be much [E] of a video
_ so he starts out with just an E major chord, which is the a
D and G strings and fretting the G on the fourth fret as you can see
He also [B] throws in the open [N] B a lot
But I'm gonna leave that out for the purposes of this because
It's just too complicated to try to illustrate it.
So he rolls to this [E] little figure
_ like that just
Arpeggiating the E and then he suspends he brings everything up a whole step except for the low E drone and stays the same
So he's fretting the second fret of the [A#] D string and the fifth [C] fret of the [A] G string
And he brings it up a whole step [E] again
And he just walks down chromatically and _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ [E] _
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [F#] then the core and that's pretty much it for the court for the verse but the chorus
starts [E] out with an a
_ Chord [A#] a five chord that I [E] think is pretty much the giveaway of the tuning in this song
And [G#] why I feel so strongly about what tuning is in
[Am] _ he plays the fifth fret of the [N] a and
D strings and then the open string on the G string and it's that open string
_ Sounding against the fifth fret of D string that really gives it away because it has that
Unison chorus enos that you get when you play two notes one open one threaded that are the [A] same
and _ _
_ [E] that little
_ _ That's [C#] very easy to hear on the recording [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] and he goes down to [G] a G _
Which [N] is the third fret of each the a D and G [G] strings?
_ Still playing that same pattern
_ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ [E] He goes back to the E [A] figure
And [D#] then he goes to the seat to [B] the G.
[G] Excuse me again
Or I could be hearing now
[Bm] And he drops it down a half step at this time.
He [G#] takes his pinky off and plays the [F#] open G
Which is an f-sharp seven chord
and [G#m] if you want to leave your pinky [A#] on there Nick sort of alternates [F#] between
F sharp and f-sharp seven throughout the whole song _ and
_ _ [E] then
[A] back to the E figure
[E] _ [A] He does that [G] again, and [F#] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _
then this time he goes back to the a _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] And then he goes down to the f-sharp [A#] seven [C#m] again, except this time he does the sort of standard [B] the Nick Drake
You know bar the first [F#] three are the lowest three strings [E] chord [N] _ and
Puts a C sharp on the bottom of his f-sharp [F#] seven
_ So [A] he goes _
This is for the I could have been
[F#m] _ one _ _ _ _ [E] of these things first _ [A] [F#] so that
It's [N] just that same arpeggio except this time
He's got that C sharp on the bottom and he sort of alternates between the bass [C#] notes that _ [F#] like [C#] _ [F#] that
So _ _
_ _ _ [C#m] _ [E] _ _ _ [A]
I'll [E] play the whole chorus [Am] starting with [G#] the end of the [E] verse _ _
[A] _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ [E] _ _ [A] _
_ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [G#] [G] Sorry
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ [G] _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] You _
[E] _ Then I end on this little e
[A] which is just the fourth and [Gm] fifth frets of the
[B] D and G strings respectively, [E] so _ _ _ _ I
[C#] Think the [B] actual song ends on a piano
_ [A]
[E] But you can end with that and sound very similar _ _
there's a little musical interlude in that song he [G] just starts on the
Walking [F#] down from G to F [Gm] sharp.
It's the same [F#] chords
_ [G] _ [E] _ G [Gm] _ _ [F#] _
F sharp [E] back [A] to E and then up [Em] to a
[F#] _ Like _ _ [E] _
that it's the same.
It's just the end of the [A#] chorus _ _ I
Think that's [Em] it
Hopefully this is taught you how to look to play