Crown Him: Guitar Tutorial Chords by I Am They

And we will [G] crown [Am] him, crown _ [C] him, king of _ glory.
[G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
Hey [N] guys, this is I Am They, a portion of I Am They.
My name is Matt.
This here is John.
Incredible.
And we wanted to teach you this song, Crown Him,
and show you a little bit of how to play
the song on the [C] guitars here.
So I'm going to flip it over to John here.
He's leading this song _ on guitar and on vocal,
and so he's going to show you a little bit of what he plays.
Yeah, so it's pretty straightforward.
We are in the key of C.
We're going to capo up to 5
and play in G.
_ You can pretty much start it out just _ _ _ _ in G. _
_ _ _ _ _ It's not my life to live.
We're going to move down to E.
_ _ _ _ _ It's not my song to sing. _ _ _
Go up to C.
_ And all I have is his.
And [G] then D.
_ _ For all [C] eternity.
Back to G.
_ _ _ And that repeats twice. _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] And the chorus, we're going to start in D.
So it'll go,
crown him, [Am] crown him, [C] king of _ _ glory.
Crown _ him, [Am] crown him, [G] _ [Cm] lord of all.
You can do diamonds for the first half,
and then the second half of the chorus.
[G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ That's pretty much it.
_ It's pretty cool.
So you're just leaving your bottom two [C#] fingers there _
for the strings, and you can really just move the bass note around. _
_ So very simple, very awesome. _
_ _ And I wanted to show you a little bit of the riff.
Through the verse, there's an acoustic riff.
And actually, the tuning that I'm in, first and foremost, _
you don't have to do this.
But when you're playing it acoustically, especially,
it adds a little flair and fills it out a little.
_ But my _ high E string [E] down here is tuned down half a step.
So it's tuned down from an E down to a [B] D sharp.
And then I'm putting a capo on my first fret.
And so I [C] can play [C#m] _ my chords are in the B [C] shape.
_ _ _ [E] Even though the song is in the key of C,
I'm playing in a B [B] shape.
So _ my little riff here is on the A and the D string.
And it just jumps [C] like this.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] And then [F] the bass note [B] switches there.
So that bass note is a G sharp.
_ [Em] And the bottom half of that riff [E] stays the same.
_ _ [F] _ [E] _
_ _ _ [F] And then a D, open E, _ _ _ _ [G] and an F sharp, _ _ _ [C] and then back to the B.
_ _ _ _ [F] _ [C] So it's really just around a B, like a [D] sus.
_ [C] _
_ _ _ [F] _ So that's really the whole, the entirety of the [Em] verse riff.
And then the chorus, I'm just strumming through chords.
So again, as the song gains momentum and builds,
you can start [D] strumming through it.
But I'll just show you the chord [B] shapes that I'm playing.
_ It starts on the F sharp.
_ And you can play these [E] open, since you have that.
_ [Am] _ [C] _
_ _ But I'm just playing the top note [G#] on these,
bass note on these [G] chords.
F sharp, _ _ slide up to G sharp minor. _ _
[Bm] And I'm muting just that G [Am] string.
But it just sounds like that.
And then down to an [F] E, _ play a full E, _ and then [C] up to _ _ _ my B. _ _ _
So that just sounds like, _ crowd, damn, [Am] crowd.
_ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ And that just repeats that progression.
[G#] So _ _ [F#] yeah, I think that's pretty much it.
We got our trusty gator [D] capo here.
You don't need one of these to play this song.
But it's [Am] highly recommended.
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
Lord [C] of all, [G] _ _
_ [Am] cloudless, _ crowded, [F] _
Lord [C] of all. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _