Chords for Learn Songs In SECONDS! How To Play I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)- The Proclaimers (Guitar Lesson)

In this Learn [Em] Songs in Seconds we're looking at 500 miles [B] I'm gonna be by the [E] Proclaimers.
Now, [Bb] legend has [G] it that after a local derby match, by singing [C] Glory Glory to the High Beast from the
[Bb] very peak of [F] Edinburgh Castle, with an accompanying [C] harmony so beautifully blended and angelic that
only twin brothers [Am] can produce, you might, [G] just might, be able to coax a Proclaimer out of their
natural [Am] habitat of deepest darkness.
_ _ _ Sometimes you just see them kicking it about the meadows,
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_ [Cm] _ _ _ [Dbm] _ _ _ _
[Bb] shhhhhh.
_ _ The aim [Am] here is to teach the song in a very [Am] short amount of time,
so if it goes too fast you can always pause the video or move it back.
So let's start the [F] timer and get into learning the song.
The intro to this song starts on E [E] major, _
[Am] pretty common chord, if you don't know it there's a little box up there.
The rhythm we use here is this, [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] so it goes like this.
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ What I'm doing is palm muting here to get
that kind of chunky sound, so I'm using this kind of fleshy [F] part of my hand, rested near the bridge.
You can experiment with how [Am] close to here or here you want the palm mute for a more choked sound. _ _ _ _ _
Next we're into the verse, which stays on the E chord and [C] uses the same rhythm.
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ Next we move to an A major, [A] _ you want to do 2 palm muted down strokes on this, _ _
up to B major [B] _ and another 2 palm muted down strokes.
_ _ [E] If you struggle with [B] the B major,
like this, you can [F] also finger it like this, _ or you [Am] can just play these 3 strings here.
[B] _ _ _ I need to make sure you're not playing the [Am] other strings, or if you want to,
what I quite often do is rest my 1st finger across [F] these, I'm choking the ones I'm not holding down
[B] out, so you [Am] still just hear the B major triad.
To [C] wrap up the verse we're back to the E and we [E] go
down, down, down, up.
So from the start of the verse we have this. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] For verse 1 you play that 4 [F] bar cycle 4 times, so it'd be 16 bars [Am] in total.
For the chorus I was
the same strumming pattern as the verse, [F] except play it open rather than muted.
Again, we're starting off on the E, so the first 2 bars sound like [E] this. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] Next we're up to the A, which is 4 down strokes.
_ _ _ _ Then we're [Am] up to the B again, and this time we're going to go down, down, down, [B] down, up. _ _
_ _ [F] _ [Am] So from the start, [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ the first [F] chorus just plays that entire chord cycle [Am] twice, that'd be a total
of 8 bars.
In terms of the chords, verse 2 is exactly the same as verse 1, and chorus 2 is
the same as chorus 1, so we can skip over those.
Post [F] chorus, or the dead at bit as most people
would know it, you can just play the [C] same chords for the verse, and do the same [Am] rhythm.
This is one
of the [C] few tricky parts of the song here, after the post chorus we go [Am] to a re-intro, but it's just
half the length of the original.
_ [F] It's easier to play it than explain it, so you just go like [B] this.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
That's [Am] it.
Verse 3 is almost exactly the same as verse 2, except the last chord is a C sharp minor
rather than an E major.
To save a bit [Am] of time, and because you already know it, what I'll do is
go from the [F] last 4 bars of that verse.
So you have this.
[B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[G] _ _ [A] _ _ _ So you can see there it's gone to the
C [Db] sharp minor, where it would normally [B] go to the E.
There's a little chord box up there for the
C [Dbm] sharp minor, I quite often don't play that top string, I'll just play the 4 in the [Ab] middle.
After this we go to [A] an A, _ now [C] the bass is playing an F sharp here, so in effect you have an A [Am] minor
7, and if you're playing guitar by yourself you might want to put this F sharp in.
_ _ _ Quite [Am] a subtle difference, but somewhat noticeable.
After [C] that you've got a B7,
[B] _ _ _ _ after the B7 [Am] it rings out for another half bar, and then we get the re-intro again.
So it goes like [B] this. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
You could change the rhythm there to help the dynamics and drive the song a
bit more, so I'd suggest doing something like [E] this. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So what you notice [C] I did is release the
palm mute as I was [Em] building the chord to bring the tension up a bit.
Play that build up all [F] downs,
_ it's [Am] totally up to you, I find it easier doing downs, because it's easier to keep it consistent,
you can also get more of [C] a drive, so I'd opt for [Am] that.
Just to clear up any potential confusion
about that, I'll do a quick demo, going from exactly the [F] same place, the last 4 bars of that
3rd verse.
[B] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] After this the next chorus is the same as the chorus [Am] before, but our post chorus is a
double post chorus.
After this we're back to normal chorus.
Now if you want to be really accurate,
you can actually change the last 4 bars a little bit.
[F] There's an organ in the recording that implies
a [Am] slightly different chord progression than what people would normally play.
So to show you,
it goes like [E] this. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ So to slow that down, what I'm doing is the E is the same as before, _ _ _ _ _
the A is [A] the same as before, _ _ but when [Dbm] I get to the B, what we're doing is playing that twice.
[B] _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
So it'd go like this.
[B] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ [E] _ _ _ The strumming there would just be all downs, [B] so you'd be,
and _ [A] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ with that last chord, if you kind of do it a bit more slowly, so instead of strumming it
like that, _ let your plectrum run across the strings, it creates it kind of nicer.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
320 seconds, or [C] 5 minutes and 20 seconds.
Maybe not as good as our previous [Am] song, but let's face
it, 142 seconds is perhaps an amiable time.
To be fair, there were those rhythmic changes in the
jazz chords, [C] I mean pretty much anything with a 7 [Am] after it counts as jazz, right?
Anyway, not a
bad effort to say the least.
[F] As well as writing down the chord progressions and strumming pattern
used, it's often quite useful to have an overall structure sheet, [F] so you could do something that
[C] looks a bit like this.
Now to recap [Am] that, we've got the intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus,
post chorus, re-intro, verse 3, straight into the bridge, re-intro, [F] chorus, post chorus, chorus,
with a slight [Am] variation.
So that's why I put variation in brackets behind that chorus.
You'll
also notice the re-intros are half in length, I've made a note of that as well.
Similarly,
anything that's double.
Now while [C] you don't really want to have to rely on this sheet,
doing something [Am] like this can often help it stick in your memory, something that definitely helps
me.
Cool!
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