Chords for The Eagles making of Hotel California
Tempo:
144.85 bpm
Chords used:
F#
B
G#
Em
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
I had a nice guitar.
Felder, you see this?
Who, uh, who tuned this?
Well, I have no doubt.
With Joe in the band with me,
I wanted to write something musically
that would fit two guitar [F#] players,
that we could play off of each other.
So I was sitting on a sofa in Malibu
at this [C#] rental house that I had on the beach.
I was playing this [Dm] acoustic guitar
and this [B] introduction came out, that progression.
I kept playing it three or four times.
[Em]
I had [B] an old reel-to-reel tape [G#] recorder.
So I went back and recorded that introduction to that song
and laid down [D#m] that progression,
made a [B] mix of it and put it on a cassette with,
I don't know, the other 14 or 15 pieces of music
that I had assembled.
I gave a copy of the cassette to Don, one to Glenn.
Don Felder used to send Henley and I
[A] instrumental tapes, song ideas.
[G#] 95% of them were cluttered with guitar licks
and we would [Em] listen to these things and go,
[G] well, where do you [D] sing?
As [B] Don and I were listening through
one of the Felder cassettes and this song came up,
we both sort [Bm] of said, hmm, this [F#] is interesting.
[G#] The music sounded [B] to me like some sort of a cross
[G#] between Spanish music and reggae music
[B] and that one really [A] jumped out at me.
So [E] we set out to [F#] write a song to that progression.
[G]
I'm pretty sure it was Henley's idea
to have [D] a song called Hotel California.
[E]
[Em] [G#] I think Henley and Glenn's lyric writing
[F#] really came to a head.
They became real honest-to-God songwriters.
[F#]
[A] During the recording of it, I thought that we were
on to something, I knew we [F#] were on to something.
We were in a [G] really [B] creative [C] phase
[D] and it just so happened that [Em] Bill Simzik pushed record.
[E] [F#]
Thank God!
[B]
On a [Bm] dark desert highway
[F#]
Felder, you see this?
Who, uh, who tuned this?
Well, I have no doubt.
With Joe in the band with me,
I wanted to write something musically
that would fit two guitar [F#] players,
that we could play off of each other.
So I was sitting on a sofa in Malibu
at this [C#] rental house that I had on the beach.
I was playing this [Dm] acoustic guitar
and this [B] introduction came out, that progression.
I kept playing it three or four times.
[Em]
I had [B] an old reel-to-reel tape [G#] recorder.
So I went back and recorded that introduction to that song
and laid down [D#m] that progression,
made a [B] mix of it and put it on a cassette with,
I don't know, the other 14 or 15 pieces of music
that I had assembled.
I gave a copy of the cassette to Don, one to Glenn.
Don Felder used to send Henley and I
[A] instrumental tapes, song ideas.
[G#] 95% of them were cluttered with guitar licks
and we would [Em] listen to these things and go,
[G] well, where do you [D] sing?
As [B] Don and I were listening through
one of the Felder cassettes and this song came up,
we both sort [Bm] of said, hmm, this [F#] is interesting.
[G#] The music sounded [B] to me like some sort of a cross
[G#] between Spanish music and reggae music
[B] and that one really [A] jumped out at me.
So [E] we set out to [F#] write a song to that progression.
[G]
I'm pretty sure it was Henley's idea
to have [D] a song called Hotel California.
[E]
[Em] [G#] I think Henley and Glenn's lyric writing
[F#] really came to a head.
They became real honest-to-God songwriters.
[F#]
[A] During the recording of it, I thought that we were
on to something, I knew we [F#] were on to something.
We were in a [G] really [B] creative [C] phase
[D] and it just so happened that [Em] Bill Simzik pushed record.
[E] [F#]
Thank God!
[B]
On a [Bm] dark desert highway
[F#]
Key:
F#
B
G#
Em
A
F#
B
G#
I had a nice guitar.
Felder, you see this? _ _
_ _ Who, uh, who tuned this?
Well, I have no doubt.
With Joe in the band with me,
I wanted to write something _ musically
that would fit two guitar [F#] players,
that we could play off of each other.
So I was sitting on a sofa in Malibu
at this [C#] rental house that I had on the beach.
I was playing this [Dm] acoustic guitar
and this [B] introduction came out, that progression.
I kept playing it three or four times.
[Em] _ _
I had [B] an old reel-to-reel tape [G#] recorder.
So I went back and recorded that introduction to that song
and laid down [D#m] that progression,
made a [B] mix of it and put it on a cassette with,
I don't know, the other 14 or 15 pieces of music
that I had assembled.
I gave a copy of the cassette to Don, one to Glenn.
Don Felder used to send Henley and I
[A] instrumental tapes, song ideas.
[G#] 95% of them were cluttered with guitar licks
and we would [Em] listen to these things and go,
[G] well, where do you [D] sing? _
As [B] Don and I were listening through
one of the Felder cassettes and this song came up,
we both sort [Bm] of said, hmm, this [F#] is interesting.
_ _ _ _ [G#] The music sounded [B] to me like some sort of a cross
[G#] between Spanish music and reggae music
[B] and that one really [A] jumped out at me.
_ So [E] we set out to [F#] write a song to that progression.
_ _ _ _ [G] _
I'm pretty sure it was Henley's idea
to have [D] a song called Hotel California.
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [G#] I think Henley and Glenn's lyric writing
[F#] really came to a head.
They became real honest-to-God songwriters.
_ [F#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] During the recording of it, I thought that we were
on to something, I knew we [F#] were on to something.
_ _ _ _ We were in a [G] really [B] creative [C] phase
[D] and it just so happened that [Em] Bill Simzik pushed record.
[E] _ _ _ [F#] _
Thank God!
_ _ _ _ [B] _
On a [Bm] dark desert highway
_ _ [F#] _
Felder, you see this? _ _
_ _ Who, uh, who tuned this?
Well, I have no doubt.
With Joe in the band with me,
I wanted to write something _ musically
that would fit two guitar [F#] players,
that we could play off of each other.
So I was sitting on a sofa in Malibu
at this [C#] rental house that I had on the beach.
I was playing this [Dm] acoustic guitar
and this [B] introduction came out, that progression.
I kept playing it three or four times.
[Em] _ _
I had [B] an old reel-to-reel tape [G#] recorder.
So I went back and recorded that introduction to that song
and laid down [D#m] that progression,
made a [B] mix of it and put it on a cassette with,
I don't know, the other 14 or 15 pieces of music
that I had assembled.
I gave a copy of the cassette to Don, one to Glenn.
Don Felder used to send Henley and I
[A] instrumental tapes, song ideas.
[G#] 95% of them were cluttered with guitar licks
and we would [Em] listen to these things and go,
[G] well, where do you [D] sing? _
As [B] Don and I were listening through
one of the Felder cassettes and this song came up,
we both sort [Bm] of said, hmm, this [F#] is interesting.
_ _ _ _ [G#] The music sounded [B] to me like some sort of a cross
[G#] between Spanish music and reggae music
[B] and that one really [A] jumped out at me.
_ So [E] we set out to [F#] write a song to that progression.
_ _ _ _ [G] _
I'm pretty sure it was Henley's idea
to have [D] a song called Hotel California.
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [G#] I think Henley and Glenn's lyric writing
[F#] really came to a head.
They became real honest-to-God songwriters.
_ [F#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] During the recording of it, I thought that we were
on to something, I knew we [F#] were on to something.
_ _ _ _ We were in a [G] really [B] creative [C] phase
[D] and it just so happened that [Em] Bill Simzik pushed record.
[E] _ _ _ [F#] _
Thank God!
_ _ _ _ [B] _
On a [Bm] dark desert highway
_ _ [F#] _