Chords for Waiting For A Girl Like You by Foreigner – Totally Guitars Lesson Preview

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_ _ [G] So strong, I've [Am] been looking too hard, [G] I've been waiting too long
[Am] Sometimes I don't [G] know what I would find
[Am] I only know [G] it's a matter of time [Em] when you love someone
[D] _ _ Yeah, [Em] when you love someone, [D] _ _ _ [Em] it feels so [D] right, so right through
[Em] I need to know if [D] you [E] feel it too
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Maybe [G] you're wrong, won't [F] you tell [C] me if I'm [G] going on too strong
[F] This heart of mine [G] has been hurt _ before, [F] this time I [G] wanna be sure
I've [Dm] been waiting _ _ for a girl like you, [Bb]
coming to [D] my [C] life
[Dm] I've been waiting for a girl like _ [Bb]
you, a life [Gm] with a _ stride _
[Dm] _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ I've been waiting for a girl _
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[Am] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ like _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ you, coming to my life _ _
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_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ I've been waiting for [E] a girl like you, _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ coming to my life
So then I can slide it up [G] to the next chord, which is basically a little G, [A] still with an A in the [Am] bass.
So A minor [G] to a G with an A in the [Em] bass.
Leaving the top string open, [G] you don't have to, you can also fret [A] it, or with your pinky fret the [G] high A there, then it would be a G [Em] at 9, or in an open E it would be [G] a G6.
So, and then you get to the next [E] part of the verse, which [Em] is E minor, _ and then down to D major, [D] still with an E in the [Bm] bass.
And then, like I said, [Em] just going back and forth.
A slight little _ [E] change at the very end, because then all of a sudden you just for a beat and a half you go to E major, before heading into the pre [F]-chorus.
_ Which was indeed an F major 7 or an F major 9.
So for the 7 you leave the top string open [E] when playing an F chord, [F] so you can't really bar it, you can, _ but that's _ [E] how he does it, or actually he doesn't use his thumbwrap around the neck, just plays it like so.
Also leaving [F] the third string open, and then you have an F major 9.
I indeed [Fm] like to catch the low F there in the bass.
And then it's going back and forth [Am] between [G] F and G, F and G, F and G, and so on.
When you get to the chorus, there, another [Dm] change, because now all of a sudden it all kind of circles around D minor instead of A minor.
It started out with A minor, and then to E minor, and now to D minor, _ _ [Bb] to B flat, [Gm] and a G minor.
And that is actually really [Am] it throughout the whole song.
There's the drumming.
[G] _ Also, syncopated _ _ [E] chord changes like the [Am] and before.
1, 2, 3, and [G] 4, and 1, 2, 3, [Am] 4, and 1, 2, 3, and [G] 4, and.
I'm emphasizing the upstrokes and [Am] releasing strings there a bit. _
_ _ [G] _ Like so.
[E] You can do it here too.
[Em] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ I will break this _ [A] [Dm] down a little bit more in the lesson, of course, along with the chords and how the progression goes and such.
So, there are a couple [Bb] of bar chords indeed, like the B flat [Gm] and, well, quite a few.
[E] And I will show you a couple of options as in how [Dm] you can finger those chords as well, like a D minor or [Bb] a B flat major, like so.
[N] You can decide for yourself however you want to do it there.
Then, like I said, it is totally [Am] optional to do this, to kind of incorporate those notes which you can [A] hear the synthesizer or the mandolin doing it.
When he plays it on the mandolin, he doesn't really copy it exactly the same way.
He plays it more with upstrokes also at the end of the beats instead of really like, on the album it's really like 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and so on.
But that's not really how he does it.
Or he [Am] keeps it short, _
_ [D] _ _ _ there, or he finishes it, _ [G] see, _ _ all upstrokes.
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[G] So, in a way, not so [Dm] hard.
In another way, a few things to pay attention to.
I'll walk you through everything you need to know, of course, in this lesson, which you can, of course, check out at totallyguitars.com.
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