Chords for Waiting In Vain - Ukulele Tutorial - How To Play Easy Bob Marley Songs on Ukulele - Reggae Ukulele

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Alright everybody, we're doing another Bob Marley one today, Waiting in Vain.
This is a great song.
_ It's called Waiting in Vain, but the lyrics are waiting in vain.
Yeah, well, that's just a little side note, okay?
This is a really cool jam, and if it wasn't for the bridge in it, it would be a two chord song, alright?
So if you're new to barre chords, this is a really good place to [C] start because there are only two of them,
but they're major seven chords, so they're a little exotic, so maybe they're new shapes even for our barre chord veterans.
But it's just a two [F] chord song.
Principally, [B] that's it.
They have a little break when there's a couple other chords,
[C] but the [Em] majority of the jam is a two chord, so we're not going to do the play along.
_ This is [A] like maybe the seventh Bob Marley song we've done,
so what I'm going to go ahead and do too as well is put a description in the link below.
I'm going to put a playlist to [E] all the Bob Marley songs that we've [B] done if you want to play
your ukulele and get [C] a whole Bob collection, okay?
But if you came for just this lesson, that's cool too.
I respect [E] that.
10thumbspro.com, new songs every Wednesday and Saturday, so you don't have to wait in vain.
[Ab] But right now, I want you to grab your ukulele [Em] brain and attention span, [C] and let's go ahead and break this lesson down.
All right.
Waiting in vain, Bob Marley.
Really happy to bring you this one.
All right.
I know that Bob Marley.
You know what's cool about Bob Marley?
[A] _ He's like a universally popular dude.
I know not everybody loves Bob Marley, but he's one of [Bb] those people you can bust this [Cm] one out at a party,
and _ [C] people would be pretty happy with it, okay?
So,
_ if it wasn't for the bridge, it would be a two chord [Bb] song.
So we're going to break down the bulk of the song with [Ab] the two chords, and it's an A flat major seven. _ _ _ _
_ [F] And a [C] D flat major [Db] seven. _ _
_ _ _ These two [Bb] chords, I don't know the exact percentage, [Eb] but rough estimate, 85% of the song. _
[Bbm] So if we go to our A [C] flat major seven, our strum pattern is going to go
down up on a mute, [Ab] and then you play the chord.
So it looks like this. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] And you count it, [Cm] one and a two and a three and a four and a_
because with reggae,
_ [N] you want _ the
the accents to happen on the ands.
So if you listen to the song, and the song's like boom _ boom,
you want it to go boom. _ _
_ Well, that's not a very good example.
You want it to be in between the kick and the snare, alright?
_ Because you want to stay out of the way of the bass, and you want it to stay out of the way the keyboards.
So it goes [Ab] one and a two and a three and a four and _ a_
to your next chord.
[Db] One and a_
three and a four and a_
and it just switches.
So [F] we put the two chords together, [Ab] it sounds like this. _ _ _
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_ [Am] _ _ All [Bb] right, now that wasn't the [Ab]
smoothest because these chords _ are not_ _
_ they're slightly dissonant.
They're slightly dissonant.
So if you find [C] that you're not getting the [Db] sound that you want entirely from these chords, you can [Ab] also play an A, _
_ _ _ A flat here, and [Dbm] a D flat here.
_ _ _ [Bb] But it loses [Ab] its vibe.
The song really should be these two chords, alright?
_ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Now, the part [F] before the_
[Ab] _ _ part before the guitar solo _
[Db] is going to be a D flat [Ebm] to an E flat _
_ [Ab] _ to a C minor [Bb] 7 to a B flat minor 7, and that [Db] just goes.
[Eb] _ _ _
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_ [C] _ [Db] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ Then you [Ab] go back into _ the_ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ After I hit the chord, I let it ring, and then I give it a quick down [Bbm] before I move.
[E] But you should listen to the [Bb] song to get that [Abm] timing just right, and then after you play that, let's play it together for us.
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_ _ _ _ [Db] Then it [Bb] goes back into [Ab] _ the_ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] Okay, so that's the entire song.
_ If you want to take a solo, A flat major pentatonic.
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_ [Bb] But you can [Abm] also get that major 7th in there, right?
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_ [Gb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ Okay, so Bob Marley, Waitin' In Vain.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Waitin' [Db] in vain for your love _ _ _ _ _
_ _ TenThumbsPro.com new [Db] songs every Wednesday and Saturdays, you're the waitin' lady
[Cm] _ _
And all you have to do is subscribe [Db] and you can learn
_ _ When you could lay [Eb] in the sun
_ Or in [Bbm] the winter _
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and learn for [Cm] free _ _
I don't want to [Db] wait in vain for your love
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Take care
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_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ [A] _ _
[C] _ _ _ All right, waiting in vain.
Now you're no longer waiting in vain to learn waiting in vain
I don't know how [Gb] many times I've said waiting [Ab] in vain, but I'm gonna say it one more time.
Waiting [Eb] in vain, okay? _
So that's it
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