Michael Kiwanuka – Always Waiting (Guitar Intro Tab)
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Chords
Arrangement by TECHDEBT
Key: B♭ minor
Rhythm: Moderato (~94 bpm for each quarter beat)
INDEX
1. ARRANGEMENT NOTES
2. 3-FINGER ROLL PATTERN
3. CHORD PROGRESSIONS WITH FINGERING
4. FULL SONG TAB & LYRICS
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1. ARRANGEMENT NOTES
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This arrangement is for performance by a single guitar:
The studio recording guitar intro is 2 guitars (rhythm & lead), but the desired sound is to combine the two.
In live concerts, Kiwanuka will improvise/ fingerpick with this combined pattern on a single acoustic.
There were major shortcomings with other online chordsheets that I wanted to address:
- The base picking pattern were either too simplified, missing, or just wrong
- Other tabulations of the intro didn't provide a Travis-picking time reference
- The lyrics of most other chord sheets are just simply wrong
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2. THREE-FINGER ROLL PATTERN (for everything besides the GUITAR INTRO)
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Random observation:
Kiwanuka doesn't use a standard three-finger banjo PIM roll pattern, but rather,
he uses a four-finger flamenco PIMA roll pattern.
I wouldn't lose sleep over this. PIM is the exact same string/rhythm pattern,
and IMHO, easier to keep consistent rhythm with the alternating thumb pattern.
P = Thumb
I = Index
M = Middle
e|---------------------------|---------------------------|
B|---M--------------M--------|---M--------------M--------|
G|------------I--------------|------------I--------------|
D|---------P-----------P-----|---------P-----------P-----|
A|---P-----------P-----------|---P-----------P-----------|
E|---------------------------|---------------------------|
1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d ********************************************************************************
3. CHORD PROGRESSIONS WITH FINGERING
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*[INTRO & VERSE PROGRESSION]
Am C E Am
e|------------------------|
B|----1----1---------1----|
G|----2---------1----2----|
D|----2----2----2----2----|
A|---------3----2---------|
E|------------------------|*[PRECHORUS & CHORUS PROGRESSION]
C B7 Em F/A C F/A C E Am e|------------------------|-----------------------------| B|----1--------------1----|----1----1----1---------1----| G|---------2---------2----|---------2---------1----2----| D|----2----1----2----3----|----2----3----2----2----2----| A|----3----2----2---------|----3---------3----2---------| E|------------------------|-----------------------------|
*[BRIDGE PROGRESSION]
Dm Am Dm G Dm Am E e|-----------------------|-------------------| B|----3----1----3--------|----3----1---------| G|----2----2----2--------|----2----2----1----| D|---------2-------------|---------2----2----| A|------------------2----|--------------2----| E|-----------------------|-------------------|
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5. FULL SONG TAB & LYRICS
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*[GUITAR INTRO/INTERLUDE]
Note:
Kiwanuka performs another version with a kickass hammer-on roll from C to Am, but I'm too lazy to tab now.
Am Am C C
e||------------0------|--3---------3s5----||--0----------------|-------------------||
B||--1----------------|-------------------||------------1------|--1---------1------||
G||--------2----------|--------2----------||--------0----------|--------0----------||
D||------2-------2----|------2------------||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||
A||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------||--3-------3--------|--3-------3--------||
E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------||
1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d E E Am Am
e||------------0------|--0---------0h1----||--0----------------|-------------------||
B||--0----------------|-------------------||------------1------|--1---------1------||
G||--------1----------|--------1----------||--------2----------|--------2----------||
D||------2-------2----|------2------------||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||
A||--2-------2--------|--2-------2--------||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------||
E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------||
1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d Am Am C C
e||------------0------|--3---------3s5----||--3----------------|--0----------------||
B||--1----------------|-------------------||------------1------|------------1------||
G||--------2----------|--------2----------||--------0----------|--------0----------||
D||------2-------2----|------2------------||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||
A||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------||--3-------3--------|--3-------3--------||
E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------||
1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d E E Am Am
e||------------0------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------||
B||--0----------------|--3---------0------||------------1------|--1---------1------||
G||--------1----------|--------1----------||--0-----2----------|--------2----------||
D||------2-------2----|------2------------||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||
A||--2-------2--------|--2-------2--------||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------||
E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------||
1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d *[VERSES 1, 2, 3] (For Verse 3: First measure Am isn't played)
Am Am C C e||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| B||--1---------1------|--1---------1------||--1---------1------|--1---------1------|| G||--------2----------|--------2----------||--------0----------|--------0----------|| D||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||------2-------2----|------2-------2----|| A||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------||--3-------3--------|--3-------3--------|| E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d
(V.1) My soul is yearn...............ing
(V.2) My load ain't burd................ened
(V.3) A toll has ta..................ken
E E Am Am e||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| B||--0---------0------|--0---------0------||--1---------1------|--1---------1------|| G||--------1----------|--------1----------||--------2----------|--------2----------|| D||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||------2-------2----|------2-------2----|| A||--2-------2--------|--2-------2--------||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------|| E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d
(V.1) and I'm long........ing too.
(V.2) that I count me too.
(V.3) all the song that's in me
Am Am C C e||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| B||--1---------1------|--1---------1------||--1---------1------|--1---------1------|| G||--------2----------|--------2----------||--------0----------|--------0----------|| D||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||------2-------2----|------2-------2----|| A||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------||--3-------3--------|--3-------3--------|| E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d
(V.1) See my day tii.................me,
(V.2) My key, my bo..................dy,
(V.3) The road they're mak.................ing
E E Am Am e||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| B||--0---------0------|--0---------0------||--1---------1------|--1---------1------|| G||--------1----------|--------1----------||--------2----------|--------2----------|| D||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||------2-------2----|------2-------2----|| A||--2-------2--------|--2-------2--------||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------|| E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d
(V.1) see me break.......ing through.
(V.2) all the things that I do.
(V.3)won't take me where I should be.
*[PRECHORUS]
C C B7 B7 e||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| B||--1---------1------|--1---------1------||--0---------0------|--0---------0------|| G||--------0----------|--------0----------||--------2----------|--------2----------|| D||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||------1-------1----|------1-------1----|| A||--3-------3--------|--3-------3--------||--2-------2--------|--2-------2--------|| E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d
(V.1&2) My time is com.................ing
(V.3) My song is com.................ing
Em Em F/A F/A e||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| B||--0---------0------|--0---------0------||--1---------1------|--1---------1------|| G||--------0----------|--------0----------||--------2----------|--------2----------|| D||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||------3-------3----|------3-------3----|| A||--2-------2--------|--2-------2--------||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------|| E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d
(V.1&2)soo....................................................n. So I'm
(V.3) soo....................................................n. So I'm
*[CHORUS 1&2]
C C F/A F/A e||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| B||--1---------1------|--1---------1------||--1---------1------|--1---------1------|| G||--------0----------|--------0----------||--------2----------|--------2----------|| D||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||------3-------3----|------3-------3----|| A||--3-------3--------|--3-------3--------||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------|| E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d
wait................ing, I'll be
C C E E e||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| B||--1---------1------|--1---------1------||--0---------0------|--0---------0------|| G||--------0----------|--------0----------||--------1----------|--------1----------|| D||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||------2-------2----|------2-------2----|| A||--3-------3--------|--3-------3--------||--2-------2--------|--2-------2--------|| E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d
wait................ing, for you my
Am Am
e||-------------------|-------------------|
B||--1---------1------|--1---------1------|
G||--------2----------|--------2----------|
D||------2-------2----|------2-------2----|
A||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------|
E||-------------------|-------------------|
1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d friend.
*[CHORUS 3]
C C F/A F/A e||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| B||--1---------1------|--1---------1------||--1---------1------|--1---------1------|| G||--------0----------|--------0----------||--------2----------|--------2----------|| D||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||------3-------3----|------3-------3----|| A||--3-------3--------|--3-------3--------||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------|| E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d
wait................ing, I'll be
C C F/A F/A e||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| B||--1---------1------|--1---------1------||--1---------1------|--1---------1------|| G||--------0----------|--------0----------||--------2----------|--------2----------|| D||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||------3-------3----|------3-------3----|| A||--3-------3--------|--3-------3--------||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------|| E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d
wait................ing, Always
C C E E e||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| B||--1---------1------|--1---------1------||--0---------0------|--0---------0------|| G||--------0----------|--------0----------||--------1----------|--------1----------|| D||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||------2-------2----|------2-------2----|| A||--3-------3--------|--3-------3--------||--2-------2--------|--2-------2--------|| E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d
wait................ing, for you my
Am Am
e||-------------------|-------------------|
B||--1---------1------|--1---------1------|
G||--------2----------|--------2----------|
D||------2-------2----|------2-------2----|
A||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------|
E||-------------------|-------------------|
1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d friend.
*After VERSE 1, PRECHORUS 1, & CHORUS 1:
Repeat *[GUITAR INTRO/INTERLUDE] and go to VERSE 2
**After VERSE 2, PRECHORUS 2, & CHORUS 2:
Go to BRIDGE
***After VERSE 3, PRECHORUS 3, & CHORUS 3:
[GUITAR INTRO x3; molto crescendo on 3rd repeat; ritardando on last 2 measures; tremolo strum last chord]
*[BRIDGE]
Dm Dm Am Am e||--1---------1------|--1---------1------||-------------------|-------------------|| B||--------3----------|--------3----------||--1---------1------|--1---------1------|| G||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||--------2----------|--------2----------|| D||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------||------2-------2----|------2-------2----|| A||-------------------|-------------------||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------|| E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d
Oooooooo.............oh, will it stay?
Dm Dm G G e||--1---------1------|--1---------1------||-------------------|-------------------|| B||--------3----------|--------3----------||--0---------0------|--0---------0------|| G||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||--------0----------|--------0----------|| D||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------||------2-------2----|------2-------2----|| A||-------------------|-------------------||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------|| E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d
Oooooooo.............oh, will it?
Dm Dm Am Am e||--1---------1------|--1---------1------||-------------------|-------------------|| B||--------3----------|--------3----------||--1---------1------|--1---------1------|| G||------2-------2----|------2-------2----||--------2----------|--------2----------|| D||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------||------2-------2----|------2-------2----|| A||-------------------|-------------------||--0-------0--------|--0-------0--------|| E||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|| 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d 1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d
Oooooooo.............oh, will it break for
E E
e||-------------------|-------------------|
B||--0---------0------|--0---------0------|
G||--------1----------|--------1----------|
D||------2-------2----|------2-------2----|
A||--2-------2--------|--2-------2--------|
E||-------------------|-------------------|
1 d & d 2 d & d 3 d & d 4 d & d me?
*[Go to VERSE 3]