It's A Wonderful Lie chords.

[MacGyver]

Can someone help me out with the tuning/chords?

[Darin]

I play it in standard tuning. I don't have the whole song tabbed out but here are the chords I use.

G/D (320033)
C(add9)/G (X32033)
Em7 (X22030)
A(sus4) (X02230)

So basically, I play the whole song with my ring finger on D (B string, 3rd fret). Sounds pretty good to me. I think this chord pattern is one he uses quite a bit.... The verses are G/D, C(add9)/G, and Em7. The chorus is A(sus4),Em7, and C(add9)/G.

eg.

G/D
Get up from a dream....
C(add9)/G
Take an....
Em7 C(add9)/G
How'm I feelin' better I suppose
G/D
How'm I lookin....

and for the chorus

A(sus4)
It's a....
Em7 C(add9)/G
Still get get by on those

Hope that makes some sort of sense.....

[Darin]

Hmm, the spacing is messed up.... The C(add9)/G that follows the Em7 should be falling roughly on "suppose" and "those" etc throughout the song.

[MacGyver]

Wow, great job man! It's sounding really good.

It's definitely Asus4 during the first part of the chorus, but I don't know how I feel about the Em7-Cadd9 after it.

[stattic6]

first part of the chorus is Asus4 for sure (x02230), but i play something else (x20230, don't know the chord name offhand, sorry) for the next chord, and then the Cadd9. also, i recommend a capo on the second fret to get it in the key of A (which is what the album recording was in), maintaining all the same chord shapes.

instead of the G/D (320033), i also suggest a Gadd9 (320203). it's a very weird chord shape in standard tuning, but i think it sounds a lot better.

oh, and one more thing: in the second chorus, where paul stops singing after "still get by...", it's Asus4, that second chord i suggested, and then an A major, twice as long as the other two chords. then a Cadd9 and a D. hope this helps!

[stattic6]

fooled around with this one again today, this time in open A tuning. i think the album version might be done in this manner.

if you're going to play in open A, the chords you need to know include:

Aadd9 (x00230)
Dadd9 (x55430)
F#m (242452)
Eadd9 (424252)
B (x2222x)
E/F#m (x77050)

verse is Aadd9, Dadd9, F#m, Dadd9

chorus is F#m, Eadd9, Dadd9, Dadd9

chorus before instrumental verse is F#m, Eadd9, B, B, Dadd9, E/F#m

[mana86]

do you mean this tuning? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W0-UqiVDu8

in this tuning it sounds very strange.