the whole thing is finger picked. it is in drop d tuning. PLEASE DROP D WHEN YOU DO IT otherwise my soul might cry. the key is d major, so for the electric guitars and the synths just diddle around. i am far too lazy to tab each one. i'd suggest you build them around Dsus2, Asus4 and Gmaj7. for your first improvisation try to do nothing lower than D4 (a normal open D string) and higher than G5 (3rd fret on E). of course there are exceptions to this, but hey, i'm just trying to tell you the proper chords, not trying to run your life. remember team, dynamics! and throw as many slides, pull offs and harmonics in there as you can! suggested chord shapes: D - 0002xx G - 5-003x A - xo222x Bm - x24432 E7 - 2201x0 for the D fingerpicking pattern, keep hitting your low D open on each beat. on the upbeat on your high D string it's ascends by a tone (two frets) basically by each bar, then it does the 5-4-2-0 thing. listen and you'll get it. don't be afraid to use your G string (which you should have your 2nd fret down on when appropriate!) to mix it up after that point and before the next set of lyrics. and keep hitting both your D strings too, so you can go diddling with that G string (yes, i totally meant to say that phrase exactly as i did). don't limit yourself to two fingers while fingerpicking! use as many as you can. DHow (xx0232@1)long has it taken me to find you AFive (x02220@1)hundred years, five hundred thousand miles G (320003@1) DIt (xx0232@1)don't matter now G (320003@1) DLove's (xx0232@1)always on time AMeet (x02220@1)me underneath the Oklahoma sky DLightning (xx0232@1)flashed, everything went silent AA (x02220@1)feather could have knocked me to the floor G (320003@1) DMissing (xx0232@1)piece was found G (320003@1) DI (xx0232@1)was finally alive A (x02220@1) DMeet (xx0232@1)me underneath the Oklahoma sky Bm (x24432@1) A (x02220@1) GWith (320003@1)the speed of sound Bm (x24432@1)A (x02220@1) E7 (020130@1) DI'm (xx0232@1)homeward bound mhmm Bridge chords: D A G D G D D A D (just listen for the changes, but i purposely put that group of two D's in there twice so you wouldn't panic cause you didn't change) DAll (xx0232@1)our sorrows swept away forever AEach (x02220@1)and every tear washed out to sea G (320003@1) DThere (xx0232@1)ain't no goodbye G (320003@1) DWith (xx0232@1)your hand in mine A (x02220@1) DMeet (xx0232@1)me underneath the Oklahoma sky A (x02220@1) DOklahoma (xx0232@1)sky it stays as a D until the song is over. please use this opportunity to make it as epic as you can, but for my sake keep those alternating open D's going. use all your fingers! and when you want to end it you can cheap out and just play your two D's together. but if you wanna impress your friends, make it a fast arpeggio with a nice D or Dsus2 chord using all 5 fingers. you could do a couple of cool cadences. the most predicable one is A7 (x02020) to D. if you want to go the cadence route but you don't like predicability of it, do your A7 but throw in some F#-G and back again notes in there, then end it with a D the way that i've suggested you voice it throughout the tab. or you can slow down the main riff as you play it and end with a fully voiced D. or even bring the E7 back into it! yes, most of them sound cheesy, but if you're lacking an extra 2 guitars and a string section you gotta make do sometimes. the main point is, i only made this tab because the chords in the other one didn't have the correct bridge (the Bm and E7), they don't stress the importance of drop d'ing and alternating the open D's, and i have no idea where they got the idea to go to a Csus2 for the meet me under part of the chorus. i saw two 15 year old girls play covers on youtube which lack the two former, and included the latter. it made me slightly angry because such a beautiful song deserves much better.
