Hey guys, it is Aaron. It is the last song that I am going to do tonight before bed, but this one is “Watching Airplanes” by Gary Allan. It is a request for some Gary Allan’s stuff in the past and I want to get something up for you.
So, alright, you want to have your capo in II fret, mine is on the III fret because my guitar is tune half step down. So, if your guitar is in standard tuning. Your capo is on the II fret, mine is on the III fret like I said because I am in half step down tuning.
Alright, the chords you are going to play are an E,
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To an A,
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That is kind of a little end to the riff he plays. So, it is E, as your first chord,
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And the top of the tabs, I want to give you here at Ultimate Guitar, they have pictures of chords. So, it is E, here is an A,Cadd9,
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There is a G,
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It is a G6/9 which means you just have to pop fingers on D,
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It is a D6/9 which is this,
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And a D,
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Alright, so the main note that you hear throughout the Verse is sound like this,
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Alright, it is playing like one a,
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I do not know what you call it. Oh, shoot! I cannot remember what it is called, they played one. It is like a little guitar, some like thing, it has an E there. I cannot remember. Anyway, start with your E, you got,
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Switch to A,
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And then Cadd9,
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Down A,
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Back to E.
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So,
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Switch to A.
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Alright, so,
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So E,
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A,
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To Cadd9,
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To A,
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Back to E,
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Like that. So, that is with the first two lines of the Verse are sitting down here is like sitting down here,
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And then E is “checking my watch going on back with my head”,
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So, the Intro does that thing four times, and then at the last line of the Verse where it says “Where those white lights you can brighter”, sits this D, a G6/9,
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And then, it gets into the Chorus, just A,
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Back to A,
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So, I guess it is strum pattern. I mean, I am just,
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Switch,
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And then at the last part where Cadd9 just start, I will go back to slow that strum pattern and I am sorry when I do fast.
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So,
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I made just give you two different patterns, you figure it out. And at the end, we will take off and fly goes,
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Back to A,
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And fly, at Cadd9,
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So,
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Switch to G,
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Starts back over, second Verse, Chorus, try to find the a Bridge, alright.
Bridge, “by now there 30,000 feet above me”, just A,
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Cadd9,
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“But million miles away” the same 6/9,a million miles away, that be D6/9,and the by now, A,
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Cadd9,then you can see the rest of the tabs. So, have some fun with that one and remember, your capo is on II fret, not on the III like mine. So, see you guys.
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