What is up guys! It is Daren. This is a song by Lighthouse called “Whatever it Takes” Let me give you guys a little lesson on how to play this.
The intro sounds like this. It is really one formation with the way I did it. These are not my personal tabs for the song so they might not be exact on how I tab place it but I will try to come up with the way that it is really simple for you guys to learn. All right for the intro, you can either strum it if you want to strum it. If you strum it, I would say that you should play these chords. Take your pointer finger and put it on the first fret of your B string, which is the fifth one from the top and the second one at two from the bottom of the first fret, listen. Then take your ring finger and your pinky and put them on the third frets of the A and B string. Your second and third one is down. It sounds like this. If you want to strum the verse, I would say you do this. I want you to take this ring finger and move it up to here which is the G note. It is the third fret on the lower E. And then take that pinky and sneak it down to high E on the third fret. So from this one, you leave the point finger just where it is, your ring finger up to the third fret and in the low E string, and pinky down to the third fret of the high E string.
For the picking, you are going to do one chord formation in the whole intro in the verse. Pick your pointer finger and put it here again on your B string on the top, second up from the bottom. Put that there. Your pointer finger on the first fret, take this ring finger and put it on the third fret of your lower E. Then on the third string on the top, your D string, put your pinky finger on the third fret. What I want you to do is I want you to take your pick. You want to start on the third string down. So here it goes. Three, four, five, four, six, five, four, five. So go three, four, five, four, six, five, four, five. Then for the second intro, do the exact same thing. But instead of using this d string as a base note, you are going to use your E string. So you go one, four, five, four, six, five, four, five. One, four, five, four, six, five, four, five. That together, it sounds like this.
Then you play that for the intro and then you also play it for the verse. I think you play that three times. Once for the intro maybe. And maybe three times for the verse. Then the pre-chorus, go A minor, so you take third string down, put your middle finger to the second fret. Fourth string down to your G string, ring finger, you want to put that on the second fret. And then your B string, pointer finger on first fret. When it says you, use G which is the middle finger, third fret, pointer finger, second, open, open and your ring and pinky finger on third frets. From this, go to D. From that G to D with your middle finger here so this is going to stay on this B string, third fret. You come up here and go open, open, open, pointer finger on the second, ring finger on the third fret and middle finger second. Then the second line of pre-chorus is A minor, G and then back to the chord that you do with the intro where you have your pointer finger, first fret of the fifth string down your B string. And then these two fingers go here on the second third string down to third fret.
So that is where you guys end the pre-chorus. Then for the chorus, go to C chord which is second string down, third fret with your ring finger, third string down, second fret with your middle finger. And the fifth string down, pointer finger on the first fret. Then put your pinky finger down here on this B string. And your middle finger that is here previously on the third string, move up to the second string, second fret and try not to play that E string. So that should sound like this. Then back to A minor then we have ring and pinky third fret, fifth string, first fret pointer. And then back to C, A minor back on this one that goes in the intro. You play the verse again. Second verse is the same picking or strumming, whatever is up to you. The pre-chorus is the same. The second chorus is the same.
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