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From: Paul Hutchinson (u9343164@qub.ac.uk)
LEARNING HOW TO LOVE YOU - John Hiatt
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|E | | | |A E |B7 | | | | x2
E A E B7
I'm 34 years old now and I've come to you
A E A E B7
Baby I don't even know how I got through
A
From the first kiss in the schoolyard
D A B7
Til the last heart broke in two
A E
I didn't know it would be so hard
A E B7
Learning how to love you
|A/E |E |A/E |E |C#m | |B F#m E|A B | x2
There was a life that I was living in some cracked rear view
Where no future was given to a heart untrue
Still I thought that I was so strong
That my will could force me through
I didn't know it would be so long
Learning how to love you
Learning how to love you
F# E A E
I might have never realised the courage in your kiss
A D A B7
And the sweet forgiveness in your eyes
A E etc
Babe I know you've walked a mile in someone else's shoes
Maybe you've left some faces smiling walking off your blues
And I don't pretend to know how you ever saw it through
Cause I only got to where I am now
Learning how to love you
Learning how to love you
Learning how to love you
Love you
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I'm going to introduce some notation for this song (and this songonly), since the pattern of playing is much the same throughout thesong.For this song, + +|----%-----| |-----------------||----0-----| is equivalent to |-----0-0-0-0-0---||----1-----| |-----1-1-1-1-1---||----%-----| |-----------------||----------| |-----------------||-0--------| |-0---------------|
Verse: + + *|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|-----------------|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-||---0-|---0-|---0-|---0-|-----2-2-----0-0-|---0-|---0-|---0-|---2-||---1-|---1-|---1-|---1-|-------------1-1-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-||---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|-----------------|---%-|-1-%-|---%-|---%-||-----|-2---|-----|-2---|-0---------------|-2---|-----|-2---|-0---||-0---|-----|-0---|-----|---------0-------|-----|-----|-----|-----|
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@+@@@@@@@+@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|-----------------|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-||---0-|---0-|---0-|---0-|-----2-2-----0-0-|---0-|---0-|---0-|---0-||---1-|---1-|---1-|---1-|-------------1-1-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-||---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|-----------------|---%-|-1-%-|---%-|-1-%-||-----|-2---|-----|-2---|-0---------------|-2---|-----|-2---|-----||-0---|-----|-0---|-----|---------0-------|-----|-----|-----|-----|
+ +|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|-------||---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---3-|---2-|---0-|---0-|---0-|----2--||---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|----2--||---%-|-2-%-|---%-|-2-%-|-0-%-|---%-|---%-|-1-%-|---%-|-------||-0---|-----|-0---|-----|-----|-0---|-2---|-----|-2---|/4-----||-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-------|
Then play the section marked by @@@@@
NB The introduction is just the first 2 lines of music with the barmarked with * replaced by + +|-----------------||-----------------||-----------------||-----2-------2---||-2/4-----2h4-----||-----------------|
Chorus: (x2) + + + + + + + +|-----0-0-0-------|-----0-0-0-------|-------0---0-----|-----0-0-0-------||-------------0---|---------0-------|-----0-------0---|---------0-------||-4h6-------------|---------4-------|-4h6-------------|---------4-------||-----------------|-4h6---------6---|-----------------|-4h6-------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-0---------------|-----------------|-0---------------|-------------7---|
+ + + + + + + +|-----9-9---9-----|-----------------|-----------------------|---------||-----9-9---9-----|-------9---------|-----------------------|---------||-------------9---|-----9-----------|-----------------------|---------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------------|---------||-----------------|-9h11----9---x-x-|-9--9--9--9-------7----|-7---7---||-9---------------|-------------x-x-|-11-11-11-9-------7----|-9---7---|
Note 1 - Going into the second verse, the last chord is omitted - hang on
the previous one.
Note 2 - The song finishes with this section played twice. At the end,
slow down and finish with
|-----||-----||-----||-2---||-2---||-2h4-|
Bridge: (I might have never ...) % % + + % %|-----|-----|-----|-----|---%-|---0-|-0-0-|-0---0-0-|-0-0-|-0-0-||---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---0-|---0-|-0-0-|-0---0-0-|-2-2-|-2-2-||---3-|---3-|---3-|---3-|---1-|---2-|-1-%-|-1---1-0-|-2-%-|-2-%-||---4-|---4-|---4-|---4-|---%-|---%-|-2---|-2-----0-|-2---|-2---||---%-|-4-%-|---%-|-4-%-|-----|-2---|-2---|-2-----0-|-0---|-0---||-2---|-----|-2---|-----|-0---|-----|-0---|-0-------|-----|-----|
% % % % % % % % % + +|---0-|---0-|-0-0-|-0-0-|-2-2-|-0-0-|-0-0-|-0-0-|---0-|-------||---0-|---0-|-2-2-|-2-2-|-3-3-|-2-2-|-0-0-|-0-0-|---0-|----2--||---%-|---%-|-2-%-|-2-%-|-2-2-|-2-%-|-2-%-|-2-%-|---%-|----2--||-----|-----|-2---|-2---|-0-%-|-2---|-1---|-1---|-----|-------||-----|-2---|-0---|-0---|-0---|-0---|-2---|-2---|-2---|/4-----||-0---|-----|-----|-----|-2---|-----|-----|-----|-----|-------|
Notation used:
+ = beat marker
h = hammer-on
/ = slide
x = percussive note produced by striking the
string whilst damping with your left hand
Format:
Introduction
Verse
Chorus
Verse
Chorus
Bridge
Verse
Chorus (x2)
