This is my acoustic version of "Something's Missing" by John Mayer. This acoustic
is faithful to the original album version. However, I did make some changes. Such as omitting
slight palm-muted riff played during the first 2 verses and replaced it with
chords to be strummed. I also replaced the sick riff John plays during the chorus over
over with chords that are very fitting. I know music theory, so all chord names are
Enjoy! This song rings perfectly on acoustic!
NOTE: For all verse, chorus, and bridge, I tabbed the chord shapes w/out timing or
pattern. It is crucial you listen to the original album version for timing, etc.
Acoustic guitar
Tuning: (low to high) E-B-E-F#-B-E
INTRO
*up stroke on first C#m7add4: (x20000). Down strokes on rest*
*let ring throughout*
|--0------|--------------------------------------|--------0--||--0------|--------------------------------------|--------0--||--0------|------0------0-----0------0-----------|--------0--||--0------|----0------0------------0----2p0------|--------0--||--2------|--2------4-------0---------------4p0--|--2--2--2--||---------|---------------2------4---------------|-----------|
Repeat above 2 times followed by...
|--0------|--------------------------------------||--0------|--------------------------------------||--0------|------0------0-----0------0-----------||--0------|----0------0------------0-------------||--2------|--2------4-------0-----------2p0------||---------|---------------2------4----------4p0--|
VERSES
C#m7 Emaj7/G# Asus2 G#m7(addb6)|--0-----|--0-----|--0-----|--0----------||--0-----|--0-----|--0-----|--0----------||--2-----|--9-----|--5-----|--0----------||--0-----|--0-----|--5-----|--0----------||--2-----|--9-----|--x-----|--4----------||--------|--------|--5-----|-------------|
*On Asus2, there is a slide/hammer that occurs before going to G#m7(addb6) as below*
|--0--0--0---0--0--0---0---------||--0--0--0---0--0--0---0---------||--5--5--5---5--5--5---5--5/7\5--||--5--5--5---5--5--5---5---------||--x--x--x---x--x--x---x---------||--5--5--5---5--5--5---5---------|
*Of course, repeat these chords as needed for duration of verse*
CHORUS
Esus2 C#m9 Asus2 Bsus2/4 Bsus4|--0-----|--0-----|--0-----|--0-----|--0-----||--0-----|--0-----|--0-----|--0-----|--0-----||--0-----|--9-----|--5-----|--7-----|--0-----||--0-----|--9-----|--5-----|--7-----|--7-----||--0-----|--x-----|--x-----|--x-----|--x-----||--0-----|--9-----|--5-----|--7-----|--7-----|
*Repeat for duration of chorus*
BRIDGE ("I can't be sure that this state-of-mind...")
Asus2type2 A Bsus2 B|--x-------|--x-----|--x-----|--x-----||--5-------|--5-----|--7-----|--7-----||--5-------|--7-----|--7-----|--9-----||--5-------|--5-----|--7-----|--7-----||--x-------|--x-----|--x-----|--x-----||--5-------|--5-----|--7-----|--7-----|
INTERLUDE
C#m9 Emaj7 Asus2 G#m7(addb6)|--0-----|--0-----|--0-----|--0----------||--0-----|--0-----|--0-----|--0----------||--9-----|--9-----|--5-----|--0----------||--0-----|--0-----|--5-----|--0----------||--9-----|--9-----|--x-----|--4----------||--9-----|--0-----|--5-----|-------------|
OUTRO ("Friends...check...money...check...")
Play around with: E5 - C#m7 - Asus2 - B5
