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Song Example - The Police - Every Breath You Take

Written by Danny Poole | 23 April 2009

Please note that this score is only showing the different progressions and not the correct order. Listen to the song to vet the right sequence of progressions.

Part 1 - MAIN CHORD PROGRESSION

e_breath_chd_1

Gadd9
E||--------------------------|--------------------------|
B||--------------0-----------|--------------0-----------|
G||--------2--------2-----2--|--------2--------2-----2--|
D||-----0-----0--------0-----|-----0-----0--------0-----|
A||--------------------------|--------------------------|
E||--3-----------------------|--3-----------------------|

Emadd9
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|--------------0-----------|--------------0-----------|
|--------4--------4-----4--|--------4--------4-----4--|
|-----2-----2--------2-----|-----2-----2--------2-----|
|--0-----------------------|--0-----------------------|

Csus2 Dsus2
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|--------3-----------------|--------5-----------------|
|--------------5--------5--|--------------7--------7--|
|-----5-----5-----5--------|-----7-----7-----7--------|
|--3-----------------3-----|--5-----------------5-----|
|--------------------------|--------------------------|

Gadd9
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|--------------0-----------|--------------0-----------|
|--------2--------2-----2--|--------2--------2-----2--|
|-----0-----0--------0-----|-----0-----0--------0-----|
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|--3-----------------------|--3-----------------------|

Part 2 - VARIATION ON MAIN CHORDS

e_breath_chd_1

Part 3 - VARIATION

e_breath_chd_3

Csus2
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|--------3-----------------|--------3-----------------|
|--------------5--------5--|--------------5--------5--|
|-----5-----5-----5--------|-----5-----5-----5--------|
|--3-----------------3-----|--3-----------------3-----|
|--------------------------|--------------------------|

Aadd9
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|--------------2-----------|--------------2-----------|
|--------4--------4-----4--|--------4--------4-----4--|
|-----2-----2--------2-----|-----2-----2--------2-----|
|--0-----------------------|--0-----------------------|
|--------------------------|--------------------------|

Dsus2
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|--------5-----------------|--------5-----------------|
|--------------7--------7--|--------------7--------7--|
|-----7-----7-----7--------|-----7-----7-----7--------|
|--5-----------------5-----|--5-----------------5-----|
|--------------------------|--------------------------|

Part 4 - BRIDGE

e_breath_chd_4

D# F
|--3----------------|----------------5-5-|
|--4----------------|----------------6-6-|
|--3----------------|----------------5-5-|
|--5----------------|----------------7-7-|
|--6----------------|----------------8-8-|
|-------------------|--------------------|

D#
|--5----------------|----------------3-3-|
|--6----------------|----------------4-4-|
|--5----------------|----------------3-3-|
|--7----------------|----------------5-5-|
|--8----------------|----------------6-6-|
|-------------------|--------------------|

F
|--3----------------|----------------5-5-|
|--4----------------|----------------6-6-|
|--3----------------|----------------5-5-|
|--5----------------|----------------7-7-|
|--6----------------|----------------8-8-|
|-------------------|--------------------|

|--3----------------|------------------|
|--4----------------|------------------|
|--3----------------|------------------|
|--5----------------|------------------|
|--6----------------|------------------|
|-------------------|------------------|

Part 5 - END

e_breath_chd_5

Gadd9
||---------------------------|--------------------------|
||---------------0-----------|--------------0-----------|
||*--------2--------2-----2--|--------2--------2-----2--|
||*-----0-----0--------0-----|-----0-----0--------0-----|
||---------------------------|--------------------------|
||---3-----------------------|--3-----------------------|

Emadd9 Csus2 3x
|--------------------------|---------------------------||
|--------------------------|--------3------------------||
|--------------0-----------|--------------5--------5--*||
|--------4--------4-----4--|-----5-----5-----5--------*||
|-----2-----2--------2-----|--3-----------------3------||
|--0-----------------------|---------------------------||

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