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Shades Of Cool - Lana Del Rey
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Tabbed by: Tom Askin
E-mail: [email protected]
Tuning: standard
Key: Dm
Here's the music for Lana Del Rey's new tune Shades Of Cool.
NOTE! There seems to be two different versions of this song going around, one pitched up a semi-tone.
hit the transpose button depending on what version you have.
Loving the James Bond-esque chromaticism in during the verse,
the close harmony and big reverb give the tune that mysterious edge!
Note for any of you people who write your own songs, a little lesson for you!:
| G Gm Arp |
|And when he calls, he calls for me, and not for you|
Going to chord IV in any key, playing the major so in Dm we go to 'G' then make the same
chord minor 'Gm' is a tried and tested technique used in thousands of songs...It's super effective.
[Intro:]
e|----------------------------|
B|---5-----5-----5-----5------|
G|--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7----|
D|-7--7--8--8--9--9--8--8-----|
A|----------------------------|
E|----------------------------|
[Verse] arpeggiated guitar:
will mark as "Arp" in the lyrics
e|----------------------------|
B|---5--5--5--5--5--5--5------|
G|--7--7--7--7--7--7--7-------|
D|-7--7--8--8--9--8--7--------|
A|----------------------------|
E|----------------------------|
My baby lives in shades of blue
Blue eyes and jazz and attitude
He lives in California too
He drives a Chevy Malibu
G Gm Arp
And when he calls, he calls for me, and not for you
G Gm Arp
He lives for love, he loves his drugs, he loves his baby too
[Pre-Chorus]
Bb C
But I can't fix him, can't make him better
Bb C
And I can't do nothing about this strange weather
[Chorus]
F Cm7
But you are unfixable
Bb C
I..................can't break through your world
F Cm7
?Cause I live in shades of cool
Bb C
Your heart is unbreakable
[Verse 2] - Back to chromatic arpeggio.
e|----------------------------|
B|---5--5--5--5--5--5--5------|
G|--7--7--7--7--7--7--7-------|
D|-7--7--8--8--9--8--7--------|
A|----------------------------|
E|----------------------------|
My baby lives in shades of cool
Cool heart and hands and aptitude
He lives for love, for women too
I'm one of many, one is blue
G Gm
And when he calls, he calls for me, and not for you
G Gm
He prays for love, he prays for peace, and maybe someone new
[Pre-Chorus]
Bb C
But I can't help him, can't make him better
Bb C
And I can't do nothing about this strange weather
[Chorus]
F Cm7
Cause you are unfixable
Bb C
I..................can't break through your world
F Cm7
?Cause I live in shades of cool
Bb C
Your heart is unbreakable
[Guitar Solo]
Play verse arpeggio over this if you're missing out solo
[Chorus]
F Cm7
Cause you are unfixable
Bb C
I..................can't break through your world
F Cm7
?Cause I live in shades of cool
Bb C
Your heart is unbreakable
[Outro]
F/Cm7/Bb/...Dm....(pull off -6-5- on the B string whilst holding the Dm on the last chord.
Email me if anything needs changing, think it's pretty much bang on though.
Enjoy, Tom!
