Chasing Cars Chords | How To Play Chasing Cars On Guitar By Snow Patrol
Chasing Cars By Snow Patrol Overview
Difficulty: Beginner
Video Time: 04:58
Description: In this guitar lesson your going to learn the chasing cars chords as well as the picking and strumming patterns…
Performance Notes For Chasing Cars Chords
In this lesson our lead guitar tutor James Mulligan is going to teach you how to play the chasing cars chords, as well as the picking intro and the basic strumming for the song.
Chasing cars chords and picking is based around the key of A Major and the chords are A Major, E/A and D Major.
To get the best out of this lesson we would highly recommend watching the video and playing through the changes with James as your go through the lesson.
Chasing Cars Chords
Downloads
- Chasing Cars Picking Tab
To play the chasing cars picking like James teaches on the video, download the guitar tablature here for the song…
Chasing Cars Chords/Lyrics
Chasing Cars Chords/Lyrics | Verse
A E/A D A
We’ll do it all, everything, on our own.
A E/A D A
We don’t need anything, or anyone.
A E
If I lay here, if I just lay here
D A
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.
A E/A D A
I don’t quite know how to say how I feel
A E/A D A
Those three words, I said too much, but not enough.
Chasing Cars Chords/Lyrics | Chorus
A E/A
If I lay here, if I just lay here
D A
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.
A E/A
Forget what we’re told, before we get too old
D A
Show me a garden that’s bursting into life.
Chasing Cars/Lyrics | Verse 2
A E/A D A
Let’s waste time, chasing cars, around our heads.
A E/A D A
I need your grace to remind me, to find my own.
Chasing Cars Chords/Lyrics | Chorus 2
A E/A
If I lay here, if I just lay here
D A
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.
A E/A
Forget what we’re told, before we get too old
D A
Show me a garden that’s bursting into life.
A E/A
All that I am, all that I ever was
D A
Is here in your perfect eyes, they’re all I can see
A E/A
I don’t know where, confused about how as well
D A
just know that these things will never change for us at all.
Chasing Cars Chords/Lyrics | Outro
A E/A
If I lay here, if I just lay here
D A
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.
Teacher’s advice for practicing and playing chasing cars chords
“Before you start the introduction download the guitar tablature for the picking, once you’ve done that make sure the picking clean and soft to get the correct effect of the song.
The strumming is pretty straight forward just watch that the chasing cars chords are clean when your strumming the chords.
That’s all the parts of this classic song by Snow Patrol, We hope you’ve gotten a lot from this guitar lesson…and have improved your strumming, picking and chord changes”- Your Guitar Success
The finger hand shows what left hand finger you should fret when playing chords. Match up the your fretting hand with the colour-coded-diagrams.
Teaching You Chasing Cars By Snow Patrol
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