Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams

Tabbed by [email protected]

 

The verses are just D A D A ... as many as needed  with the change

occurring on every second bar. There is an additional two bars of D

at the start as well.

The way to play it is something like this:

     

 D.   .   .   .     .   .   .   .     D.   .   .   .     .   .   .   .

|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|

|-3-----3---------|-----------------||-3-----3---------|-------------3---|

|-2---2-2---2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-----||-2---2-2---2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---|

|-0---0-0---0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---||-0---0-0---0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---|

|-----------------|-------------0---||-----------------|-----------------|

|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|

 A.   .   .   .     .   .   .   .

|-----------------|-----------------||

|-----------------|-----------------||  repeat last 4 bars throughout

|-2-----2---------|-------------2---||  verses.

|-2---2-2---2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---||

|-0---0-0---0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---||

|-----------------|-----------------||

 The dots show the beat.

Use moderate amounts of overdrive, and mute the 2's with your palm to get

the distinctive percussive sound.               0

 

The Chorus chords are |Bm|A|D|G|Bm|A|D|G|Bm|A| (I use B instead of Bm)

use standard open A,D, and G and a barred A shape for B. 

 

The keyboard riff is sort of an arpegiated D and A ie.

 D                                    A

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

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

|-----2-----2-----|-2-----2---2---2-|---2-----2-----3-|-----2------------|

|-----------------|-----------------|-----2-----2-----|-2-----2----2---2-|

|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|

|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|

 

This sounds a bit messy with overdrive, so play it clean, or (even easier)

just play the melody part (which is mainly what you hear on the CD anyway)

 

e|-0-----2-----3---|---2-----0---2---|-----------------|------------------|

b|-----------------|-----------------|-0-----2-----3---|---2-----0---2----|

 

For the key change after the second chorus, the chords are:

|F|Bb|C|Bb|F|Bb|C|C|  again use the barred A shape for Bb and C.

That's about all for Summer of '69