Your Love Is Forever by George Harrison [DADF#AD]

[Richard Peikoff]

Your Love Is Forever by George Harrison [DADF#AD]

The altered tuning that Harrison uses on this tune: DADF#AD is a tried and true tuning. One easy way into this altered tuning is to see that the open strings and all bar chords across the same fret produce a major triad. Therefore open would be D, 5th fret: G, 7th fret A, 10th fret C. He uses all of these in this song. So far so good for the first shape he utilizes.

Now play an E7 shape [as it would appear in standard tuning] at the 2nd fret: 6th string open, 5th string 2nd fret, 4th string open, 3rd string 1st fret, 2nd & 1st strings open. This shape in this tuning produces a sus 2 chord, in this position a Gsus2 [from low to high: DGDGAD]. This G chord in relation to the open strings is a 4th higher than the D chord {DEF#G=1234]. Therefore when you move it up the neck it's relative.

In this song Harrison uses the shape fingered at the 2nd fret [as mentioned above] and he also
uses it above a full bar across all strings @ the 5th fret [Csus2], 7th fret [Dsus2] as well as the 10th fret [Fsus2].

These two shapes plus the harmonics that Harrison is playing across all 6 strings at the 5th, 7th, and 12th frets [at the 0:18, 0:58, & 2:07 second cues in the song] are predominantly the fingerings for this piece.

Also whenever he returns to the D Major 7 chords we have several options. I suggest locating several roots [D] and play with the natural sounds of the open strings plus the addition of the major 7th: C# which lives 1 fret below any of these roots. To my ear though his fingering seems to be taking place at the 7th fret, moving through the barre and Dsus2 chord.


Note:
'-' = 1 bar of 4/4
bpm:
D...A...D..F#.A...D
6...5...4...3...2...1: Chords

[Under Construction: 5`13`05]


Intro [0:00]
Dsus2-A-Csus2G-GA
[Voicings on the 7th/9th frets followed by 5th/7th frets].


Verse [0:11]
D-.................Dmaj7-...................... D-D...monix-
Sublime is the summertime, warm and lazy.
D-....................Dmaj7-...................D-...........D-
These are perfect days like Heaven's about here.

Chorus: [0:30]
G-........................A-.......................
But unlike summer came and went,
Dmaj7-...........Dmaj7-
Your love is forever;
D-
I feel it and my heart knows,
A-........................Csus2G- GA-
That we share it together .


Verse [0:50]
D.-...................Dmaj7-....................D-.......D[monix]-
Resigned to the wintertime's cold and dreary.
D-...............Dmaj7-...................D-......D-
Peering into fire flames, burning I know.


Chorus [1:10]
G-.....................A-.......................
That unlike winter came and went,
Dmaj7.-..........Dmaj7-
Your love is forever,
...D-.........................................
I feel it and my heart knows
A-........................Csus2G- GA-
That we share it together


Bridge [1:29]
D-......................................A-..............
I feel it and my heart knows you're the one,
Fsus2.........................C-....................
Guiding light in all your love shines on ,
........D-.....................A-
The only lover worth it all,
.....................Csus2G- Gsus2 D-
Your love is forever,..........ooh ooh.


Interlude: [1:49] G-G-G-G-


Slide Solo [1:59] 8 BARS

Chorus [2:19]
G-........................A-.....................
That unlike summer it came and went,
Dmaj7...........Dmaj7-
Your love is forever,
...D-........................................
I feel it and my heart knows
A-........................Csus2G- GA-
That we share it together


Slide Theme [2:39] D-A-Fsus2-C-

Closure (1/2 Bridge) [2:49]
........D-....................A-
The only lover worth it all,
...................Csus2G- Gsus2 D-
Your love is forever...............fin [3:03]


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rPeikoff :)

[Johnny X]

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That's awesome!! Thank you very much!!

Can you e-mail that aligned version to:

[email protected] ?

Thanks for taking the time.
I know you wouldn't do it for just
any song, but this song is special.
You could sing it in Church because it's very spiritual too.

That's why I love George so much.

Another great song on that album is:

Dark Sweet Lady

http://www.johnnybrooks.com/various/...Sweet-Lady.mp3

But I know how to play that one.
It's very simple.

Thanks again, I'm eternally grateful, God Bless...



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[TimB]

Thanks also, that is one of my favorite songs.

-=Tim=-

[J.R. Rogers]

I have no idea why vBulletin is removing the tabs and wont do a fixed spacing font. Anyone have any ideas?

JR

[Richard Peikoff]

I appreciate your efforts JR.

[Johnny X]

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Originally Posted by iDick

Is that the correct date of birth for you in your profile?
If so I feel honored. Peace iDick

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Birthday: July 10, 1915



Yeah he ages better than Dick Clark,
and he's better lookin' too !! _______________


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[Richard Peikoff]

Note: I have added ellipses (......) in order to compensate for chords being compressed to the left margin. This is a cleaner post for having done so. Enjoy it.

[Bob Womack]

Thread was cleaned up at the request of iDick.

Bob

[Richard Peikoff]

Originally Posted by Bob Womack

Thread was cleaned up at the request of iDick.

Bob

I appreciate that.