The basis for the intro and verse for James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" is a series of chords with a common held note:
The chords are Eb, Eb/D, Cminor7 and Ab major. The Eb is common to all these chords.
Eb/D means an Eb chord with a D in the bass. A common way to play this is to start with the major chord in the
standard barred way:
and then slide the second finger down the fret whilst keeping the other fingers in place:
Now let's create a guitar riff in the style of the opening bars of the piece:
When we place this over the chord progression we saw above, you can begin to see how it pretty much fits with any of them -
an economic use of notes!
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You're Beautiful Performed by James Blunt. Piano Vocal (Arranged for piano and voice with guitar chords). Size 9x12 inches. 6 pages. Published by Hal Leonard. (353075) See more info...
Lyrics
My life is brilliant, My love is pure, I saw an angel, Of that I'm sure.
You're Beautiful "By James Blunt. For voice, piano and guitar (chords only). Piano Vocal. Pop and Pop Rock. Difficulty: medium. Single. Vocal melody, lyrics, piano accompaniment, chord names and guitar chord diagrams. 6 pages. Published by Hal Leonard"
Back to Bedlam "By James Blunt. For voice, piano and guitar (chords only). P/V/C. The debut album from this soulful British rock crooner includes the smash hit You're Beautiful plus: High, Wisemen and So Long. Pop. Songbook. Vocal melody, lyrics, piano accompaniment, ch
You're Beautiful By James Blunt. Arranged by Michael Brown. Score & Parts. Score and full set of parts.. Young Concert Band. Grade 3. Published by Hal Leonard
