WAITING FOR SOMEBODY (CFMT version)
I always loved the riff in this song, so I finally got down to learning this today. I picked up a guitar that was in open G tuning, mistakenly thinking that the song was in this tuning. I was using the version on the CFMT DVD to help me out. There isn’t too much footage of his hand, but I could see a little hammer-on part on the B string, which let me know that the tuning I had was a bit off. After a bit more experimenting, I finally figured it out. For such a simple sounding song, this one took awhile to figure out.
Tuning (low to high) = D, G, C, F, A, D or (E, A, D, G, B, E for the studio version of the song)
INTRO: D---3---3---3--------------------------------3--- A---1---1---1--------0---1---0---1---0---0---0--- F---0---0---0--------0---0---0---0---0---0---0--- C---3---3---3--------0---0---0---0---0---0---0--- G---3---3---3--------x---x---x---x---x---x---x--- D--------------------3---3---3---3---3---3---3--- MAIN RIFF: D-------------------------------------- A---1---3---3---0-h-1----1---1---1----- F---x---x---0---2--------0---2---0----- C---3---3---x---2--------3---3---3----- G---3---3---3---0---------------------- D-----------3-------------------------- D------------------------------------- A---1---3---3---0-h-1----1------------ F---x---x---0---2--------0------------ C---3---3---x---2--------3------------ G---3---3---3---0--------3------------ D-----------3------------------------- ………….I’ve been waiting for the day D------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A---1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------------------------------------- F---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0--- C---2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---3-3-3-3---2-2-2-2---0-0-0-0---2-2-2-2--- G---3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3---2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x----x-x-x-x-- D---------------------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---3-3-3-3---3-3-3-3---3-3-3-3---3-3-3-3--- D-------------------------------------------------------------------------3-3--- A---1-1-1-1---1-1-1-1---1-1-1-1---1-1-1-1---------------------------------0-0--- F---0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0---0-0--- C---3-3-3-3---2-2-2-2---0-0-0-0---2-2-2-2---3-3-3-3---2-2-2-2---0-0-0-0---0-0--- G---3-3-3-3---3-3-3-3---3-3-3-3---3-3-3-3-- x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x---x-x--- D-------------------------------------------3-3-3-3---3-3-3-3---3-3-3-3---3-3--- ….somebody….somebody….. D--------------------0------------0-------- A---1---3---3---------1------------1------- F---x---x---0------------2------------0---- C---3---3---x---2-------------3------------ G---3---3---3---0-------------------------- D-----------3------------------------------
I think this should cover the basics of the song. Feel free to make any additions or corrections.
GtrPlyr