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John Hiatt – Learning How To Love You tab
#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: Paul Hutchinson (u9343164@qub.ac.uk) LEARNING HOW TO LOVE YOU - John Hiatt ------------------------------------- |E | | | |A E |B7 | | | | x2 E A E B7 I'm 34 years old now and I've come to you A E A E B7 Baby I don't even know how I got through A From the first kiss in the schoolyard D A B7 Til the last heart broke in two A E I didn't know it would be so hard A E B7 Learning how to love you |A/E |E |A/E |E |C#m | |B F#m E|A B | x2 There was a life that I was living in some cracked rear view Where no future was given to a heart untrue Still I thought that I was so strong That my will could force me through I didn't know it would be so long Learning how to love you Learning how to love you F# E A E I might have never realised the courage in your kiss A D A B7 And the sweet forgiveness in your eyes A E etc Babe I know you've walked a mile in someone else's shoes Maybe you've left some faces smiling walking off your blues And I don't pretend to know how you ever saw it through Cause I only got to where I am now Learning how to love you Learning how to love you Learning how to love you Love you ---------I'm going to introduce some notation for this song (and this songonly), since the pattern of playing is much the same throughout thesong.For this song, + +|----%-----| |-----------------||----0-----| is equivalent to |-----0-0-0-0-0---||----1-----| |-----1-1-1-1-1---||----%-----| |-----------------||----------| |-----------------||-0--------| |-0---------------|Verse: + + *|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|-----------------|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-||---0-|---0-|---0-|---0-|-----2-2-----0-0-|---0-|---0-|---0-|---2-||---1-|---1-|---1-|---1-|-------------1-1-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-||---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|-----------------|---%-|-1-%-|---%-|---%-||-----|-2---|-----|-2---|-0---------------|-2---|-----|-2---|-0---||-0---|-----|-0---|-----|---------0-------|-----|-----|-----|-----|@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@+@@@@@@@+@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|-----------------|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-||---0-|---0-|---0-|---0-|-----2-2-----0-0-|---0-|---0-|---0-|---0-||---1-|---1-|---1-|---1-|-------------1-1-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-||---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|-----------------|---%-|-1-%-|---%-|-1-%-||-----|-2---|-----|-2---|-0---------------|-2---|-----|-2---|-----||-0---|-----|-0---|-----|---------0-------|-----|-----|-----|-----|+ +|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|-------||---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---3-|---2-|---0-|---0-|---0-|----2--||---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|----2--||---%-|-2-%-|---%-|-2-%-|-0-%-|---%-|---%-|-1-%-|---%-|-------||-0---|-----|-0---|-----|-----|-0---|-2---|-----|-2---|/4-----||-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-------|Then play the section marked by @@@@@NB The introduction is just the first 2 lines of music with the barmarked with * replaced by + +|-----------------||-----------------||-----------------||-----2-------2---||-2/4-----2h4-----||-----------------|Chorus: (x2) + + + + + + + +|-----0-0-0-------|-----0-0-0-------|-------0---0-----|-----0-0-0-------||-------------0---|---------0-------|-----0-------0---|---------0-------||-4h6-------------|---------4-------|-4h6-------------|---------4-------||-----------------|-4h6---------6---|-----------------|-4h6-------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-0---------------|-----------------|-0---------------|-------------7---|+ + + + + + + +|-----9-9---9-----|-----------------|-----------------------|---------||-----9-9---9-----|-------9---------|-----------------------|---------||-------------9---|-----9-----------|-----------------------|---------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------------|---------||-----------------|-9h11----9---x-x-|-9--9--9--9-------7----|-7---7---||-9---------------|-------------x-x-|-11-11-11-9-------7----|-9---7---|Note 1 - Going into the second verse, the last chord is omitted - hang on the previous one. Note 2 - The song finishes with this section played twice. At the end, slow down and finish with|-----||-----||-----||-2---||-2---||-2h4-|Bridge: (I might have never ...) % % + + % %|-----|-----|-----|-----|---%-|---0-|-0-0-|-0---0-0-|-0-0-|-0-0-||---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---0-|---0-|-0-0-|-0---0-0-|-2-2-|-2-2-||---3-|---3-|---3-|---3-|---1-|---2-|-1-%-|-1---1-0-|-2-%-|-2-%-||---4-|---4-|---4-|---4-|---%-|---%-|-2---|-2-----0-|-2---|-2---||---%-|-4-%-|---%-|-4-%-|-----|-2---|-2---|-2-----0-|-0---|-0---||-2---|-----|-2---|-----|-0---|-----|-0---|-0-------|-----|-----|% % % % % % % % % + +|---0-|---0-|-0-0-|-0-0-|-2-2-|-0-0-|-0-0-|-0-0-|---0-|-------||---0-|---0-|-2-2-|-2-2-|-3-3-|-2-2-|-0-0-|-0-0-|---0-|----2--||---%-|---%-|-2-%-|-2-%-|-2-2-|-2-%-|-2-%-|-2-%-|---%-|----2--||-----|-----|-2---|-2---|-0-%-|-2---|-1---|-1---|-----|-------||-----|-2---|-0---|-0---|-0---|-0---|-2---|-2---|-2---|/4-----||-0---|-----|-----|-----|-2---|-----|-----|-----|-----|-------|Notation used: + = beat marker h = hammer-on / = slide x = percussive note produced by striking the string whilst damping with your left hand Format: Introduction Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge Verse Chorus (x2)