God Put A Smile Upon Your Face Tab

by Coldplay
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Author Hound_Of_Winter [a] 160.
1 contributor total, last edit on Nov 7, 2016
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Tab key:
^ = slur (hold the note that comes before this & don't pick the note that follows this)
s = slide
 
Tuning Guitars 1 & 2 (Acoustic):
c##|--
C#|--
G#|--
C#|--
C#|--
E#|--
Tuning Guitar 3 (Electric): Standard
 
With that cleared up, let's have us a song, alright?
 
[Intro] (Guitar 1)
    C#             E6             D#7            D#7    Dmaj7
C#|----0----0----|----0----0----|----0----0----|----0-----0----|
C#|----0----0----|----0----0----|----0----0----|----0-----0----|
G#|----0----0----|----0----0----|----0----0----|----0-----0----|
C#|-0--0--0-0--0-|-3--3--3-3--3-|-2--2--2-2--2-|-2--2---1-1----|
C#|-0-----0----0-|-3-----3----3-|-2-----2----2-|-2----0-1----1-|
E#|-0-----0----0-|-3-----3----3-|-2-----2----2-|-2----0-1----1-|
 
    C#             E6             D#7            Dmaj7
C#|----0----0----|----0----0----|----0----0----|----0-----0----|
C#|----0----0----|----0----0----|----0----0----|----0-----0----|
G#|----0----0----|----0----0----|----0----0----|----0-----0----|
C#|-0--0--0-0--0-|-3--3--3-3--3-|-2--2--2-2--2-|-1--1-1-1-1----|
C#|-0-----0----0-|-3-----3----3-|-2-----2----2-|-1----1-1----1-|
E#|-0-----0----0-|-3-----3----3-|-2-----2----2-|-1----1-1----1-|
 
Guitar 2 plays the same thing with some added notes on the low strings between chord changes.
 
[Verse] Guitars 1 & 2, repeat the intro.
 
[Main Riff] Guitars 1 & 2 keeping repeating the intro.
            Guitar 3's part goes like this
 
                                                  (1st Repeat)
e|-------------|----------------|----|-----------|----------------|
B|-----14^12---|----------------|----|-----------|------14^12-----|
G|-----------13^16~~~16s13------|----|-----------|------------13--|s
D|-------------|-----------14s17~~~~~~~~~~~14--14s11~~~-----------|
A|-------------|----------------|----|-----------|----------------|
E|-------------|----------------|----|-----------|----------------|
 
                                                  (Verse)
e|-------------|----------------|----|-----------|--------------|
B|-----14^12---|----------------|----|-----------|--------------|
G|-----------13^16~~~16s13------|----|-----------|--------------|
D|-------------|-----------14s14~~~~~~16-------16s11~~~~~~~~~~~~|
A|-------------|----------------|----|-----------|--------------|
E|-------------|----------------|----|-----------|--------------|
 
[Verse 2] Guitars 1 & 2, same stuff over and over again :)
          Guitar 3 sits pretty for 8 bars (2 Verse Repetitions), then:
 
e|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|-----------------|
B|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|-----------------|
G|-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-|-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-|-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6|-6-6-6-6-8-9-8-6-|
D|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|-----------------|
A|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|-----------------|
E|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|-----------------|
  (Repeat once)
 
Then the chorus, Guitars 1 & 2 finally get to play something different, well actually,
just playing chords again, but these are different. Just play chords as shown (look
to chord chart for the chords not shown in the intro) with same rhythm as Guitar 3;
whose part is shown here for the...
 
[Chorus]
   Amaj7                                         E6                 F#add9
e|-16--16--16-16-16-16~|~~16-16-16-16-16-16-16~|~~16-16-16-16-16-16-16~~-|
B|-12--12--12-12-12-12~|~~12-12-12-12-12-12-12~|~~12-12-12-12-12-12-12~~-|
G|-13--13--13-13-13-13~|~~13-13-13-13-13-13-13~|~~13-13-13-13-13-13-13~~-|
D|---------------------|-----------------------|-------------------------|
A|---------------------|-----------------------|-------------------------|
E|---------------------|-----------------------|-------------------------|
 
e|-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-|
B|-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-|
G|-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-|
D|----------------------|
A|----------------------|
E|----------------------|
 
Repeat [Chorus] Once
 
Song elements are repeated, I'm think you can figure out the order. When the verse that
up to the final series of chorus, it sounds to me like there's another guitar there or
3 is playing something different from the G|-6-6-6-6.... thing. It sounds fine if you play it like this:
 
e|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-9--|-9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--|
B|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-11-|-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-|
G|-----------------|------------------|-------------------------|
D|-----------------|------------------|-------------------------|
A|-----------------|------------------|-------------------------|
E|-----------------|------------------|-------------------------|
 
You can figure out the rest from there. I hope my tab didn't suck! If you have any
feel free to make them without asking. Cheers.
 
Guitar 1 & 2 chords not in the intro (rather, in the chorus):
 
    Amaj7  F#add9
C#|-0----|-0-----|
C#|-0----|-0-----|
G#|-0----|-0-----|
E#|-8----|-5-----|
C#|-8----|-5-----|
C#|-8----|-5-----|
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5 comments
okJAM
Youve wrote down the tuning notes wrong way around it should be E = C# A = C# D = E# - This is actually an F but they still call it a E# even in the book G = G# B = C# e = C#
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chokes ondick
not at all
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kttunstallator3
do u have 2 tune it to this tuning? u can't play it with standard at all?
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