hey all,

i play the guitar. do you? what prince songs do you love to play? feel like posting a tab for it? DO IT! :>) why is it so hard to find prince tabs? help!


joe

hmmmm i think i might have posted this in the wrong forum....let's see what happens. sorry if i did

joe

no worries!

OrgNote me- I've got guitar tabs to 28 Prince songs.

PRINCE: Purple Rain
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Used chords are:

C major [C]

|---|---|---|---|---
|-1-|---|---|---|---
|---|---|---|---|---
|---|-2-|---|---|---
|---|---|-3-|---|---
|---|---|---|---|---

A minor 7 [Am7]

|---|---|---|---|---
|-1-|---|---|---|---
|---|---|---|---|---
|---|-2-|---|---|---
|---|---|---|---|---
|---|---|---|---|---

G major [G]

|---|---|-4-|---|---
|---|---|---|---|---
|---|---|---|---|---
|---|---|---|---|---
|---|-1-|---|---|---
|---|---|-2-|---|---

F major [F]

|-1-|---|---|---|--- |-1-|---|---|---|---
|-1-|---|---|---|--- |-1-|---|---|---|---
|-1-|-2-|---|---|--- or |---|-2-|---|---|---
|-1-|---|-4-|---|--- |---|---|-4-|---|---
|-1-|---|-3-|---|--- |---|---|-3-|---|---
|-1-|---|---|---|--- |---|---|---|---|--- x

F major 4 [F4]

|-1-|---|---|---|--- |-1-|---|---|---|---
|-1-|---|---|---|--- |-1-|---|---|---|---
|-1-|---|-4-|---|--- or |---|---|-4-|---|---
|-1-|---|-3-|---|--- |---|---|-3-|---|---
|-1-|---|---|---|--- x |---|---|---|---|--- x
|-1-|---|---|---|--- |---|---|---|---|--- x

Intro: C, C, Am7, Am7, G, G, F, F

PRINCE: Sometimes it Snows in April

Here are the chords:

The verses are over an E, F#m (barre 2nd), A

the chorus chords are:
C#7 Bb B
E/G# G#7 sus4 F#/G# sus2 (addC#) F#
e I---0---I---4---I---4---I---2---I---1----I---4---I---2---I
B I---0---I---4---I---7---I---2---I---1----I---4---I---2---I
G I---4---I---5---I---4---I---3---I---3----I---6---I---3---I
D I---2---I---4---I---6---I---4---I---3----I---4---I---4---I
A I---x---I---6---I---4---I---x---I---1----I---x---I---4---I
E I---4---I---4---I---4---I---4---I---1----I---7---I---2---I


Verses

E F#m A
Tracy died soon after a long fought civil war

etc..

Chorus

A E/G# A E/G#
Sometimes it snows in April
A G#7 C#m7sus4
Sometimes I feel so bad...so bad
A Bbsus2 B(addC#)
Sometimes I wish that life was never ending
F# B(addC#) E
And all good things they say never last


And the last time through play the ending line:

F# B E
And love isn't love until it's past

anyone have a good tab of Shy?

joe

There's lots of tabs. Just type in "Prince guitar tabs" in your search bar.

Here's a good website with a lot of tabs: http://www.fretplay.com/tabs/p/prince/

If you don't see what you want there, just ask here. Someone will know it.

Funky!

RodeoSchro said:

thanks but i've seen those. in the scope of how many songs prince has, what is avaliable is nothing.
i'd really love SHY, the ride, beautiful night, and i'd take pretty much anything other then what is already out there. thanks guys!

joe

Song: Joy in Repetition
Artist: Prince

There are three chords, well make it four.

Abm Cm7 Fm Abm/Db
e I--4---I---3---I---1---I---4----I
B I--4---I---4---I---1---I---4----I
G I--4---I---3---I---1---I---4----I
D I--6---I---5---I---3---I---x----I
A I--6---I---3---I---3---I---4----I
E I--4---I---3---I---1---I-----I

It starts off using the Abm chord but quickly changes to the Abm/Db

Abm Cm7 Fm
Talkin 2 no one in particuar they say, "the badest I am 2night"
Abm Cm7 Fm
4 letter words are seldom heard with such dignity and bite
(switch to the Abm/Db)
Abm/Db Cm7 Fm
All the poets and the part-time singers always hang inside
Abm/Db Cm7 Fm
Live music from a band plays a song called "soul psychodelicide"
etc...

4 The Tears In Your Eyes

INTRO:
muted with right hand 2x's
D A
||-----|-----|-----||
||---3--3--3--2--2--2--2--|-----|--3--||
||---2--2--2--2--2--2--2--|--3--3--3--3--2--2--2--2--*|--2--||
||---0--0--0--0--0--0--0--|--3--3--3--3--2--2--2--2--*|--0--||
||-----|--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0---|--0--||
||-----|-----|-----||

VERSE 1:
(play the above intro figure during the verses)
D A
Long ago, there was a man
D A
He changed stone to bread with the touch of his hand
D A
He made the blind see
D A
And the dumb understand

E A
||-----0-----||
||-----0-----2-----||
||-----1-----2-----||
||-----2-----2-----||
||-----2-----0-----||
||-----0-----||
He died for the tears in your eyes, your eyes

VERSE 2
INTRO W/ E and A chords (like in the verses)
CHORUS:
G

"Peach", by Prince

(spoken intro skipped)

Beginning / on "She's a peach"
G -----
D -----
A -5-3-2-1-0-----
E -----3-4-5----


G -----
D -----
A -5---5-5-5-5-5-5---- *4
E -----
She was dark,
she was tan
She made me
glad to be a man

G -----
D -----
A ----- *2
E -3---3-3-3-3-3-3----
She was young
she was smart

G -----
D -----
A -5---5-5-5-5-5-5---- *2
E -----
Just one glance
and she stole my heart

G -----
D -----
E -2-----
A -----3-----
The kinda girl you wanna teach

CynthiasSocks said:

ROCKIN' ....Prince in the Video...speaking about Mayte..."Oh Oh shes got those Gold hot pants on again!"

Alright, I agree! There are a lot of Prince tabs out there but they are either incomplete, losuy, or down right wrong. We need to all band together and find these or start creating our own. I have been trying to figure out how to play a lot of the live acoustic stuff from the Musicology tour last year. They only tab I have been able to find is the live acoustic version of Little Red Corvette. But where is the Adore tab? Or the Forever In My Life Tab? Or the Cream tab? Come one people I know they have to be out there. Or are there any very experienced guitar players on here that can assist with creating some. It would be awesome if next time you are hanging out with your friends you could bust out some acoustic stuff of Prince. Let me know what you guys think I have only been playing for 3 years so I am not the best but i can help. Let's do this!

Great topic

Sometimes I try to play along to songs trying to figure out the chords but that's quite difficult.


Are there any official guitar books?

I've got heaps of Sheet music if anyone is interested. And yes there are books out there,

The chords in these sheets I've got used are simple and easy to follow;

E.g. Little Red Crovette;

Gx2 A d
Little Red Cor Vette

I use them to get me going and then use more complicated chords and Barre Chords to play songs.

PBS - I would be super interested in the sheet music that you have. What other songs do you have?

RobDogg27 said:

I've got heaps, Alphabet St, Purple Rain, Shh.

Are there any songs you are after, if so post me!

PBS said:

Yeah, really anything that would sound cool acoustic. I am in particular looking for Forever In My Life, Pink Cashmere and Adore. These are all songs that I have copies of acoustic and live and I think it would be cool to be able to play these. Is there any way you could compile a list or is that way too much? Let me know, I can give you my E-Mail address. Thanks!