Jonathan Coulton and GLaDOS – Want You Gone (Chords)
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Portal 1 is easily the best satire of working for a large corporation with all the jumping through hoops, monitoring, lies and promises of far off rewards. It’s a shame games rarely go for satire because they’re one of the best mediums for it.
Portal 2 does a similar job by making us forget everything we learn in Portal 1 and make us put power in the hands of one being and hope that this time everything will be cool. Replicating the hope-over-experience of countries who sell arms to non-democratic countries and organisations again and again and again and again and again each time saying, “You better turn out to be pretty cool or I’m going to be pissed.” I could easily go on and on about the game but I should move on to the song.
No ukulele this time and it doesn’t transfer entirely happily. But you can still make a good fist of it.
Twiddly Bits
You can play the little riff like this:
Suggested Strumming
I think the riff sounds better on uke if you include the chords with it (shown in the chord chart). That beefs it up a bit and means you can play it an octave lower. You can strum this for the first chord in the riff:
d – d – d – d u
Then switch to this for the next chord:
d – d –
Then stop.
That sounds like this:
In the chorus you can just switch between the usual F# and B chord shapes, but the ones shown keep the ascending sound. Either way, you can use this strumming pattern:
d – d – d u d u
Once for each chord.
Dare I say this is much more catchy than Still Alive? And Portal 2 has been the only game I’ve bought this year, totally worth it. Fun to play along with even though it’s weird, cheers for putting it up!