Basia Bulat – Sparrow (Chords)
While you’re waiting for me to get more Beirut stuff together, here’s one from their recent support act Basia Bulat.
Suggested Strumming
The song is in 3/4 time. You can just use three down strums:
d – d – d –
Twice for each chord (apart from the fancy bits and the end of the verses and first chorus).
But you can fancy it up by playing a touch strum (t) as the first strum:
t – d – d –
For the touch strum you only do a half strum (hitting just the g and C strings). Although I like to do the IZ thing and pluck the g-string with my thumb then do two down strums.
Twiddly Bits
In the chart I’ve written up the verse ends as C6 and C7. But she actually hammers-on the g-string notes like this:
She does an extended version of this at the end of the first verse (don’t play it at the end of the second verse).
Sooo beautiful. Thank you for this one, goes to the top of my “master it soon” list.