R.E.M. – Nightswimming (Chords)

This one has been on the requests list for an age. I don’t know what took me so long. This is one of my favourite REM songs.

Nightstrumming

Intro: On the G each time:

d u d u – u – – –

Then just down on the next chord.

Everything else: On the Gs play:

d u d u – u d u

Then for the C – D and C – A7 play dudu for each chord.

On the next C strum dud and switch to the G for:

u – u d u

And ending with dudududu on the D.

Together the intro and verse sound like this:

Nightstrumming

Twiddly Bits

A post shared by @ukulelehunt on May 4, 2017 at 9:31am PDT

Here’s my take on the piano riff. The first four bars are the intro. After that it’s the riff that repeats throughout the song. I’ve included a few fretting hand suggestions below the tab.

Links

Buy it on iTunes
Five REM riffs