Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Tab)
Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? is one of the most lyrically disastrous songs ever written. But since this is an instrumental, we can ignore that.
The chords simple; just F, G and C with a few D minors and A minors thrown in.
The melody gets a little fiddly though. And it wanders all over the fretboard. A couple of bits to look out for are Bono’s legendary “Tonight thank God…” (in bars 38 and 39) and the pinkie stretch to the fifth fret in bar 32. You can make that part easier by using the open E-string instead of holding the third fret.
The other challenge is memorising it all. There are no repeats until the chorus right at the end of the song.
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