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While My Guitar Gently Weeps, 1 page(s)
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Where are the Chord Diagrams?
With more than one way to play any chord, chord diagrams are not shown with most charts – only the chord name is shown.
For players that already know several voicings for any chord, just play what you already now. For players that don't know a particular chord, there are example chords to play each song available by selecting the "Chords" tab above.
Use these songs to explore a variety of ways to play chords for any particular song.
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Common Keys: Am
First Melodic Interval: P5 ↑ M2
While My Guitar Gently Weeps is a song written by George Harrison of The Beatles for their double album The Beatles (also known as The White Album).
The song was ranked #135 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time and #7 on their list of the 100 greatest guitar songs of all time.
Inspiration for the song came to Harrison when reading the I Ching, which, as he put it, "seemed to me to be based on the Eastern concept that everything is relative to everything else...opposed to the Western view that things are merely coincidental."[5] Taking this idea of relativism to his parents’ home in northern England, Harrison committed to write a song based on the first words he saw upon opening a random book. Those words were “gently weeps”, and he immediately began the song. As he said:
"I wrote "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at my mother's house in Warrington. I was thinking about the Chinese I Ching, the Book of Changes... The Eastern concept is that whatever happens is all meant to be, and that there's no such thing as coincidence - every little item that's going down has a purpose.
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was a simple study based on that theory. I decided to write a song based on the first thing I saw upon opening any book - as it would be a relative to that moment, at that time. I picked up a book at random, opened it, saw 'gently weeps', then laid the book down again and started the song."
- George Harrison – double-tracked vocal, backing vocal, acoustic guitar, Hammond organ
- Paul McCartney – backing vocal, piano, organ, bass
- John Lennon – electric guitar
- Ringo Starr – drums, tambourine
- Eric Clapton – lead guitar
Performance Notes
For the slash chords, the Am/G, Am/F# and Am/F. You can just stick with the basic Am chords. The note after the slash is a descending bass line that we can not get in a ukulele with a high fourth string.
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- Chords Used in While My Guitar Gently Weeps - - C Tuning, High or Low G
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Recommended and Alternate Chord Fingerings
Fingerings are not shown. Any fingering would only be a recommended fingering and not mandatory. For many chords there are alternate fingerings, with any particular fingering dependent how the chord is being used in relationship to its previous chord and the next chord.
A guide to reading a `ukulele chord diagram is available right here on my site.
Alternate voicings for all of these chords are available and should be explored.
Ukulele Chords covers basic open position and basic movable form chords. From these two chord categories a variety of songs and styles can be played.
Seventh chords, Major Sevenths, Minot Sevenths, Diminished, Augmented chords sus and add chords.
Tunings: C low or high “G” - (GCEA or gCEA).
For more information and samples checkout the Ukulele Chords book information.
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Arrangement for a low "G", C tuning and in the original key. This is based on the arrangement that I perform in concert in a George Harrison medley with Here Comes the Sun.
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Song Notes
Chord Names
The chords names for the intro are sometimes shown in sheet music as: Am Am/G D9/F# Fmaj7. I've even seen Am Am/G F#m7b5 Dm7/F. The tonality of those four measures is an Am chord with a descending bass line A G F# F and back to Am. The song House of the Rising Sun has this same type of progression. This makes it a little easier to remember and transpose to different keys.
Chords - A minor Section
||:Am | Am/G | Am/F# | Am/F | Am | G |
1) | D | E :||
2) | C | E ||
A I bVII IV V and the second ending is a bIII V.
Chords - A major Section
A | C#m | F#m | F#m | Bm | Bm | E | E ||
This is a IIII VI III II V [1 3 6 3 2 5] progression. Learning and song by the chords harmonic function in the progressions help in transposing to other keys. And, is easier to remember as there really are not that many different progression out their.
High "G", C Tuning Change
Line 3, measure 3 the last chord needs to be a different voicing than the low "G", C tuning version.
Performance Notes
All notation should be used as a guideline, not a literal transcription of a performance. Make the performance your own. Each time I play this song it is a little different.
Ukulele weeps by Jake Shimabukuro
Jake's well deserved world success was accelerated after this video was shot by Jason Tagg for his show Midnight Ukulele Disco in Strawberry Fields in Central Park. This video on YouTube has received over 8 million views.
While My Guitar Gentely Weeps by Jake Shimabukuro - Curt Shelelr (me)
Web Resources
- While My Guitar(uke) Gently Weeps - Curt Sheller (me)
- Ukulele weeps by Jake Shimabukuro
Jake's well deserved world success was accelerated after this video was shot by Jason Tagg for his show Midnight Ukulele Disco in Strawberry Fields in Central Park. This video on YouTube has received over 5 million views.
- Eric Clapton - While my guitar gently weeps (HQ)(Concert for George)
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- WidipediA: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- WidipediA: Jake Shimabukuro, playing a ukelele in place of the guitar portions of the song, on the album Gently Weeps.
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Exploring Jazz Chords on Ukulele
Exploring Jazz Chords takes the core chords from A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele and shows their use over a variety of common chord progressions based on songs from the standard jazz repertoire.
Building a Solid Jazz Chord Foundation using Seventh, Major Seventh, Major 6, Minor Seventh, Minor Sixth, Diminished Seventh, Minor Seventh Flat Five and Augmented Seventh chords.
Songs include: All of Me, All of Me - Variation, Autumn Leaves, All the Things You Are, Days of Wine and Roses, There Will Never Be Another You, Back Home In Indiana, Someday My Prince Will Come, Have You Met Miss Jones, Summer Samba, Sweet Georgia Brown, Sweet Georgia Brown - Variation, Yesterday, and It’s Only A Paper Moon
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