The Cure
Seventeen Seconds
Transcribed by: Mario Dorion and Jamie Carpenter
17 seconds
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A F
Time slips away
A F
and the light begins to fade
A F
Everything's quiet now
(repeat A-F ad lib)
It's basically just two chords, Am and F7 with a B
The fingerings for these are:
Am F7+B
E 0 0
B 1 0
G 2 2
D 2 3
A 0 3
E x 1
It's easiest to play the F chord like an open E chord slid up one fret
and with your thumb fretting the E string
The rhythm goes like this. Note where you take your fingers off the D
and G strings while playing the Am chord:
One dash (-) is a quaver
E 0000-0-0|0-------
B 1111-1-1|0-------
G 2220-2-0|2-------
D 2220-2-0|3-------
A 0000-0-0|3-------
E xxxx-x-x|1-------
Repeat ad infinitum I think with different strumming patterns for the
F chord - check with the recording
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