Under Pressure Chords
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Difficulty: | beginner |
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Tuning: | E A D G B E |
Key: | D |
Capo: | no capo |
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2
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3
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4
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[Figure 1]
(Bass line for guitar played with alternating clap to snap,
do this with feet if you do not have four hands)
e|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------|
A|-5---5---5---5-5-5---0-----------|
E|---------------------------------|
[Figure 2]
(Played once for Intro and during Verse)
D A G A
e|------------5-------|---9------------|----7-----------|---5---------------|
B|------7-------------|--------10------|---------8------|--------5----------|
G|----7---7-------7---|-9---9-------9--|--7---7-----7---|-6---6----7-6-4----|
D|--------------------|----------------|----------------|----------------7--|
A|--------------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------|
E|--------------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------|
[Intro]
D (or Figure 2)
Um boom ba bay
A
Um boom ba bay
G
Um Um boom ba bay bay
A
[Verse 1]
D
Pressure
A
Pushing down on me
G
Pressing down on you
A
No man ask for
D
Under pressure
A
That burns a building down
G
Splits a family in two
A
Puts people on streets
[Bridge]
D
Um ba ba bay
A
Um ba ba bay
G
Dee day duh
A
Ee day duh
[Verse 2]
G
It's the terror of knowing
A
What this world is about
G
Watching some good friends
A
Screaming let me out!
G A
Pray tomorrow gets me higher
D
Pressure on people
G A
People on streets
[Bridge]
e|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------|
A|-5---5---5---5-5-5---0-----------|
E|---------------------------------|
Day day day
da da dup bup bup
Okay
e|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------|
A|-5---5---5---5-5-5---0-----------|
E|---------------------------------|
[Verse 3]
D
Chippin' around
A
Kick my brains round the floor
G
These are the days
A
It never rains but it pours
D
Ee do bay bup
A
Ee do bay ba bup
G
Ee do bup
A
Bay bup
D
People on streets
A
Dee da dee da day
G
People on streets
A
Dee da dee da dee da dee da
[Verse 4]
G
It's the terror of knowing
A
What this world is about
G
Watching some good friends
A
Screaming let me out!
G
Pray tomorrow
A
takes me higher, higher, higher
D
Pressure on people
G A
People on streets
[Verse 5]
G
Turned away from it all
C
Like a blind man
G C
Sat on a fence but it don't work
G
Keep coming up with love
A
But it's so slashed and torn
C F
Why?
G F
Why?
A
LoveLoveLove!
A
Insanity laughs, under pressure we're cracking
[Verse 6]
D G A
Can't we give ourselves one more chance?
D G A
Why can't we give love that one more chance?
D A D A
Why can't we give love give love give love?
G A D A G A
Give love give love give love give love give love give love?
[Verse 7]
G A D
Cause love's such an old fashioned word
A G
And love dares you to care
A D A
For the people on the edge of the night
G A
And love dares you to change our way
D A
Of caring about ourselves
G A
This is our last dance
G A
This is our last chance
D G A
This is ourselves
Under pressure
e|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------| x3
A|-5---5---5---5-5-5---0-----------|
E|---------------------------------|
D A
Under pressure
D G A D
Pressure
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32 comments

for the intro couldnt u just use 2 5th, the 5th on the a instead of the 10 on the e. very small think to say i kno, just a thought
+24

love this song :)
+7

Open strings are gonna ring if you dont mute them, so its better to play as its written or like this
e |----------------
B |----------------
G |----------------
D |----------------
A |--5-5-5--5-5-5--
E |--------------5-
+4
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