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Help on the Way

Grateful Dead
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Chords in this song8

Song

Intro:
| | | e|------------------|
                                                 B|------------------|
                                                 G|------------------|
                                                 D|------------9-7---|
                                                 A|-------/7-10---9--|
                                                 E|----------------10|
Verse:
    
  e|--------------|---------------|---------------|--------------------|
  B|--------------|---------------|---------------|--------------------|
  G|--------------|---------------|---------------|--------------------|
  D|--------9-7---|---------------|---------------|--------------9-7---|
  A|---/7-10---9--|---------------|---------------|-45754---/7-10---9--|
  E|------------10|7--------------|---------------|7-----------------10|
(A) (Em)
Paradise waits.... on the crest of a wave, her angels in flame.
2nd time: e|--------------------|
                                                 B|---------------0-2-3|
                                                 G|--------------------|
                                                 D|--------------------|
                                                 A|-45757--------------|
                                                 E|7-------------------|
(A) (Em)
She has no pain... like a child she's pure, she is not to blame.
Chorus:
    
(high E) |----------------0-2|-------------------0-2-3|
Poised for flight Wings spread bright
Am Bm (Bm?) Em
         |-------------------|------------------------|
                             |------------------------|
                             |------------------------|
                             |------------------9-7---|
                             |-------------/7-10---9--|
                             |----------------------10|
Spring from night into the sun.
Verse: (similar patterns)
Don't stop to run. She can fly like a lie she can't be out done.
Tell me the cost. I can pay, let me go(?), tell me love is not lost.
Sell everything. Without love in the dream, insanities king(?).
Chorus:
Em F#m Em F#m Am Bm (Bm?) Em
I will pay, Day by day, anyway, lock bolt and key.
Verse:
Crippled but free, I was blind all the time, I was learning to see.
Cool Jam (I think it follows the verse pretty close)
Help on the Way. Well I know all of this, I got ya today.
Don't fly away. Cause I love what I love and I want it that way.
Chorus:
Em F#m Em F#m Am Bm (Bm?) Em
I will stay, one more day, like I say, honey it's you.
Verse:
Makin it too, Without love in the dream, it'll never come true.
Then it starts Slipknot about here...
THE REAL SLIPKNOT: IS IN THE KEY OF Fm
It's a little harder for beginners I think...
requires a certain technique with pinky finger, arpeggios and minor pentatonic visulization
on the fretboard, however with this you already have all the Slipknot song :D
and we'll separate in
Fm triad, Cm triad, Gm triad, Dm triad;
C diminished scale, D diminished scale;
minor 7 arpeggios (R, flat 3, 5, flat 7)
AND THE RIFF IS A MINOR PENTATONIC
LIKE THIS:
Starts with Fm chord in Am shape (8º fret) down up down up
then go to the riff:
 e|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
 B|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
 G|--------5------------------------------------------------------------|
 D|------6---8p6-5--------------5---------------------------------------| (x4)
 A|---\8----------------------6------8----------------------------------|
 E|-------------------------8-------------------------------------------|
^ ^
^ ^
^ ^
F minor triad C minor triad
(F Ab C)
Then very quickly we'll go to the C diminished scale
(as you may know diminished scales are built off minor third intervals)
 e|--------------------------8-------------------------------------------------|
 B|-------------------7--10-----10-7-----10--7--------7------------------------|
 G|--------5--------8-----------------8--------8---------8---------------------|
 D|------6----8//10-------------------------------10--------10--7-8------------|
 A|---/8-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
 E|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
^
C note*
Moved riff a whole step up
 e|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 B|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 G|--------7------------7------------------------------------------------------------|
 D|------8---10-8-----8---10--8--------7---------------------------------------------|
 A|---\10-----------10--------------8-----10.----------------------------------------|
 E|------------------------------10--------------------------------------------------|
^ ^
^ ^
^ ^
G minor triad D minor triad
Then you move again a whole step up that same shape of C diminished scale leading to
D diminished scale!!!
 e|--------------10----------------------------------------|
 B|--------------------------------------------------------|
 G|--------9--12-------------------------------------------|
 D|------10------------------------------------------------|
 A|---\12--------------------------------------------------|
 E|--------------------------------------------------------|
Then from there sliding to:
Em arpeggio Bm7 arpeggio F# minor 7
 e|------12/---------------17--14----------------------------------|
 B|------12-----------------------15--------17--14-----------------|
 G|------12--------------------------16------------14--------------|
 D|---14-----------------------------------------------16----------|
 A|----------------------------------------------------------------|
 E|----------------------------------------------------------------|
Play those same shapes one full step down
Am7 starting on G (e high 15 fret) // Em7

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