As It Was - Harry Styles
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Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E
[Intro]
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[Verse]
holdin
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seems yo
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[Verse]
answer
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harry
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ringing
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nobody
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[Bridge]
Play guitar 2 chords
Or play the bass line - the 16x sounds best muted
Go home
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[Outro]
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Instead of the verses above they can be played as chords below
Strum once for the verses hold and slide to the next chord
Chorus and bridge you can strum each one 16x right along with the bass line mute it a bit its ethereal
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[Chorus] Guitar 2
then this jingle starts on on the 'as it was as it was as it was'
You can play the intro instead of it this way
as it was..
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[Ending]
Same as the Chorus for G1 and G2 but these are the little flavor added in
Also the intro works in place of G2 at any time but is higher up there.
(In the end
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The last piece played is an extra half count of the intro
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