Yesterday - The Beatles

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Tuning: D Tuning, D G C F A D

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Song: Yesterday
Artist: The Beatles
Composer: Paul McCartney (Credited to Lennon & McCartney)
Album: Help
Tabbed by DJ  20th June 2019

To hear the track, copy and paste this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRTXUZDBBYo

The crucial thing to achieve the way Paul McCartney played
this is in the dropped tuning... 

DROPPED TUNING: D-G-C-F-A-d 
De-tune all strings a whole tone down below standard tuning.
Using a chromatic tuner makes this a bit easier

NOTE: The song is played in G on guitar, but, with the full
tone dropped tuning, the song will sound in the key of F.
(For keyboard and bass players etc, set the transpose
function to -2 (minus 2) to view the chords in the key of F.)

Please IGNORE ANY CHORD BOXES the website might 
automatically suggest and use the typed shapes shown below:
     = 320033         = xx0212      = x22002 
   = 244222    () = 2xxxxx          = x22000
    = x21202        = 022030           = x02212
    = xx2000         = x02020            = xx0212
 = xx0000       = 242222      *     = x02023
     = 332010      *   = x32013

N.C. = No chords   ^ = Emphasise the beats

Emphasise the bass note of each chord, particularly the 
progressions in Verses 3 and 5. In the live video though he
plays the C with a bottom G but doesn't appear to emphasise
that particular note, personally I would still emphasise the 
C on the 5th string.

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and select a star rating for this tab. many thanks
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[Intro]
   
|  /  /  /  / 

 |  /  /  /  /

  |

[Verse 1]
          
Yesterday, ...

            
all my trouble

            
s seemed so fa

          
r away,
             
Now it looks a

              
s though they'

   
re here to sta

y,
      
Oh,  I  be - l

            
ieve in yes - 

         
ter - day
                       ^     ^     ^
[Verse 2]
          
Suddenly,    .

            
..I'm not half

            
 the man I use

           
d to be,
             
There's a shad

             
ow hanging ove

r me,
       
Oh,   yester -

           
 day came sud 

       
- den - ly
                         ^     ^     ^
[Verse 3]
         
Why ...she ...

     *
had to go,
  
I     ...don't

         
 know, she wou

      
ldn't say,
         
I  ...said ...

          
some - thing w

 *
rong,
  
Now      I    

         
long for yeste

         
r - day-------

--

[Verse 4]
          
Yesterday,   .

            
..love was suc

            
h an easy game

           
 to play,
            
Now I  need a 

         
place to hide 

away,
      
Oh,   I be - l

            
ieve in yes - 

     
ter - day
                       ^     ^     ^
[Verse 5]
         
Why ...she ...

     *
had to go,
  
I     ...don't

         
 know, she wou

      
ldn't say,
         
I  ...said ...

          
some - thing w

 *
rong,
  
Now      I    

         
long for yeste

          
r - day-------

.
--

[Verse 6]
          
Yesterday,   .

            
..love was suc

            
h an easy game

           
 to play,
            
Now I  need a 

         
place to hide 

away,
      
Oh,   I be - l

            
ieve in yes - 

     
ter - day
                       ^     ^     ^
[Coda]
         * 
Mm, mm!  Mm, m

           
m!  Mm, mm - m

m!
                  ^    ^   ^