Speed Trials by Elliott Smith Lyric and Guitar Chords

If you are looking for Speed Trials guitar chords, you’ve come to the right place.
You can play Speed Trials by Elliott Smith using guitar or guitar.
This song by Elliott Smith can also be played by that instruments.
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Speed Trials guitar chords has rhythm and included in Either/Or (1997) album.
You can also find another musical genres, including jazz guitar chords, country music guitar chords, pop guitar chords, world music guitar chords, and rock guitar chords here.

Speed Trials by Elliott Smith Guitar Chords


Standard tuning (for once!)

Intro

Play two times


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Verse 1

He’s pleased to

C
meet you under
Am
neath the horse
In the cat
C
hedral with the gl
Am
ass stained black
Singing sw
C
eet high notes that
Am
echo back
G#
To destroy their maste
G7
r
May be a l
C
ong time till you
Am
get the call-up
But it’s s
C
ure as fate and h
Am
ard as your luck
C
No-one’ll k
G#
now where you a
G
re
D

Chorus

It’s just a b

C
rief s
Am
mile
Fmaj7
crossing your f
G
ace
Running s
C
peed t
Am
rials
Fmaj7
standing in p
G
lace

Verse 2

When the s

C
ocket’s not a s
Am
hock enough
You little c
C
hild what makes you t
Am
hink you’re tough?
When all the p
C
eople you think y
Am
ou’re above
G#
They all know what’s the matt
G7
er
You’re such a p
C
inball yeah you k
Am
now it’s true
There’s always s
C
omething you go back r
Am
unning to
C
To follow the p
G#
ath of
G
no resistanc
D
e

Chorus

It’s just a b

C
rief s
Am
mile
Fmaj7
crossing your f
G
ace
Running s
C
peed tr
Am
ials
Fmaj7
standing in p
G
lace
It’s just a b
Am
rief s
F
mile c
C
rossing your
G
face
Running s
Am
peed tr
F
ials
C
all over the p
G
lace

Ending

Play these chords to fade-out while Elliott sings “Oooh-ooh-ohh”, etc.:

Am
F
C
G

During the part where the words are “No one’ll know where you are”, you might try:

G#
No one’ll k
D#
now where you
F
are
G

Same for “To follow the path of no resistance”

Neither one is completely right, I don’t think, but maybe each is part right.

Elliott Smith

Standard tuning (for once!)

Standard open chords except:
Am (1) x02210 Am (2) 577555
Dadd9 xx0230

Intro (played twice) (this is also played as the bassline under the C
and Am chords in the verse)


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Lick in verse (bass plays a G but it don’t add it to the guitar
line, it sounds cluttered)


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Verse:

|| C | Am (1) | C | Am | C | Am |
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| C | Am | C | Am | Am (2) | Ab |
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Chorus 1:

||: C | Dadd9 | Fmaj7 | G :||

Chorus 2:

||: C | Dadd9 | Fmaj7 | G :||
||: A | Fmaj7 | C | G :||

Outro:

||: Am | Fmaj7 | C | G :||

If you want to learn Elliott Smith Speed Trials guitar chords, The 5 chords we’ll look at are the C major, A major, G major, E major, and D major.
The reason we use all major chords is that the minor versions of any of these chords just require tiny adjustments.
Each one of those minor chords is completely based on its major counterpart

The more you practice, the easier guitar will feel to play Speed Trials. Guitar is hard to learn in the beginning, but gets easier the longer you stick with it.

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