Guitar Tab for One of These Things First by Nick Drake
One of These Things First - Nick Drake
Found on:
Acoustic 70s(2017-11-24)
N. R. Drake, 69.(2014-09-08)
Digital Box Set(2010-01-01)
Meet on the Ledge: An Island Records Folk-Rock Anthology(2009-05-25)
Four Decades of Folk Rock(2007-09-11)
Rock Steady: 1971(2006)
easyAcoustic(2005)
Garden State: Music From the Motion Picture(2004-08-10)
Bryter Layter(2003-05-06)
Way to Blue: An Introduction to Nick Drake(2003)
NME Presents: Under the Influence(2000-11-28)
Unconditionally Guaranteed, 2000.7(2000-07)
Fruit Tree(1979-03-09)
El Pea(1971)
ONE OF THESE THINGS FIRST
(revised version - previously posted in EBEGBE, but although still
the same notes, this version sounds more convincing. Also instrumental
section reworked slightly)
TUNING DADF#AD capo 2nd fret (EBEG#BE is same notes of course, but
the strings sound a bit slacker to me)
As usual the picking varies a little bit, but these are the main
shapes. The picking indications (t-thumb, i-index, m-middle, r-ring,
l-little) are just what I find easiest.
Main riff:
|------|------|------|------|
|------|------|------|------|
|--0---|--1---|--3---|--2--1|
|--0---|--0---|--0---|--0--0|
|-0-000|-2-222|-4-444|-3--2-|
|0-----|0-----|0-----|0--0--|
r
timiti
notes:
1. the last note of 000 or 222 etc is very often omitted
throughout the song.
2. during verses, you play bar 2 again instead of bar 4 (which
only reappears for the lines between verses, and the outro).
also, in verses nick seems just to play the bottom 3 strings,
though this can sound odd unaccompanied.
3. when leading into another section, the last bar becomes:
|--0---| |--0---|
|-0-000| or |-4-000|
|0-----| |0-----|
"Could have been a signpost...."
|------|------| |------|------|
|------|------| |------|------|
|------|--5---| (twice) |------|--3---| (twice)
|--7---|--5---| |--5---|--3---|
|-5-555|-5-555| |-3-333|-3-333|
|5-----|5-----| |3-----|3-----|
"Could be here and now"
|------| |------|
|------| |------|
|--1---| (twice) |--1---| (twice)
|--0---| |--0---|
|-3-333| |-2-222|
|3-----| |2-----|
(contd...)
"Could have been one of these things first"
|------| |------|
|------| |------|
|--5---| (x4) |--1---| (x4)
|--0---| |--0---|
|-5-555| |-2-222|
|5-----| |2-----|
The intro, if you really want to be precise, goes:
|------|------|------|------|--00--|------|------|------|
|------|------|------|------|------|--0---|----0-|------|
|--0---|--1---|--3---|--2--1|--0---|--1---|--3--3|--2--1|
|--0--0|--0---|--0---|--0--0|--0---|--0---|---0--|0--0--|
|-0-00-|-2-222|-4-444|-3--2-|-0--00|-2-222|-4----|-3--2-|
|0-----|0-----|0-----|0--0--|0-----|0-----|0-----|0--0--|
The more complicated instrumental bits;
|------|0-----|------|0-----|---0--|---0--|---0--|------|
|---0--|------|---0--|------|------|0-----|0-----|0-----|
|--1-1-|-1---1|--1-1-|-1---1|--0---|--1---|--3---|-3----|
|-0---0|--0-0-|-0---0|--0-0-|--0-0-|-0--0-|-0--0-|--0-0-|
|------|3-----|------|2-----|-0----|2-----|4-----|4--0--|
|3-----|---3--|2-----|---2--|0-----|------|------|------|
r mr r mr
timrmi tmitim tti t tti t
and
|------|------|---0--|0--0--|------|------|---0--|0--0--|
|------|------|-0--0-|-0--0-|------|------|-0--0-|-0--0-|
|--5--5|--5--5|--5--5|--5--5|--1--1|--1--1|--1--1|--1--1|
|--0--0|--0--0|----0-|----0-|--0--0|--0--0|----0-|----0-|
|-5-55-|-5-55-|-5----|-5----|-2-22-|-2-22-|-2----|-2----|
|5-----|5-----|5-----|5-----|2-----|2-----|2-----|2-----|
m m rmrrm
ttitti ttitti
Oh well. No-one said this would be easy...
tabbed by Chris Healey
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