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      Beat Happening - What's Important

This is currently arranged for solo guitar. It's a lot simpler with the lead and rhythm 
separate. Either way it's pretty easy, which is what makes it cool in the first place.

Fmaj7 = x03210 (alternate with x03211 before next note on verses, let's call this one FM7*)

The instrumental section is all on an Am, with your pinky controlling this pattern:

Am, 002213, 002230, Am Am Am (repeat)

The trick is to strum the heavier strings on the first Am, and the lighter strings on 
the rest.

(if you're just doing rhythm, it goes on power chords: Am, DDD. that last D has the 
second finger pulled off, so the chord is actually x555 instead of x577)

Enjoy and improve on it!

-MolochMachine

Fmaj7 FM7* C            Fmaj7 FM7* C
put on your boots and walk with me
Fmaj7 FM7* C            Fmaj7 FM7* C
over the freeway and down to the sea
Fmaj7 FM7* C    Fmaj7 FM7* C
that's where we can always go
Fmaj7 FM7* C    Fmaj7 FM7* C
when we really wanna know

Am pattern
Am pattern
Am pattern
Am pattern

Am, E

Fmaj7        FM7*                     C               E
we sit by the window and we watch the rain
Fmaj7    FM7*   C       E
each little drop has got a name
Fmaj7        FM7*                     C               E
they're falling down and they're hiting the ground
Fmaj7    FM7*   C       E
they're washing all the people away

Am pattern
Am pattern
Am pattern
Am pattern

Am, E

Fmaj7 FM7* C            Fmaj7 FM7* C
go on the roof and we'll see the sky
Fmaj7 FM7* C    Fmaj7 FM7* C
let the world pass us by
Fmaj7 FM7* C    Fmaj7 FM7* C
we can make it all turn grey
Fmaj7 FM7* C    Fmaj7 FM7* C
if we really want it that way

Am pattern
Am pattern
Am pattern
Am pattern

Am, E

Fmaj7        FM7*               C           E
paint me a picture of the way you feel
Fmaj7        FM7*       C           E
close your eyes and make it real
Fmaj7        FM7*               C           E
sing me a song of the place you see
Fmaj7        FM7*       C           E
we can go there, just you and me

Am pattern
Am pattern
Am pattern
Am pattern

Am, E

Fmaj7 FM7*         C            Fmaj7 FM7* C
you don't have to smile if you don't want to
Fmaj7 FM7*         C            Fmaj7 FM7* C
i don't have to smile if i don't want to
Fmaj7 FM7*         C            Fmaj7 FM7* C
we don't have to smile if we don't want to

Fmaj7   FM7*    Fmaj7   FM7*
    

Source: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/beat_happening/whats_important_chords_1434115

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