Left Handed
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Capo: no capo
Tuning: E A D G
Chained To The Rhythm by Katy Perry
From the album Witness (2017)
Written by Katy Perry, Max Martin, Sia Furler, Ali Payami, Skip Marley
All rights belong to their respective owners
Transcribed by Jaakko Karppinen
The Main Riff basically loops through the song. The structure of the song should be easy to figure out.
Originally played with a pick with pretty much all the treble cut off.
[Main Riff] .
G|---------------------------.---------------------------------5----|
D|---------------------------5-------------------------------5------|
A|---.-----------.---.---------------.-----------.---.--------------|
E|-5-5---------x-5---5-----------x-5-5---------x-5---5--------------|
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
.
G|-------------------------------------------------------------7----|
D|---.-----------.---.---------------.-----------.---.--------------|
A|-5-5---------x-5---5-------3h5-x-5-5---------x-5---5--------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------x-|
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
G|-------------------------------------------------------------.----|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------3-2----|
A|---.-----------.---.---------------.-----------.---.--------------|
E|-1-1---------x-1---1-----------x-1-1---------x-1---1--------------|
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---.-----------.---.----------------------------------------------|
A|-3-3---------x-3---3---------------.-----------.---.--------------|
E|-------------------------------x-0-0---------x-0---0------------x-|
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
[Pre-Chorus]
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------5-------3------------------------------------|
E|-1----------------------------------------------------------------|
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-5-------------------------------0--------------------------------|
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
[Skip Marley -part] (coming back to the Main Riff can be a bit tricky...)
G||--------------------------------------------------------------------|
D||-o------------------------------------------------------------------|
A||-o-5----------------------------------------------------------------|
E||---------------------------0-------1-----------------------3--------|
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------||
D|------------------------------------------------------------------o-||
A|------------------------------------------------------------------o-||
E|-5-------------------------------3----------------------------------||
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
.
G|-----------------------------------------------------------.---------------------------------5----|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------5-------------------------------5------|
A|-----------------------------------------------.---.---------------.-----------.---.--------------|
E|-----------------0---------------R-------R---x-5---5-----------x-5-5---------x-5---5--------------|
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
[Play the Main Riff until it fades]
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| x ghost note
| h hammer-on
| . accent note
| R rest
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