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Purple Rain Prince}{sot}{eot}##song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #{sot}{eot
|---|---|---|---|--- |-1-|---|---|---|--- |---|---|---|---|--- |---|-2-|---|---|--- |---|---|-3-|---|--- |---|---|---|---|---#A minor 7 (Am7)#
|---|---|---|---|--- |-1-|---|---|---|--- |---|---|---|---|--- |---|-2-|---|---|--- |---|---|---|---|--- |---|---|---|---|---#G major (G)#
|---|---|-4-|---|--- |---|---|---|---|--- |---|---|---|---|--- |---|---|---|---|--- |---|-1-|---|---|--- |---|---|-2-|---|---#F major (F)#
|-1-|---|---|---|--- |-1-|---|---|---|--- |-1-|---|---|---|--- |-1-|---|---|---|--- |-1-|-2-|---|---|--- or |---|-2-|---|---|--- |-1-|---|-4-|---|--- |---|---|-4-|---|--- |-1-|---|-3-|---|--- |---|---|-3-|---|--- |-1-|---|---|---|--- |---|---|---|---|--- x#F major 4 (F4)#
|-1-|---|---|---|--- |-1-|---|---|---|--- |-1-|---|---|---|--- |-1-|---|---|---|--- |-1-|---|-4-|---|--- or |---|---|-4-|---|--- |-1-|---|-3-|---|--- |---|---|-3-|---|--- |-1-|---|---|---|--- x |---|---|---|---|--- x |-1-|---|---|---|--- |---|---|---|---|--- x#Intro: C, C, Am7, Am7, G, G, F, F#Lyrics:#1. (C) I never meant to cause you any (Am7) sorrow.# (C) I only want one time see you (Am7) laughing.# in the purple (C) rain.#R. Purple rain, purple (F) rain. (F4)# (Am7) Purple rain, purple (G) rain.# In the purple (C) rain.#2. I never wanted to be your weekend (C) lover. (Am7)# (C) Baby I could never steal you from an(Am7)other.## (F) Purple rain, purple (C) rain.# I only want to see you underneath## (G) It's time we all reach out for something (F) new.# (C) You say you want a leader,# I think you better close (G) it.## (F) Purple rain, purple (C) rain.# Help me and (Am7) come on raise your hand.)# I only want to see you, I only want to see you###
[C] [Am7] [G]
|-------0|-----0--|-------0|-----0--|-------3|-----3--| |1---1--1|1-1--11-|1---1--1|1-1--11-|-------0|-----0--| |0---0---|0-0---0-|0---0---|0-0---0-|0---0---|0-0---0-| |2---2---|2-2---2-|2---2---|2-2---2-|0---0---|0-0---0-| |3---3---|3-3---3-|0---0---|0-0---0-|2---2---|2-2---2-| |--------|--------|--------|--------|3---3---|3-3---3-|
[F] [F4] [G] [C]
|-------1|------0-|---3----|---3----|---3----|--------|--------| |1---1--1|1-1---11|---0----|---0----|---0----|1-------|--------| |2---2---|2-2----3|0---0---|0---0---|0---0---|0-------|--------| |3---3---|3-3----3|0---0---|0---0---|0---0---|2-------|--------| |3---3---|3-3-----|2---2-2-|2---2-2-|2---2-2-|3-------|--------| |--------|--------|3---3-3-|3---3-3-|3---3-3-|--------|--------|
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A picking pattern
[C] [Am7] [G] [F] [F4]
|-----0--|-----0--|-----3--|-----1--|-----1--| |----1-1-|----1-1-|----0-0-|----1-1-|----1-1-| |---0---0|---0---0|---0---0|---2---2|---3---3| |--2-----|--2-----|--0-----|--3-----|--3-----| |3-------|0-------|--------|--------|--------| |--------|--------|3-------|1-------|1-------|
The original technique used by PRINCE:
You need the following additional chords:
C major 9 (C9)
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A minor 7/4 (Am74)
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F major 9 (F9)
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[C9] [Am74] [Am7] [Am74] [G]
|--------|--------|-------0|-----0--|-------3|-----3--| |1-------|--------|1---1--1|1-1--11-|-------0|-----0--| |0-------|--------|0---0---|0-0---0-|0---0---|0-0---0-| |0-------|--------|02--2---|2-2---0-|0---0---|0-0---0-| |3-------|--------|0---0---|0-0---0-|2---2---|2-2---2-| |--------|--------|--------|--------|03--3---|3-3---3-|
|_______________|
[F9] [F] [F4] [F] [G] [C]
|-------1|---1-1--|-------3|-------3|-------3|--------| |1------1|1--1111-|-------0|-------0|-------0|1-------| |0-------|02--2-2-|0---0-0-|0---0-0-|0---0-0-|0-------| |3-------|3---3-3-|0---0-0-|0---0-0-|0---0-0-|2-------| |3-------|3---3-3-|2-2-2---|2-2-2---|2-2-2---|3-------| |--------|--------|3-3-3---|3-3-3---|3-3-3---|--------|
Refrain:
[C] [F] [F4] [F] [F] [C9]
|--------|-------1|-----1--|--------|--------|-------0|-----0--| |1-------|1---1--1|1-1--11-|1---1---|1---1---|1---1--1|1-1--11-| |0-------|2---2---|3-3---3-|2---2---|2---2---|0---0---|0-0---0-| |2-------|3---3---|3-3---3-|3---3---|3---3---|0---0---|0-0---0-| |3-------|3---3---|--------|3---3---|3---3---|3---3---|3-3---3-| |--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
[Am7] [G] [C]
|-------0|-----0--||-------3|-----3--||--------|--------|--------| |1---1--1|1-1--11-||-------0|-----0--||--------|1-------|--------| |0---0---|0-0---0-||0---0---|0-0---0-||0---0---|0-------|--------| |2---2---|2-2---2-||0---0---|0-0---0-||0---0---|2-------|--------| |0---0---|0-0---0-||2---2---|2-2---2-||2---2---|3-------|--------| |--------|--------||3---3---|3-3---3-||3---3---|--------|--------|
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Hint: Prince plays this in B major. If you want to play it together
with the LP, you should tune your guitar down one step.
Taken from "Rock Ballads" by Peter Bursch.
Reprinted without permission.
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