Biography:
Matthew Good is a rock musician from Coquitlam, BC, Canada, formerly of the Matthew Good Band, which was disbanded in 2002. His solo career has met with continued success, with the release of Avalanche on March 4, 2003. He followed that up on June 15, 2004 with White Light Rock and Roll Review, and on September 20, 2005 with In a Coma, a best-of documenting his musical career from 1995-2005. On July 31, 2007, he released his third album, entitled Hospital Music.
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Other songs:
- A Song For The Girl
- True Love Will Find You In The End
- 99 Of Us Is Failure
- A Long Way Down
- A Silent Army In The Trees
- A Single Explosion
- All You Sons And Daughters
- Annabelle
- Arrows Of Desire
- As Long As Youre Mine
- Bad Guys Win
- Black Helicopter
- Blue Skies Over Bad Lands Acoustic
- Born Losers
- Cant Get Shot In The Back
- Empty Road
- Fated
- Fine Art Of Falling Apart
- Generation X
- Guns Of Carolina
- Heathers Like Sunday
- Hopeless
- House Of Smoke And Mirrors
- If Birds Dont Fly Straight
- If I Was A Tidal Wave
- Im A Window
- In A World Called Catastrophe
- Its Been Awhile Since I Was Your Man
- Last Parade
- Letters In Wartime
- Life Beyond The Minimum Safe Distance
- Load Me Up
- Metal Airplanes
- Near Fantastica
- Non Populus
- Odette
- On Nights Like Tonight
- Prime Time Deliverance Acoustic
- Second Sun
- Shes In It For The Money
- Song For The Girl
- Strange Days
- Suburbia Acoustic
- Symbolistic White Walls
- The Boy Come Home
- The Devils In Your Details
- Tripoli
- While We Were Hunting Rabbits
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
This is interpreted from Matt's performance in Nanaimo in 2006.
If you don't quite understand the minor changes I'd suggest looking it up just so
you can hear and see how to do it. I didn't include number of repetitions in
intros and whatnot, this is just a guide.
In the Demo there are alot more hammer ons in the bottom 3 strings (specifically
b) so play around with it until your satisfied.
Tuning: Half Step down
Capo on the third fret
Chords:
C (x32010)
Cmaj9 (020010)
Am (x02210)
G (320013)
Cadd11 (x33010)
Gmaj (320033)
Gsus2 (300233)
*Every time Am is played in the verses/intro/outro hammer on the b string*
Intro: C Cmaj7 Am G*
*C lead in* close to the end of each G remove top two fingers and play a string on the
3rd fret then open, one strum each, just as a lead in back to C. 0*3*0013 00*0*013 the
stars are around the notes focused on.
Verse:
C Cmaj7 Am G
The Saudis are ever our friends and our allies
C Cmaj7 Am G
The President smokes cigars with their Princes on his lanai
C Cmaj7 Am
And across the street a mother sleeps with her baby's ghost
G C Cmaj7 Am G*
Wrapped in pink and spotlights
C Cmaj7 Am G
If I was a tidal wave well you know that Id
C Cmaj7 Am G
Rise up and crash your castle gate and leave you high and dry
C Cmaj7 Am G
Disappear you down this trail of busted years to ride the rails
C Cmaj7 Am G
and goodbyes
Chorus:
Am C G
Well my name is propaganda
Am C G
And my mamas pain is propaganda
C G Am
If I was a tidal wave
C G Cadd11
Id let the Union fall
C G Am
Ya if I was a tidal wave
C G Cadd11*(hammer B)C*(hammer
B) Gmaj Gsus2
Id be first against the wall
Cadd11* C* Gmaj Gsus2 (incorporate C lead in)
C Cmaj7 Am G*
2nd Verse: same as first
Back in 1980 Mayor Young he sent the key
To the city of Detroit to praise the best of enemies
Who shook hands with devil, now he runs the DOD
And spends lives
If I was a tidal wave well you know that Id
Rise up and crash your castle gate and leave you high and dry
Disappear you down this trail of busted years to ride the rails and goodbyes
Chorus:
C G Am
If I was a tidal wave
C G Cadd11
From coast to coast Id scream
C G Am
If I was a tidal wave
C G Cadd11*(hammer B)C*(hammer
B) Gmaj Gsus2
Id wash this whole place clean
Cadd11* C* Gmaj Gsus2 (in demo this is the "ooooh" part)
outro:
C Cmaj7 Am G*
Well hope that helps feel free to email me with questions corrections or comments.
-Kat
If you don't quite understand the minor changes I'd suggest looking it up just so
you can hear and see how to do it. I didn't include number of repetitions in
intros and whatnot, this is just a guide.
In the Demo there are alot more hammer ons in the bottom 3 strings (specifically
b) so play around with it until your satisfied.
Tuning: Half Step down
Capo on the third fret
Chords:
C (x32010)
Cmaj9 (020010)
Am (x02210)
G (320013)
Cadd11 (x33010)
Gmaj (320033)
Gsus2 (300233)
*Every time Am is played in the verses/intro/outro hammer on the b string*
Intro: C Cmaj7 Am G*
*C lead in* close to the end of each G remove top two fingers and play a string on the
3rd fret then open, one strum each, just as a lead in back to C. 0*3*0013 00*0*013 the
stars are around the notes focused on.
Verse:
C Cmaj7 Am G
The Saudis are ever our friends and our allies
C Cmaj7 Am G
The President smokes cigars with their Princes on his lanai
C Cmaj7 Am
And across the street a mother sleeps with her baby's ghost
G C Cmaj7 Am G*
Wrapped in pink and spotlights
C Cmaj7 Am G
If I was a tidal wave well you know that Id
C Cmaj7 Am G
Rise up and crash your castle gate and leave you high and dry
C Cmaj7 Am G
Disappear you down this trail of busted years to ride the rails
C Cmaj7 Am G
and goodbyes
Chorus:
Am C G
Well my name is propaganda
Am C G
And my mamas pain is propaganda
C G Am
If I was a tidal wave
C G Cadd11
Id let the Union fall
C G Am
Ya if I was a tidal wave
C G Cadd11*(hammer B)C*(hammer
B) Gmaj Gsus2
Id be first against the wall
Cadd11* C* Gmaj Gsus2 (incorporate C lead in)
C Cmaj7 Am G*
2nd Verse: same as first
Back in 1980 Mayor Young he sent the key
To the city of Detroit to praise the best of enemies
Who shook hands with devil, now he runs the DOD
And spends lives
If I was a tidal wave well you know that Id
Rise up and crash your castle gate and leave you high and dry
Disappear you down this trail of busted years to ride the rails and goodbyes
Chorus:
C G Am
If I was a tidal wave
C G Cadd11
From coast to coast Id scream
C G Am
If I was a tidal wave
C G Cadd11*(hammer B)C*(hammer
B) Gmaj Gsus2
Id wash this whole place clean
Cadd11* C* Gmaj Gsus2 (in demo this is the "ooooh" part)
outro:
C Cmaj7 Am G*
Well hope that helps feel free to email me with questions corrections or comments.
-Kat
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