Biography:
Matthew Sweet (born October 6, 1964) is a power pop musician from Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. He was part of the burgeoning Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s.
As a young musician wanting to make a name for himself, Sweet set off to Athens, Georgia in the mid '80s, to attend college and join the vibrant Athens music scene, most famous as the home base for R.E.M. and The B-52's.
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Other songs:
- Come To Love
- Dinosaur Act
- Do It Again
- Does She Talk
- Dont Cry No Tears
- Dont Go
- Evergreen
- Everything Changes
- Farther Down
- Girlfriend
- Giving It Back
- Happiness
- Hide
- Holy War
- How Cool
- I Almost Forgot
- I Wanted To Tell You
- In Too Deep
- Isolation
- Life Without You
- Looking At The Sun
- Lost My Mind
- Morning Song
- My Pet
- Never Said Goodbye
- Push The Feelings
- Quiet Her
- Reaching Out
- Save Time For Me
- Scooby
- Sick Of Myself
- Smog Moon
- Someone To Pull The Trigger
- Superdeformed
- Teenage Female
- Thing
- Thought I Knew You
- Tommorrow
- Trade Places
- Wait
- Walk Out
- What Do You Know
- What Matters
- Wild
- Winona
- You Dont Love Me
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REACHING OUT
From: [email protected]
INTRO:
The actual chord is Dminor with a diminished fifth, D minor will do just as
well. To do the real one, you need to make the D minor shape, but move the
finger on the G string down to the first fret (Ab not A) It occurs in the
song proper too, so I'll label this D* and you can play whichever. If you
strum it 3 times then remove your pinkie from the E string, pick that and
then pick the B string (note should be D) then play an A chord. There you
have the intro. Play that 3 times then play an F power chord 8 times then
slide up to G and play that thrice.
SONG PROPER - at this point you're still on G.
A F E
You've counted every star
A (A sus)
That you could imagine
A F Em
Broken when everyone took you for a fool
A
It gave you a reason
A/B C/G D7 Em F
To find something strong enough to feel
Em F
You're reaching out (reaching out)
Em F
You're reaching out (reaching out)
F G A (A7, A7Sus4)
You're reaching out
SECOND VERSE IS SAME PATTERN AS FIRST.
Beaten by a child
You can't even know when
Now you can never be free from what was done
You can't even hate them
You'll find something big enough to steal
You're reaching out (reaching out)
You're reaching out (reaching out)
You're reaching out
REFRAIN
D* A
And if I can't know you
D* A
All my dreams are through
D* A F
Every waking hour is filled with lead
G
I'm dead
3RD VERSE AS FIRST
2ND REFRAIN AS FIRST PLUS...
A
I'm dead.
There. Simple Eh? A few tips. The A/B is an A with the finger taken off the
D string and put on the B to give a B root. It's not strictly necessary, but
it helps step up to the C/G, and you can just pluck the B note.
The C/G is simply a C with the E string fingered at the third fret too. It's
just the way I always play C chords, and isn't necessary either.
The A sus and so on in brackets are suggeastions for optional 'twiddly bits'
to help give the song that Robert Quine vibe. I think it also sounds nice if
you play the F chords by hooking your thumb over the top, and gripping the
neck with a fist. That way you can leave the little E string unfingered and
it sounds really cool, especially on the slide up to G. If you then slide up
to A you need th press the E down too though, 'cos that doesn't sound as
very good without.
If playing open G chords, try the finger on the thrid fret of the B string too.
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##
#
# For the latest collection of Matthew Sweet chords, go to
# http://www.uark.edu/~cbray/sweet/
#
# If you have any corrections or additions to this file, please email them
# to [email protected]
#
REACHING OUT
From: [email protected]
INTRO:
The actual chord is Dminor with a diminished fifth, D minor will do just as
well. To do the real one, you need to make the D minor shape, but move the
finger on the G string down to the first fret (Ab not A) It occurs in the
song proper too, so I'll label this D* and you can play whichever. If you
strum it 3 times then remove your pinkie from the E string, pick that and
then pick the B string (note should be D) then play an A chord. There you
have the intro. Play that 3 times then play an F power chord 8 times then
slide up to G and play that thrice.
SONG PROPER - at this point you're still on G.
A F E
You've counted every star
A (A sus)
That you could imagine
A F Em
Broken when everyone took you for a fool
A
It gave you a reason
A/B C/G D7 Em F
To find something strong enough to feel
Em F
You're reaching out (reaching out)
Em F
You're reaching out (reaching out)
F G A (A7, A7Sus4)
You're reaching out
SECOND VERSE IS SAME PATTERN AS FIRST.
Beaten by a child
You can't even know when
Now you can never be free from what was done
You can't even hate them
You'll find something big enough to steal
You're reaching out (reaching out)
You're reaching out (reaching out)
You're reaching out
REFRAIN
D* A
And if I can't know you
D* A
All my dreams are through
D* A F
Every waking hour is filled with lead
G
I'm dead
3RD VERSE AS FIRST
2ND REFRAIN AS FIRST PLUS...
A
I'm dead.
There. Simple Eh? A few tips. The A/B is an A with the finger taken off the
D string and put on the B to give a B root. It's not strictly necessary, but
it helps step up to the C/G, and you can just pluck the B note.
The C/G is simply a C with the E string fingered at the third fret too. It's
just the way I always play C chords, and isn't necessary either.
The A sus and so on in brackets are suggeastions for optional 'twiddly bits'
to help give the song that Robert Quine vibe. I think it also sounds nice if
you play the F chords by hooking your thumb over the top, and gripping the
neck with a fist. That way you can leave the little E string unfingered and
it sounds really cool, especially on the slide up to G. If you then slide up
to A you need th press the E down too though, 'cos that doesn't sound as
very good without.
If playing open G chords, try the finger on the thrid fret of the B string too.
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