Biography:
Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen es el compositor, tecladista y escritor de las letras de la banda finlandesa Nightwish.
Nació el 25 de diciembre de 1976 en Kitee, Finlandia. Empezó a tocar el piano a los 7 años de edad y a los 9 tocaba también el clarinete. Estudió teoría de la música en una escuela durante 11 años. También aprendió a tocar saxofón y se unió a una banda de Jazz. Sin embargo los teclados han sido su instrumento preferente desde los 16.
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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!
Easiest ways to play it:
1. Standard tuning, capo 7
2. No capo (transpose 5 steps down to the key of Em, play open chords)
Both lyrics and chords I transcribed by ear in about two hours.
My Youtube channel is www.youtube.com/CompleteDistortion
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You can kind of guess the chords of course, but I'll still point out how I play it.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE "Am/D" BELOW.
Am/D (actually it's a "C 6add9(no 5th)", but I wrote it as Am/D because that's easier to follow)
x00210
Am
x02210
Asus2
x02200
Cmaj7
x32000
Fmaj7
x33210
G
32003x
F
133211
Dm
xx0231
======================
INTRO:
Am Asus2 Am Asus2
VERSE 1:
Am Cmaj7 Am/D Fmaj7
To be rich is
Am Cmaj7 Am/D F
to still re- member
Am Cmaj7 G F
To treasure your first dime
Am Cmaj7 G F
To have a chance to say farewell
CHORUS:
Am
Story of your life
C
Time of solitude and strife
G
Freedom of an open road
F
Hope and many miles to go
Am
Promises to keep,
C
Countless gold fields to reap
G
To be rich is to seek
F
To relive a memory
VERSE 2:
Am Cmaj7 Am/D Fmaj7
Far off lands, quests of old
Am Cmaj7 Am/D F
Self respect, true grit
Am Cmaj7 G F
Never care, what a fortune might buy
Am Cmaj7 G F
To seek is to be rich
CHORUS:
Am
Story of your life
C
Time of solitude and strife
G
Freedom of an open road
F
Hope and many miles to go
Am
Promises to keep,
C
Countless gold fields to reap
G
To be rich is to seek
F
To relive a memory
BRIDGE:
Am C
All the strangers on your path
G
Crossroads, the letters from home
Dm
The cooling embers of a Yuletide hearth
Am C
All the sounds of wilderness
G
The truth in which you roamed
Dm F
Now your lost Rosebud has brought you back home
CHORUS:
Am
Story of your life
C
Time of solitude and strife
G
Freedom of an open road
F
Hope and many miles to go
Am
Promises to keep,
C
Countless gold fields to reap
G
To be rich is to seek
F
To relive a memory
CHORUS:
Am
Story of your life
C
Time of solitude and strife
G
Freedom of an open road
F
Hope and many miles to go
Am
Promises to keep,
C
Countless gold fields to reap
G
To be rich is to seek
F
To relive a memory
Guitar solo [which is very, very long…]
( Am C G F )
Outro
F
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Thanks for stopping by, I'm very much looking forward to Tuomas' upcoming solo
album "The Life And Times of Scrooge McDuck."
OFFICIAL TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN WEBSITE:
http://www.tuomas-holopainen.com
https://www.facebook.com/Tuomas.L.J.Holopainen
1. Standard tuning, capo 7
2. No capo (transpose 5 steps down to the key of Em, play open chords)
Both lyrics and chords I transcribed by ear in about two hours.
My Youtube channel is www.youtube.com/CompleteDistortion
======================
You can kind of guess the chords of course, but I'll still point out how I play it.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE "Am/D" BELOW.
Am/D (actually it's a "C 6add9(no 5th)", but I wrote it as Am/D because that's easier to follow)
x00210
Am
x02210
Asus2
x02200
Cmaj7
x32000
Fmaj7
x33210
G
32003x
F
133211
Dm
xx0231
======================
INTRO:
Am Asus2 Am Asus2
VERSE 1:
Am Cmaj7 Am/D Fmaj7
To be rich is
Am Cmaj7 Am/D F
to still re- member
Am Cmaj7 G F
To treasure your first dime
Am Cmaj7 G F
To have a chance to say farewell
CHORUS:
Am
Story of your life
C
Time of solitude and strife
G
Freedom of an open road
F
Hope and many miles to go
Am
Promises to keep,
C
Countless gold fields to reap
G
To be rich is to seek
F
To relive a memory
VERSE 2:
Am Cmaj7 Am/D Fmaj7
Far off lands, quests of old
Am Cmaj7 Am/D F
Self respect, true grit
Am Cmaj7 G F
Never care, what a fortune might buy
Am Cmaj7 G F
To seek is to be rich
CHORUS:
Am
Story of your life
C
Time of solitude and strife
G
Freedom of an open road
F
Hope and many miles to go
Am
Promises to keep,
C
Countless gold fields to reap
G
To be rich is to seek
F
To relive a memory
BRIDGE:
Am C
All the strangers on your path
G
Crossroads, the letters from home
Dm
The cooling embers of a Yuletide hearth
Am C
All the sounds of wilderness
G
The truth in which you roamed
Dm F
Now your lost Rosebud has brought you back home
CHORUS:
Am
Story of your life
C
Time of solitude and strife
G
Freedom of an open road
F
Hope and many miles to go
Am
Promises to keep,
C
Countless gold fields to reap
G
To be rich is to seek
F
To relive a memory
CHORUS:
Am
Story of your life
C
Time of solitude and strife
G
Freedom of an open road
F
Hope and many miles to go
Am
Promises to keep,
C
Countless gold fields to reap
G
To be rich is to seek
F
To relive a memory
Guitar solo [which is very, very long…]
( Am C G F )
Outro
F
++++++
Thanks for stopping by, I'm very much looking forward to Tuomas' upcoming solo
album "The Life And Times of Scrooge McDuck."
OFFICIAL TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN WEBSITE:
http://www.tuomas-holopainen.com
https://www.facebook.com/Tuomas.L.J.Holopainen
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