Biography:
Ben Rector (born November 6, 1986) is a singer/songwriter from Tulsa, Oklahoma, US now based in Nashville, Tennessee. Rector’s stylistic influences include pop, rock, and folk music.
Rector took piano lessons as a small child but did not begin playing music seriously until he picked up the guitar in high school. He began writing songs in tenth grade and formed a band called Euromart the following year. Euromart made an EP and played club shows in Tulsa, but dissolved when the members left for college.
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Other songs:
- Brand New
- Dance With Me Baby
- Beautiful
- Forever Like That
- Sailboat
- When A Heart Breaks
- 30000 Feet
- After All
- Almost Home
- And Then You Love Someone
- Associated
- Autumn
- Boxes
- Crazy
- Do You Believe In Love
- Drive
- Duo
- Early Morning Riser
- Extraordinary Magic
- Falling In Love
- Favorite Song
- Fear
- Follow You
- Green
- Hank
- Hide Away
- I Like You
- I Thank God I Miss You
- I Wanna Dance With Somebody
- I Will Always Be Yours
- If You Can Hear Me
- Im Okay
- Kids
- Let The Good Times Roll
- Life Keeps Movin On
- Like The World Is Going To End
- Love Like This
- Loving You Is Easy
- Magic
- Making Money
- More Like Love
- Moving Backwards
- Need You Tonight
- Never Gonna Let You Go
- Note To Self
- Old Friends
- Ordinary Love
- Over And Over
- Peace
- She Is
- Sometimes
- Song For The Suburbs
- Summer Candy
- Thank God For The Summertime
- The Beat
- The Feeling
- The Kill
- The Men That Drive Me Places
- The Sophomore
- Twenty Tomorrow
- When Im With You
- When She Comes Around
- Wherever You Are
- White Dress
- Wildfire
- You And Me
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Autumn- Ben Rector
This tab works well for me playing and singing by myself, but Ben plays some
passing chords throughout the song on the piano, so its close but not perfect.
I play this song with an open E sound, so i play the E, A, B, and C#m chords like this:
E A B C#m F#m Dmaj7
e ||---0-----0-----0------0-------2--------2----------|
B ||---0-----0-----0------0-------2--------2----------|
G ||---1-----2-----4------6-------2--------2----------|
D ||---2-----2-----4------6-------4--------0----------|
A ||---2-----0-----2------4-------4--------0----------|
E ||---0-----0-----0------0-------2--------0----------|
Standard Tuning
Capo 3
Key: E
Intro:
E A F#m B x2
Verse 1
E A
So I knew a girl once
F#m B
She was the one I adored
E A
So I fell in love once
F#m B
With the girl that I mentioned before
Pre-Chorus:
E B
And I'm giving up slowly
E
Giving up slowly
A
Giving slowly love
E B
And so I'm giving up slowly
E
Giving up slowly
A
Learning how to love someone
Chorus:
E
So look what you did to me
A
Look what you did to me
C#m B
Look what you did to me autumn
E
I'm a leaf that's gone falling free
A
Beneath all the maple trees
C#m B
In front of your house to the bottom
Intro x1
Verse 2:
E A
So I watched the leaves fall
F#m B
All of the way to the ground
E A
And I knew that's what love was
F#m B
To die so that it could be found
Pre-Chorus:
E B
And they're giving up slowly
E
Giving up slowly
A
Giving slowly now
E B
And so they're giving up slowly
E
Giving up slowly
A
Learning how to love someone
Chorus:
E
They say look what you did to me
A
Look what you did to me
C#m B
Look what you did to me autumn
E
I'm a leaf that's gone falling free
A
Beneath all the maple trees
C#m B
In front of this house to the bottom
Bridge:
Dmaj7 A E
Well, winter's chill won't leave until
B
I let it lay me down
Dmaj7 A
And you can't see the spring
E
Til you're like the leaves
B
Here on the autumn ground
(flute interlude)
Pre-Chorus:
E B
And I'm giving up slowly
E
Giving up slowly
A
Giving slowly love
E B
And so I'm giving up
E
I'm give giving up
A
I'm give giving up, oh,
Chorus:
E
So look what you did to me
A
Look what you did to me
C#m B
Look what you did to me autumn
E
I'm a leaf that's gone falling free
A
Beneath all the maple trees
C#m B
In front of this house to the bottom
Outro:
E
Yeah winter's gone
A
and spring has come
F#m B
Love is here can't you see
E
Like the autumn leaves
A
Bring me to the spring
F#m B end on an E
Show me how to love someone
~HSH IV
This tab works well for me playing and singing by myself, but Ben plays some
passing chords throughout the song on the piano, so its close but not perfect.
I play this song with an open E sound, so i play the E, A, B, and C#m chords like this:
E A B C#m F#m Dmaj7
e ||---0-----0-----0------0-------2--------2----------|
B ||---0-----0-----0------0-------2--------2----------|
G ||---1-----2-----4------6-------2--------2----------|
D ||---2-----2-----4------6-------4--------0----------|
A ||---2-----0-----2------4-------4--------0----------|
E ||---0-----0-----0------0-------2--------0----------|
Standard Tuning
Capo 3
Key: E
Intro:
E A F#m B x2
Verse 1
E A
So I knew a girl once
F#m B
She was the one I adored
E A
So I fell in love once
F#m B
With the girl that I mentioned before
Pre-Chorus:
E B
And I'm giving up slowly
E
Giving up slowly
A
Giving slowly love
E B
And so I'm giving up slowly
E
Giving up slowly
A
Learning how to love someone
Chorus:
E
So look what you did to me
A
Look what you did to me
C#m B
Look what you did to me autumn
E
I'm a leaf that's gone falling free
A
Beneath all the maple trees
C#m B
In front of your house to the bottom
Intro x1
Verse 2:
E A
So I watched the leaves fall
F#m B
All of the way to the ground
E A
And I knew that's what love was
F#m B
To die so that it could be found
Pre-Chorus:
E B
And they're giving up slowly
E
Giving up slowly
A
Giving slowly now
E B
And so they're giving up slowly
E
Giving up slowly
A
Learning how to love someone
Chorus:
E
They say look what you did to me
A
Look what you did to me
C#m B
Look what you did to me autumn
E
I'm a leaf that's gone falling free
A
Beneath all the maple trees
C#m B
In front of this house to the bottom
Bridge:
Dmaj7 A E
Well, winter's chill won't leave until
B
I let it lay me down
Dmaj7 A
And you can't see the spring
E
Til you're like the leaves
B
Here on the autumn ground
(flute interlude)
Pre-Chorus:
E B
And I'm giving up slowly
E
Giving up slowly
A
Giving slowly love
E B
And so I'm giving up
E
I'm give giving up
A
I'm give giving up, oh,
Chorus:
E
So look what you did to me
A
Look what you did to me
C#m B
Look what you did to me autumn
E
I'm a leaf that's gone falling free
A
Beneath all the maple trees
C#m B
In front of this house to the bottom
Outro:
E
Yeah winter's gone
A
and spring has come
F#m B
Love is here can't you see
E
Like the autumn leaves
A
Bring me to the spring
F#m B end on an E
Show me how to love someone
~HSH IV
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