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Learning How To Die Tab

by Jon Foreman


Artist: Jon Foreman
Song: Learning How To Die
Album: Fall And Winter (Credential/LowerCase People) (2008)
Composer: Jon Foreman

This song is really beautiful and peaceful, ah, and yeah, we're all gonna die someday,
if you never knew, ha… I guess this is the way Jon plays it, I heard the song and saw a
video on YouTube, with Keith Tutt, I guess… so… let me know what you think…

Chords:

               /  /   ?
e|--3--0--3--3-----2---0-----0-----3-----3--|
B|--3--1--1--3-----3---0-----0-----3-----3--|
G|--2--0--2--2-----2---4-----4-----0-----0--|
D|--0--2--3--0-----0---4-----4-----x-----2--|
A|--0--3---------------2-----3-----3-----0--|
E|--3------------------0--------------------|

Intro:

                                    
e|-----3-3-3-3--|--3--------|-----3-3-3--|--3-3-2-2-3--|
B|-----3-3-3-3--|--3--------|-----3-3-3--|--3-3-3-3-3--|
G|-----2-2-2-2--|--0--------|-----0-0-0--|--2-2-2-2-2--|
D|-----0-0-0-0--|--x--------|-----2-2-2--|--0-0-0-0-0--|
A|--------------|--3---3-2--|--0--0-0-0--|-------------|
E|--3-----------|-----------|------------|-------------|

(If you’re a novice in tabs, and this seems confusing, there's a note at the end)

Verse I:
             
    I'm gonna miss you
         --                  -> [Repeat Intro]
    I'm gonna miss you when you're gone…
              
    She says I love you
        --                -> [Repeat Intro]
   I'm gonna miss hearing your songs


Pre-Chorus:
           /          /           /
   I said "Please, don't talk about the end
         /           /         /
   Don't talk about how every living thing goes away"
   /       
    She said "Friend…

Chorus:
                                      
   "All along thought I was learning how to take
                      
   How to bend, not how to break
                      
    How to live, not how to cry
              
   But really I've been learning how to die,
                                  -> [Repeat Intro]
    I've been learning how to die…"

Verse II:
               
    Hey everyone…
        --           -> [Repeat Intro]
   I've got no where to go
                  
   The grave is lazy
      --              -> [Repeat Intro]
   It takes our bodies slow…

[Pre-Chorus and Chorus]
             
   …I've been learning how to…

Outro:
   ---
   Die…
     --
   Die…
   
   I've been learning how to die
                            
    I've been learning how to…

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*Note:

G [3x0033]: Your middle finger on 3rd fret and 6th string and muting 5th string, ring
pinky on 3rd fret.

Cadd9 or C2 [-3x033]: middle on 3rd fret and 5th string (mute with this finger the 4th
ring and pinky on 3rd fret.

A7sus [-02033]: index on 2nd fret and 4th string, ring and pinky on 3rd fret. (I think
just play the A string and then, the highest 3 strings). [I'm note quite sure about the
of this chord]

Dsus [--0233]: index on 2nd fret and 3rd string, ring and pinky on 3rd fret, middle in
fret, so just lift your pinky and it's D, then put it back really fast and it's Dsus. (I
that in studio version it sounds like D7, but it's a little complicated so this sounds 
too and is much easier.)

B5/E [024400]: index in the 2nd fret and 5th string, ring and pinky on 4th fret; for the
[-34400]: doing the previous chord, just press with your middle the 5th string on the
fret.

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I should be right, anyway try it and rate or comment, you can also mail me:
(it's a zero in j053), for any question, correction or comment, but I hope this may be 
to you.

GOD bl3s5 u all, brothers and sisters…
j:053[d:]montNgro, your Latino brother.