Doorways: Chords

Hey, I saw a post on here a while ago giving the chords for Doorways.

Well, the forums got re-made, and I found out the chords were wrong and fixed them and made a pretty way to finger-pick it on guitar.

Strangely enough, the song is in normal guitar tuning (not tuned down) in 3/4.

Since it's a somewhat monotonous song on guitar I made my own way to make it really pretty.

In case you don't want to read about my own way, the chords are correctly: verses D Bm D F#m, bridge 1st Bm G D/F# Dmaj7/C#, then 3 times Bm G D A, outro D Bm D Bm.

For most of the first and second part, there's a simple finger-picking pattern I use, it's the same one as from "I sank into the sea...wrapped in piano strings..." in the video. We're only concerned with 4 out of the 6 strings at any time, so its like this:

Code:

like in tabs,

1      X
2  X      X
3    X  X
4 X

Since the song is in 3/4, you repeat that 4 times per chord, more or less.

I also use my own style chords, you will see why when you play it, here is a quick reference.

Code:

D

E A D G B E
X X 0 2 3 2

Bm

X X 4 4 3 2

F#m is just barred,

2 2 4 4 2 2

We're only interested in the top four strings for the first part, then the middle four for the second (I'll give updated chords for that).

Part 1
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D
when i was just a boy still owl-eyed
Bm
i liked to drink the rain to taste the sky
D
i tried to count the stars while in my bed
F#m
to keep the thoughts of monsters from my head

Part 2 (new chords)
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Code:

D
E A D G B E
X 5 4 2 3 X

Bm
X 2 4 4 3 X

F#m same as above, just use the middle 4 strings to pick

D
and i believed the stars were wishes
i believed the world was good
Bm
i believed things hid in the dark and
that all would turn out just how it should

D
i believed in all your stories
i believed you'd never lie
F#m
i believed if i could climb the trees
behind the house, i'd

[light strum of F#m]
touch the sky

(bridge) intro: first time is
Bm G D/F# Dmaj7/C#

Chords for those D variations are

Code:

D/F#
E A D G B E
X X 4 2 3 2

Dmaj7/C#
X 4 X 2 3 2

the rest is Bm G D A:

Bm G D A
i believed

Bm G D A
the skies were doorways

Notice the lack of 'home' on there? That's because it's the first beat of the outro

D
home

For the outro, I like to just lightly strum the D then Bm from part 1, then D then Bm from part 2, and repeat. Only strum each one twice. It gives it a nice deepening to the ending, and you let it ring out on the last Bm.