Simon & Garfunkel – So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
Learn how to play Simon & Garfunkel – So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Advanced but playable by intermediate level players. Unusual chord shapes including barres and partial barres.
Barre chords: Yes
Thumb over chords: No
Playing Style: Fingerpicked
Tuning: Downtuned a full step
This preview video contains the beginning of the complete lesson for the song So Long Frank Lloyd Wright.
The complete file contains 4 lesson videos, (one per section of the song), a performance play thru video, full tabs, chords and lyrics. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as a zip file of 334 Mb containing all the lesson content.
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Irion Nanne says
Hi, in spite of your fine work, I do not believe that this is exactly the way Paul plays it.
He doesn´t use or move the capo in this song, which is pretty impossible anyway.
There is an easier way.
Paul tunes down the guitar 1/2 step, E goes to Eb and so on.
Then he plays the first verse and chorus like you have mapped out, BUT when he changes key he doesn´t move to capo (since he is not using one), he just plays the following chords for the solo:
Fmaj7 | F7/C | Db7 Eb7 | Ab6 | Bb/F E° xx2323 | Fm/C Ab7 | Dbmaj7 | Dbmaj7 | Dbmaj7#9 | Abmaj7#9 | Bbm | A | Ab | [Am7] Architects…
Then he changes back the key for the “Architects…” bit and then plays the “new key chords” for the last verse.
[Fmaj7] So [F7/C] long, [Db7] Frank [Eb7] Lloyd [Ab6] Wright.
[Bb/F] xx3331 All of the [E°] xx232x nights
we´d [Fm/C] harmo-[Ab7]-nize till [Dbmaj7] dawn.
[Dbmaj7#9] I never laughed so [Abmaj7#9] long,
Ending with the chords: so [Bm7] 6x666x long. [Amaj7] 5x665x So long. [Abmaj7] 4x554x so long.
And then he goes to major on the first chord of the coda:
So [B7] 6xx676x long. [Amaj7] 5x665x So long. [Abmaj7] 4x554x so long…
What do you think?
Jerry says
You may be right. There’s no video footage of this song that I could find so we’re left with the notes. Mine was the best way I could find to have all the actual notes he plays (not just the static chord shapes) fall under the fingers. Without checking yours in detail, I’m sure it works and may indeed be what he’s doing.
Ashvin Rajan says
Lovely tab Jerry. Haven’t gotten to the capo changing yet. Sounds very daunting!! I only seriously started on it today and got through the first verse. The chords are so beautiful.