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Something In The Air

Biography:

Thomas Earl Petty (20 October 1950 - 2 October 2017) was an American musician, singer, composer and songwriter best known for fronting Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Apart from the band, he released three solo albums: "Full Moon Fever" (1989), "Wildflowers" (1994) and "Highway Companion" (2006).

After working with his early bands The Sundowners, The Epics, and Mudcrutch (which also included future Heartbreakers members Mike Campbell and Benmont

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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!

Tom Petty's cover of Thunderclap Newman's "something in the air". I learned this
song a couple months ago and by listening to the album I know it is about 100% correct.
Great song and easy. Enjoy

Standard tuning EADGBe

The song uses basic chords
D Em F#m E G
A B
e|---2----0------2------0------3----0-----2----|
B|---3----0------2------0------3----2-----4----|
G|---2----x------2------1------0----2-----4----|
D|---0----2------4------2------0----2-----4----|
A|--------2------4------2------2----0-----2----|
E|--------0------2------0------3---------------|

[Verse]
D
D
Call out the instigator
Em
Because there's something in the air
D
We've got to get together sooner or later
Em
Because the revolution's here

And you know it's right
Fill A- play this twice. this little piece can be a little bit tricky but it sounds good
e|------------------------------------------------|
B|------3----------3-----------3-----------3------|
G|---2----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2---|
D|-0----------------------------------------------|
A|-----------3-----------2------------3-----------|
E|------------------------------------------------|
Fill 1
And you know that it's right

[Chorus]
Em
We have got to get it together
Em
We have got to get it together now
fill 1 2x

[Verse]
D
Run through the fields and houses
Em
Because there's something in the air
D
We've got to get together sooner or later
Em
Because the revolution's here

And you know it's right
Fill A 2x
And you know that it's right

[Chorus]
Em
We have got to get it together
D
We have got to get it together now

interlude/solo - it's the same thing again and again just in a different tone
figure 1
e|------------------------|
B|--------------------7---|
G|-7--7---------5h7---7---|
D|-7--7----5h7------------|
A|(5)(5)------------------|
E|------------------------|
Figure 2
------------------------|
--------------------5---|
-5--5---------3h5---5---|
-5--5----3h5------------|
(3)(3)------------------|
------------------------|
Figure 3
-------------------------|
--------------------3----|
-3--3---------1h3---3----|
-3--3----1h3-------------|
(1)(1)-------------------|
-------------------------|
Figure 4
-------------------------|
--------------------2----|
-2--2---------0h2---2----|
-2--2----0h2-------------|
(0)(0)-------------------|
-------------------------|

it looks long and confusing but its really simple. Here's the layout out the interlude/solo
Figure 1 2x
Figure 2 2x
Figure 1 2x
Figure 2 2x
Figure 3 2x
Figure 4 2x
Ends with G A B
From there the whole rest of the song changes key

[Verse]
E
E
Call out the instigator
F#m
Because there's something in the air

E
We've got to get together sooner or later
F#m
Because the revolution's here
E fill B
And you know it's right

Again it changes key so it changes the fill but its easy now

Fill B play twice
e|-----0------------0--------0----------0-----|
B|---0---0-------0----0----0----0----0----0---|
G|--------------------------------------------|
D|-2----------0--------------------0----------|
A|-----------------------4--------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------|
And you know that it's right

[Chorus]
F#m
We have got to get it together
E
We have got to get it together now

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