Purple Shadows Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays549

Purple Shadows by Seasick Steve is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G, F and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C
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  			Okay so I gave this a listen the other day and loads of people requested the tab and  
chords. I couldn't find any lyrics so I also had to try and work them out any corrections  
are appreciated! 

There are various hammer ons in the song most of which I will cover but the song is  
fairly straight forward listen and play along to the song to get the right timing you should  
pick it up quite easily. 

The chords you will need to know are C major, G major, E minor A minor,        F major 

I don't know the intro but the part before he plays C is 

 Fig 1 

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

then you play C and he hammers the 2nd fret D string and then plays the open G like this: 

E--------0--------------| 
B--------1--------------| 
G--------0---------0----| 
D--------2---0h2--------| 
A----3---3--------------| 
E--------x--------------| 

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante