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Best of You chords by Foo Fighters

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Best of You | Chords + Lyrics

Verse 1

||: C#m7 | C#m7 | Asus2 | Asus2 :||
I’ve got another confession to make, I’m your fool.
Everyone’s got their chains to break, holding you.
| Bsus4 | Bsus4 | Asus2 | Asus2 |
Were you born to resist, or be abused?

Chorus 1

||: C#m7 | C#m7/D# | C#m7/E | C#m7/E :||
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
| C#m7 | Bsus4 | Asus2 | Asus2 |
Are you gone and on to someone new?

Verse 2

I needed somewhere to hang my head, without your noose.
You gave me something that I didn’t have, but had no use.
I was too weak to give in, too strong to lose.

Verse 3

My heart is under arrest again, but I break loose.
My head is giving me life or death, but I can’t choose.
I swear I’ll never give in, I refuse.

Chorus 2

||: C#m7 | C#m7/D# | C#m7/E | C#m7/F# :||
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
||: C#m7/G# | Bsus4 | C#m7 | C#m7/A# :||
Has someone taken your faith? It’s real, the pain you feel, your trust, you must confess.
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you? Oh.

Instrumental

||: C#m7 | C#m7 | Asus2 | Asus2 :||
||: Bsus4 | Bsus4 | Asus2 | Asus2 :||
Oh, ho-oh. Oh, oh-oh. Oh, oh-oh. Oh.

Chorus 3

||: C#m7 | C#m7/D# | C#m7/E | C#m7/F# :||
Has someone taken your faith? It’s real, the pain you feel. The life, the love you’d die to heal.
The hope that starts the broken hearts. Your trust, you must confess.
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?

Verse 4

Chorus 4 (as chorus 3)

Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Has someone taken your faith, it’s real, the pain you feel. Your trust, you must confess.
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you? Oh.

Outro

||: C#5 :|| to fade

Best of You Chords: Learn the progressions

Foo Fighters Best of You is a great example of what happens when a drummer writes a guitar riff.

Dave has based Best of You’s riff on a paradiddle called RLLR, LLRL. R means Right hand, and L means Left hand.

Try it by clapping on your knees at an even 8th-note pulse, that’s the riff! Applied to the guitar, we simply highlight the accents.

There’s TAB for how this could be played as the only guitarist in the band as well as an acoustic guitar arrangement, here’s a link to that part of this lesson: Best of You – Guitar Lesson with TAB.

The verse and instrumental chords for Best of You go like this.

||: C#m7 (VI) | C#m7 | Asus2 (IV) | Asus2 :||
| Bsus4 (V) | Bsus4 | Asus2 | Asus2 |

I’ve always liked the movement of VI – IV, the contrast of sad Aeolian and happy Lydian works so well on a loop.

The chorus chords are different. The first time we play this.

||: C#m7 (VI) | C#m7/D# | C#m7/E | C#m7/E :||
| C#m7 (VI) | Bsus4 (V) | Asus2 (IV) | Asus2 |

That’s chord VI with an ascending bass line before we recycle the verse chords in a new order.

The second time, the first line changes in bar 4, the last line is new from bar 3, like this.

||: C#m7 | C#m7/D# | C#m7/E | C#m7/F# :||
||: C#m7/G# | Bsus4 | C#m7 | C#m7/A# :||

That is some serious chord VI manipulation!

In choruses three and four, we repeat that first line four times.

Writing a chord chart for this many chorus variations was always going to be a challenge, here’s what I came up with.

Best of You Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro

It was a challenge to describe the chords in Best of You using the format of a chord chart. In a way, this is only a reminder though as the chords are so intricate, you must memorise it using TAB.

Should you want to download this chart, here’s a PDF: Best of You Chord Chart PDF.

This chord chart was created using iReal Pro, here’s a link to that file: Best of You iReal Pro. Using this and the iRealPro app, you can change the key although I can’t see that working out too well…

Best of You is Peak Foo Fighters!

From Foo Fighters 5th album, In Your Honor (2005) we find Best of You as the lead and best-selling single with over 3 million combined U.S. and U.K. sales.

By now, Foo Fighters was well established with tunes such as Everlong, Monkey Wrench, My Hero, Learn to Fly, and All My Life all receiving radio play and having their place firmly established on the band’s live setlist.

Nirvana is now a distant memory and Dave Grohl is one of the biggest rock stars in the world, headlining festivals as well as selling out world tours.

Interestingly, there is still plenty left in the tank, next, they release Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007) with the super intense The Pretender, removing all doubt that this is the band to catch on this side of the millennium.

Best of You Chords | Related Pages

Best of You | Guitar Lesson + TAB

In this lesson, you’ll find TAB for the verse and chorus of Best of You. Should you play as the only guitarist in a band, there’s also TAB for an acoustic version.

Five Similar Tunes | Chords + Lyrics

When you can play Best of You's chords, try these five tunes from the songbook.

Foo Fighters tunes

Being a member of not one but two generation-defining bands, Dave Grohl must be considered our time’s greatest rock star.

Dave started writing what was to become Foo Fighters‘ first album already as he was touring with Nirvana.

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