The Scientist chords by Coldplay


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The Scientist | Chords + Lyrics (no capo)


Intro

||: Dm7 | Bb (Bsus2) | F | Fsus2 :||

Verse 1

||: Dm7 | Bb | F | Fsus2 :||
Come up to meet you, tell you I’m sorry, you don’t know how lovely you are.
I had to find you, tell you I need you, tell you I set you apart.
Tell me your secrets and ask me your questions, oh let’s go back to the start.
Running in circles, coming up tails, heads on a science apart.

Chorus 1

| Bbadd9 | Bbadd9 | F | Fsus2 |
Nobody said it was easy, it’s such a shame for us to part.
| Bbadd9 | Bbadd9 | F | Fsus2 |
Nobody said it was easy, no one ever said it would be this hard.
| C5 C6 | C7 |
Oh, take me back to the start.

Instrumental 1

| F | Bb (Bbadd9) | F | F |
| F/A | Bb
(Bbadd9) | F | Fsus2 |

Verse 2

I was just guessing at numbers and figures, pulling the puzzles apart.
Questions of science, science, and progress, do not speak as loud as my heart.
But tell me you love me, come back and haunt me, oh and I rush to the start.
Running in circles, chasing our tails, coming back as we are.

Chorus 2

Nobody said it was easy, oh it’s such a shame for us to part.
Nobody said it was easy, no one ever said it would be so hard.
I’m going back to the start.

Instrumental 2

| Fsus4 (F) | Bbadd9 | Fsus4 (F) | Fsus4 (F) |
| Dm7 | Bbadd9 | Fsus4
(F) | Fsus4 (F) |

Outro

||: Dm7 | Bbadd9 | Fsus4 (F) | Fsus4 (F) :||
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh.
Ah ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh.
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh.
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh.



The Scientist | Chords + Lyrics (capo 1)


Intro

||: C#m7 | A (Asus2) | E | Esus2 :||

Verse 1

||: C#m7 | A | E | Esus2 :||
Come up to meet you, tell you I’m sorry, you don’t know how lovely you are.
I had to find you, tell you I need you, tell you I set you apart.
Tell me your secrets and ask me your questions, oh let’s go back to the start.
Running in circles, coming up tails, heads on a science apart.

Chorus 1

| Aadd9 | Aadd9 | E | Esus2 |
Nobody said it was easy, it’s such a shame for us to part.
| Aadd9 | Aadd9 | E | Esus2 |
Nobody said it was easy, no one ever said it would be this hard.
| B5 B6 | B7 |
Oh, take me back to the start.

Instrumental 1

| E | A (Aadd9) | E | E |
| E
/G# | A (Aadd9) | E | Esus2 |

Verse 2

I was just guessing at numbers and figures, pulling the puzzles apart.
Questions of science, science, and progress, do not speak as loud as my heart.
But tell me you love me, come back and haunt me, oh and I rush to the start.
Running in circles, chasing our tails, coming back as we are.

Chorus 2

Nobody said it was easy, oh it’s such a shame for us to part.
Nobody said it was easy, no one ever said it would be so hard.
I’m going back to the start.

Instrumental 2

| Esus4 (E) | Aadd9 | Esus4 (E) | Esus4 (E) |
| C#m7 | Aadd9 | Esus4
(E) | Esus4 (E) |

Outro

||: C#m7 | Aadd9 | Esus4 (E) | Esus4 (E) :||
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh.
Ah ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh.
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh.
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh.



The Scientist Chords: Learn the progressions


In most piano players’ favourite key of F, Coldplay‘s The Scientist‘s verse chords move like this during the intro/verse:

||: Dm7 (VI) | Bb (IV) Bbadd9 | F (I) | Fsus2 :||

This is extremely annoying for an acoustic guitar player so we grab our old friend the capo and put that on fret 1. Thinking in the key of E, the chords now become this for the intro:

||: C#m7 (VI) | A (IV) Aadd9 | E (I) | Esus2 :||

After playing around with these chords for a while, I came up with an intro for one acoustic guitar that I can only describe using TAB, here’s a link to that part of the lesson: The Scientist – Guitar Lesson with TAB.

The verse uses the same chords as the intro but we need to scale it back to leave room for the vocal. Let’s also scrap that Asus2. Again, you need TAB to understand this properly.

Staying in the key of E, The Scientist’s chorus chords are simple, using only IV – I on repeat, finishing on V, with some extensions, like this:

||: Aadd9 (IV) | Aadd9 | E (I) | Esus2 :||
| B5 (V) B6 | B7 |

More TAB will help here for this part as well as the instrumental section, which, if only described as chords is this:

| E | A (Aadd9) | E | E |
| E/G# | A (Aadd9) | E | Esus2 |

Lastly, the outro introduces a sus4 which is achieved by hammering on from the 3rd to the sus4 and then back again (check the TAB!).

As the chords change four times in a bar, I’ve put the triad in brackets rather than writing four chords in a bar, like this:

||: C#m7 | Aadd9 | Esus4 (E) | Esus4 (E) :||

Having worked through the TAB, played along with the original recording and started to feel confident with how you play The Scientist’s chords, this simple chord chart is all you need to gig it.

I’ve decided to write it in the key of F as the original as you may play this with a band, rather on your own, more on this below.


The Scientist chord chart.


The Scientist Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro


Should you want to download this chart, here’s a PDFThe Scientist Chord Chart PDF.

This chord chart was created using iReal Pro, here’s a link to that file: The Scientist iReal Pro.

Using this and the iRealPro app, you can change the key which is what you want to do if you play this on one guitar, just change the key to E.

If you put a capo on or not is up to you, a singer won’t notice a semitone difference unless they have perfect pitch.



The idea for The Scientist music video came from Spike Jones!

All great songs deserve a good music video and in The Scientist, we certainly get that!

The video went on to win three awards at the MTV Video Awards, mainly down to its narrative being told in reverse.

Directed by Jamie Thraves, it starts off with Chris Martin singing the first verse on a mattress in a London suburb, but we quickly enter reverse mode.

As Chris sings in sync and the world is backwards, the story of what happened is also told backwards.

To pull such an effect off Chris Martin would have to sing the song backwards! The effect was previously used in the 1996 video Drop by The Pharcyde (Spike Jones).



The Scientist Chords | Related Pages


The Scientist | Guitar Lesson + TAB

The Scientist TAB lesson.

With this guitar lesson, you can learn to play The Scientist by Coldplay using TAB and chord analysis.

Dm7 | Bb | F | Fsus2 |
Come up to meet you, tell you I’m sorry, you don’t know how lovely you are…


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Coldplay tunes

Coldplay wrote The Scientist.

With influences such as Irish U2 and American R.E.M, Coldplay’s tunes were set for Stadium greatness.

Starting out in 96, with the first album released in 2000, the band has spent more than two decades playing stadiums to adoring fans.


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About me | Dan Lundholm

Dan Lundholm wrote this guitar lesson about The Scientist chords.

This was a guitar lesson about The Scientist’s chords, by Dan Lundholm. Discover more about him and how you can learn guitar with Spytunes.

Most importantly, find out why you should learn guitar through playing tunes, not by practising scales or studying theory in isolation.


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