Patience Chords & Guitar Lesson

Welcome to my Patience chord chart by Guns ‘N Roses. This is a great acoustic song. Every rock band needs a great acoustic guitar song, right?

FUN FACT: Guns ‘N Roses is actually some of my favorite music to play on the drums. Yes, I also dabble on the drums.

This song is going to require us to tune our guitar down a half step. So instead of our guitar being tunes top to bottom E, A, D, G, B and e it will be tuned Eb, Ab, Dd, Gb, Db and eb.

Tuning: 1/2 step down
Tempo: 120 bpm

The intro to this song is two guitars. One is doing some light strumming and the other is doing some picking. We will focusing on the strumming. You can start off by strumming chords and holding and then developing into the strumming pattern below.

If you want to try picking, work on arpeggios on the chords. 8th note patterns. If you are uncertain how to play this very common part of music, check out my Guitar Course where I go over some arpeggio picking patterns.

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Patience Guitar Chords:

Patience Strumming Patterns:

Strumming Patterns:
R
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
D D U U DU D DU U D U

R = Rake the first strum on the

Also heard:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
D DU D U DU

D to Dsus lick:
D Dsus4 D Dsus2 D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4+ 1 + 2 + 3 +4 +
D DU U U U U UDU

Cut Time: You can improvise over the G
D G#/D G
1 2 + 3 4 + a 1 +a 2 +a 3 e+a 4 e +a
DDU D DD U DDUDDU U U D UDU

Patience Guitar Lesson:

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Patience Chord Chart:

Intro:
C C G G A A D D
C C G G A A D D
C G C Em C G D D

Verse:
C (2) G (2)
Shed a tear cause I'm missing you. I'm still alright to smile
A (2) D (2)
Girl, I think about you every day now.
C (2) G (2)
Was a time when I wasn't sure, but you set my mind at ease.
A (2) D (2)
There is no doubt you're in my heart now.

Chorus:
C G C Em
Said woman, take it slow, It’ll work itself out fine
C G D | Dsus4 D Dsus2 D|
All we need is just a little patience.
C G C Em
Said sugar, make it slow and it’ll come together fine
C G D | Dsus4 D Dsus2 D|
All we need is just a little patience

D | Dsus4 D Dsus2 D|
D | Dsus4 D Dsus2 D|
D | Dsus4 D Dsus2 D|

Verse:
C (2) G (2)
Sit here on the stairs ‘cause I’d rather be alone.
A (2) D (2)
If I can’t have you right now, I’ll wait dear.
C (2) G (2)
Sometimes I get so tense, but I can’t speed up the time.
A (2) D (2)
But you know, love, there’s one more thing to consider.

Cut Time:
|D D/F#| G
|D D/F#| G

| D D/F#| G
A little patience, yeah.
| D D/F#| G
A little patience, yeah.
|D D/F#| G
A little patience, yeah.
| D D/F#| G
Some more patience, yeah.

Verse:
|D D/F#| G
I've been walking the streets tonight,   just trying to get it right.
|D D/F#| G
It's hard to see with so many around, you know I don’t like being stuck in the ground.
|D D/F#| G
And the streets don't change, but maybe the name.   I ain't got time for the game
|D D/F#  | G
‘cause I need you   Yeah, yeah, well I need you.

Outro:
F6 F6
Ooh, I need you
G G
D G D
Oh, this time

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This file is the author’s own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It’s intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.

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