Here’s another one off of The Swell Season album though a slightly different version is also on the Once Soundtrack. This is one of my favorite singer/songwriter type of songs from Glen and it’s one that he wrote together with Damien Rice. Since this is more of a strummy acoustic song, I’ve decided to just share how I think he plays it (from what I was able to see from my balcony view at the show a couple of nights ago) by listing out the chords up front and then laying them down on top of the lyrics. Anyway, hope this helps all of you old and new fans of one of my favorites.

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After getting a bit of pressure via comments and emails, I finally got around to tabbing how I play the pre-chorus of Glen Hansard’s song, Falling Slowly. I’m pretty sure it’s not actually how he plays it but it should be close enough–at least it’s close enough in my book. It’s really hard for me to pick up the guitar part alone from the recordings I listened to so what I posted is as good as it’ll get from me for now. Here’s a link to the updated post. If you’ve figured out a more accurate version, please send it my way.

Another song that was released both by The Frames on The Cost album and Glen Hansard’s side project called the Swell Season with Marketa Irglova. It’s fairly accurate I think though not perfect. The chords on the chorus especially are worth trying different forms of the same chords as he seems to change it up at times.

Intro & Verses       

   C                           A
e -----------------------------------------------------------
B -----------------------------------------------------------
G -----5-5-----5-----5-5-----5-----5-5-----5-----5-5-----5---
D ---5-------5-----5-------5-----5-------5-----5-------5-----
A -3-------3-----3-------3-----0------0------0--------0------
E -----------------------------------------------------------      

   G                           F
e -----------------------------------------------------------
B -----------------------------------------------------------
G -----4-4-----4-----4-4-----5-----2-2-----2-----2-2-----2---
D ---5-------5-----5-------5-----3-------3-----3-------3-----
A -----------------------------------------------------------
E -3-------3-----3-------3-----1-------1-----1-------1-------      

Chorus      

   Am    G     F
e -0-----------------
B -1-----3-----1----
G -2-----4-----2----
D -2-----5-----3----
A -0-----5-----3----
E -x-----3-----1----      

Update: Just ran across a video of Glen playing it and I actually got to see how he plays it. Updated the tab to play the open A string instead of the E string on the fifth fret. Minor but worth updating…