Come Together by the Beatle's Paul McCartney

I'm putting an entry about playing Come Together by the Beatles. I'll be updating this as we go or as I learn how to play this awesome song.


Introduction:

The intro to the song is played up the bass neck, in the 12th fret area. In tab notation:

G|--------------10^-------|
D|------------------12\7--|
A|--------10h12-----------|
E|--10-10-----------------|

Other tab notations note that you slide down from the 12th fret (D) to the 5th fret(G) of the D string. However I choose to stop at the 7th fret (A).

Referring to the guitar chords of this song. The intro is actually a Dm chord, which is composed of the following notes: D(1), F(m3) and A(5). That's the reason why i choose to stop on the 7th fret of the D string for the slide from the D note on the 3rd string

Most of the song would be based on this riff.

For the line "Hair down to his knee", which is played with a A7 chord. I play it like this:

G|------------------------|
D|------------------------|
A|-12-12---15-15-----11---|
E|------------------------|

or

G|------------------------|
D|---------10-10----------|
A|-12-12-------------11---|
E|------------------------|

Major 7th Chords are composed of the following notes: 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th. As I understand it, that's why the G#note (the 7th of the A) is integral in this part of the song.

For the G chord for the line "Got to be a joker..." just play a single G note


G|------------------------|
D|------------------------|
A|--10--------------------|
E|------------------------|

The chorus is played like this:

G|------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------|
A|--14-14-14-14-14-14-12-12-10-10-10-10-12--|
E|------------------------------------------|

For the guitar solo part, Paul stays on the D note instead of doing the riff

G|------------------------|
D|------------------------|
A|------------------------|
E|--10-10-----------------|

There are also some trills being done by Paul in some parts for the D chord.
In most cases it would be a hammer-on and pull off from the 10th fret to the 12th fret
of the 4th string