Like I said, I'm not sure about the Violet Hill how they play it now.

I transcribed the version how Chris played it at the early concerts before the Viva La Vida tour.

 

Life in Technicolor(II) is played in Drop D on bass, with the notes: A, E, D, F#, C# and G#.

 

That is the A major scale.(A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G#)

So Esus4 and E will fit both.

(Tnspieler, your Esus2 = Esus4)

 

So to compare it with the LiT chords.

F#m - D - A.

Play them in standard tuning, sounds good.

But now play them in EADGC#C# tuning, sounds bad, also... that D is almost impossible in that tuning.

You have to stretch alot AND a C# over D won't work that great.

The chord is D, and not D7, not even Dm.

If the Minor won't fit, then the 7th absolutly won't fit.

 

So C# won't fit the chords in the song.

He can tuned it different, but not both strings to C#.

So is this Violet Hill Tab Right?

 

 

C#m 9 11 11 9 9 0

 

C#m 9 11 11 9 9 0 was a long...

B9 7 9 9 8 0 0 remember...

A 5 7 7 6 0 0 snow, white

F#m 2 4 4 2 2 0 snow

 

A 5 7 7 6 0 0 when the future..

B9 7 9 9 8 0 0 carnival...

C#m 9 11 11 9 9 0 show..

B9 7 9 9 8 0 0 low

 

G#m 4 6 6 4 4 0 If you

A 5 7 7 6 0 0 love

G#m 4 6 6 4 4 0 me

E6 12 14 14 13 0 0 won't you

C#m 9 11 11 9 9 0 let

B9 7 9 9 8 0 0 me

C#m 9 11 11 9 9 0 know

 

outro

I took my love down to violet hill

A B9 C#m G#m E6 C#m B9 A

 

There we sat in snow

A B9 C#m G#m A

 

All that time she was silent hill

A B9 C#m G#m E6 C#m B9 A

 

If you love me won't you let me know

G#m A G#m E C#m B9 C#m

Mostly the 2 higher strings, both open.

Alright, I find my tab(maybe still need updates, but its ok)

 

This is how I saw Chris playing it in high quality video from BBC gig.

 

COLDPLAY VIOLET HILL(LIVE) CHORDS

STANDARD TUNING NO CAPO.
TABBED BY STEPHAN HONDEVELD.

C#m  = 91119000 (this is: 9 11 11 9 0 0)
A    = 577600
F#m  = 244200
B    = 799800
F#5  = X9111100 (this is: X 9 11 11 0 0)
F5   = X8101000 (this is: X 8 10 10 0 0)
E5   = X79900
D#5  = X68800
G#   = 466500

INTRO.
C#m - A - F#M - F#5-F5-E5-D#5  ::  REPEAT

CHORUS.
A - B - C#M - B - G#
A - G# - F# - C#M -B - C#M

VERSE.
REPEAT INTRO.

SOLO.
REPEAT INTRO.

FINAL PART NOT TABBED YET.

Could be some typing mistakes, but it is right.

Iĺl tab the last part soon.

 

Btw, sorry for my little triple post.. :P

So do i strum all 6 strings or just the top 4. EADG?

Is the ending right?

 

outro

I took my love down to violet hill

A B9 C#m G#m E6 C#m B9 A

 

There we sat in snow

A B9 C#m G#m A

 

All that time she was silent hill

A B9 C#m G#m E6 C#m B9 A

 

If you love me won't you let me know

G#m A G#m E C#m B9 C#m

It still sounds a little wierd with the open e and b. but i can live with that. :) THANKS for helping me out you guys!!! I really appreciate it!!!! :)

I just held the b down on the ninth fret with the C#m chord and it sounds better. Like this: 011119900 (0 11 11 9 9 0)

E A D G B e

Yeah that works really good!!! just take the low E of and put it on the b and it works perfect!!!!!!!!!

yeah actually I don't like the sound of both open strings, it doesn't sound that good to me along with the song

Hi! This morning I try to get the best sound on my guitar for Violet Hill. After watching some videos, I think that the tuning is:

 

D# G# C# F# C# C#

 

And the chord are (I don't know exactly the name, but I think that you undertand):

 

Dm: x 12 12 10 0 0

 

C: x 10 10 9 0 0

 

Bb: x 8 8 7 0 0

G5: 3 5 5 0 0 0

 

F#5: 2 4 4 0 0 0

 

F5: 1 3 3 0 0 0

 

E5: 0 2 2 0 0 0

 

Gm: x 5 5 3 0 0

 

F: x 3 3 2 0 0

 

 

Dm

It was a long and dark December

C

From the rooftops I remember

Bb Gm - G5 F#5 F5 E5

There was snow, white snow

 

Dm

Clearly I remember

C

From the windows they were watching

Bb Gm - G5 F#5 F5 E5

While we froze down below

 

Bb

When the future's architectured

C Dm

By a carnival of idiots on show

C

You'd better lie low

 

Am Bb Am F Dm C Dm

If you love me, won't you let me know?

 

Dm

Was a long and dark December

When the banks became cathedrals

Bb C Gm - G5 F#5 F5 E5

And a fox became God

 

Dm

Priests clutched onto bibles

Hollowed out to fit their rifles

Bb C Gm

And a cross held aloft

 

Bb

Bury me in armour

C

When I'm dead and hit the ground

Dm C

My nerves are poles that unfroze

 

Am Bb Am F Dm C Dm

And if you love me, won't you let me know?

 

Solo: [Dm Bb C Gm - G5 F#5 F5 E5] x 2

 

Bb

I don't want to be a soldier

C

Who the captain of some sinking ship

Dm C

Would stow, far below.

 

Am Bb Am F Dm C Dm

So if you love me, why d'you let me go?

 

Bb C Dm F Bb C

I took my love down to violet hill

Bb C Dm F Bb

There we sat in snow

Bb C Dm F Bb Dm C

All that time she was silent still

Am Bb Am F Dm C Dm

Said if you love me, won't you let me know?

Am Bb Am F Dm C Dm

If you love me, won't you let me know?

 

I invite you to try to play the song like this, and you correct me if I'm wrong.

 

I hope to have helped :)

 

If don't understand something, tell me. I'm not good with english, and I can have mistakes.

 

EDIT: The chord aren't wealthy, I don't know why =?

open chords with the tuning E A D G C# C# is how its done :)

 

oh so that's how violet hill is played.

 

Yeah, like the others mentioned, both these songs can be played quite normally in standard tuning.

Are you lot all drummers or are you just tone deaf?

bohs man is correct.

 

The Violet Hill/LIT tuning is :

 

E

A

D

G

C#

C#

 

I was just passing time (maybe I was on the toilet, maybe I wasn't) going through the newest Tour Program and there is a page that has a collage of pictures (one of them being a setlist from 08, most likely for a guitar tech) and there are tunings out to the side of a few songs. If this is posted somewhere else, I apologize

 

Cemeteries of London:

A

A

D

G

B

E

 

Chinese Sleep Chant (Standard)

 

42:

E

A

D

G

B

D

 

Strawberry Swing (Standard)

 

Yellow:

E

A

B

G

B

D

 

That's all I can tell from the program, enjoy!

Yellow:

E

A

B

G

B

D

 

huh?? sure?!

well, these are certainly for acousic guitar, right?

 

but is he really using a guitar on 42? and isn't cemeteries of london in Eb minor? so why he'd have it kind of "normal" (no flat tuned string)