Sylvan Esso – Free Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Sylvan Esso – Free Chords on Piano & Ukulele

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ChordsAC#mBmEDF#m

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[Verse 1]
    A
Oh, people always ask me
          C#m               A
What it's like to love everybody
           Bm               A
What it's like to love everybody
         E
They ask me
  A
I tell them, "Don't be crazy
            C#m          A
There’s too many people around me
     Bm             
If I loved them all, 
        A
they’d break me
    E
You see"

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[Pre-Chorus]
      D              
But if I'm being honest, 
     E
it feels like
               A       
Each moment is loving at
        C#m
 first sight
      D             A      
Oh, I love how your looking 
       E
looks inside
    D
Oh, I'm never changing, but
E                   A     
In the reflection reflected 
          C#m
in your eyes
        D               A      
Oh, the magic of being packaged 
        E
feels amazing

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[Chorus]
      Bm
To be free
     A
In illusion
       F#m             E         D
In an illusion of your making of me
      Bm
To be free
      A
In deception
       F#m         E          D
In a deception not crafted by me
E
So, you see

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[Verse 2]
     A
It’s me that I am loving
       C#m               A
Though not the me that's talking
    Bm                A  
The one that lives in all
             E
 those other minds
    A
Oh, how I love her dearly
    C#m          A
She never misses a beat
      Bm          A      
She’s pirouetting blithely 
         E
in the sky

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[Chorus]
       Bm
She is free
    A
In illusion
       F#m            
In an illusion of your 
 E         D
making of me
     Bm
I am free
     A
In deception
       F#m        E         D
In a deception protected by me
        E
Mmm hmm hmm

[Outro]
    A
Oh, people always ask me
          C#m               A
What it's like to love everybody
          Bm                A
What it's like to love everybody
         E
They ask me

How to play Free: key, chords and progression

This is the chords of Free by Sylvan Esso on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

Free by Sylvan Esso sits in A major (three sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯), and you need 6 chords to play it: A, C#m, Bm, E, D and F#m.

Listen for A – C#m – A – Bm (I – iii – I – ii in A major): the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is doh – mi – doh – reh. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 2nd fret and play the shapes G, Bm, Am, D, C, Em (83% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 50% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.

Chord diagrams

A chord on guitar (x02220)
AA C♯ E
C#m chord on guitar (x46654)
C♯mC♯ E G♯
Bm chord on guitar (x24432)
BmB D F♯
E chord on guitar (022100)
EE G♯ B
D chord on guitar (xx0232)
DD F♯ A
F#m chord on guitar (244222)
F♯mF♯ A C♯

Free chords: questions

What key is Free in?

Free by Sylvan Esso is in the key of A major (three sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯).

What chords are in Free?

Free uses 6 chords: A, C#m, Bm, E, D, F#m.

What is the chord progression of Free?

The main progression is A – C#m – A – Bm (I – iii – I – ii).

Is Free easy to play on guitar?

Yes, with a capo: put a capo on the 2nd fret and play the shapes G, Bm, Am, D, C, Em (83% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 50% without a capo).

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