Intro: A|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--| E|--5-5-5-5-3-2-3-5-5-5-5-3-2-3-| C|------------------------------| g|------------------------------| Riff ( x5 ): A|-7-5-4-----9-9------| E|--------------------| C|--------------------| g|------4-2-----------| Verse: D G D I'm feelin rough I'm feelin raw I'm in the prime of my life D G D Let's make some music make some money find some models for wives. D G D I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and xxxx with the stars. D G D You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars. Pre-chorus: G This is our decision to live fast and die young. D We've got the vision, now let's have some fun G Yeah it's overwhelming, but what else can we do? D Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute? Chorus: A Gbm Forget about our mothers and our friends. G A D We were fated to pretend. G D to pretend. G D We were fated to pretend. G D to pretend. Verse: D G D I'll miss the playgrounds and the animals and digging up worms. D G D I'll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world. D G D I'll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home. D G D Yeah I'll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone. Pre-chorus: G But there is really nothing, nothing we can do. D Love must be forgotten. Life can always start up anew. G The models will have children, we'll get a divorce, D we'll find some more models, Everything must run its course. Chorus: A Gbm We'll choke on our vomit and that will be the end. G A D We were fated to pretend. G D to pretend. G D We were fated to pretend. G D to pretend. Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah This arrangement is its contributor’s own interpretation, shared for private study, education and non-commercial use. The underlying song, lyrics and music remain the property of their copyright owners. To request removal, see Legal & Copyright.
Time to Pretend chords by MGMT
Suggested strumdown-up eighths
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d
2
u
3
d
4
u
Also works: driving 4/4 d – d – d u d u
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How to play Time to Pretend on ukulele
The strumming pattern for Time to Pretend: d u d u. It rolls along at a brisk pace of around 128 bpm. You are playing it in D major. Chord-wise this is an easy one: everything sits at the rookie level. For easier shapes, shift it down 2 half-steps with the transposer and clip a capo on fret 2 to land back in the same key. Drive constant down-up eighths to match the pumping synth pulse
4 ukulele chords used in "Time to Pretend" by MGMT: A, D, Gbm and G
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Hey guys noticed that the opening riff sounds better if you hold down the second Fret on the c string instead of the a
the last verse with the “yeah yeah yeah” is G and D <3