SyncopatedProgress | A Song for You (Donny Hathaway) – Guitar lesson (part 1) @SyncopatedProgress | Uploaded December 2015 | Updated October 2024, 5 days ago.
I apologize for this being cut up into more videos than intended. Unfortunately, I had no choice.
And this is the Donny Hathaway version, but the original creatos is Leon Russell.

Shortcuts:
Intro: 0:00
Verse 1: 6:31
Bridge 1: youtu.be/lVN36YaFqDk
Verse 2 and bridge 2: youtu.be/0HpUou15eK8
Verse 3 and outro: youtu.be/Us-Aj4jEFgc
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Chords:
Intro – •Chromatic fourths• Gm7 Gm6 F#m7(-5)

Verse 1 – Dm A7/C# F69/C Bm7-5 Bb F Gm7 A7 Bb Am7(+5) Gm F (/E)
Dm A7/C# F69/C Bm7-5 Bb F/A Gm(11) A7(11) Bb Am7(+5) Gm F (/E)
Dm Dm/Db Dm/C Dm/B Bb Csus4 F (/E)
Dm Dm/Db Dm/C Dm/B Bb Am7(+5) Gm7 C7

Bridge 1 – Up to you

Verse 2 – Dm A7/C# F69/C Bm7-5 Bb F Gm7 A7 Bb Am7(+5) Gm F
Ebmaj9-5 Dm

Bridge 2 – C8 C#8 Dm Dm/C Dm/Bb A° •with different inversions• Gm7 •Chromatic bass line from f# to e• Em7-9

Verse 3 and outro – Dm A7/C# F69/C Bm7-5 Bb F/A Gm(11) A7(11) Bb C(sus4) Bb/C F Bb C Gm7 F Bb Am7(+5) Ebmaj9 D8 C8 Bb8 Bb(5) F(sus4) F69

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The song at the end is my heavily reworked version of a Swedish Christmas song. youtu.be/hPGuftxFzec