Waltz #2 (XO) by Elliott Smith - performed by Ethan Daum and Reade McCardell. This seems to be one of Elliott's more popular songs, and I can understand why - because it's so ridiculously good.
A lot of the songs on XO are more heavily produced, and are arranged for a full band which makes it a little trickier deciding how to cover it. Years ago I did find some videos of Elliott playing it live by himself, so that's where I picked up some things in the way I play it here.
Big thanks to Reade McCardell for singing this with me. His voice is just so good! And I love the chance to do a little harmonizing too. Reade and I agreed that this song may have the best bridge of all time, what do you think? :)
You'll keep seeing Reade on my channel, but you should also go check out some of his other work. He has an amazing album called Frets which you can find on iTunes or Spotify - in fact I'm even in the track called "Sticker", playing bass. Here are some other places you can find Reade:
KZfaq: / @reademccardell1843
Facebook: / reade-mccardell-123844...
For you guitar players wanting to learn this song:
Guitar is tuned down a whole step - as is pretty normal for Elliott. The chords aren't particularly tricky in this song... just one weird chord that might be hard to get.
Intro/chorus:
Am C F C F/C C G C (the F/C is mostly so you can do a hammer on the G string for the melody)
Verse:
Am C (walk bass down C, G, F#, to this next F chord) F D/F# G7
Dm Am Bm7(b5) E (That Bm7b5 is the tricky one - a half diminished chord! x20231 )
To get into the bridge you go from a C, and then just move the C shape up a fret, but mute the D string with your middle finger - so effectively x4x02x
Bridge:
Dm F C G Am Dm F (I think I remember Elliott adding a 9th on that last F in his acoustic version 13x213 )
Feel free to ask questions in the comments!