"The Way Life's Meant to Be"

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When I listened to Time on Wednesday, I thought the bass part from "The Way Life's Meant to Be" sounded like it would be pretty easy to figure out, so I spent some time yester-day doing that.  And then I figured out the guitar chords too.  It's actually pretty easy to play; it's almost a three-chord song, and the bass part is usually just the root note of whatever chord is on top of it.  Some phrases in the vocals are basically just descending diatonic phrases too.

I think the original is with twelve-string acoustic guitars, but I don't have a twelve-string acoustic guitar, so I just used my six-string.  It's not the best recording because I'm still not very good at equalization.  Also, I'm a bit unsure of the chords at the end of the first and third lines in the bridge.  This isn't the whole song because - since I know so little of it - that would be boring (although it's not very interesting as it is).

In learning how to play this I discovered that there's a slight difference between the chords for the verses and the chords for the solo.  During the verses, there are two bars of Eb major, but during the solo, there's only one.