I'm Yours tab by Prince

Tabs

This is all my own work.

Prince
"I'm Yours"
 From the album "For You" (1978)

 Nice little funk/rock thing here; and even way back then he's tearing
 it up on guitar with some really speedy licks. I'm not exactly the fastest
 gun in the west. In fact, I've only been playing since last September..so
 I won't be able to do much justice to the song. But I like it, and there's
 currently no tab..so I'll give it my best.

 We're in the key of C#minor here..so scale wise it's mostly C#C# minor
pentatonic and C#C# minor
 (which is the same as E MajorE major pentatonic and E MajorE major, if you want to
think of it that way)

 Here's that guitar lick that's introduced about 10 seconds into the song:

E-------------------14------------------------------------------------------
B---14--16--17-------16--16h17p16---14---14h16p14--------------------
G---------------------------------------------------------------------16----
D---------------------------------------------------------------------------
A---------------------------------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------

I think that's repeated about 8 times, then the main funk groove
comes in.

There's also a main riff here, based on the C#C# minor pentatonic
scale. I play
it at the 9th position/fret. That's the easiest pentatonic pattern to
remember.

This isn't exact either, but it's something like this:

E----------------------------------------------------------------
B----------------------------------------------------------------
G--9--9---------9-----etc..----------9--11--9---------------------
D--------9--11-----11---------9--11------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------
               ^This is the main riff to know

The chords over this part are C# minorC#m and A.

You can also use power chords if you'd like C#5C#5 (x466xx) and A5A5
(577xxx)
for a more aggressive sound.

Then there's that bridge part ("Lover can't you see..")

The chords for that are, roughly:

B/E (x79877)

G#m7G#m7 (464444)

Amaj (577655) <---easier to play than open position A, due to the
G#m7G#m7 barre chord
          that comes before it.

 "..I'm yours!"

E---16p14p12-------------------------------------------------
B-----------------16p14p12----------------------------------
G---------------------------------------------------------------x4, REALLY FAST!
D----------------------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------

E--16-16-14---------------------------------------------------
B-----------------17p16p14-----------------------------------
G-----------------------------------------------------------x4 ALSO REALLY FAST!
D----------------------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------

E---16b19----------------12--12--14b16---14p12---------
B--------------------------------------------------------------14---
G--------------------------------------------------------------------
D--------------------------------------------------------------------
A--------------------------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------

 ^ slow, gradual bend

Rinse and repeat..after the next "I'm Yours!" he does another blazing
 fast lick that even inclues a full bend. This comes in at about 2:19
in the song.

 Something like this:

E---12b14(r12)p9-------------------------------------------------
B----------------------12p9-------------------------------------------
G----------------------------11p9-------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------------------------x4 Incredibly fast
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------

Now this is just me speaking, but there's no way in hell I can play that
fast enough to make it sound like Prince does on the recording. That's probably
child's play for some people, but certainly not me.

I've had enough with this song - it makes my realize how bad I am!

But I tried; perhaps this is better than nothing!

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