Song · Standard tuning

Always and Forever — Pat Metheny

Tuning Standard Capo None Form Intro · A · B · C

Full form, straight from the chord chart: a two-chord intro vamp, then Parts A, B, and C. Metheny leans on extended and altered chords throughout — 9ths, 13ths, half-diminished 7ths, slash chords — so every section below opens with its real standard-tuning voicings, including the actual bass note under each slash chord.

Intro · 4 bars

Am9 ↔ Dm13, twice

Am9→ Dm13→ Am9→ Dm13

The Am9 open-string shape and the Dm13 that stacks a 6th on top of the minor 7th.

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Part A · 16 bars

Am9 down to a IV–V turnaround, back through the changes

Opens the same as the intro, then keeps moving: Dm7 to Em7 to Fmaj7, a Gsus9 that leans into E7/G♯ (E7 with its own 3rd in the bass), then Am7 into a rich Abmaj13, a C/G with the 5th on the bottom, and a F♯m7♭5 that pulls everything back toward Fmaj7, Eb6, D7, Gsus9, Cmaj7, and Fm(add9) to close the section.

Am9→ Dm7→ Em7→ Fmaj7→ Gsus9→ E7/G#→ Am7→ Abmaj13→ C/G→ F#m7b5→ Fmaj7→ Eb6→ D7→ Gsus9→ Cmaj7→ Fm(add9)

All 16 bars of Part A, including the real bass notes under E7/G# and C/G.

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Part B · 17 bars

The bridge — descending through Fm7 into flat-key territory

Part B starts identically to A (Am9, Dm7, Em7) then breaks off downward: Fm7, Bb7, Ebmaj7, a Bb/D with the 3rd in the bass, and Dbmaj7. The second half climbs back through Cm7, an Ab/C (3rd in the bass again), Fm7, Gm7, Am7♭5, D7, Gmaj7, Bm7♭5, and E7 — setting up the return.

Am9→ Dm7→ Em7→ Fm7→ Bb7→ Ebmaj7→ Bb/D→ Dbmaj7→ Cm7→ Ab/C→ Fm7→ Gm7→ Am7b5→ D7→ Gmaj7→ Bm7b5→ E7

All 17 bars of Part B, including the real bass notes under Bb/D and Ab/C.

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Part C · 18 bars

The A section again, plus a tag ending

Part C repeats Part A note for note — same 16 bars, same voicings above — then adds a two-bar tag on the way out: Cmaj7 to Fm(add9), repeated once more to land the tune.

Cmaj7→ Fm(add9)→ Cmaj7→ Fm(add9)

The closing tag — Cmaj7 and Fm(add9), twice, to land the tune.

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Every chord above is verified against the app's own voicing engine in standard tuning — including the real bass note under each slash chord, not just a top-ranked substitute. Chord names only, no tab or notation reproduced.