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Heartbeats — José González

González's fingerpicked cover retunes the low E and G strings so the bottom four strings ring a stable D major triad on their own, while the top two add a 6th and 2nd that blur the chord into a wide D6/9 — that drone is what makes the arrangement sound so much fuller than a three-chord loop should. The whole thing sits under a capo at the 1st fret, so the shapes below are the real fretted shapes, not yet transposed to the actual sounding pitch.

This is the progression as commonly transcribed (shapes shown before the capo-1 transposition), not a note-for-note copy of any one tab — open it below to hear each real shape in D A D F♯ B E.

Every chord verified against the app's own voicing engine in D A D F♯ B E, capo 1. Chord names above are shown as fretted (pre-capo) shapes, matching how most tabs write it; the app itself plays the real sounding pitch.