If I Ever Lose My Faith in You

Annotations

The interlude/outro chords are notated as power chords without a third, which is what the organ mostly plays. There are occasional other notes from the organ and the guitars that would make them at times G6/9 and Em7, respectively.

Sting plucks mainly with his thumb, alternating with either his index or middle finger for the sixteenth notes. He also often frets the E string with the thumb of his fretting hand.

While the sixteenth notes have a clear swing feel to them (as is apparent in the drums), Sting plays a lot of them rather straight.

He might have played the bridge mainly on the A string, as opposed to the D string, which is how I chose to notate and play it. There is no audible slide up from the last note to the first note of the third verse. Live, he played the bridge always an octave lower.

Annotations

The interlude/outro chords are notated as power chords without a third, which is what the organ mostly plays. There are occasional other notes from the organ and the guitars that would make them at times G6/9 and Em7, respectively.

Additional resources

• Live from Lake House, Wilsford cum Lake, England (1993)

  Released together with the album, this performance is a mix between mostly the album version and what was recorded for the video. This is, however, the actual setting the album was recorded in.

• Live on The Tonight Show (1993) @00:49

  Featuring Branford Marsalis on soprano saxophone.

• Live at Oslo Spektrum, Norway (1993) @01:07
• Live at the Seagaia Convention Center, Miyazaki, Japan (1994)

  Other footage from the Ten Summoner’s Tales tour.

• Article from Recording Musician (1993)

  Details on the recording process for the album.