"I've Always Had You"

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Two days ago, I figured out the guitar parts for Colin Blunstone's "I've Always Had You."  (Or, at least what I have is pretty close.)

There's actually some similarity between the picking pattern used here and that in "Maybe after He's Gone."

"I've Always Had You" uses:

|     x  x     x  x

|     x  x     x  x

|   x        x

| x        x  

Where "Maybe after He's Gone" has:

|     x     x   x

|     x     x   x

|   x     x

| x     x     x

The higher two strings are plucked simultaneously - that's the real similarity.  I'm not sure how common that is, so I don't know if it's an intentional sort of reference, but I thought I'd note it anyway.

Until learning the chords, I didn't realize that the second part of this is half a step higher.  It's not just the first part raised though; there are differences in the chord progression.