Make Heaven Crowded

Minimum skill needed to play

You can play this song if you are comfortable playing a boom-chick strumming or fingerpicking pattern and a chord notnaturally found in a major key: the major third chord with a dominant 7 (III7), which in Eb is G7 (instead of Gm7).

Chords and chord transitions

You can play the chords of the original key using Eb chord shapes with no capo but to get a bigger sound, a capo is recommended.

Use the Chord Shape Finder below to pick what chord shapes you want to play. Here's how it works:

• First choose the key of the song.
• Then choose the capo fret until "Play shapes in" shows a key you are familiar with and the chords listed in "Chord Shapes" are ones you know or want to learn. This allows you to play the song using chords and chord shapes you know while the song is in a key you don't know.
• View chords and chord transition pairs for suggested voicings.

What to watch out for

There is a G7 chord in the song (in the key of Eb), so make sure you feel comfortable with that chord within the context of the rest of the chords in the key.

The strumming style is inspired by folk music, so focus on playing the boom-chick pattern with a short down strum on the lower strings followed by a full strum across all the strings. Repeat throughout to maintain the energy and style of the original recording.

How to play this song solo

Once you have the folk strum pattern and the 7 chord down, the chord change timing is fairly even through the song. You can fingerpick the first verse and pre-chorus if desired.

Song structure

The song can be played following this order from the recording.

• Verse 1
• Pre-chorus
• Chorus
• Turnaround (4 measures)
• Verse 2
• Pre-chorus
• Chorus
• Turnaround (8 measures)
• Pre-chorus
• Pre-chorus 2 (different lyrics)
• Chorus (2x) (builds into second chorus)