How to Play "Space Oddity" by David Bowie on Acoustic Guitar

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D UD U UD DU DU is the strumming pattern for most of it

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Actually, the E minor chord in the 'floating round my tin can" part is actually a G major with an E. You can see it in the video for Space Oddity as well as live shows.

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You are nearly right. At around 3:50 in the official video at „floating round my tin can“ you can see that he moves the Fmaj7/C chord (033210) two frets up which gives 055430 or EDGBDE which is just an Em7. Interesting way to play the Em7. Did not find this in any chord library but it works.

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@@robertgumpi7235 i did not know that also was an Em7. You summed what i was trying to say pretty well.

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