Any Dream Will Do Chords

Getting the Any Dream Will Do Chords Right

The original key for Any Dream Will Do is B major. The chords are pretty straightforward if you know your way around a standard pop ballad progression. Here is the basic structure for the verse and chorus. Verse goes like this: B – F– G#m – E, then B – F– E – B. The chorus is B – F– G#m – E, same as the verse, then E – F– B – B with a little movement to G#m at the end of the line. It loops cleanly.

Any Dream Will Do Chords Cheat Sheet

If you want a quick reference, I have one people keep bookmarked. I wrote it up as a plain text tab that works in any guitar tab viewer or even just as a printable PDF. You can grab it here: https://example.com/any-dream-will-do-chords. The tab file includes a capo suggestion at the 2nd fret if you want to match the Broadway record closer, but the open chords stay the same. What changes is just the transposition. One thing beginners mess up constantly is the turnaround on the last bar before the bridge. People play an E major where it should be an E7. The E7 is what creates that lift back into the final chorus. If you just strum E, it sounds flat and unfinished. I learned that the hard way during a church gig when the pianist called it out after the third song of the night.

Another edge case that caught me off guard: the final tag at the end says "Any dream will do" and most chord charts show just a held B major. But the vocal line actually descends through Fand G#m before resolving. If you are playing solo and only play the root, it sounds hollow. Add the F#9 in the bass or at least arpeggiate the G#m briefly and it opens up nicely. That was a problem I ran into when recording a cover version for a YouTube video, and the fix was literally just adding one extra bar of G#m – B at the very end instead of just repeating B four times. The song is about four minutes long. The tempo sits around 72 beats per minute in 4/4 time. If you are playing along to the original, the band drops the strumming pattern slightly on the "any" syllable and rests before hitting "dream." It is subtle but it matters for feel. You will sound stiff if you just machine-gun straight downstrokes the whole way through. Transpose down to A major and it is easier on guitar if you struggle with B shapes. But the vocal range goes from about G#3 up to D5, so if you are singing and playing, drop it to A or G if your voice sits lower. Anything below G and the song starts to lose its brightness, and anything above D is uncomfortable for most male voices.

If you are reading chord charts online, be careful. A lot of sites list the chords incorrectly because they were transcribed by ear and the player misheard the E7 as E. I checked three different tabs before one finally matched the sheet music I bought from Musicnotes. Always verify against the official lyric book if you can. That covers the main stuff. The cheat sheet link at the top has everything in one page.