Shots of the crowd reveal that the seats are filled with not people, but TV sets, making Adams the only human in the building. This one showed Adams standing on stage amid stacks of television sets showing parts of his band members. The first, released in November 1984, was directed by Steve Barron, who worked on most of Adams’ videos of the time. The song charted number 1 in the US charts and number 38 in the United Kingdom I recommend you watch the video above to understand it better. That’s basically it for the intro of Heaven by Bryan Adams. The F major chord will be played with the index finger only barring the 1st and 2nd string since you will need to lift your index finger to play the open E string/note.
For G major chord, you will be playing the G note (6th string) with the 3rd (b note) string and 2nd string (C note, first finger is in first fret) followed by again the D note on the second string and then the open high E string.Do the same fingering for A minor chord.Next note is the open E note on the 1st string. Then play the 5th string again (C note) and followed by the D note on the second string using your pinky finger. With C major, play strings 5, 3 and 2.Now if you play those notes with the chords mentioned, you got the intro riff.Īll of these are explained in the video but for the folks who love to read, continue below: Although it is played with a piano, a guitar version specially if you are playing solo with a band without keyboards, you can do away with the guitar version.Ĭhords for the intro are C major, Aminor, G major and F major. It is fairly easy to play the intro for this song. That song inspired them to write their own power ballad. Jim Vallance and Bryan Adams co-wrote “Heaven” becaues of the Journey’s song “Faithfully”. Bryan and Journey did more than 100 gigs during those times. Bryan Adams had been the opener or front act for the Band Journey during 1983. Here’s a quick fact about the origin of this song. Bryan Adams has more than a handful of great hits but I believe that his best love song is the song that we are about to learn today – Heaven.