La Maza with chords
First verse of La Maza with Chords
The first part of La Maza chords has several chords but they are almost all the ones you will find in the song. So a first effort with you guitar and you are almost done.
Here are the positions you will have to know from the first verse of the part 1 :
When you master those chords, you can follow the next tab to play the first verse of the first part and, following the lyrics, the other verses :
Remember that the chords are written above the lyrics so that you can play them at the right time. Therefore, it’s better to play while singing. Chords that are to the right of a phrase (not above a word) are played between the two phrases.
Chorus of the song La Maza by Silvio Rodriguez
In the refrain of La Maza, only 3 chords are added (the ones you already know, you have to be ready) :
Same for the refrain : Ii is made up of two verses. Each verse is played the same. So you only have to learn the first verse with your guitar.
When you have the news ready, you can play the tab of the first verse of chorus and, following the lyrics, the whole chorus:
You can try to play other latin music like the music of Carlos Vives La Tierra del Olvido.
La Maza lyrics
The song La Maza chords by Mercedes Sosa and Shakira are composed of two parts and a chorus.
The structure of the lyrics is simple:
Part 1 – Chorus – Part 2 – Chorus
Part 1
Si no creyera en la locura
De la garganta del sinsonte
Si no creyera que en el monte
Se esconde el trino y la pavura
Si no creyera en la balanza
En la razón del equilibrio
Si no creyera en el delirio
Si no creyera en la esperanza
Si no creyera en lo que agencio
Si no creyera en mi camino
Si no creyera en mi sonido
Si no creyera en mi silencio
Chorus
¿Qué cosa fuera?
¿Qué cosa fuera la maza sin cantera?
Un amasijo hecho de cuerdas y tendones
Un revoltijo de carne con madera
Un instrumento sin mejores resplandores
Que lucecitas montadas para escena
¿Qué cosa fuera, corazón?
¿Qué cosa fuera?
¿Qué cosa fuera la maza sin cantera?
Un testaferro del traidor de los aplausos
Un servidor de pasado en copa nueva
Un eternizador de dioses del ocaso
Júbilo hervido con trapo y lentejuela
¿Qué cosa fuera, corazón, qué cosa fuera?
¿Qué cosa fuera la maza sin cantera?
¿Qué cosa fuera, corazón, qué cosa fuera?
¿Qué cosa fuera la maza sin cantera?
Part 2
Si no creyera en lo más duro
Si no creyera en el deseo
Si no creyera en lo que creo
Si no creyera en algo puro
Si no creyera en cada herida
Si no creyera en la que ronde
Si no creyera en lo que esconde
Hacerse hermano de la vida
Si no creyera en quien me escucha
Si no creyera en lo que duele
Si no creyera en lo que quede
Si no creyera en lo que lucha
Chorus
Try to improvise on this song with the major and minor guitar scale or other more Spanish : the flamenco scale.
La Maza history
La Maza chords is a song written by the Cuban poet, composer and musician Silvio Rodriguez in 1979. Figure of the Cuban “Nueva Trova”, he takes away his native land with this music written with a typical rhythm of Argentina : the chacarera. Maybe that’s why we owe a beautiful version of La Maza to the great Argentinean singer Mercedes Sosa who also sang it with Shakira.
The lyrics of La Maza are very philosophical. Rodriguez, through his poem, makes us enter the mind of an artistic and sensitive being who approaches the essence of life, leaving in his way the futile things.
Because, to be an artist, to transmit things, maybe you have to feel them. To feel nature, to feel being human, to feel the sound and all that they hide. To know how to concentrate on what is important, to dream and, above all, to believe in the essence of things.
Because feeling and believing are perhaps the best ways to live the intensity : “Si no creyera, qué cosa fuera ?”
Our score summarizes everything we just covered. You can download it for free to play the song La Maza chords by Mercedes Sosa and Shakira on guitar.
