Eagles
Lyin' Eyes chords
Lyin' Eyes by Eagles is an intermediate song in G, played with no capo. The whole sheet is 9 chords (G, Gmaj7, C, Am, D, D7, Em, Bm, A7) across 3 sections: Intro → Verse → Chorus. 8 of the 9 shapes are open chords. Shapes that use a barre: Bm. It sits at roughly 133 BPM.
By Chiye · Updated
Hardest change in the sheet: Bm → Am, once.
- Difficulty
- Intermediatebarre shape Bm
- Key
- Gwith no capo
- Tempo
- 133BPM
- Tuning
- Standard (E A D G B E)low to high
- Chords
- 98 open, 1 with a barre
- Sections
- 3each with its own progression
Chords in Lyin' Eyes
Frets read low E to high E, x means leave that string out.
Chord sheet
One chord per bar in this practice sheet. Follow the time signature shown beside each section; dots mark the remaining counts in the bar. Tap a bar to hear its chord, or loop the section to practise the changes.
Chord accompaniment only. Follow the section notes for this arrangement’s timing. Songs whose words are public domain →
Intro4/4 · ♩=133
Verse4/4 · ♩=133
Chorus4/4 · ♩=133
Printable one-page chord chart
How to play Lyin' Eyes
This arrangement introduces Gmaj7 beside G. Open G is 3-2-0-0-0-3; the displayed Gmaj7 is 3-x-0-0-0-2. The high E moves down one fret, and the A string must also be muted. Check both changes rather than keeping every other string unchanged.
Am and D7 share C on the B string at fret 1, but their other strings differ. Am frets D at 2 while D7 leaves it open, and D7 needs high E at fret 2. Refinger G-string fret 2 if necessary while retaining the shared B-string note.
Read the verse and chorus rows separately. A short sequence can repeat within a longer section, but that does not make the whole section four bars. Give each printed cell its full bar and observe the section’s repeat count.
Start slowly with G to Gmaj7, then Am to D7. Add Bm after the open changes are comfortable. Keep the strum light and even while moving between the open grips and the fret-2 barre.
How to practise Lyin' Eyes
Four steps computed from this sheet: the order the shapes are easiest to learn in, the changes that really occur in the progressions above, where each chord turns up, and the tempo ladder up to the speed marked here.
Learn the shapes easiest first
G (3-2-0-0-0-3, beginner) → Gmaj7 (3-x-0-0-0-2, beginner) → C (x-3-2-0-1-0, beginner) → Am (x-0-2-2-1-0, beginner) → D (x-x-0-2-3-2, beginner) → D7 (x-x-0-2-1-2, beginner) → Em (0-2-2-0-0-0, beginner) → A7 (x-0-2-0-2-0, beginner) → Bm (x-2-4-4-3-2, intermediate, needs a barre)
8 of the 9 shapes are open chords, so start there and leave Bm until the others change cleanly.
Drill the changes this sheet actually uses
C → Am3×G → C3×G → Gmaj73×Gmaj7 → C3×
These counts come from the progressions on this page, so they are the changes you will actually play, not a generic list of pairs to practise.
Know where each chord turns up
- Gevery section
- Gmaj7Intro, Verse
- Cevery section
- Amevery section
- DVerse, Chorus
- D7Intro, Verse
- EmChorus
- BmChorus
- A7Chorus
Climb the tempo ladder
Start at 80 BPM and move up only when a full pass is clean: 80 → 100 → 120 → 133 BPM. The tempo marked on this sheet is 133 BPM, and the last step is the one that always feels like a jump. Stay at 120 for longer than feels necessary.
The section to leave until last is Chorus (16 bars in this sheet).
Playing Lyin' Eyes with a capo
This sheet needs no capo. Each card shows what you would finger at that capo position so the song still sounds exactly as written. Useful when the shapes above are awkward, or when you want to sing it higher without learning new chords.
No capoas written
G Gmaj7 C Am D D7 Em Bm A7
8 of 9 stay open
Fret 1
F# F#maj7 B Abm C# C#7 Ebm Bbm Ab7
no open shapes left, all barre
Fret 2
F Fmaj7 Bb Gm C C7 Dm Am G7
6 of 9 stay open
Fret 3
E Emaj7 A F#m B B7 C#m Abm F#7
3 of 9 stay open
Fret 4
Eb Ebmaj7 Ab Fm Bb Bb7 Cm Gm F7
no open shapes left, all barre
Fret 5
D Dmaj7 G Em A A7 Bm F#m E7
6 of 9 stay open
Fret 6
C# C#maj7 F# Ebm Ab Ab7 Bbm Fm Eb7
no open shapes left, all barre
Fret 7
C Cmaj7 F Dm G G7 Am Em D7
8 of 9 stay open
Working out a different key? The capo calculatordoes the same arithmetic for any chord set.
More songs built on the same chords
If Lyin' Eyes clicks, these use the closest set of shapes, so the chords you just learned keep working.
More intermediate songs to learn after this one: 500 Miles, The One That Got Away, Treat You Better, Landslide.
These chords across the songbookHow often each chord in Lyin' Eyes turns up across all 104 songs on this site, and what it most often moves to next. The counts come from the sheet library itself, not from theory.
509bars of this chord across the songbook
77songs use this shape
Most often followed by D, 89×.
4bars of this chord across the songbook
2songs use this shape
Most often followed by C, 3×.
420bars of this chord across the songbook
70songs use this shape
Most often followed by G, 115×.
125bars of this chord across the songbook
35songs use this shape
Most often followed by F, 23×.
323bars of this chord across the songbook
58songs use this shape
Most often followed by G, 52×.
45bars of this chord across the songbook
12songs use this shape
Most often followed by G, 22×.
155bars of this chord across the songbook
43songs use this shape
Most often followed by C, 27×.
84bars of this chord across the songbook
17songs use this shape
Most often followed by A, 13×.
49bars of this chord across the songbook
15songs use this shape
Most often followed by Dm7, 10×.