Naina Taala

Naina Taala is one of the more melodic arrangements in Sunil's chord-sheet folder, and the PDF below has the full transcription — chord chart, strumming, capo position, and the picking pattern for the verse.

The key is A (sounding) with the song played out of G shapes at capo 2 — the same trick that unlocks Resham Firiri and most of the Nepali folk-pop catalogue. If you haven't read the capo-on-2 blog post, start there.

The verses are picked, not strummed. The pattern is the classic P-I-M-A roll: thumb on the bass note, index/middle/ring on the top three strings. Start slow — accuracy on the picking pattern matters more than speed.

The chorus shifts into a strummed feel with the same chord vocabulary. The dynamic contrast between picked verse and strummed chorus is the whole emotional arc of the song.

In-page chart coming. PDF download below has everything you need right now.