It starts as a whisper on a rainy Berlin afternoon. A teenager shrugs into their scarf: „Ist irgendwie so.“ A couple splits up over cold coffee: „Das war sowieso nichts.“ And in every indie rock club from Hamburg to Vienna, someone shouts the line that has become a generation’s sigh set to a backbeat: „Irgendwie, irgendwie, irgendwie… sowieso.“
F – G – Em – Am “Sowieso war nichts für immer” (Anyway, nothing was forever) irgendwie und sowieso noten
The Noten exist because we made them exist. They’re in the tabs you share with a friend. The voice memo you record at 1 a.m. The busker in Munich who plays “irgendwie” as four chords and a shrug. So here, finally, are the irgendwie und sowieso Noten — not as a PDF, but as a permission slip. It starts as a whisper on a rainy Berlin afternoon
Musically, these words are begging for a progression. Try it: say irgendwie on a falling minor third. Say sowieso on a suspended chord that never resolves. That’s why people hunt for the notes. They’ve heard the melody in their own heads — a lazy bassline, a lo-fi drum machine, a voice that’s too tired to be sad. The voice memo you record at 1 a
The problem? There is no song called that. Not officially.
Irgendwie ________ (present tense, low stakes) Sowieso ________ (past tense, no tears)
The Noten became a community project. Not official sheet music, but a living, crowdsourced score for a feeling. After scanning guitar forums, MuseScore files, and a mysterious Google Doc shared by a music teacher from Freiburg, here is the consensus “irgendwie und sowieso” progression — the closest thing to a standard:
