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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Here's a very cool link where Randy Bachman explains the Beatles' first chord in A Hard Day's Night . . .
Randy Bachman Explains First Chird in A Hard Day\'s Night |
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Location: Route 66, just east of the Cadillac Ranch | That is so cool! Crap, I sold my 12 string. |
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Location: Seacoast NH | One of my favorite opening chords...instantly recognizeable. They used it to great effect on that Beatles remix/mashup album George Martin and his son did a while back. |
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Location: SE Michigan | Now I can die a complete man! I have wondered for years how exactly they did that. |
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Location: Nashville, TN | This is soo cool...It's really basically the same as the last chord of the song..:-) |
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Location: SoCal | Problem is that when you're playing solo guitar, you can't do that. I end up playing a Gsus (G chord with the C note on the 2nd string). For the last chord it's an F2 (F chord picking up (and off) the 2nd note, the G on at the 3rd fret).
It's not quite right but it gets the job done.... |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
It's not quite right but it gets the job done.... Are you a government employee??? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | No, he's from Californicate |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | God!, does that make me sound like MoJo Noxon?
I hate that obnoxious SOB. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Moody, I came to the same conclusion . . . a bit difficult going solo. I'm going to lay it all down tonight on the looper and see how it goes . . . an F2/G on the 12 stringer, a low D on the bass, and a Dsus on a second guitar. |
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Location: closely held secret | Already tried it. Sounds perfect. |
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| Randy has a radio program here on Saturday nights - some interesting anecdotes and stuff on it. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Here's a link to the shows, Vinyl Tap |
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| Thanks for the link - great stuff. I'd only heard the show maybe twice for a few minutes when driving home.
Just now listened to part one of the keyboard show from November 28, 2009 and it closed with a reference to the Hard Days Night chord...lol |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I listened to the clip and have read the posts, but still not sure of the fingering of the chords.
Could someone put it in 'Chords for Dummies' context? (sorta like a tab???)
I'm pretty sure I've got the 'D' note on the bass worked out already. |
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Location: closely held secret | Hope this makes sense, Muzz... forum software doesn't lend itself well to chord charts.
F9/G (?) play on 12 string
[code]
E_A_D_G_B_E
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T-3-3-|-|-5 3[/code]Dsus4 play on 6 string
[code]E-A-D-G-B-E
----O------ Nut
X-X-|-|-|-| 1
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Location: south east Michigan | Thanks Wask.
We'll have to try that with 2 six strings at the next practice. Should be close enough.
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Great, fun song to play. A real test of the old vocal range tho.
Damn you Paul McCartney! |
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Location: SW Wisconsin | Both McCartney AND Lennon sing too high for mere mortals to follow effortlessly... Hmm, how could we rewrite that chord down about a third? D9/E over Bsus4 with a B in the bass? It's actually easier to play that way! |
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Location: Flahdaw | Tune the guitars down to D, or use longnecks |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Thanks for that Waskel.
And that also explains why you're such a better guitarist than us mortals - we've only got 4 fingers and a thumb. |
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Location: closely held secret | It is an advantage... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Waskel, I play an F2/G which is the same chord you've charted only the G string is played open. |
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Location: closely held secret | That's because you've only got 4 fingers and a thumb.
Yeah, they sound pretty similar. I just like the addition of the A in the F chord. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by dark bar:
Tune the guitars down to D, or use longnecks ding!
we have a winner! |
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Location: Seacoast NH | Just came across this mention of the "Discovery" of the actual Hard Days Night chord mystery on www.cracked.com, see #3:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19684_6-pop-culture-mysteries-that-w...
Edited by mbedard1 2012-02-13 11:27 AM
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Interesting website. Thanks for the link
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A Hard Days Night - First Chord