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Location: big island | if you are playing a duet, the second guitarist can play:
0 0
5 5
4 4
5 4
0 0
X X
on the verses only |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Okay. Thank you. That actually made it interesting for 2 minutes.
I'll show a buddy tomorrow before I kick him off a cliff to go parasailing and get another two minutes out of it.
Now I have to go listen to Randy Bachmans show on CBC. Sometimes he's interesting. Last week it was two hours of people covering Guess Who and BTO songs. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Hey Lanaki, I was taught chords with letters. The number thing throws me a little. (No, a LOT. I don't get it!)
I don't mind that song, but it never sounds right. |
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Location: big island | muzza,
read the numbers from top to bottom. the number refers to the fret and the sequence refers to the string. example for the first chord in the chorus:
2 = first string, second fret
3 = second string, third fret
4 = third string, fourth fret
5 = fourth string, fifth fret
0 = fifth string played open
0 = sixth string played open
an X means don't strum that string |
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Location: big island | note: first string is the high E
second string is the B etc. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Lanaki, You will have to show HWNN variation when you get here, Please! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by fillhixx:
I didn't get a haircut either, but my hair jumped ship.... and bald guys look pathetic with long hair. (JMO, you shiners with ponytails just shine on you crazy diamond. :rolleyes: ) But I didn't! And I wonder why,
Just feel like letting my Freak Flag fly!
Cuz I feel like I owe it to Someone!
[Next song to annoy my neighbors with! I haven't quite figured that out yet! But they might appreciate the change from Cowgirl! :mad: ] |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | I won't play any song filled with a lot of pain imagery; any song explicitly promoting murder, rape or suicide; any song that demeans God...
otherwise, I'm good.
Except for "Margaritaville" |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by BegginJM:
Lanaki, You will have to show HWNN variation when you get here, Please! okie-dokie. i did err on the post above though, the la-las are back on the Em chord. sorry. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Anything that the band leader throws at us at the last minute, like, opps, we need another three minute filler right now during this part of the service, so let's try blah-blah. Flip to the number in the notebook, no practice, never seen it before, never heard it before, nothing but a bunch of crazy jazz chords (I have a ways to go on memorizing chord theory), nuts! I hate that. I figure out what key its in and uncomfortably ad lib the entire song, praying that I can figure out when and where it modulates to another key if necessary. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Prof - sounds like every service that I play at. Yesterday he hands out the music with the chords (a rarity) and then proceeds to play it one step up. It's always exciting. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Fortunately, Crimson, God is with us and won't let us fail. |
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Location: NJ | I read an interview some months back w/Dewey Bunnell from America.
Said he CONSTANTLY has people coming up to him either ASKING what the chords to "HWNN" are, or TELLING him what they THINK they are.
Invariably, EVERYBODY has it WRONG.
When it was recorded, the guitars the guitars weren't even in standard tuning . . .
I'll see if I still have the article, and post the chords.
btw: In the article, it mentions the song that America HATES t'play (and RIGHTFULLY so) :
"Muskrat Love".
eesch. |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Re: "Horse With No Name;" I recently read an interview with America in Guitar World Acoustic with Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, and they mentioned that they tuned the 5th string ("A") down to a "D." For those of you who say it doesn't quite sound right, that might make the difference.
As far as it goes, if I don't like a song, I don't play it. I've managed to accumulate enough songs over the years that I can switch around enough to keep it interesting enough for me and my band.
BUT -- I really don't get tired of any of them, though, even if I've played 'em a million times -- maybe there's something wrong with me! That goes for "Horse," "Margaritaville," and "American Pie." If people want to hear them I try to make them happy.
That being said -- I try not to EVER play "Freebird." I REFUSE to play "Rocky Top" or the "Chicken Dance." I played "Rocky Top" only once in my life -- at gunpoint! We were playing in a pretty toney, upscale tavern attached to a 4-star restaurant, and a motorcycle gang pulled in -- stereotypical gang, with leather, bandanas, long hair, the works. The leader was about 6'4" tall -- and 6'4" wide. He was HUGE! Anyway, he came up, very affable and smiling, and said, "You boys do 'Rocky Top?'" I said, "No, sir, we don't." He glared at me, pulled out a .45 automatic, and said, "You boys DO 'Rocky Top.'" It WASN'T a request.
Needless to say, we DID play "Rocky Top." He danced on one foot at a time, shifting from one to the other, and the whole building shook. He was happy as a clam, and they left about half an hour later.
We took a break and I changed my underwear. |
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Location: Indiana | Old time Rock n' Roll
Smoke on the water
Ina gotta da vida
Free Bird
I just wanna make love to you.......gad, I think maybe I've been playing too long
Bill |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | Slow Motion Walter, That Fire Engine Guy |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | There's a bathroom on the right |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | I thought it was "There's a Babboon on the Rise?"
Anyway, I love that song. CCR's always good. |
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Location: Tampa, FL | Originally posted by Northcountry:
Speaking of burned out "Cocaine" from Mr. Clapton will never come from my amp again as long as I own it.
Randy Local friend of mine said he always liked this song but couldn't perform it cause he didn't like the topic/lyrics. So this morning he debuted his cover titled 'Rogaine' Nice rendition.
If you're losin' your hair,
But a lid won't get you there.
Rogaine
If You got bad do's
You gotta help me spread the news
Rogaine
It's not fair
Lost your hair
Don't despair
Rogaine |
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Location: NJ | I'm sure J.J. Cale is thrilled . . . |
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What song do you hate to perform?
