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Post by JFrankParnell on Jan 15, 2015 22:15:02 GMT -5
Traffic - Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys My band is playing this one, for our next show, which I'm pretty psyched about. We have an excellent keyboardist, but this doesnt actually have a guitar in it, so I'm playing kind of a combo of the sax and piano parts. Gonna rip a fairly huge solo, in between a verse This is a cool maj-min thing, where you have the verses are a vamp on Dm and then the chorus goes happy to D maj: Dm (a-c-dm) If you had just a minute to breathe And they granted you one final wish Would you ask for something like another chance? Or something sim'lar as this? Don't worry too much It'll happen to you As sure as your sorrows are joys
DA-CGF And the thing that disturbs you is only the sound of The low spark of high-heeled boys
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Post by JFrankParnell on Feb 15, 2015 13:44:28 GMT -5
Scoundrels - Arrogance Blues My son turned me on to this one, this morning.
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 13, 2015 12:52:13 GMT -5
"Rainy Night House"
I love this- surely needs no introduction?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Dm It was a
Bb rainy night,
Am we took a taxi-
A to your mother's
Dm home.
She went to
Bb Florida,
Am. and left you with your
A father's gun,
Dm alone.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
That's the best I can do on a "smart"'phone. Proboards thinks it knows better where the chord letters should go. Maybe on a PC I could do better, sorry guys and gals.
Although there's only the one minor to major, I love the way she strings five chords together minor-major-minor-major-minor
And that's before you start on her tunings and lyrics... Me I'm condemned to the sackcloth and ashes of imitation & plagiarism, but happy for all that, especially with this for inspiration.
e&oe
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Post by JFrankParnell on Mar 13, 2015 21:42:42 GMT -5
Very nice!
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Post by JFrankParnell on Mar 16, 2015 22:33:10 GMT -5
Lipbone Redding performing "The Land of Drunk and Stoned". June 10, 2014 Everson, Wa.
This town is not too far from me. Tonight is the first I'm hearing of this guy, love the trombone played on the lips (Lipbone)
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Post by JFrankParnell on Mar 17, 2015 11:30:31 GMT -5
Alabama Shakes - I Found You
This is a new favorite band. I love the way the two guitars play, together. And her singing is incredible.
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 21, 2015 15:15:35 GMT -5
+1 for "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys"!
"Somewhere Over The Rainbow"
C____________Em_______________F___Fm___C___C7 Somewhere- over the rainbow, way up high
F_______Fm__C__________A7_______Dm7_____G7_C_ There's- a- land. that I heard of, once in a lullaby.
Disclaimer: I took these chords from an ear worm whilst driving home from work along the world's largest orbital car park and augmented them by strumming through them when I arrived. Although I have written two major to minors, I suspect that I've exercised "artistic" licence with the first one. Whatever, it worked for me!
Again- apologies for the way that the Proboards app. renders the carefully laid out text on my Android tablet screen. e&oe
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Post by JFrankParnell on Mar 23, 2015 15:15:36 GMT -5
+1 for "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys"! "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" C____________Em_______________F___Fm___C___C7 Somewhere- over the rainbow, way up high F_______Fm__C__________A7_______Dm7_____G7_C_ There's- a- land. that I heard of, once in a lullaby. Disclaimer: I took these chords from an ear worm whilst driving home from work along the world's largest orbital car park and augmented them by strumming through them when I arrived. Although I have written two major to minors, I suspect that I've exercised "artistic" licence with the first one. Whatever, it worked for me! Where'd you get your 'artistic licence', a box of cracker jacks? I'm kidding of course, but yeah, the 2nd maj-min is legit
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Post by JFrankParnell on May 12, 2015 8:55:55 GMT -5
Neil Young "The Losing End (When You're On)"
G I went into town to see you yesterday D But you were not home. Am So I talked to some old friends for a while G before I wandered off alone.
G It's so hard for me now G7 But I'll make it somehow, C Cm Though I know I'll never be the same. G Won't you ever change your ways, E It's so hard to make love pay Am When you're on the losing end, D G C G And I feel that way again.
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Post by JFrankParnell on Jun 17, 2015 0:17:30 GMT -5
Mope Grooves - Don't Sleep In Your Jeans
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Post by JFrankParnell on Sept 2, 2015 10:57:46 GMT -5
Ella Fitzgerald - Dream A Little Dream Of Me
C B7 Ao G7 Stars shining bright above you C B7 A7 A7 Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you" F Fm Birds singing in a sycamore tree C G+ G7 Dream a little dream of me.
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 2, 2015 13:50:32 GMT -5
The blessed Lowell George and "Twenty Million Things" (a familiar theme to me!)
G/B C If it's fix a fence, fender dents
F/C D I've got lots of experience
Dm Em G Rent gets spent, all the letters never written that don't get sent
e&oe...
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Post by JFrankParnell on Sept 8, 2015 18:57:41 GMT -5
Nice, Banjo! More Ella: Ella Fitzgerald - Misty Ebmaj7 Bbm7 Eb7 Abmaj7 Look at me, I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree; Abm7 Db7 And I feel like I'm clingin' to a cloud, Ebmaj7 Cm7 I can' t understand Fm7 Bb7 Gm7 C7 Fm7 Bb7 I get misty, just holding your hand.
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 19, 2015 19:34:31 GMT -5
The Lovin' Spoonful. Summer In The City.
Cowboy chords and a '60s melody- they really did S-O-N-G-S. in the '60s.
Am Am/G D/F# F E
Hot town, summer in the city; back of my neck getting dirty gritty
Am Am/G D/F# F E
Been down, isn't it a pity- doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
E E7
All around- people looking half dead
Am A
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head...
e&oe
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Post by JFrankParnell on Sept 23, 2015 23:56:15 GMT -5
Summer in the city - nice a backwards one, minor-major. The Microphones - I Felt My Size
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 28, 2015 17:28:26 GMT -5
Couldn't have Diana Krall all on her own on this list so here's one from Declan McManus with a little help from Sir Paul...and what a doozy. This is from the chorus. (So Like Candy)
C____________E_____________ What did I do to make her go Am___________G_________ Why must she be the one F That I have to love FM____C_____E So like Candy
I know that no one condones piracy, but if anyone knows of where a cover version by Jeff Buckley might be sourced then a PM would go down well...
e&oe...
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 28, 2015 18:21:31 GMT -5
Lilac Wine by James Shelton, although in a sweet segue I'm going to award it to Jeff Buckley.
Gdim_______________________C___ Well I think much more than I want to think
Cm____________________Gm Do things I never should do
Gdim___________________C______ I drink much more than I ought to drink
Cm_______________________G___ Because It brings me back you...
e&oe...
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 28, 2015 19:07:26 GMT -5
More from Sir James the Scouser.
Another reverse (minor to major) is "Fool On The Hill"
Well, it is in my Beatles piano music book anyways (where it rocks up in the key of C- happily for your scribe!!!) but most of the online tabs have it starting off with a D6. My book goes from Cm to C at the change from chorus back to verse.
e&oe...
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Post by JFrankParnell on Dec 31, 2015 13:22:56 GMT -5
Cheers, B4nj0!
Check out Dean Ween, hisself, giving the rundown for Push th' Little Daisies:
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Post by JFrankParnell on Feb 10, 2016 10:43:27 GMT -5
Buzzcocks - Everybody's Happy Nowadays
A i was so tired of being upset always wanting something i never could get life's an illusion love is a dream but i don't know what it is
D Dm A Asus2 A Asus2 everybody's happy nowadays D Dm C# F# C# E everybody's happy nowadays
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Post by JFrankParnell on Mar 30, 2016 10:30:10 GMT -5
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle
Am C, D Tick, tock, tick, do- do- doo-doo (repeat) Am C D Am C, D Time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin' into the future (repeat)
Refrain: --------- D Am D Dm7 Am I wanna fly like an eagle, to the sea. Am D Dm7 Am D Dm7 Fly like an eagle, let my spirit carry me, I want to fly like an eagle, Dm7 Am Am D Dm7, Am 'til I'm free. Fly right through the revolution.
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Post by b4nj0 on Jun 4, 2016 6:30:43 GMT -5
Easy Money (Rickie Lee Jones)
In the chorus:
Bmin He said oh yeah- oh yeah, just
Emin tell me what you want me to do, she said "Baby you can trust me..."
E "Baby but you must be..."
A "Hidin' in my room by a quarter to two"
A7
I'm sold on Lowell's version though. I couldn't find any tab so this is from ear and subsequent reference to the "Thanks I'll Eat It Here" CD for the key. Don't bite my head off if Rickie Lee wrote it in another key! I only have Rickie Lee's version on vinyl and that's all stached away these days I'm afraid.
The thread that wouldn't lay down and die!
e&oe...
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Post by JFrankParnell on Jul 19, 2016 22:44:49 GMT -5
Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra - Fine Thanks
Middle: Gm C Last night I, Drunk texted my brother, Am Dm to tell him that we're both fucked but I love him Bb Bbm F Still he relates to my empty feeling inside. Gm C Wrote my ex lover, Am Dm forgive her for finding faith in another Bb Bbm F Still she elates my half that knows all is fine.
Kazoo Solo: F Bb Gm C Am Dm Bb Bbm Bb Bbm Bb Gm C
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Post by b4nj0 on Oct 2, 2016 5:38:23 GMT -5
Sumgai and myself are in real good company here...
I could not find any tab for this anywhere, (not even "paid-for") but I do know that it's much easier to play with capo at one, whereupon the main theme (with capo at one) is Amin > F > Dmin and back, but IMO, unusually for the minor feel, it's based on a finger picked walking-down bass line on the low 'E" to render the melancholic flavour. Others on here are far more scholared in theory and would probably be able to put it into words where I fail. Simply writing in the underlying chords (as I hear them) doesn't work and it's inappropriate here to break down the finger style so:
Joe Walsh / "Wolf"
Woke up again this morning To play another game It comes without a warning It's nothing you can name, nothing you can name
It's raining in the meadow Shepherd's gone to town Wolf has finished breakfast No-one else around, no-one else
_Amin around
A_________________A7_ And we are feeling fine ________D6__________A____ Still get lonely, I don't mind
____Amin___etc... And now we're out of danger I guess the're all sound, all sound asleep in the fountain And wishing for a better year, for a better year.
I remember regretting it when Joe joined up with The Eagles. I realise that's probably heresy on here, but for myself, consolation arrived with Hotel California. It took me decades to figure out rhat solo because I was too lazy to pull it apart and since I play by ear, I probably play it in incorrect positions anyway. When I did put some effort into it, I realised that it was Joe's bits I had struggled with!
When the news was announced that Joe was joining up with those desperados, a renowned British music weekly reported that it had asked for an interview and the bonehead response was along the lines of "Joe is a member of The Eagles now and as such, does not give interviews." I thought "that figures".
73 OM de '4VRR.
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 26, 2016 11:01:34 GMT -5
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 27, 2016 15:55:21 GMT -5
The delectable Alison Krauss.
"Lay My Burden Down".
(Which is a powerful contender for my fictitious top ten.) I didn't know there was a major / minor thing going on here until I sat down to figure out the meandering chords in the middle eight later on in the song. (meaning I couldn't just pick up play along by ear as usual there.)
In the chorus which starts at 0.53 and is about all done by 1.00:
______ Bsus4_____B________ When I get to the other side
___Bsus2_________B__________ I'll put your picture way up high
____Bsus4________ B__________ But I'm not coming back to you
___Bsus2 __Bmin It's just too far,
_______B________ >A > E___________ Oh it's just too far. (& resolution)
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Post by JFrankParnell on Dec 14, 2016 0:10:22 GMT -5
Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight) The Ramones Brain Drain 1989
bridge:
F Fm I love you and you love me C C7 And that's the way it's got to be F Fm I knew that from the start D G 'cause Christmas ain't the time for breaking each other's hearts
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Post by JFrankParnell on Jan 17, 2017 13:18:37 GMT -5
This guy winds up at Major-minor. Pretty cool little lesson.
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Post by sumgai on Jan 18, 2017 12:18:31 GMT -5
That was might tasty there, JFrank!
I liked his presentation - not too much guitaring, just enough to reinforce his points; extremely not showing off, just demonstrating; and a friendly delivery.
After 177 posts (the longest ever in The NutzHouse history!), we get a YouTuber who puts it all together for us as to why this very thread was started. If we still had Karma points, I'd raise yours by an order of magnitude.
sumgai
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Post by JFrankParnell on Apr 6, 2017 1:57:56 GMT -5
Oasis - Dont' Look Back In Anger
I put the big black woman version on there cuz... wow, it's incredible! But, its a different key.
C G Am Slip inside the eye of your mind E7 F Don't you know you might find G C Am G A better place to play C G Am You said that you'd never been E7 F But all the things that you've seen G C Am G Slowly fade away
[Pre-Chorus] F Fm C Gonna start a revolution from my bed F Fm C Cos you said the brains I had went to my head F Fm C Step outside, the summertime's in bloom G Stand up beside the fireplace E7/G# Take that look from off your face Am G F G Cos you ain't ever gonna burn my heart out
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