Hey! Here is me playing along to the song Brighter Than Sunshine by Aqualung. I had noted the chords for my first post Welcome to Guitarthrill.blogspot.com! Hope you like this! I was really nervous! My timing was off later in the song, I know, but I think that overall that my playing was ok.
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Give a Little Bit and Feel Like Makin' Love
For this post, I am going to give my interpretation of some of the often-confused chords and chord progressions for two songs-Give a Little Bit-by Supertramp/Roger Hodgson, and Feel Like Makin' Love, by Bad Company.
I have played these songs by ear for years now, and recently, when I wanted to check on some of the chord voicings and tablature on the Internet, I found tabs and chord charts that had chords and parts that I feel aren't accurate or even missing parts-(Give a Little Bit).
For Give a Little Bit, the basic chords are: A7, D, G, Bmin, F#min, Esus4, E, with some other variations of the main chords thrown in. I have seen information given for this song where the A7 is a "regular A," or where the Esus4 is Emin7 or where the A7 , G and D in the main verse is a harder to play "unopen" A, G and D at the 3rd and 5th fret with the respective 4th string root notes. My point? I just feel that for a beginning guitarist who sees these transcriptions, it would be frustrating to play them when the song doesn't sound like that. Also, this song is fairly easy for a beginning guitarist to play. Many of the chords are two or three-finger chords and many of them are open chords. Why make this song so hard? Play it with those open notes that just ring out! If ever there was a song that was meant to be played with open chords, this is that song! (*I noticed that this mp3 copy is a little sharp. You may have to tune slightly sharp to match the tuning on this version.)
I started off this Give a Little Bit thing with planning a simple explanation of the chords and then I realized that there were some changes I needed to note so I kept going until I had several pages of chord changes completed. Considering the song's title, I guess that's ironic! I made some mistakes and corrected until I got the charts to where I think its understandable.
Below is the main verse part with the chorus and bridge. (click to enlarge)
Next, are some parts of Feel Like Makin' Love by Bad Company. For this song, I saw the opening descending acoustic riff done mostly correctly on one transcription, but I noted it here just in case you're interested in learning it. For this opening progression, you play that descending riff and then the second time it finishes with the open D at the second fret. I do the distorted heavy guitar part on the chorus by muting and quickly playing the C on the 5th string/3rd fret and the open D 4th string and "ending on a "regular" D chord. I do this by holding a D chord and using my middle finger to play the C on the 5th string and then moving to the F# on the 1st string/2nd fret for the D chord. Palm muting is important here as the riff wouldn't sound right if the C and D of the riff are not played in this way-at least for my ears. The C and G chords in this heavy part sound to me like (and are more easily played using these) "regular" C and G chords, and I did note chord names in the tab.
For the first clean solo, I just transcribed how I learned to play it by ear. Where it says barre I am barring the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th strings on that whole little passage with my first finger (and hammering on with my 2nd and 3rd fingers) until it gets to the Bmin/D, and D13 where I barre the 1st, 2nd and 3rd strings, etc. It may be wrong, but I think this way sure sounds similar to the way Mick Ralphs played it. If you have any questions about the lick or anything about these chord for both songs, don't hesitate to leave a line or two about it! Thanks for coming by! (click to enlarge) PM=Palm Mute H=Hammer on
Related Tags: Supertramp Give+A+Little+Bit Rodger+Hodgson acoustic+Guitar classic+rock Bad+Company Feel+Like+Makin'+Love Mick+Ralphs
I have played these songs by ear for years now, and recently, when I wanted to check on some of the chord voicings and tablature on the Internet, I found tabs and chord charts that had chords and parts that I feel aren't accurate or even missing parts-(Give a Little Bit).
For Give a Little Bit, the basic chords are: A7, D, G, Bmin, F#min, Esus4, E, with some other variations of the main chords thrown in. I have seen information given for this song where the A7 is a "regular A," or where the Esus4 is Emin7 or where the A7 , G and D in the main verse is a harder to play "unopen" A, G and D at the 3rd and 5th fret with the respective 4th string root notes. My point? I just feel that for a beginning guitarist who sees these transcriptions, it would be frustrating to play them when the song doesn't sound like that. Also, this song is fairly easy for a beginning guitarist to play. Many of the chords are two or three-finger chords and many of them are open chords. Why make this song so hard? Play it with those open notes that just ring out! If ever there was a song that was meant to be played with open chords, this is that song! (*I noticed that this mp3 copy is a little sharp. You may have to tune slightly sharp to match the tuning on this version.)
I started off this Give a Little Bit thing with planning a simple explanation of the chords and then I realized that there were some changes I needed to note so I kept going until I had several pages of chord changes completed. Considering the song's title, I guess that's ironic! I made some mistakes and corrected until I got the charts to where I think its understandable.
Below is the main verse part with the chorus and bridge. (click to enlarge)
Next, are some parts of Feel Like Makin' Love by Bad Company. For this song, I saw the opening descending acoustic riff done mostly correctly on one transcription, but I noted it here just in case you're interested in learning it. For this opening progression, you play that descending riff and then the second time it finishes with the open D at the second fret. I do the distorted heavy guitar part on the chorus by muting and quickly playing the C on the 5th string/3rd fret and the open D 4th string and "ending on a "regular" D chord. I do this by holding a D chord and using my middle finger to play the C on the 5th string and then moving to the F# on the 1st string/2nd fret for the D chord. Palm muting is important here as the riff wouldn't sound right if the C and D of the riff are not played in this way-at least for my ears. The C and G chords in this heavy part sound to me like (and are more easily played using these) "regular" C and G chords, and I did note chord names in the tab.
For the first clean solo, I just transcribed how I learned to play it by ear. Where it says barre I am barring the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th strings on that whole little passage with my first finger (and hammering on with my 2nd and 3rd fingers) until it gets to the Bmin/D, and D13 where I barre the 1st, 2nd and 3rd strings, etc. It may be wrong, but I think this way sure sounds similar to the way Mick Ralphs played it. If you have any questions about the lick or anything about these chord for both songs, don't hesitate to leave a line or two about it! Thanks for coming by! (click to enlarge) PM=Palm Mute H=Hammer on
Related Tags: Supertramp Give+A+Little+Bit Rodger+Hodgson acoustic+Guitar classic+rock Bad+Company Feel+Like+Makin'+Love Mick+Ralphs
Saturday, February 16, 2008
David Bowie's Rebel Rebel-Main Verse Section
For this post I am going to give some hints about playing the main verse part for Rebel Rebel by David Bowie. It can be suprisingly tricky to get the notes to ring out accurately while getting your playing hand in position for the next chord (the E chord). It involves palm muting, positioning and anticipating the playing hand positions so that the part sounds smooth.
I have checked out YouTube videos and I have seen different guitarists showing how to play the main verse part in different ways. Some are showing the part being played as a slide up from D to E on the B string and the E chord part that's right after as more open. When I hear this song, I hear more arpeggiated chords than slides or individual notes. If you look at some of the actual David Bowie concert videos (I provide a link to the AOL Sessions video below, a version I love which features a little opening riff for this song that you may have heard in recent live versions of the song, and described in the tab) you will see that the guitarist(s) play the riff as more of a broken chord/arpeggio than sliding up and using more individual notes. Doing the riff like this makes it more smooth and actually (I think) more easy to play.
First off-this song is in regular tuning, its in the key of D. On the original recording, the guitar seems to have a slight delay or echo, maybe a little chorus, and a touch of overdrive.
Here is some tab and stuff to play that main riff:
To play the main verse guitar part, I hold a D suspended 2(nd) chord, and then hit the D string, (letting it ring throughout the first little part of the riff), pick the E string open, and the D on the 3rd fret-B string, hit the A/C# notes on the G and B strings respectively, (which infers an A chord). I slide my 1st finger down to the G# to hold the E chord. See the tab for expanation.
When I get to the E part, I strum up (hence the arrows) from the open B string (of the E chord) twice and then, holding the E chord I pick the E on the 4th string/2nd fret and use my pinky to pull off from the C# to the open B string, picking up in an arpeggio (B, G# E, and then D-4th string open) As the D-4th string is played I slide my 1st finger to the A-2nd fret 3rd string, and place my 3rd finger on the D-3rd fret-which is back to that D sus 2 chord that we began with.
That's pretty much it! Sorry if I made this more complicated than it had to be! I was trying to complement and add to the tab, but I don't know if I succeeded!
Here is the player for the original studio version of Rebel Rebel :
Here is a link for the video which has that cool little intro part:
http://video.aol.com/video/music-david-bowie-rebel-rebel-aol-/1123610
*Next time I will be describing how to play Foreigner's Cold as Ice (the main part that's played on keyboard) with the solo. See you then!
Related Tags: David+Bowie Rebel+Rebel rock+and+roll
I have checked out YouTube videos and I have seen different guitarists showing how to play the main verse part in different ways. Some are showing the part being played as a slide up from D to E on the B string and the E chord part that's right after as more open. When I hear this song, I hear more arpeggiated chords than slides or individual notes. If you look at some of the actual David Bowie concert videos (I provide a link to the AOL Sessions video below, a version I love which features a little opening riff for this song that you may have heard in recent live versions of the song, and described in the tab) you will see that the guitarist(s) play the riff as more of a broken chord/arpeggio than sliding up and using more individual notes. Doing the riff like this makes it more smooth and actually (I think) more easy to play.
First off-this song is in regular tuning, its in the key of D. On the original recording, the guitar seems to have a slight delay or echo, maybe a little chorus, and a touch of overdrive.
Here is some tab and stuff to play that main riff:
To play the main verse guitar part, I hold a D suspended 2(nd) chord, and then hit the D string, (letting it ring throughout the first little part of the riff), pick the E string open, and the D on the 3rd fret-B string, hit the A/C# notes on the G and B strings respectively, (which infers an A chord). I slide my 1st finger down to the G# to hold the E chord. See the tab for expanation.
When I get to the E part, I strum up (hence the arrows) from the open B string (of the E chord) twice and then, holding the E chord I pick the E on the 4th string/2nd fret and use my pinky to pull off from the C# to the open B string, picking up in an arpeggio (B, G# E, and then D-4th string open) As the D-4th string is played I slide my 1st finger to the A-2nd fret 3rd string, and place my 3rd finger on the D-3rd fret-which is back to that D sus 2 chord that we began with.
That's pretty much it! Sorry if I made this more complicated than it had to be! I was trying to complement and add to the tab, but I don't know if I succeeded!
Here is the player for the original studio version of Rebel Rebel :
Here is a link for the video which has that cool little intro part:
http://video.aol.com/video/music-david-bowie-rebel-rebel-aol-/1123610
*Next time I will be describing how to play Foreigner's Cold as Ice (the main part that's played on keyboard) with the solo. See you then!
Related Tags: David+Bowie Rebel+Rebel rock+and+roll
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