Topic: acoustic tunes

What new song are Chordians learning on your acoustic guitar??


i got this one down, looking for more


http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.g … 25206.html




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Howdy Badeye,

I was headin home the other day listening to XM radio , the Coffeehouse channel and heard a song by Billy Joe Shavers that you would really like. I couldn't find it on youtube by Billy Joe but there is a version by Waylon Jennings. The song is "Slow Rolling Low" I have to get a copy by Billy Joe his version is so good.  It is a bluesy simple tune but a good one.

http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.r … rollin_low

That reminded me of another Billy Joe Shaver song "Ride Me Down Easy" so I been playing both songs and learning the lyrics.

Ride me down Easy has great lyrics , that song fits me just right.



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Later, Wayne P

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I've always like Billie Joe Shaver's "I'm Going to Live Forever", but I can't get the pattern figured out.  C'est la vie.  Something to work towards in time I suppose.

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wlbaye wrote:

Howdy Badeye,

I was headin home the other day listening to XM radio , the Coffeehouse channel and heard a song by Billy Joe Shavers that you would really like. I couldn't find it on youtube by Billy Joe but there is a version by Waylon Jennings. The song is "Slow Rolling Low" I have to get a copy by Billy Joe his version is so good.  It is a bluesy simple tune but a good one.

http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.r … rollin_low

That reminded me of another Billy Joe Shaver song "Ride Me Down Easy" so I been playing both songs and learning the lyrics.

Ride me down Easy has great lyrics , that song fits me just right.



http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.r … n-easy-crd

Thank you Wlbaye, these are next on my list.  Stay at it Zurf, you can do it.


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One I am trying to remember that i already do with the use of the lyrics is " Caledonia" the dougie McLean song all about my wonderful country, the best country in the whole world!!!

I got asked to do this a few times the other week when i was playing in the pub but i never had the lyrics with me. I am always forgetting the words to the second part in the second verse as well as the second part in the first.
I have done it so many times I would have thought i would know it off by heart.

Having the lyrics in front really is a bad comfort zone sometimes.


Ken

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"Killing me Softly with His Song" is being added to my little list of songs... it has 2 new chords for me... the "dreaded chords"  for newbies LOL!  Nothing too exciting to the veterans, but I'm excited that a little over a month in and I'm working on a song with "so much" going on and a slew of chords (not just three)... and I know them!  LOL!

Wlbaye - on that Slow Rollin Low, what does the chord C/G mean?  I've seen that before and am confused.  It looks like a C chord on the chart with the 6th string open... why is it called a C/G?  I really need to learn music theory, I'm guessing the answer is in the notes that are being played with that open string.  Thanks!

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Good Morning,

That is a good question, as you probably know I am not a teacher or great at explaining theory. Russell, Jerome and Southpaw41 are experts on theory.

Back to the question, I call chords like C/G  slash chords and I think of them as a chord with a G note added or a bass note of G added to a C chord. That is not the way the chord chart shows it though.

This explains it better than I can.

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In popular music a slash chord or slashed chord is a chord whose bass note or inversion is indicated by the addition of a slash and the letter of the bass after the root note letter. It does not indicate "or". (Rooksby 2004, p. 20)

For example, a C major chord (C) in second inversion is written C/G, which reads "C slash G". If B was the bass it would be written C/B (making a major seventh chord in third inversion), which is read "C slash B". Some chords may not otherwise be notated, such as Ab/A (Latarski 1991, p. 25). Thus, a slash chord may also indicate the chord form or shape and an additional bass note.

In popular music, where the particular arrangement of notes is less important than some other forms, slash chords are generally used only when the specific bass note is important. A common example in guitar based music is in the I-V-VIm progression. By placing the third of the V chord in the bass, a descending scale is created in the bass. For example, in the key of G major this would be the chords G, D/F#, Em. That progression has the descending bassline G, F#, E. This type of slash chord contains diatonically occurring notes. In traditional notation it would be written using figured bass symbols.

I believe the chord chart you were talking of on Slow Rolling Low  may be wrong or maybe one of our experts can help up out and explain why it is posted 032010 and called a C/G   I would play it 332010


Great Question

Later, Wayne P

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This reminds me of a song that you can hear a descending bass line on

I am gonna do a new video of this song and it's chords do a descending bass line.

"Mr Bojangles"       Starts out on C chord  with C being the bass note  next to  C/B  with B the bass note  x20010    then C/A  x02010   then  C/G   332010    Then to a F chord hitting the F Bass note.  So from playing the first C chord you descended with a C Bass note  B   A  G  and to F.

Really a fun song to play and get your fingers walking. The C chord is a great chord when starting out. I always leave my index finger planted and walk with the others, it gives you a home base so you don't get lost.

Later, Wayne P

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I believe the chord chart you were talking of on Slow Rolling Low  may be wrong or maybe one of our experts can help up out and explain why it is posted 032010 and called a C/G   I would play it 332010

that makes more sense to me.  The explanation that you posted was what I was thinking except that I knew the open 6th string was an E!  LOL!  I laugh, cuz I really don't know what notes I'm playing when I play a chord (yet... although I can guess as I know a bit about music from my sight singing years) but I do know what the open strings are (thank GOD there's only 6!)  So yeah, if anyone can chime in and let us know if that chord chart is wrong or if there's something that's missing in the explanation that'd be great!  Might have to ask this somewhere else tho as it's off topic here. 

But... while we're on it... so when you play a "slash chord" do you always pluck out that bass note?  You wouldn't actually strum the whole thing as a chord right (cuz then it would actually be a different chord?)???  I'm assuming a "slash chord" will always mean pluck this different bass note (denoted after the slash) then strum the chord (before the slash).  Or is this something that's also left up to one's interpretation?

I'm excited to hear your Bojangles!  I'll look forward to seeing it in my subscriptions!!

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As a rule I most always hit the bass note of a chord first. It is the tonic or root note of the chord  like the C chord starts out 5 th string 3rd fret is a C note . You can strum , hit the bass and strum or when finger pickin your thumb hits the bass note of the chord and whatever pattern you are using from there. Alternating bass , you still start with the C and on the next beat you can remain on the C chord and just lift your ring finger of the C to the G note on the sixth string and alternate each beat back and forth but you always start on the C note first when doing this.

I have a  Country Strumming Video that covers the alternating bass.

I am doing Mr. Bojangles in a fingerpicking walking bass line I am doing it in 4/4 time. Mr Bojangles was written in 3/4 time or waltz time but my friend SouthPaw41 gave me permission and his approval to do it in 4/4 time so I'm hoping the critics aren't too hard on me smile

Later, Wayne P

11 (edited by Guitarpix 2009-10-06 18:31:30)

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badeye wrote:

What new song are Chordians learning on your acoustic guitar??

This is my latest work in progress... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e8bw3Bd … re=related almost got it but not quite yet sad
This one also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1JBm-BF … annel_page same story close but not quite yet...

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Cool stuff Pix. Here's one to learn for kitchen jams..


http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere?url=h … ner=zorba1







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13 (edited by Guitarpix 2009-10-06 22:03:21)

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That's cool Badeye! Man her index finger has to be tired by the end of the night smile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqg3kcwAgso Just thought it looked kinda odd the way she picks the bass note with the thumb and then flicks the index out for the following strum. Seems like it would be easier with a pick but I guess she is playing a classical....

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14 (edited by Guitarpix 2009-10-06 22:24:39)

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Here's another I've been enjoying playing a lot recently http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw69J_HW … re=related An older James Hunter tune "Mollena".  It's basically a D Bm G A progression. Fun to play and sing... That one and "Pencil Thin Mustache" by Jimmy Buffet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn7l0FJM … p;index=13 have been getting played a lot lately smile A bit of a break from the newer stuff I usually jam wink

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Since you brought up Melanie (I loved her music) here is another of hers that is easy and fun to play.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsYux3ZpblQ

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Thanks for posting, enjoyed em both.


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Here is a silly song Casey and I are working up.
Casey's guitar playing is not yet up to holding down chords during the tuba solo, so I guess we will have to sing la la's over that part or paste the tuba solo in later in our vid.
toots

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Try "Toes" by   Zac Brown Band  cool song and easy too play

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upyerkilt wrote:

One I am trying to remember that i already do with the use of the lyrics is " Caledonia" the dougie McLean song all about my wonderful country, the best country in the whole world!!!

I got asked to do this a few times the other week when i was playing in the pub but i never had the lyrics with me. I am always forgetting the words to the second part in the second verse as well as the second part in the first.
I have done it so many times I would have thought i would know it off by heart.

Having the lyrics in front really is a bad comfort zone sometimes.


Ken

Well thanks!
After this post was made in this thread I have forced myself to sing nothing but Caledonia and within 24 hours I have got it. I have memorized the song. It does help that I have been playing it for a few years wit hlyrics and chords in front. Like I said it is a comfort zone thing, tonight I will do it without paper in front.
I might even record a version for you tube. ( but not tonight)


Ken

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending

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One I am working on from Dougie  MacLean   " Ready For The Storm"    I can play it through just fine fingerpicking. I am working on the intro picking and the break picking.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv4Wpychxh8      Ready For the Storm

Another I am working on by Dougie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1DCtFLEV_o      This Love Will Carry

Later, Wayne P

21 (edited by Guitarpix 2009-10-07 16:06:37)

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duxrus wrote:

Try "Toes" by   Zac Brown Band  cool song and easy too play

Boss song! Love it smile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9A9TvZS … p;index=14  Gonna add that one to the list. Sounds like a crowd pleaser. Thanks! -Pix

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Am learning a couple at the moment - "You do something to me" - Paul Weller (not too difficult, but can't quite sing it & don't want to transpose or use capo), & "Tears in Heaven" - Clapton. The latter thanks to Jamplay - but pretty difficult for me, am thinking I might never get this one!
Upyerkilt - thanks for the reminder about Caledonia, will look that up. Do Sassenachs need special permission from your majesty to play this??
Cheers!

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normtheguitar wrote:

. Do Sassenachs need special permission from your majesty to play this??
Cheers!

lol not at all. Ye can even change the lyrics to suit, I dont mind,

I also found "you do something to me" quite hard to play and sing if I remember right.


Ken

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending

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I've been on a 10 yr. hiatus from playing the guitar ...LOL ...although I learned how to play way back in the early '70s.   So now, I'm starting out slow with a few simple tunes by Taylor Swift ..."The Best Day" and "White Horse" which I can play pretty well.

Next on my agenda is playing "House of the Rising Sun" by The Animals ...arpeggio style.

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