GBS music geekery
Jul. 17th, 2005 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperToday's exercise in writing procrastination comes to me courtesy of being madly, passionately in love with the title track of Something Beautiful*, even this long after buying it. Definitely one of those I Must Learn How to Play This Song sorts of GBS ditties. So today I started trying to tab it out. Things of interest observed for the guitar-playing GBS fans on my Friends list:
The song is in the key of F, near as I can tell, and you have to play it with the third fret capoed. Which punts all the chords into the key of D. I'm pretty sure that the intro is two repetitions of D-D-D-A.
The first verse got a bit challenging for me, at least on the first two lines, which are all that I've chorded out so far. I picked out the complete melody line on my guitar, though, which helped. But it also led me to try to figure out what weirdo chord goes in the middle of each of these lines--and thanks to a bit of music geeking with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kathrynt and past familiarity with what the lovely and talented Mr. Doyle does in terms of chord selection in his songs, Emsus4 finally popped out as the chord I want. So for the interested, the first little bit of "Something Beautiful" seems to come out something like this...
The letters in parentheses are the chords. The letters over the lyrics are the notes hit on those words.
The song is in the key of F, near as I can tell, and you have to play it with the third fret capoed. Which punts all the chords into the key of D. I'm pretty sure that the intro is two repetitions of D-D-D-A.
The first verse got a bit challenging for me, at least on the first two lines, which are all that I've chorded out so far. I picked out the complete melody line on my guitar, though, which helped. But it also led me to try to figure out what weirdo chord goes in the middle of each of these lines--and thanks to a bit of music geeking with
kathrynt and past familiarity with what the lovely and talented Mr. Doyle does in terms of chord selection in his songs, Emsus4 finally popped out as the chord I want. So for the interested, the first little bit of "Something Beautiful" seems to come out something like this...
B A A A G G F# E
(G) Hey (D) you, you (Emsus4) lost your only (A) friend
E A B A F# F# G A G G F# E
(G) You can't be- (D) -lieve your broken (Emsus4) heart will ever (A) mend
The letters in parentheses are the chords. The letters over the lyrics are the notes hit on those words.