Monday, October 27, 2014

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Fuerteventura

          G   A
You're always such a fool
             F#m       B7
and in your eyes so blue
   Em     A7       D
I see the life I never had before.

 D
Do yo remember when
              Em
we used to live things separate
           A
we hadn't met or thought
               D  A
that could be possible.

       D
I'm glad you had your life
                     Em
so good to listen to your past
                       A
all of those things brought you
              D            A
with me and now we're two.

CORO
  G A
You're always such a fool
     F#m          B7
and in your eyes so blue
     Em    A7       D
I see the life I never had before.
  G A
You always talk so smooth
         F#m         B7
and in your voice, so true
      Em
I hear the dream
       A7          D
I never had before

 G A
But if I try to think
        F#m         B7
of something better than this
      Em
heaven comes down
      A7          D
and reminds the luck we live

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Talking Heads - Psycho Killler
(Any Takers??)

 
A
I can't seem to face up to the facts
I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax
I can't sleep cause my bed's on fire
Don't touch me I'm a real live wire
  
F               G
  Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est
Am
  Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa  better
F             G                C
  Run run run run run run run away
F                      G
OH    Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est
Am
  Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa  better
F             G                C
  Run run run run run run run away
F         G
OH______  ayayayay
 
 A
You start a conversation, you can't even finish it
You're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed
Say something once, why say it again

F               G
  Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est
Am
  Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa  better
F             G                C
  Run run run run run run run away
F                      G
OH    Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est
Am
  Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa  better
F             G                C
  Run run run run run run run away
F         G
OH       ayayayay
 
Bm                        C
Ce que j'ai fais, ce soir la
Bm                        C
Ce que j'ai fais, ce soir la
jA
Realisant, mon espoir
G
Je me lance, vers la goire
A             G
Okay    ayayayayay
A                G
Ayayayayayayayay
A                             G
We are vain and we are blind
A                                      G
I hate people when they're not polite
 
CHORUS 

A - rapid . . 
 
 
"I Didn't See It Coming" by Belle and Sebastian . . . FOLLOWING UP

As matters stand, we currently end our version on note E7.   To give it a more punchy and conclusive finish, I suggest a minor change where take all of Rachel's work for the arrangement with the vocal, which works really well, continue to build up to the last E7 as per the chord sheet and then, to finish, add on a last bit where we switch to a repeat of the earlier Bridge (Am, FMaj x 2) with a final hammer/ cut on Am.

Let's see how it works, next session! Colm

Paolo Nutini - Candy

For players interested in playing this song -   Here is a Chord/Tab update, which might give it a little richer sound -

The entire song is played in 4 chords - Am, Em, G, D7

Simultaneously - chords can also be played with the capo in the sixth fret as follows Em, Bm, D, A7

The final section/  Outro begins with the constantly repeating line

"I'll be there waiting for you"  - This is sung in four steps as follows

First - principal vocalist  - chords C, G, (x 2)

Second - principal vocalist + Add. Vocalist - chords C, Em (x 2)

Third - All Vocalists - Chords C, Em ( x2)

Fourth - All Vocalists -chords C, Em (x5) and lastly C, G (x1)
 (NOTE: simultaneous to the Fourth Section of the Outro, Principal Vocalist sings as follows
"All the cut throats and their jagged edges, all of them have got me waiting and waiting
All the cheap and the sugary philosophies, have got me on the fence just waiting and waiting
All the angels and their halos, all of them just keep me waiting and waiting" (x 2)

The song would benefit from at least three guitarists, (there is a solo section for anybody interested in working that out), as well as percussion and harmonica.



SOLO TAB
(For The Verse)  Oh I'm often false explaining..

 Em             Bm              D               A7

e|----0---0---0---0---2---2---2---2---2-0h2---2---2---0---0---0---0----------|
B|---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-----3-3-3-3-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---------|
D|--0---0---0---0---4---4---4---4---2-------2---2---0---0---0---0------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

     Em             Bm               D               A7

e|----0---0---0---0---2---2---2---2---2-0h2---2---2---0---0---0---0----------|
B|---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-----3-3-3-3-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---------|
D|--0---0---0---0---4---4---4---4---2-------2---2---0---0---0---0------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

 For the Outro

e|----------5-------5------5-----5----2------2------2-----2---------------------|
B|-------3------3------3------3----------3------3------3------3-----------------|
G|---4-------4------4-------4---------------4------4------4------4--------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Buen Dia - Colm!




Monday, October 13, 2014

The Romantics!!!

The Romantics- Jen
What I Like About You
Tab: http://www.guitaretab.com/r/romantics/16475.html
Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdIZUEPgOZk
Cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srq9hgmyoF0
Cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnDcjJYyCaI


Mustang Sally- Jen
The Commitments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvHuv9xVB9E
Cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DijmdsDWmrY
Tab
 http://www.e-chords.com/chords/wilson-pickett/mustang-sally

Alfonsina y el mar


Aunque la versión original es la de Mercedes Sosa, me viene mejor la de Silvia Pérez Cruz que tiene algunos graves menos...









  Gm  A  Dm  
Por la blanda arena que  lame el  mar,  

E7     AmSusAm  
Su pequeña  huella no vuelve  más.  

Dm7  G7  C7Maj 
Un sendero  solo de  pena y silencio  

F7Maj  Am  E7  AmA7 
llegó hasta el  agua profunda.  

Dm7  G7  C7Maj 
Un sendero  solo de  penas  mudas  

F7maj  Am  E7  Am  
lle hasta la espuma.  

 

  Gm  A  Dm 
Sabe Dios que angustia  te acompañó  

E7     AmSusAm 
que dolores  viejos calló tu  voz,  

Dm7  G7  C7Maj 
para recostarte arrullada en el  canto  

F7Maj  Am  E7  AmSus  Am
de  las caracolas marinas.  

C7Maj  Dm7  G7 
La canción que  canta en el  fondo oscuro  

F7Maj   Am  E7  Am  
del  mar,  la caracola.  

 

Dm7  G7  C7Maj 
Te vas Alfonsina con  tu soledad,  

Gm  A7  Dm  
¿Qué poemas  nuevos  fuiste a buscar?  

E7    Am  
una voz antigua de  viento y de  sal  

E7  Gm  A7  
te requiebra el  alma y la está llamando,  

Dm  E7  Am  
y te  vas hacia allá como en  sueños,  

F  B7  E7  Am  
dormida, Alfonsina, vestida de  mar.  

 




Cinco sirenitas te  llevarán  



por caminos  de algas y de coral,  




y fosforescentes caballos marinos  





harán una  ronda a tu  lado;  



y los habitantes del  agua  





van a jugar  pronto a tu  lado.  

 



Bájame la  lámpara un  poco  más,  



déjame que  duerma, nodriza en  paz,  




y si llama  él no le  digas que estoy,  





dile  que Alfonsina no  vuelve,  





y si llama  él no le  digas  nunca que estoy,  



di que me he  ido.

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Light in Your Eyes- Sheryl Crow

Hope you like it- Jennifer
Sheryl Crow- Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpury102JM8
Cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRv4CqFIi9E
Tabs
http://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/sheryl-crow-light-in-your-eyes-chords-s246302

Pink - Try

A good idea covering Pink - Try. This song, in principle, it seems difficult to play because it is disc music, but is very simple. I found a variation.

That's the original song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTCDVfMz15M

and that's the cover I love it. They link with "Save Tonight" in the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di0vP2qSv6g

Chords are in this link

Am:   x02210
F:    133211 or x33211
C:    x32010
G:    320033 or 320003

(To play without a capo replace the chords above by Bm, G, D and A)


  Intro:      Am    F    C    G     x4


 Am            F               C      G
 Ever wonder about what he's doing
 Am          F             C      G
 How it all turned to lies
 Am             F             C      G
 Sometimes I think that it's better 
    Am      F      C    G
 To never ask why

 Am    F     C    G   x2

It needs a contralto or baritono voice

Monday, September 1, 2014

Set List Update...y Nuevas Canciones para Probar

Nuevas Canciones para probar:
From Colm


Belle & sebastian - I didn't see it coming
(Chord prog is at http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com... - a video link below.
Howie Day - Colide (chords at http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com... video below)
Corey Gray's version of Lorde's - Team - (vidoe below - I improvised the chords - I usually play with capo on 2nd - G, G, Em, D x 4, (Chorus= C, Em, D, Bm x 2, C, Em, D.....
G, G, Em, D, C, Em; , D, Bm, Em , .... (chorus) C, Em, D, Bm...

From Alvaro

This is the video lesson of how to play 'Something' by 'The Beatles': 
Ukulele
Guitar

From Santiago and Craig
Magic! Rude
Tutorial

From Jen
Tu Recuerdo
Cover

Pink- Just Give Me a Reason

The Strokes- You Only Live Once

The Corrs- Angel
Unplugged

Set List


Magic! - Rude
The La's- There She Goes
Sixpence None the Richer - Kiss Me
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
The Pixies- Where is My Mind
David Bowie- Space Oddity
Johnny Cash- Hurt
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Sweet Home Alabama 
Eagle Eye Cherry- Save Tonight 
Imagine Dragons- Radioactive
Poets of the Fall- Carnival of Rust 
Hendrix- Hey Joe 
Monkees (Neil Diamond)- I'm a Believer 
Jackson 5- I Want You Back
Train- Soul Sister  
Leonard Cohen- Hallelujah
The Pixies- Here Comes Your Man
Supertramp- Give a Little Bit
T-Rex-  Life's a Gas
Billy Joel- Piano Man
Bob Marley - Redemption Song
Lenine- Pacencia
The Cure- Boys Don't Cry







Friday, August 15, 2014

A practical tool for writing chords

There are many formats used for writing down chords, all of them non compatible of course :(

I have prepared a simple tool you can use, amend, etc ... It´s in Excel, so you may use Office or Open Office or whatever, it will work.

As you may see, I have prepared it in two different styles. As a example, I have written down the E chord. In one of the spreadsheets, you may change the color of the cell (they are square of course as it is an Excel spreadsheet). In the other one, you may just drag some of the black circles to the positions you need in order to draw the chords you want to work with or you want to print.


https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByEh7B3Y4qIlOGZLcDkzWGQ1aFE/edit?usp=sharing




Hope it helps :)

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Simple tricks for figuring out chords


A common question when it comes to figure out the chords of a given song is … well … how do we figure them out?

Nowadays, thanks to Internet, you may find nearly any song and its chords just with one click. But let´s say you don´t have an Internet access or the song is pretty obscure and nobody dared uploading the chords to Internet.

So, there we go. First thing, the chords progression are not random, (only in experimental music, but let´s not stray from our path) and there´s always an underlying harmony structure. Problem is, many of us have no idea whatsoever about harmony, so here are two basic tricks:

A - If a song –most popular songs apply- goes like this: opening, verse, chorus, verse, and ends on the chorus, then you have three different parts to learn. Some songs have non-chorus based structure but they are not common in pop music.

B - To figure out the chords, figure out the bassline (this is the key trick). The easiest way is trying to play the bass line on the low E string (la cuerda de Mi grave). Let´s say the bass line is E (Mi)– G (Sol) – A (La) then most likely the chords will be E G A (probably Major, so try first with the Major chords).

Once you have it all figured out, from then onwards, you might try experimenting with the 7th, the 6th, the sus2, sus4, whatever … provided that it “sounds” Ok to you.

Once again, in order to do this you don´t need to know anything about harmony, however some basics might be helpful, but it´s up to you -and me by the way :)- to investigate a little bit.

Hope it helps :)

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Let's Kick it up a Notch...Gipsy Kings / Chambao!

Beginning in September, we will begin to add more styles of playing guitar. A good way to begin playing flamenco styles is by learning Rhumba (rumba). Some of us can play the guitar parts and others can sing. We can also add percussion and "palmas".
Lyrics:
Gipsy Kings / Chambao- Caminando por la Calle


Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Some videos of the songs we currently play, plus some proposals


Sweet home Alabama; perfect for playing with a whole bunch of guitarists (we have no piano player thus far) although initially played with electric guitars.






Hey Joe (a popular tex-mex song, made famous by Hendrix). Here in a older cover by The Byrds. Not the best quality, but you can hint at how to use several guitars together, one of them strumming and some others doing finger-picking for instance.


   





Behind blue eyes, by The Who. Proposed by Álvaro

 




 Desperado, from the movie feature. A proposal, for working with thirds for instance.


 




Say it ain´t so Joe, by The Who. A proposal, we may even use a bottleneck

  




Montreal, by Robert Charlebois. It´s a beautiful Canadian song, not intially intended for guitar, but it´s a proposal nevertheless.
 








Monday, July 14, 2014

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Tips para construir acordes en la guitarra


Buscando vías alternativas y sencillas de construir acordes de todo tipo.

La única premisa -aunque vital- consiste en saber que existen 7 notas, que van del DO (1) al SI (7),  y se van repitiendo. Si además ya saben que las distancias (tonos y semitonos) entre notas no son siempre iguales, es un "plus".

Igualmente, es vital saber que las cuerdas al aire de la guitarra  son: MI, LA, RE, SOL, SI, MI.

Pero aún así, veamos de forma sencilla cómo se construyen TODOS los acordes, con la ayuda de nuestra tabla (dediquen unos minutos a familiarizarse con ella, todo lo que necesitan saber está incluido ahí).

Para empezar, un acorde se compone de tres notas mínimo, la 1, la 3, y la 5. En la tabla vemos que el acorde de DO se compone pues de DO(1), MI(3) y SOL(5) (en otra ocasión hablaremos de acordes mayores y menores). Con lo cual si en una guitarra queremos construir un acorde de DO, buscaremos todas las posibilidades con esas tres notas y al tocarlas juntas escucharemos un acorde de DO (en este caso de DO mayor, pero no es relevante de momento).

Obviamente, como una guitarra tiene seis cuerdas, habrá varias notas repetidas . Eso no importa, siempre que sólo las tres que necesitamos estén presentes.

Sigamos: si queremos construir un acorde de séptima, un DO7, simplemente tenemos que añdir la nota número 7 (en la tabla vemos que es un SI). En este caso tendremos un acorde de DO7 con séptima mayor (ya hablaremos sobre séptima mayor y menor más adelante, pero quédense con el concepto). Resumiendo, el acorde de DO7 (séptima mayor) se compone de DO(1) MI(3), SOL(5) y SI(7).






Con esta misma lógica, si queremos un acorde de DO sexta, seguimos el mismo procedimiento.
El acorde inicial sigue siendo: DO(1), MI(3) y SOL(5); al cual añadimos el 6 (la sexta). En este caso vemos que es un LA. El acorde se compone pues de la base habitual DO(1), MI(3) y SOL(5) y simplemente añadimos un LA(6).

Y así succesivamente. Si queremos un acorde de DO2 o DO4, ya saben el truco ahora. Añaden un RE(2) o un FA(4) a la secuencia básica DO(1), MI(3), SOL(5).

P.D.1 Para los puristas, ya sabemos que DO2 = DO9 y que DO4 =DO11, pero no es relevante a estas alturas.

P.D.2. Para los profesores de música, hemos obviado todo lo relacionado con mayores y menores. Y es que pensamos que una vez hemos asimilado estos "trucos", resulta mucho más fácil meterse son mayores y menores.

Tabs in Excel files - Download

I have made some of the songs we practice available at those links.

They are in Excel files so you may download them and use them, amending them or adding your own tips etc ... Hope it helps :)