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  1. Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:Does anyone know the chords for "Acrobat" that Bono plays in the acoustic versions from "The Complete Hershey Tapes" when this was rehearsed before opening night of ZooTV Leg 3?? I've been listening to this version lately, and I think it would be cool to arrange for just an acoustic guitar & vocal part, but I can't figure out the chords for the life of me.


    Nevermind...I think I've found them...I may try to cover this and do a few overdubs with some cool electric effects fading in and out, so keep your eye out for it
  2. Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:Does anyone know the chords for "Acrobat" that Bono plays in the acoustic versions from "The Complete Hershey Tapes" when this was rehearsed before opening night of ZooTV Leg 3?? I've been listening to this version lately, and I think it would be cool to arrange for just an acoustic guitar & vocal part, but I can't figure out the chords for the life of me.


    Try this:

    "Acrobat"
    -------

    Found this on - http://www.u2station.com/tablature/guitar-tablature/acrobat.php

    Intro: Em7 Am

    Am G Fmaj7 Em/D
    Don't believe what you hear, don't believe what you see
    Am G Fmaj7 Em/D
    If you just close your eyes you can feel the enemy

    When I first met you girl, you had fire in your soul
    What happened your face of melting snow?

    C
    Now it looks like this
    Am7
    and you can swallow or you can spit
    F G
    You can throw it up or choke on it

    And you can dream, so dream out loud
    F G Am7
    You know that your time is coming 'round
    F G Am
    ... Don't let the bastards grind you down

    No nothing makes sense, nothing seems to fit
    I know you'd hit out if you only knew who to hit
    And I'd join the movement if there was one I could believe in
    Yeah I'd break bread and wine if there was a church I could receive in

    'Cos I need it now
    To take the cup, to fill it up
    To drink it slow, I can't let you go
    And I must be an Acrobat to talk like this and act like that
    And you can dream, so dream out loud
    ... Don't let the bastards grind you down

    What are we going to do now it's all been said?
    No new ideas in the house, and every book has been read

    And I must be an acrobat
    To talk like this and act like that
    And you can dream, so dream out loud
    And you can find your own way out
    You can build and I can will
    And you can call I can't wait until
    You can stash and you can seize
    In dreams begin responsibilities
    And I can love, and I can love
    I know that the tide is turning 'round
    ...Don't let the bastards grind you down

    CHORD FORMATIONS
    ----------------
    Am7 x 0 2 0 1 0

    Em/D 0 2 0 0 0 0

  3. Em/D??? that is wrong!!
    It should be Em7.

  4. It can even be a E major, it fits and sounds perfectly right. I always play it like E major (as I do in Staring At The Sun, with the exact same chords).
  5. I have never played this song, I was just saying that the chord is an Em7 based on the "chord formation" at the end of the "chords+lyrics" part of the post.
  6. Hi everyone!

    Could anyone tell me if it´s a good choice to buy a Line 6 Floor Pod to cover mainly U2 but also The Beatles, Oasis and Red Hot? Or should I just save money and slowly build my pedalboard with my own set up of stomp boxes? I´m a noobie in guitar effects...

    Also, what´s a good website I can learn more about the guitar as an instrument, learn more about pick ups, etc... and about amps and effects too?

    Thanx very much
  7. Originally posted by NLOTH_Victor:Hi everyone!

    Could anyone tell me if it´s a good choice to buy a Line 6 Floor Pod to cover mainly U2 but also The Beatles, Oasis and Red Hot? Or should I just save money and slowly build my pedalboard with my own set up of stomp boxes? I´m a noobie in guitar effects...

    Also, what´s a good website I can learn more about the guitar as an instrument, learn more about pick ups, etc... and about amps and effects too?

    Thanx very much


    Depends on how much money you're willing to spend. If you're new to effects and all that, i'd strongly suggest a multi-fx like the one you mentioned. Invidivual pedals cost tons of money, then you have to look for powering options, then an actual board, as well as good cables, a buffer, and so on. A multi fx is just like, the price of one to three stompboxes, and it's just guitar to multi-fx to amp. I was in the middle of making a pedalboard over the past year, when I realized i don't have the money to make a pedalboard. So right now i'm selling all of them and getting an M13. I strongly suggest a multi-fx.
  8. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]

    Depends on how much money you're willing to spend. If you're new to effects and all that, i'd strongly suggest a multi-fx like the one you mentioned. Invidivual pedals cost tons of money, then you have to look for powering options, then an actual board, as well as good cables, a buffer, and so on. A multi fx is just like, the price of one to three stompboxes, and it's just guitar to multi-fx to amp. I was in the middle of making a pedalboard over the past year, when I realized i don't have the money to make a pedalboard. So right now i'm selling all of them and getting an M13. I strongly suggest a multi-fx.


    Thanx! Yeah, it helped a lot, I think I´ll get the floor pod when I travel to US... I don´t think I´m good enough for the stomps yet lol... and If I were to make my own pedalboard it would be really slowly due to money... Thanx again
  9. Originally posted by NLOTH_Victor:Hi everyone!

    Could anyone tell me if it´s a good choice to buy a Line 6 Floor Pod to cover mainly U2 but also The Beatles, Oasis and Red Hot? Or should I just save money and slowly build my pedalboard with my own set up of stomp boxes? I´m a noobie in guitar effects...

    Also, what´s a good website I can learn more about the guitar as an instrument, learn more about pick ups, etc... and about amps and effects too?

    Thanx very much


    You won't need a whole lot of pedals to play this stuff. Maybe one or two good distorions. You could get away with a good valve amplifier, which would be probably as expensive as getting a lot of pedals, with much better results.
    For U2, one or two delay units could help you, it depends on how close you want the sounds to the real thing.
    I am against multi effects.


  10. I was as well for the longest time, but after going down the pedal board route and seeing how much financial backing it needs as well as patience, i'm not anymore. I also just joined a band, and having pre-sets is a lot easier when playing live than tap dancing on 5 different pedals is, trust me.
  11. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]

    I was as well for the longest time, but after going down the pedal board route and seeing how much financial backing it needs as well as patience, i'm not anymore. I also just joined a band, and having pre-sets is a lot easier when playing live than tap dancing on 5 different pedals is, trust me.


    I get what you say, but I still think that the individual units are better.
    I really like to do things the old fashioned way, so having a single processor doesn't really come as "genuine" for me. Also, the individual units sound much better, which I think that is what matters, for me at least.
    I can perfectly understand why someone would get a multi effects though.
  12. Originally posted by thechicken:[..]

    I get what you say, but I still think that the individual units are better.
    I really like to do things the old fashioned way, so having a single processor doesn't really come as "genuine" for me. Also, the individual units sound much better, which I think that is what matters, for me at least.
    I can perfectly understand why someone would get a multi effects though.


    the individual effects ARE better, as you say, simply because the multi-fx only "model" or "simulate" what the original does. However some of them can come extremely close. Take a look at our Guitar Hero, his rack is full of multi-fx, he only has about 10 individual effects in his whole rig.
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