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  1. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988[..]

    There IS only 3 chords haha! It's Bm(but without using the high e string in the chord, you just leave it open). Then I can never figure out if its E or Em? They both sound right. Then it's just A.

    --0-----------------------
    --3-----------------2-----
    --4-----------------2-----
    --4--------2--------2----
    --2--------2--------------
    ---------------------------
    Bm Em A
    Now you just have to get down the strumming pattern which is the backbone of the song, and the solo which is easy!

    Cheers chap! I think it sounds like E major, but I'll give it a go quick enough either way lol! And don't worry about tabs mate, chords are my forté plus I've never bothered with tabs my whole life lol...

    EDIT - actually, that siad, playing it in my head (as it were), I am getting hints of a minor chord on the 1st chord change so it no doubt is Em
  2. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988Harry, there IS only 3 chords haha! It's Bm(but without using the high e string in the chord, you just leave it open). Then I can never figure out if its E or Em? They both sound right. Then it's just A.

    Now you just have to get down the strumming pattern which is the backbone of the song, and the solo which is easy!

    Alex
    I play it Em, sounds much better. The A is major indeed, and that special Bm is called Bsus2 (it's like the Bm without the capo-finger on the 2nd fret).

    I love playing Party Girl. It's darn easy to play so you can sing along very very easily, delight people with the Guitar Hero astonishing solo, later get them sing too with the I think "I know what he wants" and clap their hands and have fun. Lovely
  3. Originally posted by WojBhoy I am getting hints of a minor chord on the 1st chord change so it no doubt is Em
    Yepp

    I also love playing with chords. I began few months ago (with You've Got To Hide Your Love Away from the Beatles, just a G, D, F, C and a few Dsus variations), but I thought I'd neveer learn the chords, finger positions, frets, etc... Well, now I've got a whole 80-pages notebook with self-made chord formations for over 140 songs (U2, Bob Dylan, Beatles, Dire Straits...). I'm becoming prertty good at chords and soon I will become the new Guitar Hero
  4. Originally posted by LikeASong[..]I play it Em, sounds much better. The A is major indeed, and that special Bm is called Bsus2 (it's like the Bm without the capo-finger on the 2nd fret).

    I love playing Party Girl. It's darn easy to play so you can sing along very very easily, delight people with the Guitar Hero astonishing solo, later get them sing too with the I think "I know what he wants" and clap their hands and have fun. Lovely

    Kinda like playing Please acoustically (I'm guessing it's usually played in Bbm, rather than Bm? If they've tuned it half a step down, I guess?). I don't bother with names lol, but lke I say, I'm the opposite of BB King where guitars are concerned - I AM good with chords

  5. Originally posted by WojBhoyKinda like playing Please acoustically . I don't bother with names lol, but lke I say, I'm the opposite of BB King where guitars are concerned - I AM good with chords
    Yeeees! Please is quite easy too... Just Bm, Em, A and F#m and a few of fingerpicking of three strings. I played it a lot last Tuesday-Friday sequence, then I step in to Wake Up Dead Man and Like A Rolling Stone
  6. Originally posted by LikeASong[..]Yepp

    I also love playing with chords. I began few months ago (with You've Got To Hide Your Love Away from the Beatles, just a G, D, F, C and a few Dsus variations), but I thought I'd neveer learn the chords, finger positions, frets, etc... Well, now I've got a whole 80-pages notebook with self-made chord formations for over 140 songs (U2, Bob Dylan, Beatles, Dire Straits...). I'm becoming prertty good at chords and soon I will become the new Guitar Hero

    The only time I ever wrote down chord progressions was when I first started, I'd worked out One and WGRYWH (although I later found out I was slightly incorrect - I used to play the chorus as G D C, but then I found it was G Bm C lol...) and couldn't remember, so I got some sticky notes and wrote down the basic chords. Nowadays, I work out everything by ear and remember it as a result lol
  7. Originally posted by LikeASong[..]Yeeees! Please is quite easy too... Just Bm, Em, A and F#m and a few of fingerpicking of three strings. I played it a lot last Tuesday-Friday sequence, then I step in to Wake Up Dead Man and Like A Rolling Stone

    Yeah, I often find myself mixing it up with Love Is Blindness though lol...include a G and mix the chord sequence around slightly, and they're very similar.

    Playing both on the piano is good too
  8. Originally posted by WojBhoyKinda like playing Please acoustically (I'm guessing it's usually played in Bbm, rather than Bm? If they've tuned it half a step down, I guess?).
    Man, I don't know ANTYHING about tuning settings. In fact I don't know ANYTHING (technical) about guitars... I play simply with my ear! (I get my spanish guitar tuned-up picking up the phone, and opying that tune on the 5th fret on the E string! you know the method?), so no special tunings for me, thanks
  9. Originally posted by WojBhoyThe only time I ever wrote down chord progressions was when I first started, I'd worked out One and WGRYWH (although I later found out I was slightly incorrect - I used to play the chorus as G D C, but then I found it was G Bm C lol...) and couldn't remember, so I got some sticky notes and wrote down the basic chords. Nowadays, I work out everything by ear and remember it as a result lol
    WoW!!! Is really Wild Horses a Bm?? Always played as D and sounded good... Man I really do know nothing (I thought I had a great ear )

    I also work out the songs simply hearing and pllaying along (ear-method xDD) but I really can't remember them, I NEED the notebook! Moreover, with the notebook I can play everything I know simply going to the page. Otherwise I have to surf my brain cells... Not good

    EDIT. I'm currently playing Horses with the Bm and it sounds tons better than the D chord!! Awesome
  10. Isn't horses just G, then C for verses, then chorus is G D C?
  11. Originally posted by LikeASong[..]Man, I don't know ANTYHING about tuning settings. In fact I don't know ANYTHING (technical) about guitars... I play simply with my ear! (I get my spanish guitar tuned-up picking up the phone, and opying that tune on the 5th fret on the E string! you know the method?), so no special tunings for me, thanks

    Can't say I ever have before lol! I have my guitars all tuned down half a step, and should they ever go slightly out, I remember a live version of Ultra Violet and hum Eb, and work from there lol! I just remember notes...

    I don't know anything technical about electric guitars etc., i.e. if people start talking at length about different pickups, how to get different tones etc., so basically all the really complicated shit, I am stuffed! But actual music is my strongpoint, I started off learning music on the flute and piano, still play the piano but dropped the flute, and like 3/4/5 years ago?, I started taking up the guitar and teaching myself, and I just transferred all the stuff I'd learnt from the piano onto the guitar, so keys/chords etc. aren't a problem to me. I'm a fairly unorthodox player as a result lol...
  12. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988Isn't horses just G, then C for verses, then chorus is G D C?
    Well, you can actually introduce the D (or Bm as pointed above) quickly in the verses. It's specially useful if you're playing not proffesionally, and singing along. If not, it's playing the G chord too much time, the D (or Bm) makes it more variated and funny
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