thanks. i'll work on it a little bit when i get the chance. i like this project. i'd like to learn more about how to chord melody something and this may be the thing.
Sorry for "joining in" so late in the progress! :wink:
Going with a chord melody approach works well in a song like this. As Larsko points out, you can do the melody line of the first part of the song pretty well along with strumming the chords:E - 0 - 0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
B - 1 - - - 3 - 1 - 0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 - 1 - - -
G - 2 - - - - - - - 0 - 2 - - - 0 - 0 - 2 - 2 - - - - - 2 -
D - 2 - - - - - - - 0 - - - - - 3 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
A - 0 - - - - - - - X - - - - - 3 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
E - - - - - - - - - 3 - - - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
I'd also like to suggest that if you go with this style, you might want to change the Dm at the end lines of the verses to Fmaj7 (think of it as Dm9/F if that helps) in order to get the melody to fall nicely along with the chords:E - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - - - - - - - - - - - 0 - 0 - 0 - - - - - - - -
B - 1 - - - - - - - 3 - 1 - 0 - - - - - 1 - - - - - 3 - 1 - 0 - -
G - 2 - - - - - - - - - - - 0 - 0 - 0 - 2 - - - - - - - - - 0 - -
D - 3 - - - - - - - - - - - 0 - - - - - 3 - - - - - - - - - 0 - -
A - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 - -
E - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3 - -
Hope this helps (and I hope this Notepad copying thing works! :wink: )
Peace
EDIT by Greybeard to line the tab up (hope you don't mind, David)
YAY, i'ts Dave!
I was hoping you'd find this thread sooner or later!
i posted earlier of a "walking bassline" idea ( i don't know if that is what this idea would actually be calleed in this case). but what do you think of the idea? that is, if you can make out what i'm trying to do. i can't post tab. i don't know how.
thanks for the further contributions guys. Nice to see David chipping in here !
all the best
Matt
Hi Matt
I've managed to listen to get a copy of "Breakfast in America" album (a very good one by the way). Anyway I only listened to the song once while shaving myself :-)!, so I'm not 100% sure, but regarding the strummin pattern I would say that it is straight eight notes (as Greybeard already said), played with downstrums only (to my ears is very similar to Imagine's one). Maybe it is better to use a bass note on the first eight, so it would become something like that
bd/bd/Bd/bd
of course alternating between bass and fifth seems me also a good idea.
If you wish to play a more driving version I would try a
bb/ddu/bb/ddu
or if you prefer
bb/dud/bb/dud
or you could also stick to the eight notes downstrums with some occasional sixteen notes
dd/dd/dd/dd/dd/dd/dd/dud
like in Imagine's
Just a small question: since I've never bought the infamous capo which will be the chords if I played it without a capo?
Thanks and compliments for the excellent job
Matteo
Just a small question: since I've never bought the infamous capo which will be the chords if I played it without a capo?
Just play the same chords without the capo and you will be playing the song in am instead of in cm. If you insist on playing in Cm without a capo (playing along with the record maybe) you will have to add 3 semitones (or frets if you like) to each chord
a bb b c db d eb e f gb g ab
go three steps to the right (while perserving obviously minor/major etc) , i.e.: am --> cm, G --> Bb, F --> Ab ...
Lars
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Just a small question: since I've never bought the infamous capo which will be the chords if I played it without a capo?
Just play the same chords without the capo and you will be playing the song in am instead of in cm. If you insist on playing in Cm without a capo (playing along with the record maybe) you will have to add 3 semitones (or frets if you like) to each chord
a bb b c db d eb e f gb g ab
go three steps to the right (while perserving obviously minor/major etc) , i.e.: am --> cm, G --> Bb, F --> Ab ...
Lars
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Don't know how well this will translate, but after some experimenting, I came up with this little fill for the "ba ba da dow" bits. It starts out with an arpeggio for the first "ba ba da dow" and then does a little trill involving the F and E notes on the first string:
E - - - 0 - 1 0 1 0 - - 0 - - - - 0 - - - - - - - - - - -
B - - 0 - - - - - - - 3 - - - 0 3 - - 0 - - - - - - - - -
G - 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
D - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
A - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
E 0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
It's supposed to mimic the clarinet part, but it's obviously not note for note! :wink: It would resolve back to the Am and you can easily use some arpeggio style picking to make it more interesting.
Now to get to work on Pearl's walking bass lines...
Peace
coming along nicely guys...thanks again to everyone who's contributed.
all the best
Matt
