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From: mschenk@research.ptt.nl (Mike Schenk +31 70 33 23926)
Subject: Re: Argh! I can't do G chords!
Organization: PTT Research
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 11:04:25 GMT

In article <C0K2zt.27D@cmptrc.lonestar.org>, neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Neal Howard) writes:
> I too had a problem with an open G major chord when I was a beginner and
> stumbled upon a way to fake it with a variation of a root-5-octave power
> chord by using my thumb to fret the big E string at the third fret. This
> chord sounds enormous with lotsa crunchy distortion (think of AC/DC's  
> "Highway to Hell"). I've been told this style of using the thumb to fret the
> big E and sometimes also the A string as well is part of a "hillbilly" style
> called "hoakum".  I've also been griped at and cussed at for using it but I
> say f*** it, it sounds good to me, I like using it, and will use it as long as
> I live. Here it is:
> 
>     STRING         FRET       FINGER
>     ======         ====       ======
>     1 (E)           3         thumb
>     2 (A)           5         third finger (both E and D strings
>     3 (D)           5         third finger  are barred at 5th fret)
>     4 (G)           0         let ring open
>     5 (B)           1         first finger
>     6 (E)           1         first finger (E and B barred by same finger)
> 
>     Without a third in this chord, it sounds really good with distortion.
>     Also can be moved up and down the neck for some really interesting
>     chords, leaving the G string ringing open.

I don't know how big your hands are but I assume you mean that 
the first finger barrs the 5th and 6th string at the 3rd fret. 
That sounds more like a G chord to me and I can play that. It 
sounds great BTW.

    Mike
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From: prante@radium.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Joerg Prante)
Subject: Re: Argh! I can't do G chords!
Reply-To: prante@radium.informatik.uni-bonn.de
Organization: Angewandte Informatik III, Uni Bonn
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:59:20 GMT

In article 931905121931@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk, GREENA@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090 () writes:
>>Subject line says it all, I am learning to play, and I find mostly all of the
>>chords easy to fret EXCEPT for the G chord.  Can someone tell me the proper
>>fingering of this?  Whenever I try to hit the third fret I end up dampening
>>all of my open strings.  I need new fingers.
>>
>>Thanks much!

>Right, brother... here goes... the standard open-string G is as follows:
>String       Fret       Finger
>
>  1 (top E)   3           little finger
>  2 B         -
>  3 G         -
>  4 D         -
>  5 A         2           first finger
>  6 (bott E)  3           second finger

Hmmm, this is rather a bad style I think, hitting the sixth string
on the third fret with the second finger without using the third one. 
It should be fingered like this:

--000-    --00--
||||||    ||||||
|2||||    |1||||
3||||4    2|||34

  (i)      (ii)

The problem for beginners in (i) is the little finger I believe, because
it is not straightened like the third one, and the gap between
the third und fourth finger is quite wide.

Joerg


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prante@radium.informatik.uni-bonn.de  Universitaet Bonn

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From: wc9583@writer.yorku.ca (J.Marc Chabot)
Subject: REQ: Thin Lizzy's JAILBREAK
Originator: wc9583@grant
Organization: Computer Assisted Writing Centre, York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13:45:13 GMT

Greetings All!

		Anybody out there have any kind of tab for this song?
I have played it one way for ages, but last week I was jamming with a
bunch of friends and our versions did not match at all.  So we're
looking for a neutral tab transcription that we can all learn.

Regards, 

J.Marc Chabot
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From: juggle@athena.mit.edu (furious axe demon)
Subject: Yet another silly post on: Argh! I can't do G chords!
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:04:38 GMT


>Subject line says it all, I am learning to play, and I find mostly all of the
>chords easy to fret EXCEPT for the G chord.  Can someone tell me the proper
>fingering of this?  Whenever I try to hit the third fret I end up dampening
>all of my open strings.  I need new fingers.

I think the vast majority of posts on this subject have missed the point,
which is to help this unfortunate beginner play a G chord.

Having trouble fingering the G chord?  I have one and only one
solution for you: PRACTICE.  (That's right, even new fingers probably
aren't going to help much ;-)

That's the only way you're ever going to do it, and believe me even though
you think it's impossible now, you will be able to do it eventually if you 
just work on it.  In 6 months you won't even believe you *ever* had trouble
with it.

(How many of you have had that experience with barre chords? I know *I* did)

A good way of learning (any chord, including the G) is to just to
constantly finger the chord (however awkward it may be at first) take your
fingers off the board, wiggle them, and repeat.

For the G, make sure your fingertips are *absolutely perpendicular* to
the fingerboard where you press the strings down.  This feels weird at first,
(especially since *you need to really curl your fingers*) but it is necessary
to sound the chord properly.  Eventually it feels very natural to do that.

Now, as far as *which* G you should learn, that's a matter of personal
preference.  Just pick one (arbitrarily if you like), and then be
happy with it.  The truth is, it doesn't really make that much of a
difference.

>> --000-    --00--   --OOO-
>> ||||||    ||||||   ||||||
>> |2||||    |1||||   |1||||
>> 3||||4    2|||34   2||||3        <--   G chord shapes
>> 
>>  (i)       (ii)     (iii)

I use (iii).  Why? just because it was easier for me that way when I started.
I will use (ii) sometimes for fun or for songs that call for it, and (i) only
if I am in a weird mood.

Yup, it's true that (i) is a bit easier to transfer to other chords, like C 
but with a bit of work, you can go from (ii) to C or Am just as fast.

I learned to do just that by playing a couple of songs I know with C
to G transitions in them a bunch of times repeatedly.  Eventually my
fingers learned how to go from one to the other *really* fast because
they just sort of pop into place by themselves.

Try playing along with the intro to "Shook me All night long" by AC/DC
to get the idea.  (Not easy using (iii) but doable with some practise).

It's something like:  G C C G C G D   C C G C G C  (But fast w/distortion)

Anyway, this is just my $.02


	Sincerely,
	Joseph Grossman
	juggle@athena.mit.edu
From: hthiew@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Hong Hiew)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab
Subject: REQ:TRACY CHAPMAN
Date: 5 Jan 1993 10:40:43 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au
Summary: anyone with songs from TRACY's debut album

	Can anyone please post some of Tracy Chapman's songs,
especially those from her debut album?
       THANKS!!!.

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From: lars4752@mach1.wlu.ca (Bradley Larsen u)
Subject: Beatles tab
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:49:16 GMT

Does anyone have the TAB for Yesterday, Get Back or Helter Skelter?

Thanks

Brad Larsen
lars4752@mach1.wlu.ca
From: frank.palcat@synapse.org (Frank Palcat) 
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab
Subject: REQ: Cohen/Golden Earring?
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:32:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: SYNAPSE BBS - GATINEAU, QUEBEC - 819-561-4321
Reply-To: frank.palcat@synapse.org (Frank Palcat) 

To: alt.guitar.tab
From: frank.palcat@synapse.org

Hello,

Would anybody be willing to post or e-mail me the tab/chords to:

First We Take Manhattan (by Leonard Cohen)
Twilight Zone (by Golden Earring, I think)?

Thanks.

Regards,
Frank
e-mail: frank.palcat@synapse.org


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From: HENKLE@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU (Doug Henkle, Univ of Wis Oshkosh)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab
Subject: Re: Fairport Convention / R&L Thompson
Date: 12 Jan 1993 17:09:19 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

> Article 4847 (10 more) in alt.guitar.tab
> From: an4929@anon.penet.fi (gonzo)
> Subject: Fairport Convention
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:58:50 GMT
>
> I'm looking for any songs by Fairport, or even by Richard and Linda
> Thompson.  I've been able to get a few Thompson songs from
> ftp.nevada.edu ...

     Below is a list of all the Fairport and R&L Thompson files at the
Music Archives at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside (Kenosha, WI),
at "ftp.uwp.edu (131.210.1.4)".


pub/music/lyrics/f/fairport.convention:

  9560 Jan 10 15:11 angel.delight
 13029 Jan 10 15:14 babbacombe.lee
  9051 Jan 10 15:20 fairport.convention
  3716 Jan 10 15:21 full.house
  9978 Jan 10 15:23 liege.and.lief
  7822 Jan 10 15:24 nine
 10595 Jan 10 15:26 tipplers.tales
  7928 Jan 10 15:28 unhalfbricking
  6451 Jan 10 15:29 what.we.did.on.our.holidays


pub/music/lyrics/t/thompson.richard:

 10342 Oct 19  1991 henry.the.human.fly


pub/music/lyrics/t/thompson.richard.linda:

 10039 Oct 19  1991 first.light
 10427 Oct 19  1991 hokey.pokey
  6869 Oct 19  1991 pour.down.like.silver
 12573 Oct 19  1991 sunnyvista

   [These files are mirrored from "ftp.nevada.edu".]

pub/music/guitar/Richard_Thompson:

  1858 Jul 24 08:38 1952VincentBlackLightening.crd.Z
  1233 Oct  4 11:07 DimmingOfTheDay.crd.Z

                                  Doug
                            henkle@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu
                            Univ. of Wisconsin Oshkosh
From: STRB%MARISTB.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Syg)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab
Subject: Tab:REM - Man on the Moon
Date: 8 Jan 1993 11:08:50 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Ok, here is the song as close as I can get it. If you are familiar with
REM and this album specifically, you will have to compensate for the
fact that some of the lyrics incoherent. I'll just put in lala's where
I don't know the words. If you like and listen to the song as much as I
do, you should have no problem.

1ST VERSE:(all chords arpeggiated)

La la la la la in the:game of life. : Yea yea yea yea.

C                     Dsus2           C

Andy Kaufman in a:wrestling match. :  Yea yea yea yea.

C                 Dsus2               C

All of the verses follow the same pattern, except as the song goes on
the chords are more and more strummed.

CHORUS

Andy did you hear about:this one. :Tell me are you locked in the :punch.

Am                      G          Am                             G

Andy are you goofin on:Elvis, hey  :baby. :Are we losing touch?

Am                     G            C      D

If you :believe :they put a :man on the :moon :(Man on the :moon).

G       Am       C           D           G      Am          D

If you :believe :there's :nothing up their :sleeves, and nothin is cool.

G       Am       C        D                 Am

The solo goes something like this:

------12---|-----------|------12---|-----------|------12---|--------
12-12----12|-----------|12-12----12|-----------|12-12----12|--------
-----------|---11-12-11|-----------|---11-12-11|-----------|---11-12
-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------
-----------|12---------|-----------|12---------|-----------|12------
-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------

This is not a perfect tab of the solo because, for one, he uses a slide,
and for two, I am not sitting here with a guitar, I am relying on
memory, and my memory sucks. There are a  few notes probably missing
from the solo transcription, and I never really played the rhythm part
during  the solo but I think it's probably Am to D.

Other than that I think it's pretty accurate. I could be wrong tho.

                                       -Syg
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From: 900420p@axe.acadiau.ca (GRANT MICHAEL POTTER)
Subject: REQ:  Surfing with the Alien
Keywords: Satriani
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:24:49 GMT


     Does anyone have the tab for the solo on Surfing?  'Preciate it.

-Saltlick-
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:02:45 EST
From: Joe Carlson <JKC3@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab
Subject: AC/DC and Sabbath Tab/chords...

Help!  I would like the tab/chords/lyrics to AC/DC's  "Highway to Hell" and
"Sin City" and the same for Black Sabbath's "Paranoid".

Also, if anyone has the Tab/chords/lyrics to Judas Priest "Breakin' the Law",
they'd be greatly appreciated also.

If you have these, or any other AC/DC (older material), please email
them to me.   I have *alot* of stuff in tab, and I'd be more than willing
to trade something I have that you may be looking for, for any or all of
the above requests.

                                      Many Thanks in advance,

                                                             Joe
                                                                 (JKC3@PSUVM)
From: barrett@dino.cs.utk.edu (Richard F Barrett)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab
Subject: CRD: Ain't No Sunshine
Date: 7 Jan 1993 14:14:21 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Reply-To: barrett@dino.cs.utk.edu (Richard F Barrett)
NNTP-Posting-Host: dino.cs.utk.edu
Keywords: Bill Withers

Kinda rough, but if you know the song, no doubt you can figure it out.
I'm not positive about the words, but then again a good blues (sorta) song
should allow making up whatever you want...Note that not all the chord changes
are included, but usually indicate...well read the comments. 

Any changes, additions, whatever always welcome...

What about Rickie Lee Jones chords, tabs? 
---------------- CUT HERE ---------------
{title: Ain't No Sunshine}
{st: Bill Withers}

{c: Basically Am and Em, picking the bass note then a strum for each:}
{c: pick, Am, pick, Em, pick 6th string with pinky on third fret, repeat.}
{c: I don't have this written in below. The chords listed are the beginning
{c: of this pattern or transitions}

{c: Intro: Repeat the above pattern a couple of times, then during}
{c: verses, starting with the first Am listed below}
Ain't no sunshine when she's [Am]gone [Em]
Only darkness every [Am]day [Em]
Ain't no sunshine when she's [Dm]gone
And this house just ain't no [F]home,
[Am]Anytime she goes away.

Wonder this time where she's gone
Wonder if she's gone to stay
Ain't no sunshine when she's [Dm]gone
And this house just ain't no [F]home,
[Am]Anytime she goes away

And I know I know I know [Gm]I [Am]know I know I know I know I [Gm]I [Am]know...
{c: To add fill, every fourth "I know, pound on Gm and slide down two frets to A
m (same fingering)}
Baby you're leaving me far be[Dm]hind
There ain't sunshine when she's [Am]gone

{c: Repeat 1st verse}

{c: This sounds great on a electric, not so great on an acoustic. For}
{c: acoustic, I strum continuously between "picks", and for the "I know"}
{c: business I pound the strings holding down only the second string}
{c: of the first fret, then hammer down onto an Am.}
From: dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab
Subject: Re: TAB: "Roxanne" - Police
Date: 8 Jan 93 11:02:21 GMT
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.

pat@gsfc.nasa.gov (patrick m. ryan) writes:



>Roxanne
>	by the Police, from _Outlandos_d_Amour_, 1978
>	transcribed by pat@jaameri.gsfc.nasa.gov (patrick m. ryan)

>	Here are the basic chords.  It is left up to the
>reader to figure out the rhythm.  I haven't tabbed out the
>chorus so someone can feel free to fill it in.  The chords
>with a ? after them are the ones that I don't know the exact
>names to.  I didn't tab out the chorus since I can't remember
>it off the top of my head.  I think, however, that they're
>all basic major chords you can figure out by ear.

Try this. It's different inversions of the chords which make it work by moving
up and down the fingerboard.

x means don't play this string.

 Gm  Dm  Gm   Dm   Cm   Dm7 Gsus4
-3---5---x----x----x----5---3---
-3---6---11---10---8----6---3---
-3---7---12---10---8----5---5---
-5---7---12---12---10---7---5---
---------10---12---10-------5---
----------------------------3---

Chorus is :-

F C and G basic shapes.

Dave
{Left the words you posted intacts}

>Name ROXANNE
>Interpret Police
>Jahr 1978
>Schreiber Police

>Roxanne
>You don't have to put on the red light
>Those days are over
>You don't have to sell your body to the night

>Roxanne
>You don't have to wear that dress tonight
>Walk the streets of money
>You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right

>Roxanne
>You don't have to put on the red light
>Roxanne
>You don't have to put on the red light

>Roxanne  (Put on the red light)
>Roxanne  (Put on the red light)
>Roxanne  (Put on the red light)
>Roxanne  (Put on the red light)
>Roxanne  (Put on the red light)
>Roxanne

>I loved you since I knew you
>I wouldn't talk down to you
>I have you to tell just how I feel
>I won't share you with another boy

>I know my mind is made up
>So put away your make up
>Told you once I won't tell you again
>It's a bad way

>Roxanne
>You don't have to put on the red light
>Roxanne
>You don't have to put on the red light

>Roxanne  (Put on the red light)
>Roxanne  (Put on the red light)
>Roxanne  (Put on the red light)

>--
>"I have a cunning plan." -- Baldric
>                                                             patrick m. ryan
>     nasa / goddard space flight center / oceans and ice branch / hughes stx
>                     pat@jaameri.gsfc.nasa.gov / zmpmr@charney.gsfc.nasa.gov
-- 
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From: jmvleuge@cs.ruu.nl (Jules Vleugels)
Subject: Re: Metallica
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:17:58 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science

In <1993Jan7.153802.1462@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> h2xs@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (LANE  G) writes:

>I was just in the hood, and thought that I'd leave some Metallica for y'all:
>
>This is the mellow part on Master of Puppets (all notes have equal value, including the triplet; the whole triplet is one unit or count):
>
>                |-t-|
>----------------0-2-0-----3-----------------------------------------
>------------3---------3---------3---3-----0-----0-------0-------0---
>------0---2---2---------2-----0---0---0-------2-------2-------2-----
>----2---0-------------------------------2-------------------1-----1-
>--2-------------------------3---------------0-----0-2-----2---------
>0-------------------------------------------------------------------
>

I think the last note should be -3- on the low E string... I might be
wrong though.
--
Jules Vleugels, Internet: jmvleuge@cs.ruu.nl
Department of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
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From: lgoodfie@sobeco.com (l.goodfield)
Subject: REQ: Robert Plant's Like I've Never Been Gone
Organization: Sobeco Ernst & Young
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:27:51 GMT

Could someone kindly post and/or e-mail me the guitar tab for Robert
Plant's "Like I've Never Been Gone" from the album Pictures At Eleven.

Thanks in advance.

Lionel.


-- 
Lionel Goodfield
(514) 592-4204
Internet Access: lgoodfie@sobeco.sobeco.com
    UUCP Access: uunet!sobeco!lgoodfie
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From: ikos@netcom.com (Ikos)
Subject: Ripple
Keywords: Revival/Love is Everywhere
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:40:04 GMT

In article <Jan.6.13.23.11.1993.11902@presto.ig.com> arb@presto.ig.com (Dan Arbios) writes:
>
>
>Someone also requested "Ripple" by the Dead, it is in the key of F.
>Start out with F for the beginning
>F Bflat C Bflat G Dminor these are chords I can thiink of off the top
>of my head .  Good luck guys/gals  

I know this in the key of G.  Something like this:

                 G                     C
If my words did flow with the gold of sunshine
                                          G
And my tunes, we played, on the harp unstrung.
                                          C
Would you hear my voice coming thru the music?
           G        D         C         G
Would you hold it near as it were your own?

The verses all go like that. I'll assume you know the words :-)
The  chorus goes like this:

G G#m7 Am                D
       Ripple in still water 
  G                       C
when there is no pebble tossed
      Am      D
nor wind to blow


Like Dan this is off the top of my head, but I think it's enough to get
you going :-)  Have fun

Geoff

PS  Note, I do not get mail sent to ikos, but I do get mail sent to
 geoff@ikos.com
Thanks
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From: ameen@swi.psy.uva.nl (Ameen Abu-Hanna)
Subject: Re: HELP CHORD !
Organization: Social Science Informatics, University of Amsterdam
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:29:41 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.102417.5861@imag.fr> fulco@imag.imag.fr (patrick fulconis) writes:
>
>I try to use chord but I have some problems
.....
>so, please, how to use chord ?
>and what it's supposed to do ?

My mail bounced back, so I'm posting it here..
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Patrick, 
"chord" is a program that takes a file written in chopro format and
gives an output file in postcript format.
Use "chord song_file > printer_file" where song_file is the file
containing the song in chopro mode and printer_file is a file name you
choose that will include the output of the chord program (the ">" will
create the file). Send printer_file directly to the LASER printer because
it is in POSTSCRIPT mode that a laser printer directly understands.

You may be able to view the file on the SCREEN for example if you have the 
"gs" (ghost script) command you can do "gs printer_file" to see it on the
screen instead of printing it. By the way, try "chord -h" to see the options
you have (like font sizes and number of logical pages on one physical page).
Good luck, ameen.
PS use "chord song_file >! printer_file" if you want to overwrite printer_file
if it already exists.
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From: scoons@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (SM Coons)
Subject: Req:  Dream Come True
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:15:22 GMT

Howdy!  

I'm very knew to the guitar scene and I am looking for the music, chords, tab
or whatever to the song Dream Come True by Frozen Ghost.  So if anyone has it
or knows of where I can get it please let me know!  Yes I am begging but she
is worth it.  Thanks!
-Shawn
scoons@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu
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Subject: Re: Req: Barracuda
From: rlwst8+@pitt.edu (Robert L Williamson)
Date: 10 Jan 93 20:26:27 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1631@blue.cis.pitt.edu> rlwst8+@pitt.edu (Robert L Williamson) writes:
>Does anyone know the main riffs to this song (also the solo). (the song is by 
>Heart). 

Does anyone the main riffs and solo for Mama I'm Coming Home?