Lovely. Many visual elements you're better off missing (principally video backgrounds of leaves the size of Godzilla). Seeing the chords, I think you could be playing it in two months. Know any drummers?
The chords are posted? I read as far as someone requesting the tablature, and a bit past that, but didn't see that they had actually been posted. Thanks for the eyeballs! Personally, I would be pleased just to get that opening riff down, but yes, I *do* know a drummer--he's my landlord. I feel as if saying that is the punchline to an ongoing joke, since--and I apologize if I have told you this story--my first week at MIT, my fellow grad students and I were sitting outside, eating dinner, and exchanging stories about all the weird things we had seen that week, and the most normal one (really, she shold have been in the lit dept. at Columbia, because technology and genre fiction both seemed to freak her out a bit), summed it up by saying, "What *I* would like to know is, who are the guys with the swords?" and I said, "That's my landlord; would you like to meet him?" It actually was Wednesday, a.k.a. fight practice for the local SCA, so my landlord actually was one of those guys.
Postscript Also, this song reminds me of WisCon, because the first WisCon I went to, the band of various SF writers played this song, and it was the first time I had heard it performed acoustically. I don't know who the guitarist was, but I was very impressed.
The chords are not posted, but I saw enough closeups of the guitarist's hand that I could puzzle it out. I'm not conversant enough anymore to figure it out sans guitar: I learned the tunes first, and then sung 'em over the chords until they sounded right.
The lovely descending figure is a Dm sliding up to F#m (I think), with the player carefully picking out the relevant notes. (I doesn't sound that way because the guitarist has capoed two frets.)
He may be using the "sore fingers" trick: tuning the guitar a whole note down and then capoing to frets to make the strings easier to play. I don't recommend it: the capo doesn't provided anything like the just intonation the frets do (even though the capo supposedly relies on the frets for its tone shift.)
Solsbury Hill is a very deceptive song to learn to play on guitar...first of all, on the album, there are two guitar playing, not one. And in concert, there are always more people playing the guitar part on other instruments other than just David Rhodes on guitar, sometimes Tony Levin on Chapman Stick, a 10 stringed instrument that he can play both bass and lead guitar or chords at the same time. So usually, there is one guitar playing the chords, and another guitar or instrument playing the lead. Or sometimes reversed...I've seen Peter Gabriel in concert 4 times now...and they like to rework Solsbury Hill almost every tour.
Most of the attempts at teaching this song try to mush the two of the parts together, making it a very challenging song to learn, and when you then learn it and try to compare it to the album, it always sounds subtly wrong...
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Date: 2013-07-19 06:55 pm (UTC)The lovely descending figure is a Dm sliding up to F#m (I think), with the player carefully picking out the relevant notes. (I doesn't sound that way because the guitarist has capoed two frets.)
He may be using the "sore fingers" trick: tuning the guitar a whole note down and then capoing to frets to make the strings easier to play. I don't recommend it: the capo doesn't provided anything like the just intonation the frets do (even though the capo supposedly relies on the frets for its tone shift.)
This site seems to have step-by-step deets with chords, not tab in the first two YouTube links Well the second YT link is dead, but....
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Date: 2013-07-20 02:31 am (UTC)Most of the attempts at teaching this song try to mush the two of the parts together, making it a very challenging song to learn, and when you then learn it and try to compare it to the album, it always sounds subtly wrong...
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