Playing my guitar while listening to backspacer *WITH TABS*
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i do that a lot, play my guitar while listening to music, listening to backspacer while i was playing, started playing along, which is what usually happens when i play while listening to music (go figure) anywho, the basic overall chord progressions in backspacer are fairly simple, and you can easily teach yourself these songs (at least a stripped down acoustic version) i pretty much have supersonic nailed, decent at amongst the waves (still a few kinks) and decent at gonna see my friend (again a few kinks) i'm really good with just breathe except i can't figure out one part, cause i can't decipher the chord he's arpegiating over ed's singing. it's the part in the chorus during the lines "if i didn't i'm a fool you see/no one knows this more then me."...but yeah playing guitar through the album, it's pretty easy for this album. Oh and i know the base notes for the end, but not the treble, that's next on my list
Tabs, well more like chord progressions below
Tabs, well more like chord progressions below
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it's pretty much just trial and error...play the notes on the low e-sting to see what the chords are, stuff like that...and yeah i know a lot of PJ songs on guitar, first one ever was Small Town, then Man of the Hour, then Black, all great songs for beginners...the song i'm most proud of being able to play is In Hiding, it's so fun to play
I don't quite have the guitar-ear to be able to pick up on stuff just yet, but it's coming.
stone and mike really aren't that great. They get by on their writing, which i absolutely love.
yeah Nothingman and Porch are favorites of mine.
well maybe it's cause i'm not much of a lead guitarist, but i think Mike's solos are pretty difficult, except yellow ledbetter, that i can do and decently well...
as for the tab guy, i can give you chord progressions, and you can figure out strum pattern and the finger picking on your own, it's too time consuming to tab them out...i'll have it on my next post
in order of track appearance
Gonna See My Friend:
Into: B E B E A E A E (2x end on A)
Verse: B / / / E / / / (4x)
Chorus: E / GA (8x, the 4th and 8th time there's an eighth rest between the G and A)
Pre-Bridge: A / / / / / / / G / / / F# / / / E / / / / / / /
Bridge: A / / / G / / / F# / / / E / / / (2x, 2nd time the E is played differently (listen to get the pattern))
this is just rough, i think the 2nd verse is a bit longer than the first one and same with the chorus'
Just Breathe
Intro/Verse: C / C7 / C / C7 / Dsus2 / / / / / / / / (6x)
Pre-Chorus: C / C7 / C / C7 / F / Fadd9 / F / / /
Chorus G / / / Am / / / G / / / Am / / / F / / / C / Am / F / / / Dsus2 / / / / (let the least note ring for "as i come clean")
*NOTE* there there are parts where you might release strings and play around with suspensions and those kinds of things, just listen to the song to catch those
Amongst The Waves
Intro: E / / / A / / / E / / / A / / /
Verse: E / / / A / / / E / / / A / / / B / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / (2x)
Chorus: A / / / E / / / B / / / / / / / (3x) G D / / D C# / / B / / / / / / /
Solo: pretty much just B the whole time, it does change chords to D but only for a second, it goes back to B.
as with the first one, the verses and choruses could vary in length throughout the song.
Supersonic
Intro: B///////////////E///////////////C#//G#///////////////E///////////////
Verse:B/////////////G#/B////////F#////// (3x)
Chorus: B///////////////E///////////////C#///////////////F#////////E////////
Solo: B / /A#AF# (rest 4 beats then repeat till solo is over)
those are the ones i figured out pretty much, still working on the others