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Marquis De Sade
Apr 27, 2006

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I've started playing guitar again the day I heard Rowland S. Howard died. I'm only really concerned with learning how to figure out his guitar parts. But the problem is I havn't transcribed anything before so I don't know how to figure songs out.

My two goals are to figure out:

Crime and the City Solution - Six Bells Chime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LyANVY1fwg

It sounds like open position chords but I can't tell if its major, minor, diminished, etc.

And after the chords figure out the single notes? Arpeggiate the chords?

The Birthday Party - Fears Of Gun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgsJcZro7Yk

From listening to it sounds like he's ghost strumming a triplet rhythm at 0:42 but at 1:00 he's making a really weird motion with his hand that I don't know what to make of.

then it goes into a single note country rhythm (I think?) that doesn't look too hard at around 1:40

But at 1:50 I have no idea what he's doing. It sounds like the same rhythm but in chord form?

Advice, help, resources, etc. Anything would be awesome.


Stuff that I think I have figured out that I just want to double check:

The Birthday Party - Nick the Stripper - the chord progression is just strumming open the whole time with harmonics fills. I spent over a week going through the dozens of chords I had drilled into me when I was younger and only figured it out when I strummed open slowly to see if I was in tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5I2vEcVC_I&feature=related

The solo is still too hard to figure out.

and The Birthday Party - Dead Joe for rhythm you're just strumming the hell out of an open E chord, right?

The licks are still too hard to figure out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duZHUVje0TM&feature=related

Marquis De Sade fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Oct 10, 2010

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