Re: More overture chords

[Jeff Williams <jeffw@mxim.com>]

> From list-owner-thewho-outgoing@cisco.com Wed May 10 12:58:46 1995
> Date: Wed, 10 May 95 15:06:24 EDT
> From: kt@einstein.exa.com (Ken Traub)
> To: thewho@cisco.com
> Subject: More overture chords
> Reply-To: kt@exa.com
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> Sender: owner-thewho@cisco.com
> 
>    From: David Schenfeld <davids@shell.portal.com>
>    Subject: Annother opening chords attempt
>    Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 10:58:47 -0700 (PDT)
> 
>    Hi,
>    The guitar archive has the entire tommy album transcribed in one text
>    file.  The location is ftp.nevada.edu:/pub/guitar/w/who/tommy.tab
> 
>    If you don't have access, I'll mail you a copy.  The transcriptions
>    are the best I've seen, although not perfect.  The transcription
>    for the acoustic guitar solo just before it's a boy is also pretty good
>    in some places.   I would have never figured some of that stuff out.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer, David!  I knew the archive existed, but never
> suspected it would include the pre-its-a-boy solo.  I've never had the
> patience to figure that one out myself.
> 
>    I cut/paste the opening chords as that transcription plays them,
>    and a little note about how I play them.:
> 
>     INTRO:
> 	   C     C/Bb     C/A     C/Ab     C/G     C     Gsus     G
> 	   x       x       x       x        x      x       5      5
> 	   5       5       5       5        5      5       5      5
> 	   5       5       5       5        5      5       7      6
> 	   5       5       5       5        5      5       7      7
> 	   3       x       x       x        x      3       x      x
> 	   x       6       5       4        3      x       x      x
> 
> Despite what the archive says, I don't believe that fourth chord is correct as
> shown above.  Listen to the album: you can hear clearly how more than just the
> bass note changes.  I still maintain it's:
> 
> Fm6/Ab
>   x
>   3
>   5
>   3
>   x
>   4
> 
> BTW, the other chords above are the same notes as what I had posted the other
> day, but played on different strings.  I can see how the above would be much
> easier to play.  (Also, I imagine, it sounds better to have all stopped
> strings instead of a mix of open and stopped strings.)  It's an unfamilar
> concept for a keyboardist that there are many ways of getting exactly the same
> notes!
> 
> Ken Traub
> 
Chord 3 is an Am, and Chord 4 I still disagree, but I'll play it for Kevin
and he can tell you if I'm wrong, then I'll shut up about it.
Jeff