songs on open strings + 1 fretted note only
Derek Tearne
A friend of mine is working on a piece of performance art and wants to
do a kind of suzi quattro rock chick cameo - in the last version of this
show she played a little accordian and sang but I reckon she can do
better.
It occurs to me that there are a fair number of well known tunes that
can be played on open strings and 1 or 2 fretted notes only - the first
one we tried is 'rock n roll' by Led Zepellin - just pedalling the A
string, D string, A again and G on the E string - the original version
isn't quite that simple but it is close enough to be convincing.
Other obvious ones are 'Relax' by Frankie Goes to Hollywood and 'Fight
for the Right to Party' by the beastie boys.
Their must be loads more - any suggestions?
--- Derek
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> A friend of mine is working on a piece of performance art
> and wants to
> do a kind of suzi quattro rock chick cameo - in the last
> version of this
> show she played a little accordian and sang but I reckon
> she can do
> better.
>
> It occurs to me that there are a fair number of well known
> tunes that
> can be played on open strings and 1 or 2 fretted notes
> only - the first
> one we tried is 'rock n roll' by Led Zepellin - just
> pedalling the A
> string, D string, A again and G on the E string - the
> original version
> isn't quite that simple but it is close enough to be
> convincing.
>
> Other obvious ones are 'Relax' by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
> and 'Fight
> for the Right to Party' by the beastie boys.
>
> Their must be loads more - any suggestions?
Summertime/roadhouse blues, one note samba...everybody wants
to rule the world by tears for fears. Why not a full-on Suzi
song?
--
SR
Jim Carr
> A friend of mine is working on a piece of performance art and wants to
> do a kind of suzi quattro rock chick cameo - in the last version of this
> show she played a little accordian and sang but I reckon she can do
> better.
>
> It occurs to me that there are a fair number of well known tunes that
> can be played on open strings and 1 or 2 fretted notes only - the first
> one we tried is 'rock n roll' by Led Zepellin - just pedalling the A
> string, D string, A again and G on the E string - the original version
> isn't quite that simple but it is close enough to be convincing.
>
> Other obvious ones are 'Relax' by Frankie Goes to Hollywood and 'Fight
> for the Right to Party' by the beastie boys.
>
> Their must be loads more - any suggestions?
Louie Louie
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Tim
Anything that Nikki Sixx played on.
BW
Not to open a can of worms, but if she can tune the bass in other than
fourths, it probably opens the field to many more possibilities...
although why she'd need more than the 27,547 song choices written with
E,A,D,&G remains unclear...
BW
BW
Norwegian Wood. In E, the ii and V would need to be fretted, but in A,
only the ii. (While I don't particularly like the inversion of the I
to the bVII change, it still works.)
Derek Tearne
> Summertime/roadhouse blues, one note samba...everybody wants
> to rule the world by tears for fears. Why not a full-on Suzi
> song?
Partly because she usually lives at the other end of the island and
partly because, on saturday when I was teaching her 'rock n roll' - I
couldn't fret any notes myself due to the gimpy arm - so all I could
really demonstrate was right hand technique.
--- derek
RichL
Or any I-IV-V progression in A or D...
Mike Fleming
(Derek Tearne) writes:
> It occurs to me that there are a fair number of well known tunes that
> can be played on open strings and 1 or 2 fretted notes only
Rocky Mountain Way, Joe Walsh.
Waterfront, Simple Minds.
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Mike Fleming
eadg
> eadg <don't...@it.com> wrote:
>
>> Summertime/roadhouse blues, one note samba...everybody
>> wants
>> to rule the world by tears for fears. Why not a full-on
>> Suzi
>> song?
>
> Partly because she usually lives at the other end of the
> island and
> partly because, on saturday when I was teaching her 'rock n
> roll' - I
> couldn't fret any notes myself due to the gimpy arm - so
> all I could
> really demonstrate was right hand technique.
Ah, with you.
Plectrum or fingerstyle btw? Putting my artistic (cough)
integrity aside for a minute, I saw SQ about ten years ago at
a locally organised summer music/craft festival thingy,
(Mungo Jerry topped the bill!)...and she's good too, playing
fingerstyle iirc.
From what you've said I'd go the plectrum route if she needs
to learn fast for a performance.
--
SR
Derek Tearne
> Ah, with you.
> Plectrum or fingerstyle btw? Putting my artistic (cough)
> integrity aside for a minute, I saw SQ about ten years ago at
> a locally organised summer music/craft festival thingy,
> (Mungo Jerry topped the bill!)
I saw Mungo Jerry in approximately 1981 - I thought he was the most
apalling performer - the most sexist and generally unpleasant stage
persona I've ever encountered - I walked out before the end simply
because I couldn't stand to hear him utter another word. And the guy
kept trying to milk his two hits all the way through the set - it was
sad as well as disgusting. There are some people who can pull off the
Rock 'n Roll studly god's gift front man act and seem credible - or at
least entertaining - Mungo just seemed like a slightly desperate dirty
old man.
Perhaps he's improved with time.
> From what you've said I'd go the plectrum route if she needs
> to learn fast for a performance.
That's exactly what I did. Getting even strokes with a plectrum is much
easier than trying to teach fingerstyle from scratch.
--- Derek
Breaker
just batter away at C, third fret A string. Or She Sells Sanctuary -
The Cult, D and C on the A string, G on the E string.
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:23:55 +1300, de...@url.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
wrote:
eadg
Not so, iirc. I did'nt pay much attention to him actually,
watching some old one hit wonder is the pits anyway; it's all
a bit desperate to me also, but in a musical sense. Best part
of the day was buying a handmade, handpainted kite in the
form of nasty looking bird of prey from a craft stall. From
some distant south sea island I think...I still have it
pinned to a wall as a decoration.
>
>> From what you've said I'd go the plectrum route if she
>> needs
>> to learn fast for a performance.
>
> That's exactly what I did. Getting even strokes with a
> plectrum is much
> easier than trying to teach fingerstyle from scratch.
Agreed. Good for a fast straight eigth feel, straight out of
the box.
--
SR
MegaSwing
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Baltimore, MD
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