TAB: "Gloria" (U2) intro
Hirsh, Marc Bennett
the harmonics part.
E--0--0---10-12-0--0--0---10-12-0-10-12-10-0|14b16b14-12-0-10-0-9-0-10-0-12-0--
B-10-12-0--0--0---10-12-0--0--0-------------|--------------------------------10
G-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------
A-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------
E--0--0---10-12-0--0--0---10-12-0-10-12-10-0|-9b10b9---------------------------
B-10-12-0--0--0---10-12-0--0--0-------------|--------12-0-10-0-9-0-10-0-12-0---
G-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------
A-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------
Anyway, that's pretty damn close, if not exactly it. I could never get the
second parts of each line sound right. Maybe I'm not hitting everything on the
right beat. I always seem to half a quarter-note's worth of dead air waiting
for me at the end of it. Oh well.
BTW, could someone explain this "My dog has fleas" business to me? I've never
taken lessons, but I imagine it has something to do with tuning a guitar.
And thanks to whoever posted "Get It On." Now maybe my "I'm a Boy" question
will be answered (if you missed it: What are the words? How do I play the
middle bit?). And does anybody know the last verse to "Sweet Home Alabama"
(the "Mussel Shoals they tried to swamp us..." bit)?
Marc Hirsh
"I don't swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means
of communication. I say we use all of the words we've got."
---snappy end-of-file sign-off quote from Inherit The Wind, which reminds
me: I have to do my religion report soon. Damn.
\ /
^ ---ugly red source of all evil, so don't even try to stop me
V
Say, have I told everybody that I saw U2 on Monday?
Salty Freckles
>
>BTW, could someone explain this "My dog has fleas" business to me? I've never
>taken lessons, but I imagine it has something to do with tuning a guitar.
I'm not sure, but I think it was originally meant to tune a banjo, or some
other 4-stringed instrument. Each word has a certain pitch it is sung in, which
corresponds to a string. Nevertheless, it seems like a bad method, since
it relies on the tuner to remember the pitches that "My Dog Has Fleas" is
sung to; and unless you have perfect pitch....
Dunno 'bout the origin of the phrase "My dog has fleas" though...
>Marc Hirsh
Gene Lee
el...@descartes.waterloo.edu
Eric B Shen
|> In article <167CAEB1...@ricevm1.rice.edu> MHI...@ricevm1.rice.edu (Hirsh, Marc Bennett) writes:
|> >
|> >BTW, could someone explain this "My dog has fleas" business to me? I've never
|> >taken lessons, but I imagine it has something to do with tuning a guitar.
|>
"My dog has fleas" is used to tune such instruments as violins, violas, and
cellos. They have four strings tuned perfect fifths apart. For violin the
strings are from low to high: G D A E. The melody would be sung "My(D) dog(G)
has(A) fleas(E)." This is NOT a serious way of tuning the instrument, just a fun
way to goof off, really, because the melody is kind if whiney/sick sounding.
By the way, I guess you could change the melody to tune your guitar (to fourths).
But I really don't think you'll want to tune this way...
Eric Shen
ebs...@athena.mit.edu
Neal Gaborno 74-35 x62650
phrase... which was used to tune a ukulele.
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Larry Huntley
>In article <1992Apr16.1...@descartes.waterloo.edu>, el...@descartes.waterloo.edu (Salty Freckles) writes:
>|> In article <167CAEB1...@ricevm1.rice.edu> MHI...@ricevm1.rice.edu (Hirsh, Marc Bennett) writes:
>|> >
>|> >BTW, could someone explain this "My dog has fleas" business to me? I've never
>|> >taken lessons, but I imagine it has something to do with tuning a guitar.
>|>
>cellos.
I always thought "MDHF" was used as a tone mnemonic for
tuning ukuleles. Damn; where is that Arthur Godfrey
character when you need him?!
That's how my dad tunes his. (It's a Martin. New thread:
"What's so good about Martin ukes?")
--
Larry Huntley / Logic Modeling Corporation / Beaverton OR
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[Stop Continental Drift!]
Eric B Shen
|>
|> I always thought "MDHF" was used as a tone mnemonic for
|> tuning ukuleles. Damn; where is that Arthur Godfrey
|> character when you need him?!
orchestras I had played in (I was a violinist since kindergarten, but now I play
guitar).
Someone else just posted about using it to tune ukuleles. So I guess MDHF is a
pretty widely used thing.
Eric Shen
ebs...@athena.mit.edu
Christopher Ferguson
>In article <167CAEB1...@ricevm1.rice.edu> MHI...@ricevm1.rice.edu (Hirsh, Marc Bennett) writes:
>>
>>BTW, could someone explain this "My dog has fleas" business to me? I've never
>>taken lessons, but I imagine it has something to do with tuning a guitar.
>
>I'm not sure, but I think it was originally meant to tune a banjo, or some
>other 4-stringed instrument. Each word has a certain pitch it is sung in, which
I'm not sure about a banjo, but a Ukelele (I can't spell it) is tuned that way.
Are a banjo and the instrument I just mentioned tuned the same way?
ferg
Dave Woerner
>ferg
The 5-string banjo is usually tuned G D G B D where the first D (the
"5th string" is G above the guitar's high E. The rest are the same
as the high four strings of a guitar with the E tuned down to D. The
"5th string" is re-tuned whenever the banjo player capos - it only
goes to about the 5th or 6th fret, so it isn't covered by the capo.
I think a 4 string is tuned the same, omitting the "5th string". I
think the Uke is the source of the fleas.
Dave