Could It Be Magic - Throwing this out there for ideas

nobody commented on my little soundclip. Don't be afraid. All's I ask is tact when bashing me. :)

nobody commented on my little soundclip. Don't be afraid. All's I ask is tact when bashing me. :)

Roy, I just saw that you posted a clip. It sounds great, and I envy your grip on those barre chords. Is that standard tuning?

Well, I tried to describe....fergit it.

I just did a tiny track and put it up on SoundClick. Two attempts, one file. Seperated by, well, you'll figure it out. I do like my second one better. It's tricky though, I'll say that much.

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8871165

They're both good; the second one sounds a little stronger, I think.

Hmm... I heard a G F C F progression written by a good ol' boy from the motor city. :lol:

Thanks for listening. That kind of right hand attack, some strong, some not, some slower and stronger, etc. That's just what I was messing with.
They're both good; the second one sounds a little stronger, I think.

Hmm... I heard a G F C F progression written by a good ol' boy from the motor city.
The timing is more off in the first one than the second. Timing is important. Basically it's just me racing over to the next chord. Sometimes I get there on time, sometimes I don't. :roll:

I did increase both the m-fx box and the strum strength in the second try. I think it ended up a good thing.
nobody commented on my little soundclip. Don't be afraid. All's I ask is tact when bashing me. :)

Roy, I just saw that you posted a clip. It sounds great, and I envy your grip on those barre chords. Is that standard tuning?
Yup, standard tuning. The grip thing is coming oh so slowly. I make sure I play something with barre chords in it each day. I'm a little ahead of where I was last year at this time, but last year I had some sort of sleep deprivation pressure point thing take out my left thumb. Took 8-10 months to get it back. :evil: But yes, the barres make life easier when you do 'em. I've got short stubby digits. All that 4-6 fret spanning stuff don't happen for me. I'm lucky I can do an open C-chord. :lol:

I'm going to start using sheetmusicplus as a resource also. It seems that most of the books I see or have don't have most of what I want to play. I've pretty much now got my songbook set up, but it's taken me two years, and I'm still improving it, as we're discussing. I think from now on if I'm at all dissatisfied with any tab or chord sheet from the 'net, I'll pay the few bucks to download a sheet. I'm also leaning towards the guitar and bass tab white pages and some fake books.

Well, I ponied-up for a few downloaded sheets... Ain't No Sunshine, Sittin' on the Dock of The Bay, as well as Could It Be Magic.

I just got The Bass Tab White Pages yesterday. I can't say I went through it extensively, but for what I've seen I think I can't have gone wrong (especially with my company discount :D). I think at the very least it will show me what I am doing right and what I am doing wrong in playing around with making up my own bass lines. I like the idea of the standard notation; since this is something I've neglected since college music courses 30 years ago.

Most importantly I got this book:

Guess what it has in it, among hundreds of others... Sittin' on the Dock of The Bay, as well as Could It Be Magic (the BM version, weird chords and all). :D It really looks to be "da bomb".

I'm also going to go for the other Guitar White Pages Tabs. I work for that "World's Largest Bookseller" store chain's distribution center, so I get 40% off at my location, and 30% off at the stores. It's like Trick-or-Treat. :D

I'm looking forward to using the books.

Guess what it has in it, among hundreds of others... Sittin' on the Dock of The Bay, as well as Could It Be Magic (the BM version, weird chords and all). :D It really looks to be "da bomb".

I'm surprised. Didn't think that song would turn up in any fake book collection.

What chord name do they use for the augmented sixth chord in the chorus?

Guess what it has in it, among hundreds of others... Sittin' on the Dock of The Bay, as well as Could It Be Magic (the BM version, weird chords and all). :D It really looks to be "da bomb".

I'm surprised. Didn't think that song would turn up in any fake book collection.

What chord name do they use for the augmented sixth chord in the chorus?

I was really surprised to find it too.

I didn''t get that far in, but at least for the intro and outro they are identical to the sheetmusicdirect sheet. I'll check for the chord. It is lacking the arpeggio after the intro chords, though. I'm probably too dumb to realize that's part of the melody. And if you notice in any sheet, the intro chords are cut chort from what he plays in the recording. Not sure why.

What chord name do they use for the augmented sixth chord in the chorus?

OK, I'm finding out that classical composing is waaaay beyond my ken. What I could find is this:
A typical harmonic progression involving an augmented 6th:
i - VI - It6 - V - i

In c minor, this would be:
c - Ab - It6 (Ab-C-F#) - G - c

Notice that the root of the Italian 6th chord is a major 3rd below the tonic (in this case, the Ab below C).
http://everything2.com/title/Augmented+6th+chord

So I'm going to take a s.w.a.g. and say it's Ab, mainly because the chorus is peppered with Ab's and G's.

A typical harmonic progression involving an augmented 6th:
i - VI - It6 - V - i

In c minor, this would be:
c - Ab - It6 (Ab-C-F#) - G - c

Notice that the root of the Italian 6th chord is a major 3rd below the tonic (in this case, the Ab below C).
http://everything2.com/title/Augmented+6th+chord

So I'm going to take a s.w.a.g. and say it's Ab, mainly because the chorus is peppered with Ab's and G's.

I'm thinking French augmented sixth. I'm curious as to what kind of sus2 chord the fake-book arrangers say it is. :twisted:

I'm thinking French augmented sixth. I'm curious as to what kind of sus2 chord the fake-book arrangers say it is. :twisted:

G.