https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:44:16 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-266238 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:21:41 +0000 You could play it like I do, fingerstyle plucking with all four fingers on the C/G and thumb
for the E and A strings, or it sounds just as good with a pick. You don't have to keep the
bass notes in that order or alternating, I sing when I play this and sometime don't always
alternate the bass here and there:




--0-----0------0------0-----1-----1------1----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--1-----1------1------0^1--1-----1------1-------------0--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--0-----0------0------0-----2-----2------2------2^3--(Let "3" and "0" ring together to get piano-y)-----------------------------
--2-----2------2------2---------------3--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------3-------------------3-------------3-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----3-------------3----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------]]> Guitar Noise Lessons scr@tchy https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-266238 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-226111 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:05:22 +0000
I'm glad to hear that it's coming along. But now that you've got the notes, you've discovered the hard part of making it sound easy! :wink:

Seriously, the next goal is to make it sound more musical, and to do that you've got to loosen up a bit. Be aware of keeping time, but don't get locked into a kind of metronome thing as much as getting locked in a "groove." I know that sounds incredibly vague (not to mention new-age-ish), but it's the best way I've come up with describing it. At least so far, I'll keep working on it.

One thing that seems to help students is to be able to close one's eyes and just kind of let the music float along. Again, I know it's vague, but I'll try to come up with a better explanation.

Be chatting with you a bit more in a bit...

Peace]]> Guitar Noise Lessons David Hodge https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-226111 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-225762 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:18:00 +0000
i know it's my playing thats lacking, not dave's version of the song. i'm able to play it and it comes out sounding like someone who can play it competently but no more than that. i don't know if you can quite get what i mean. in any case if anyone has any ideas, lemme know.]]> Guitar Noise Lessons pearlthekat https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-225762 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-147534 Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:07:22 +0000 Guitar Noise Lessons pearlthekat https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-147534 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-145401 Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:58:33 +0000
- But it didn't really sounded the way I wanted it to do (i.e. my playing of David's lesson didn't - the mp3s do not seem to work??)

Found out that I had to "invent" some chord fingering for the G chord to make it work -

D9 xx0320
D9+7(?) : xx0220
G9 3x0423 (Thumb on 6th string muting 5th string)



|-0------0-----0-----0--------3-------3-----3----------------
|-3------3-----3-----2--------2-------2-----2-----0--2--3 --
|-2--2------2----2---2--2----4----4-----4-----4-----------
|-0----------------------------0------------------------------
|-------------------------------x-----------------------------
|-------------------------------3-----------------------------
Think this sounds OK...

The rest of it in original version sounds terrific!

Thanks
Lars]]> Guitar Noise Lessons lars https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-145401 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-131097 Sat, 08 Oct 2005 11:08:39 +0000
For creating the piano type effect , i fingerpick the chords(i mean chords not one note at a time) and them mainly at the bass strings.It sounds pretty nice.

I have printed out 19 pages of imagine by you , and now only i have to try them according to you.(i also have give a litte bit 8) )]]> Guitar Noise Lessons Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-131097 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-129747 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:56:45 +0000
As to how one should learn the lesson, either way is fine. When I perform this in public, my decision to use a pick or fingerpick is usually determined by matters that don't have anything to do with the song (or any song, for that matter). Things like the sound system, the place in which I'm playing, which guitar I have, the mood I'm in, how much my fingers hurt...

So personally (obviously! :wink: ) I think that it's important to be able to play any song you know in many different ways, simply because you never know in what circumstances you might want to play it.
But, as I said, that's just me...

I'll let you know for certain when I dig up the files...

Peace]]> Guitar Noise Lessons David Hodge https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-129747 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-129447 Sun, 02 Oct 2005 02:03:49 +0000 Guitar Noise Lessons Musenfreund https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-129447 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-129446 Sun, 02 Oct 2005 01:58:10 +0000 I am thinking of starting the lesson by David Hodge "Imagine"...looking at the tab it looks like he is fingerpicking but it sounds more like a pick...

What way should I learn this song in?...I know it's up to me but I just want to know HOW the lesson was played..

Thanks]]> Guitar Noise Lessons Musenfreund https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-129446 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-90233 Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:59:01 +0000 Guitar Noise Lessons Orlando https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-lessons/imagine/#post-90233