bunnyf,
I edited your thread title to include the name of the song you're looking for. Hopefully this will help your thread catch the eye of someone who can help.
Good luck!
- JJ
A bit late to this thread, but here are some thoughts, FWIW...
John Legend actually does the tune a half-step higher. So his chords during those verses are Fm, Db, Ab, and Eb. Sometimes he'll add a 2nd to the Db chord, making it more like a Db sus2 kinda thing. Playing them lower is certainly a...
Sounds like this to me:
D d u d U d u
1 2 & 3 & 4 &
With the capital D (on beat one) and capital U (on the "and" of beat three) being accented a bit more strongly than the others.
Two other things you can do to get it to sound more like the Petty version:
1.) The strum is "swung". It's...
The thing about the song is that it's very, very loosely structured. You've got that opening riff and a similar closing riff, and that's it! The "middle" part is just improvised soloing over the chords.
So when you say you're looking for an "arrangement", do you mean you're looking for some...
Harmonic analysis is a bit subjective, but here's my take on those chords:
The verse chords are mostly all in Db major. No problem there. You do have the Db7 at the end, which doesn't so much signal an out-and-out key change (i.e. modulation)... it really just puts you in a "key of the moment"...
Another one voting for just simple downstrums on the beat: D D D D.
You can get fancier, but you don't need to. Certainly not yet when you're still starting out.
Great song, by the way. Good luck!
JJ
There are some general rules, but nothing is written in stone.
For example, if the notes in the melody of your song are all from one particular key (that is, they're all found together in a scale), then you can try picking from chords that also use notes from that same key/scale.
So, if your...
To quote myself... :p
The only thing the bar line says is that a new measure starts there. It's purely a rhythmic indicator.
If you also do a chord change, then the chord name will appear just after the bar. Depending on the song, you won't necessarily have a chord change every bar line...
You'll find many variations, but that's exactly how I would probably play those two chords. F6 as 5555 and D as 2225.
I find the 2220 version of D more of a hassle. Plus the 2225 version gives you that nice high-octave D note, so the chord sounds fuller than the 2220 version (which merely...
Yeah, if you look at a standard piece of sheet music, like this for example, you'll see the same type of vertical bars used. They're measure lines, or "bar lines", and they divide up the beats into chunks, like Freeda said.
Maybe you've heard terms like "12 bar blues"? That's where that comes...
Here's how I'm hearin' it:
Intro: E A Am E
E
Oh that old Christmas moon
B
Hanging pretty all clear and white
As the snow falls so soft and white
E Fdim B
The world awaits its Christmas Night...