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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3280
Total number of notes:61432

2308.0. "Blackbird tab " by TLSE01::SAAD () Wed Aug 28 1991 13:31

    Hi,
    
    Can anyone out there give (in tablature form?) the simple but 
    clever stuff that the Beatles (I don't know which one of them) 
    do on Blackbird ?
    
    Thanks
          
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2308.1...STAR::SALKEWICZIt missed... therefore, I am Wed Aug 28 1991 15:009
    Blackbird was a Paul thing
    
    I do it in the wrong key I think,.. I've got it in G without
    any open tuning or anything. I'm alomost sure they did it in another
    key, with or without open tuning. If nobody enters anything for
    a couple days,.. I'll try to type in my version...
    
    						/Bill
    
2308.2Take these shrunken eyes and learn to see..DNEAST::GREVE_STEVEGreee Veee KingWed Aug 28 1991 15:407
    
    
    	I have a copy in G.. and I'll send you one.. what's your mail
    stop??
    
    
    Gree Vee
2308.3WRASSE::SAKELARISWed Aug 28 1991 15:500
2308.4BlackbirdCOMPLX::BULLARDWed Aug 28 1991 15:5210
     I got it wrote down at home. I'll try to remember to
    bring it in tommorow, and enter the "chords" here. If
    I remeber correctly each chord starts out with pinch
    (5th or 6th wtih 2nd or 1st string) and then pick the
    3rd string and move to next 'chord'. The 'chords' are
    1 or 2 finger ones, with constant repositioning. There
    are a few 'chords' played with repeating 2nd or 1st and
    3rd string picking. Song is best easiest in fingerpicking.
    
    chuck
2308.5Hope my tab is close!ELWOOD::HERTZBERGHistory: Love it or Leave it!Thu Aug 29 1991 11:2225
Yup... pinch, pluck, move, repeat.  Here are the rudiments the way I do it:

The "blackbird singing..." part:       

-----------------------3-------5---------------3-----------------------------
--0---1---3---12---5-------7-------8---8---7-------5---4---3---2---1---0-----
----0---0---0----0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---
-------------------------------------------------------------------0--------- 
------0---2---10---3---4---5---6---7---6---5---4---3---3---2---0-------------  
--3--------------------------------------------------------------------3-----


The "blackbird fly" part:

-----------------------------------------------------------------
--10--8---6---5---3---5---10--8---6---5---3---2---1---0----------
----0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0--------
--------------------------------------------------0--------------
--8---7---5---3---1---3---8---7---5---3---1---0------------------
------------------------------------------------------3----------

String 'em together just so, repeat a few sections here and there, shuffle
in a few repeated phrases for intro, turnaround, etc., and you got it.

							    Marc
2308.6Terminology?SOLVIT::OLOUGHLINThe fun begins at 80!Thu Aug 29 1991 13:0410
    
    
      I get the "pluck" but...
    
      Wuzat "pinch" stuff?
    
      I must be reading something into it.
    
      Slightly confused Rick.
    
2308.7As long as it's not PUNCHELWOOD::HERTZBERGHistory: Love it or Leave it!Thu Aug 29 1991 13:186
    "Pinch" just means pluck two notes simultaneously on two separate
    strings.  I guess "pinch" makes visual sense because the two fingers
    used move towards each other in a pinching motion when the notes
    are played.  Not a very technical term!
    
    								Marc
2308.8O-B-K-B.SOLVIT::OLOUGHLINThe fun begins at 80!Thu Aug 29 1991 13:407
    
    
      Thanks.  I _was_ reading something into it.
    
      Rick
    
    
2308.9Thanks COMPLX::BULLARDThu Aug 29 1991 15:198
    re: .5
     Thanks! I brought my book in today, but I would have been
    able to only enter it in 'chord' form and would have been
    difficult to understand picking. Nice tab! let see extract
    .5.         :^)
    
    
    chuck
2308.10Squuuueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllll for daze...IMTDEV::COOPERStep UP to the RACK !Thu Aug 29 1991 20:043
Strange.  See what happens when you mix acoustics and electrics ??
To ME a pinch is pinching a harmonic betwixt your thumb and pick
on your electric_whamma_jamma... My poisonoil favorite !