[sunday_girl]

Hi everyone,
My step dad just gave me a copy of the guitar score for the above John Williams classic. Now I have banged my head against it for a few hours and was wondering were there any scales that it resembles that I could practice to improve.
its a fantastic piece and I would love to play it but some of those stretches are killing me.
So any advice out there.

Rachel

[wannalearn01]

Here are the tabs

Umm I looked at it and it looks like a sweet song...nothing special just some chord progressions that is plucked out.

When doing this...use the full chord shape...like if the tab had a:

e----------
B---2-----
G-----0---
D----0----
A--2------
E----------

Thats based off of a G major chord...jsut plucked instead of strummed.

It is a lot easier to switch to a full chord than to pick out just the notes you want to play...mainly b.c you have a lot more practice with full shapes.

Anyone know what chords this uses...I think it is either in the key of G or C.

Another thing is to go slow...if you try and go fast it'll take you a lot longer to be able to play it. I am learning a similar type song, and I was taking it slow and then all of the sudden I was able to jam on it pretty good. Just keep practicing...it'll get easier. Fingwer plucking is a hard art to learn but once you do, you'll either love it or hate it.

T^roy

This post has been edited by wannalearn01: 28 July 2004 - 03:56 PM

[sunday_girl]

Hi again,
I've actually got the full music score of it but no chords given with it just standard notation and full tab.
thanks for the advice i thought it would take lots of practice everything does.
rachel

[wannalearn01]

I am pretty sure this is based off of chords, and if you figured those out you would be able to do switches faster which would translate to a faster played song.

If I have time today, might get too busy at work, I'll go through and try and figure it out...maybe with everyone elses help here we can come up with the chords that this song is constructed from.

T^roy

[sunday_girl]

thanks
I have to agree if I can hold a chord shape things seem easier, also picking a full chord seems right and at the moment the best thing i do lol.
It is a lovely sounding piece of music. and i am even going back to grass roots and learning classical pieces to improve my playing.

Hope you enjoy your playing as much as i do.

the guitar is my sanity.


Rachel

[dadfad]

the guitar is my sanity.


Rachel

Rachel, I think you've spoken for many of us here with that line.

[BaasLian]

the guitar is my sanity.


Rachel

Rachel, I think you've spoken for many of us here with that line.

So true! Guitar is mentally keeping me alive at the moment. I can't go a day without it.

[wannalearn01]

Yea...without music in the world it would go crazy...btu esp if I didn't have my guitar...I wouldn't know what to do. I mean its not a baby but damn I love it.

t^roy

[sunday_girl]

Hi everyone,
I'm glad its not just me then, I thought smoking was a bad addiction
until i started learning this old thing.
well i keep on practicing and oneday i might get better.
Rachel

[BaasLian]

Hi everyone,
I'm glad its not just me then, I thought smoking was a bad addiction
until i started learning this old thing.
well i keep on practicing and oneday i might get better.
Rachel

If you think that is bad, try addiing a bottle of whisky to the equation... Hic!

[sunday_girl]

Drinking makes me sleepy and I play everything wrong so I will give it a miss.
but it does affect your life trying to find time to play and do other things.
Rachel

[dogpoo]

i was playing it about 2 months ago, from the full score, and it annoyed me so. it was such a beautiful song which i couldn't play properly. i did manage to get through it though, still not half as good as i would like it to be but i've gotten the notes and patterns down quite well.

i would suggest that you learn the son bar by bar or line by line. practice each bar over and over again until it goes together seamlessly. it does work. trust me. and get the version with the barres outlined. there is a tab here which is pretty good as far as i can see.

work on it, it'll come.



edit: after looking at that tab again, i realise that its not accurate. use the sheet music, i would tab it out for you but its in another country

This post has been edited by dogpoo: 09 August 2004 - 02:49 AM