guitar tabs

sour29 · Post by **sour29** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 8:32 pm

unsalted butter wrote:This is right, except that you have to tune a bit sharp to match the recording. That's probably why it sounds off.

Now we need to figure out this chorus...

e|---------------------------------------
B|---------------------------------------
G|-7---7---6---6---------------------------
D|---5---5---5----5--8--8--8--8--7--7--7--7-----
A|----------------------------
E|---------------------------------------

????????????

I talked to John just tonight about Unsalted Butter tab. He said it's terribly easy song to play, but has also stumped the likes of Ben Gibbard and Matthew Caws (of Death Cab and Nada Surf fame). -shrugs- Next time he has a chance to check this board, I'm sure he'll say that we're all wrong. And he'll laugh.

I've actually gotten into the habit of playing the song like this:

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e|-----------------------------------
B|-----------------------------------
G|-3---3---2---2------0---0---0---0--
D|---0---0---0---0--3---3---1---1----
A|-----------------------------------
E|-----------------------------------

Just because my fingers aren't very long and I play a twelve-string (read: thick neck), so it gets painful to stretch my fingers three frets over and over.

He also vetoed my tab of Stupid. Apparently, he plays the chords with really weird positions. If anyone else wants a stab at it, by all means--go for it.

ThatGuyWho · Post by **ThatGuyWho** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 7:00 am

That is exactly how I've been playing it...Not sure if it's right

NatureBoy · Post by **NatureBoy** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:21 pm

Does anyone have the chords to the jangly, live version of Blue Diamonds?

Eric moves too fast for me to pick it up live...

WeeMan · Post by **WeeMan** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 8:34 pm

a good 'shapes' tab would be most excellent.

jess · Post by **jess** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 1:12 am

ask rob he is a guitar teacher in seattle (a good one at that) and he gave me simple tabs for "shapes" which have been very helpful. since (i am a lame ass who can't play the guitar she has had for SIX years very well).

NatureBoy · Post by **NatureBoy** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:47 pm

Is Commander Thinks Aloud:

F C G F ?

C doesn't sound right...but it looked like that's what John was playing the other night...

sour29 · Post by **sour29** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:35 am

the chorus of unsalted butter, transcribed from the user with the same name to the way i've been playing it, would be:

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e|-----------------------------------|
B|-3---3---2---2---------------------|
G|---0---0---0---0--3-3-3-3--2-2-2-2-|
D|-----------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------|

did anyone have a better guess for Stupid? or at least a chorus?

Moni · Post by **Moni** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 1:24 am

no bass tabs so far? [i'm too lazy]

Yarn · Post by **Yarn** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 4:22 pm

I prefer to play Unsalted Butter on the keyboard.

Endo23 · Post by **Endo23** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 3:37 pm

For Commander, CGFF seems to work; I think the reason it doesn't sound exactly right is that the original is on piano and the voicings of the chords aren't standard open position guitar chords (root-third-fifth)... I could be wrong, but I don't really hear any fifths in the piano part, at least, not in the C chord that begins the progression. So to replicate the sound of the recording on the guitar, you need to play stacked octaves, just roots and thirds, no fifths. Course, it sounds a little hollow that way, but what are you gonna do without a piano?

P.S. I could be way off base here, this is just how my ear hears it and my ear is dangerously close to giving up the ghost... Too many shows in too many bars, I guess.

Yarn · Post by **Yarn** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:32 pm

No, I totally agree with that.

Sometimes my insight is just too much!

sour29 · Post by **sour29** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:52 pm

sour29 wrote:I talked to John ...Next time he has a chance to check this board, I'm sure he'll say that we're all wrong. And he'll laugh.

So...Johnny. What's going on? You to cool to hang out with the band nerds now?

carlitos · Post by **carlitos** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:03 pm

Endo23 wrote:For Commander, CGFF seems to work

I have been playing it like that, augmenting the tone with the pungent shimmer of the Arion SFL-1 Stereo Flanger. It has the sound that reminds you of outer space.

Post by **John** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 2:20 am

On the recording of Commander there are no guitars. Only keyboards. But when I play it on guitar I play fcgf with the fifth in there, because I don't have an Arion SFL-1 Stereo Flanger.

sour29 · Post by **sour29** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 7:32 am

sour29 wrote:So...Johnny. What's going on? You too cool to hang out with the band nerds now?

Err. Nevermind. (figures you'd come on about 5 hours after I accost you. ;) )

So, how off are the above Unsalted Butter and Stupid tabs?

sour29 · Post by **sour29** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:28 pm

Liz wrote:no bass tabs so far? [i'm too lazy]

I figured this out on a 12-string acoustic guitar. Don't accost me if anything is wrong, I know nothing of the Bass...I'm going to include all the parts with the new ones to reduce the need to scroll all over this thread to piece this together

Unsalted Butter tab

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INTRO: bass guitar
G|-----------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------|
A|------------5----5-----------------|
E|--3-----3------------6---6--8---8--|

VERSE: guitar
e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|-3---3---2---2------0---0---0---0--|
D|---0---0---0---0--3---3---1---1----|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------|

CHORUS: guitar
e|-----------------------------------|
B|-3---3---2---2------1---1----3---3-|
G|---0---0---0---0--3---3----2---2---|
D|-----------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------|

BRIDGE: guitar
   Gm            C             D#            F
e|--------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|--------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|---------------5--5--5--5-5--8--8--8--8-8--10--10--10--10-10--| 
D|-5--5--5--5-5--5--5--5--5-5--8--8--8--8-8--10--10--10--10-10--| 
A|-5--5--5--5-5--3--3--3--3-3--6--6--6--6-6--8---8---8---8--8---| 
E|-3--3--3--3-3-------------------------------------------------|
   ^  ^  ^  ^ v  ^  ^  ^  ^ v  ^  ^  ^  ^ v  ^   ^   ^   ^  v 

BRIDGE 2: guitar (let each chord ring)
   Gm      D       Bb      A
e|-----------------------------------| 
B|-----------------------------------| 
G|---------7-------------------------| 
D|-5-------7-------8-------7---------| 
A|-5-------5-------8-------7---------| 
E|-3---------------6-------5---------|

OUTERO:
bass guitar
G|-----------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------|
A|--3-3----------3-3----------3-3----|
E|---------------------------------3-|

INTRO

VERSE
You’re so cold, right
You’ve been cold all night
Now you’re holding on like you’re holding a child

Your eyes are shining
But it’s dark outside
Do you feel alright?

Making dinner dates?
What, are you blind?
I hold down two jobs just to keep one from flying

It was late, my mistake
A whole two hour left of daylight
My dinner date was hung-up on sun

CHORUS
If you think you’re gonna to be here long
I’m gonna miss you so much when you’re gone

VERSE
All that wasted time
They call it: Murdering your own apartment
Daylight glows
The patterning is desolate

Now it’s breakfast time
You’re holding Hollywood above my head
Unsalted butter is my punishment

CHORUS

BRIDGE
I’m gonna miss you so much when you’re gone
BRIDGE 2
My dinner date was hung-up on sun

VERSE
Now it’s breakfast time
You’re holding Hollywood above my head
Unsalted butter is my punishment

OUTERO

sour29 · Post by **sour29** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 6:08 pm

And to start up a new task (in the name of procrastination--I have an exam tomorrow I'm totally not prepared for, nor am I prepared to get prepared)

Government Loans starts off with
Am / Gm .. Gm / F

sour29 · Post by **sour29** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 6:40 pm

Nora:

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e|-2--2----0--0-------------------| 
B|-3--3----3--3----1--1----0--0---| 
G|-2--2-2--2--2-0--2--2----2--2---| 
D|-0--0-0--0--0-0--3--3-3--3--3-0-| 
A|-----------------3--3-3--3--3-0-| 
E|--------------------------------| 
   1  1 2  1  1 2  1  1 2  1  1 2
Rinse, Lather, and Repeat ad noseum.

http://ca.geocities.com/cherub_rocker666/nora.mp3 <-- to hear a (bad) sample of the above tab.
This tab owes serious gratitude to John and someone who tabbed John's piano chords to guitar. Sadly, I'm too busy/lazy to look up who it was right now, but I shamelessly took their information and simplified it for those of up who have difficulties doing that stretch to the fourth-fret on the A-string without accidently muting any strings. AND now it's in the proper thread!!

Leroy · Post by **Leroy** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:59 pm

in Cinnamon there is a sweet mandolin part and i just happen to be in a band with a mandolin player. i was wondering if anyone was ballsey enough to attempt to glean the mandolin part from the song on my behalf.

Post by **John** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:41 pm

Gov't Loans is played in an "open E" tuning, which will make the chord voicings much easier to figure out. Nora, of course, is played in dropped D tuning on guitar.

I can't help you on the mandolin part though.