Re: Help with "Norweigan Wood" chord

"Stephen Calder" <calder9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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DC586 wrote:
Link to Norweigan Wood tab on chordie.com:

http://tinyurl.com/283urw

How the heck would I play a "D(C#bass" chord? I tried throwing in a
C# on the 5th string but it sounded terrible.

Thanks in advance.



Play a D chord and get ready to work that little finger hard.

Forget the C#; there is no C# bass in that run. It's a C (on the lyric
"she").

The melody is played on the third, fourth and fifth strings, while
holding a D chord, starting with the 3rd string, second fret (on the
first word of the lyric "I").

For the next note "once" keep the D chord but play the G string, 4th
fret with the pinky. On the next note "had" go back to the plain D chord
and play the G string, second fret. For the note on "a", modify the D
chord by lifting your finger off the third string and play the open G.

Now you should be able to follow this:

E ----------------------------------------------------
B ----------------------------------------------------
G -2--4----2--0------------0---------------------------
D ---------------4----2---------4--0-------0-----------
A -------------------------------------3--------2--0----
E -------------------------------------------------------

I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me

Remember to keep holding that D chord throughout and use the pinky to
play the melody, with the exception of just two notes.

1) It's too hard to use the pinky to play the D string second fret (on
"or") so move the index finger down to that string. This adds the open G
note to the chord, but that's okay, or you can skip playing the G if you
want.

2) Similarly, for the fifth string, second fret, move the index finger
down.



--
Stephen
Ballina, Australia

Correction:

E ----------------------------------------------------
B ----------------------------------------------------
G -2--4----2--0------------0---------------0-----------
D ---------------4----2---------4--0-------------------
A -------------------------------------3--------2--0----
E -------------------------------------------------------

(third-to-last note is open G, not open D). At least that's the way I play
it, and that's the way the vocal line goes. I play the D chord along with
it, in spots where there's no melody note. (There's also a couple of slurs
and hammer-ons not shown, but that's the "advanced course".)

And, as Nil pointed out, it's actually done in the key of E with a capo on
the second fret, if you want to play along with the song. The above tab is
referenced to the capo as "0".


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