Hi Guys... a while ago I came across Norman's Rare Guitars on YouTube. It's great to see the amazing variety of players, some famous, some less so but always very talented, who drop by and play a few songs on the famous couch. A couple of weeks ago I watched a clip of a girl called Arielle singing and playing one of her own songs... a nice, slow, bluesy/jazzy rendition. I tried to work out the chords that she's using but without much success, so, I wrote to her and asked her. She wrote back the following day and told me this... "The chords for the verse and chorus are GMaj7, Em7, Am7, D7, but on certain words, I'll play a Cm7 instead of or right before the D7 The bridge is a little more of a tricky chord sequence and then the last Chorus modulates up a whole step to A." I've tried out all of the versions that I know for these chords and they do not sound anything like the chords that she's playing... and most of the chords that I know do not even look like the chords that she's using. It would be greatly appreciated if some kind soul with time to spare could take a look at the clip and work out the fingering for these chords... and maybe, if it's not too much to ask, jot them down for me? Cheers, Hansi
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most of the time she uses pretty much these chords with slight variations.
https://www.manneschlaier.com/images/chords-arielle.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50s_progression
The first four chords sound like GM7 - 354433 (although you can't really hear her play the 7 so it might as well be a GMaj)) / Em7 - 020000 / A (something like 5x5x55) / D7 - x54530
and the last chord before the G a second time is a Cm7 - x35343
You can throw in alternates higher up, so the GM7 is x 10 12 11 12 10 / Em7 is x79787 / Am 575555 / D7 - 10 12 10 11 10 10 and Cm7 - 8 10 8 8 8 8
e.g. for D7, play: x 9 10 9 10 x
for Em7 you could play: 3 x 2 4 3 x or for Emaj7, 4 x 2 4 4 x. Add open top E if you like.
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That was my "mistake", not HansiR's.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/598/chord-of-the-week-index
Happy browsing!