mattcymru
Jul-01-2008, 11:01am
not sure if im being over cheeky here, but has anyone got the mandolin tab for the intro to this??
Jim Broyles
Jul-01-2008, 12:47pm
It's not cheeky. This one is not easy to hear #to #pick out by ear, because the melody is bass and the rhythm is a 12 string acoustic guitar. I could not find a video showing a performance of this song so I could surmise the mando part for the intro by watching what the mandolin player is doing, so I had to listen and listen and listen.
The first chord sounds sort of wrong when you hear it on mandolin alone but I'm almost 100% positive it is accurate:
Played with a kind of a strum using the bottom three strings on the mandolin and not playing the E string.
First chord: 9-0-0-X. The E note, making this a D5add9, sounds sort of goofy without the guitar and bass, but I'm pretty sure it's what the mando is playing.
Next chords - #9-5-0-X # 7-5-0-X #12-0-0-X #14-0-0-X #16-0-0-X #14-0-0-X
(9~HO~11)-0-0-X # #(11~S~12)-0-0-X #12-0-0-X #14-0-0-X #16-0-0-X #14-0-0-X
The two accented chords before the verse: 11-0-0-X # 11-0-0-X (Guitar = Bm G, Bass = B G) #First chord of song = A.
mattcymru
Jul-01-2008, 4:45pm
wow! thanks for that ill have a go tomorrow!!