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 Davids Harp |
I need chords for "Woodstock" please? |
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(06/24/09 12:13 PM) |
One thing I learned recently from watching the 1969 "Big Sur" festival is that Joni Mitchell composed "Woodstock" on piano. Makes for
tough guitar chording and I'm having trouble figuring them out.
Can someone list the chords for "Woodstock"? Any key will do. Thank you.
David
They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are, are changed upon the blue guitar." -Wallace Stevens
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kmacguitar |
chordie.com, at least for a start... | ||
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(06/24/09 3:45 PM) |
http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.guitaretab.com/m/mitchell-joni/12681.html
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http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/tabfu.thudspace.net/c/crosby_stills_nash_and_young/woodstock.crd you may be familiar with chordie, if not you will love the feature of transposing the song into different keys until you find one that fits your playing, have fun, Kerry ps: she probably plays in an open tuning as is her style, someone here will know more about that than me.
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(06/24/09 10:11 PM) |
David, a second look in daylight shows that's not how I do it...here's my take, FWIW:
Woodstock
Joni Mitchell
Am I came upon a child of God
he was Dm walking along the road, and I asked him "Where you E going?" and he Am told me. Said "I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm, gonna Dm join in a rock and roll band. Gonna camp out on the E land and set my Am soul free." We are Dm star dust, we are Am golden and we've Dm got to get our E selves back to the Am garden
Mike the Bear
HJ-28 B1 J12-15
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06/25/09 3:47 PM.
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Davids Harp |
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(06/25/09 5:05 PM) |
Thanks Mike. Thanks Kerry, yeah, she does everything in open tuning, some uniquely her own.
David
They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are, are changed upon the blue guitar." -Wallace Stevens |
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(06/26/09 9:51 AM) |
try taking mikes version, transpose to d g a in dadgad. that is the way richard thompson plays it and it sound great
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 hogwldfltr |
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(06/26/09 10:15 AM) |
So what is the fingering in DADGAD?
-Lee
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(06/26/09 2:23 PM) |
it is about 3 years since i tried to play this piece but go here for your chord shapes http://www.celticguitarmusic.com/dadgad.htm and just noodle around, getting the walk down right over
"garden" was a bit tricky if i remember
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(06/26/09 8:36 PM) |
I do it much the same as Mike the Bear, except I do it like this, "we are Dm stardust, we are Am golden, and we've Dm7 got to F get our (some version
of Em, sort of my made up one-finger Em
 ) selves
back to the Am garden", if that makes any sense. It works for me, or maybe I'm just accustomed to it from long practice, but I think it sounds okay.
Try it and see.
Jan
Felix 3 (Lil Marty), D15 (Sweet), HD28 (Jackson)
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(06/27/09 6:36 AM) |
What was the tuning Mitchell used originally?
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Davids Harp |
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(06/27/09 8:51 AM) |
She used a piano, which lets you throw all kinds of individual notes inside a ten-finger chord. Here's her very first take on the song:
Later she self-produced a guitar performance but it's all dark and murky and no close-ups on her hands:
David
They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are, are changed upon the blue guitar." -Wallace Stevens |
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Mac Mechanic |
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(06/27/09 9:02 AM) |
Eva Cassidy has a much more transparent version of the song, all on guitar.
Paul
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Davids Harp |
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(06/27/09 3:11 PM) |
Mac Mechanic wrote: Thanks Paul. I'd heard that, actuallly, and went looking for it on YouTube. Couldn't find it though. Do you have a link to it somewhere?
David
They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are, are changed upon the blue guitar." -Wallace Stevens |
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M38BIZ |
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(06/27/09 6:34 PM) |
This should be the link for Richard Thompson doing his version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h54rRq2SAv0 |
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Mac Mechanic |
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(06/28/09 8:42 AM) |
Sent you a link via email, David --
Paul
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Davids Harp |
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(06/28/09 9:50 AM) |
Got the Cassidy link, Paul, thanks. Also thanks M38 for the Richard Thompson link, and thanks Jan and PaulW for your advice.
David
They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are, are changed upon the blue guitar." -Wallace Stevens |
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(06/28/09 11:03 AM) |
Coolest version of Woodstock I've heard is when James Taylor performed it along with Fire & Rain and Sweet Baby James on The Howard Stern Show. Check
it out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA8r8CPTSbA
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(06/28/09 2:45 PM) |
Dave,
I have a book called "joni mitchell, hits". It states it is the authentic guitar tab edition. As the title implies, it contains many of Joni's most beloved songs including "Woodstock". Many of the songs are in alternate tuning. "Woodstock" has the guitar in standard, but tuned down a half step. She creates the tension and release that is so compelling in this song by moving from the Em to a E7sus and then resolving to a A7sus. Of course Ms. Mitchell, the musical genius that she is, does not play these chords in the first position. The book has it all tabbed out fingerstyle. But if you do play it in the first position the "feel" is there.... Or better yet get a copy of the book and learn it "right". It is a complex arrangement that I gave up on many years ago when I first purchased the book. Perhaps my chops have improved enough for me to learn the song... After all, it was a song that inspired a generation... "V" |
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