Accidental Babies

Great tune by Damien Rice. While the album version is performed with a piano, a video on youtube exists where he plays for some folks with a guitar. Knowing it was possible I looked up tabs. The best version I found is here: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/d/damien_rice/accidental_babies_solo_tab.htm

While its incomplete, it is enough to play through the whole song. Some phrases won't be spot on but it SOUNDS good.

One part in particular is when Damien sings "does he drive you wild?" The piano uses more bass and I just thought I'd tab my impression for future reference (because I'll forget what I did by tomorrow..heck I'm starting to forget now, damn you introduction).

e-----------------------------------|
B-----------------------------------|
G---------------------4---5---7/9---|
D-0---0-2-3---5/7-----5---5---------|
A---0-------0-------5---5---5-------|
E-------------3/5-3---------3-------|


My Song

I keep my guitar next to me so I can have something to do during down time. Waiting for a raid to get started, or just trying to load dalaran on my 5 year old laptop, haha. Anyways strummed some chords from an old song I wrote, which made me look up the song, which made me look up all my old songs, which makes me want to play guitar.

So here I am.

A lot of the things I played, I have forgotten. Neat little tricks or nifty things I had thought up on a whim are lost. Luckily I kept this blog and retain some things. This just reinforces my desire to write it all down, so if I ever go through another lapse it will be here, waiting for me.

One thing I plan to do is to re-do all my songs, perfect them, and then put them on youtube, or something. It'll be something I can show my grand kids, through a time machine, whatever they'll have when I'm 60.

2 Months

2 months since I've played guitar. 2 is a strange number. In my past relationships I've always said after feeling miserable from the break up, "in 2 weeks, I'll feel completely different." For others, its 2 years.

So today I played the only song worth playing during a break up. Rootless Tree by Damien Rice. I love this song. The first time my friend had me listen I immediately grew attached to it. I went to my dorm (this was in China) and learned the song. When I picked up my guitar again the fingers instinctively knew where to press. It was awesome.

Playing around with the chord progression and some easy picking yielded this

---------------------------------
-----3-------3-------3-------3---
-------0-------0-------0-------0-
-----------2---------------------
---2-----3---------2-------0-----
-0---------------3-------2-------

hm, sounds better capo4ed

Playing around some more I got this, which sounds a bit like No Woman No Cry by Bob Marley

-3-2-0-3---3-3-3------------------------
-3-3-0-5---3-5-3------------------------
-4-2-0-5---4-5-4------------------------
-5-4-2-5---5-5-5------------------------
-5-5-2-3---5-3-5------------------------
-3-2-0-----3---3------------------------

What is that second chord shape called? (edit: Figured out what it was called, its D/F#, you may know it by its easier chord shape 2x0232. I found it out by using this awesome tool I googled up: Reverse Chord Lookup

Keep on rocking the free world