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xiphiasBut only some.
See, I hacked away at it for a while, and finally decided to see if I couldn't find some online snippets of the song. I found two thirty-second excerpts of it on various CD-selling sites, and listened to it, and I think I understand the logic of the song now.
Of course, the CHORDS don't fit that logic.
Okay, I also transposed the chords, because it was obvious that the song was played capoed up two frets, but with the fingershapes transposed down a full step.
What did that last sentence mean? Well, on a guitar, you can get a "capo" which is a little bar that can go across the neck making the neck effectively shorter. It's an easy way to transpose songs higher.
Some chords are easier to play than others. For instance, most of the chords that you'd play in a song that was written in the key of G are fairly easy. A lot of the ones you'd play in the key of A are harder.
This song was written in the key of A. That means that it's obvious that it was actually played in the key of G, capoed up two frets. I know this because I've played with Debbie Friedman. (And, frankly, I'm a better guitarist than she is.)
Anyway. . . the chords don't work quite. Like, the chords are chords that have MOST of the notes that should be theoretically in there, but they're not quite the RIGHT chords. And I'm remembering what a couple of my friends did -- they'd asked Debbie Friedman to write a song for a conference they were doing, and she did, and they re-wrote all the chords because, y'know, they were the wrong chords.
This sucks. 'Cause, see, Debbie Friedman is one of the most talented Jewish music kids-songs composers, like, ever. And she really is. And she writes these songs that you really want to play for your Hebrew school, or your Jewish day camp (basically, if you know any modern Jewish songs, odds are either she or Jeff Klepper wrote it.) But, see, she doesn't have a music theory background, which makes the songs hard to learn.
So, I'm sitting here asking myself -- "Can I rework all the chords to the song before I have to go to sleep tonight? And still put together a lesson for tomorrow? And then LEARN the song well enough to teach it, having never HEARD the song?"
See, I hacked away at it for a while, and finally decided to see if I couldn't find some online snippets of the song. I found two thirty-second excerpts of it on various CD-selling sites, and listened to it, and I think I understand the logic of the song now.
Of course, the CHORDS don't fit that logic.
Okay, I also transposed the chords, because it was obvious that the song was played capoed up two frets, but with the fingershapes transposed down a full step.
What did that last sentence mean? Well, on a guitar, you can get a "capo" which is a little bar that can go across the neck making the neck effectively shorter. It's an easy way to transpose songs higher.
Some chords are easier to play than others. For instance, most of the chords that you'd play in a song that was written in the key of G are fairly easy. A lot of the ones you'd play in the key of A are harder.
This song was written in the key of A. That means that it's obvious that it was actually played in the key of G, capoed up two frets. I know this because I've played with Debbie Friedman. (And, frankly, I'm a better guitarist than she is.)
Anyway. . . the chords don't work quite. Like, the chords are chords that have MOST of the notes that should be theoretically in there, but they're not quite the RIGHT chords. And I'm remembering what a couple of my friends did -- they'd asked Debbie Friedman to write a song for a conference they were doing, and she did, and they re-wrote all the chords because, y'know, they were the wrong chords.
This sucks. 'Cause, see, Debbie Friedman is one of the most talented Jewish music kids-songs composers, like, ever. And she really is. And she writes these songs that you really want to play for your Hebrew school, or your Jewish day camp (basically, if you know any modern Jewish songs, odds are either she or Jeff Klepper wrote it.) But, see, she doesn't have a music theory background, which makes the songs hard to learn.
So, I'm sitting here asking myself -- "Can I rework all the chords to the song before I have to go to sleep tonight? And still put together a lesson for tomorrow? And then LEARN the song well enough to teach it, having never HEARD the song?"
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Date: 2005-04-10 02:21 am (UTC)Hope this helps.
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Date: 2005-04-10 02:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-10 04:33 am (UTC)