I love this tune! (Thanks Scottythefiddler) Anyone out there happen to have figured out the guitar chords yet so I can have my husband accompany me? Thanks in advance
By the way, I'm a newbie here and I'm really enjoying this site.
Cheers, Nansaidh
Jomac, great set of chords. Hey Nansaidh, fancy meeting you here
Actually, you could get a lot simpler. All the minors soften the tune. For a harder edge, play G instead of Gm, and F in place of Dm. Then you have one of those craggy, old 'double tonic' tunes in G and F. Guarranteed to put the bubbles back in your Guinness! Chock it up to personal taste....
BTW, I haven't heard John Carty's recording of this tune. I wonder how he chorded it?
Hi, Nansaidh
I had wanted to post this last night, but couldnīt get back into the net - maybe a bad case of congestion or something like that...
My set of chords looks like this:
|| Gm | Gm | Dm F | G C | Gm | Gm | Dm F | C :||
|| Dm | Am | Dm F | G C | Dm | Am | Dm F | G |
| Dm | Am | Dm F | G C | Bb | Am | Dm F | C ||
I took some liberties with the Bb in the key signature. Since neither Bb or B turn up in the tune you can imply one or the other by certain chords. Thatīs what I did with the Gm and the G chords, and the Bb towards the end. The tune tends to sound a little repetitive so I wanted to give it something different there...
I have tried to take the same liberties with the E and the Eb (by playing an Ebmaj7 at certain spots, f. e.), but that only sounded weirder, not better...
Itīs close to Jomacīs setting with the added effort of trying to break up the monotony of the tune. ( At first I had started thinking in terms of G dorian but the Gm chord sounds more like a IV than a I to my ears.) Whether one wants that or not is up to each player. And Scotty is right, it softens the tune. But thatīs what I was aiming at...
During a session I would probably try different versions of chord sequences and (try to) come back to the one I like best (when Iīm the only back up-player, when not the loudest one dictates the chords anyway!).
I didnīt think of Scottyīs double tonic-variant ( "Any fool can get complicated, but it takes a genius to stay simple!" Donīt know who Iīm citing...) but maybe thatīs due to the fact that I played backup-instruments long before I picked up the fiddle so I tend to think in terms of chord sequences more often than in the actual tune. A little like composing a counterpoint melody that is meant to support the tune (well, sometimes it works and sometimes you better leave the tune alone).
And yes, I am very curious, too, how it was chorded in the recording. It IS a great tune ( woke up this morning hearing it in my head...)
guitar chords for Seanahmac Tube ?
guitar chords for Seanahmac Tube ?
I love this tune! (Thanks Scottythefiddler) Anyone out there happen to have figured out the guitar chords yet so I can have my husband accompany me? Thanks in advance
By the way, I'm a newbie here and I'm really enjoying this site.
Cheers, Nansaidh
# Posted on November 8th 2001 by nansaidh
Re: guitar chords for Seanahmac Tube ?
Here's a simple set:
1st part:
Gm Dm | Gm | Dm F | Gm Dm |
Gm Dm | Gm | Dm F | Gm |
2nd part:
Gm |F | Dm F | Gm Dm |
Gm |F | Dm F | Gm ||
You could get a lot fancier, but that's a bare bones version.
# Posted on November 8th 2001 by jomac
Re: guitar chords for Seanahmac Tube ?
Jomac, great set of chords. Hey Nansaidh, fancy meeting you here
Actually, you could get a lot simpler. All the minors soften the tune. For a harder edge, play G instead of Gm, and F in place of Dm. Then you have one of those craggy, old 'double tonic' tunes in G and F. Guarranteed to put the bubbles back in your Guinness! Chock it up to personal taste....
BTW, I haven't heard John Carty's recording of this tune. I wonder how he chorded it?
Cheers,
Scott
# Posted on November 8th 2001 by scottythefiddler
Re: guitar chords for Seanahmac Tube ?
Hi, Nansaidh
I had wanted to post this last night, but couldnīt get back into the net - maybe a bad case of congestion or something like that...
My set of chords looks like this:
|| Gm | Gm | Dm F | G C | Gm | Gm | Dm F | C :||
|| Dm | Am | Dm F | G C | Dm | Am | Dm F | G |
| Dm | Am | Dm F | G C | Bb | Am | Dm F | C ||
I took some liberties with the Bb in the key signature. Since neither Bb or B turn up in the tune you can imply one or the other by certain chords. Thatīs what I did with the Gm and the G chords, and the Bb towards the end. The tune tends to sound a little repetitive so I wanted to give it something different there...
I have tried to take the same liberties with the E and the Eb (by playing an Ebmaj7 at certain spots, f. e.), but that only sounded weirder, not better...
Itīs close to Jomacīs setting with the added effort of trying to break up the monotony of the tune. ( At first I had started thinking in terms of G dorian but the Gm chord sounds more like a IV than a I to my ears.) Whether one wants that or not is up to each player. And Scotty is right, it softens the tune. But thatīs what I was aiming at...
During a session I would probably try different versions of chord sequences and (try to) come back to the one I like best (when Iīm the only back up-player, when not the loudest one dictates the chords anyway!).
I didnīt think of Scottyīs double tonic-variant ( "Any fool can get complicated, but it takes a genius to stay simple!" Donīt know who Iīm citing...) but maybe thatīs due to the fact that I played backup-instruments long before I picked up the fiddle so I tend to think in terms of chord sequences more often than in the actual tune. A little like composing a counterpoint melody that is meant to support the tune (well, sometimes it works and sometimes you better leave the tune alone).
And yes, I am very curious, too, how it was chorded in the recording. It IS a great tune ( woke up this morning hearing it in my head...)
Much fun with it,
Jörg
# Posted on November 8th 2001 by Joerg Froese