Update: Ed Kuepper Chords
Just recently I said I couldn’t work out the chords to Ed’s lovely “I Wish You Were Here” song, adding that “Even dropping the song into ‘find the chords’ software seems to confuse it” . BTW I meant the mp3 file when I ‘the song’.
I found a site that uses YouTube clips to guess the guitar chords. I was sceptical when it confidently listed some simple chords. To my surprise, it was right and had deduced the main ones. I think I’ve got the rest. Normally I’m quite good at working them out, but this one eluded me; embarrassingly it only has a few chords.
I think the main riff/chords are built around F-Dm-Ab (quick turnaround back to F via Bb, it seems)
In the foreground (the ‘riff’), he seems to be playing just some of the notes of the above chords; something like (X_Y means played together): F_A, D_F, Eb_Ab, quick F_Bb?). But a 2nd guitar is playing what sounds like fuller chords.
The ‘chorus’ (“Although I know…”) vamps between Ab and Bb chords, then returns back to the F for the ‘verse’ and riff.
Ed, being a very experienced guitarist, may be using more complex chords like F9 or Dm11. He, like John Lennon, may not even know that’s what the chord shape is actually called.
It’s a work in progress, but I think I’ve broken the back of it.
As for John Lennon
I got my first Beatles sheet music books in the 1970s. One guitar chord jumped out at me. In his “Happiness is a Warm Gun” John had used “A7-10”. I knew A7, but what is “-10”. No Internet, but somehow I found out that it was ‘flattened 10th’. But an octave is, like, 8 notes, so what is the 10th? Ok, more reading….
It’s very probably John would have no idea what an “A-Seventh Flattened Tenth” was and would probably call me a “f daft git” if I ask him to play me one 🙂
He may have just held his fingers that way on the guitar’s neck to give him that sound. The one that occurs about 1 minute in.
