One-Chord Songs

Subject: RE: One-Chord Songs
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 09:48 PM

Was only kidding M Ted... ;-)

Robin

Subject: RE: One-Chord Songs
From: M.Ted
Date: 06 Sep 03 - 10:55 AM

Damn, Robin, for a minute I thought we were onto something--I detuned my twelve and was in the process of calculating a whole new "Just" tuning system--which basically was, "Just tune to whatever pitch you want"--derived from the "Close enough for Jazz" tuning system--I was going to set up a web page and everything--

Subject: RE: One-Chord Songs
From: Bert
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 12:15 AM

If you start with an open tuning then just learning one chord will get you two.

Subject: RE: One-Chord Songs
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 01:24 AM

Oohhh, M Ted,

You are perhaps referring to the common
"Folkenoughforclose" system as used by Folk Singers?

Sorry, I think your patent application may be overturnd by "Proir Knowledge In The Public Domain"... as we both know, people "folked up" up music long before they jazzed it up... ;-)

Although that hasn't stopped the US Patent Office in the past... :-)

Came across an interesting reference in Irish Traditional Music. Seems that it was considered bad manners to advise a fellow session fiddle player that he was out of tune. The accepted courtesy was to say

"Sean, can I borrow your wee fiddle for a moment to thry out this pice you was playin'?"

Then play a tune, and stop and say

"I'm sorry Sean, the thing's gone out of tune now while I was playin' it"

and then retune it... and pass it back :-)


Robin

Subject: RE: One-Chord Songs
From: M.Ted
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 01:58 PM

I don't know if that would work with some of the folks I've played with--they'd take the instrument and tune it back--

Subject: RE: One-Chord Songs
From: mg
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 02:54 PM

honest I tried to read through this thread but I lost interest pretty darn quick since I don't play really..but I have heard horse with no name has one chord..in fact just a couple or three notes...mg

Subject: RE: One-Chord Songs
From: Snuffy
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 06:27 PM

Da-doo-ron-ron only has three notes in the melody, but I don't know how many chords it has.

Subject: RE: One-Chord Songs
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 07:55 PM

Oh M Ted...

Rofl...
Robin

Subject: RE: One-Chord Songs
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 08:27 PM

mary garvey:

If you find the musical theory in this thread too hard to comphrend, put it aside and come back later. In the meantime you can look up one expression at a time until the more complicated things start to make sense.

Like any system of theory, there is critical mass of info you need to hook together internally before things start to make sense. I call the "speed bump" method. Once you get over the top of the bump, thing start to get easier to understand.


Say, where's Margret R gone?

She started this all madness off... :-)

Robin

Subject: RE: One-Chord Songs
From: Splott Man
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 11:00 AM

Sorry to get back to the list,

but what about Y2K by Loudon Wainwright,

though admittedly he does change key towards the end.

Subject: /-
From: M.Ted
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 11:42 AM

"Horse with No Name" can be played by vamping on two chords:

||:EmEm/F#m7F#m7/EmEm?F#m7F#m7:||

Subject: RE: One-Chord Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 04:03 PM

oops "some of the pitches are off by some cents (hundreds of semitones)".....hundredths.........