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Thread #69448   Message #1183974
Posted By: M.Ted
12-May-04 - 01:09 PM
Thread Name: Chords to 'Sixteen going on Seventeen'
Subject: RE: Chords to 'Sixteen going on Seventeen'
Here are the chords that I promised--Gargoyle's are the one's in the Hal Leonard "Ultimate Broadway Fake Book", and are OK, but I worked these out based on what works smoothly on the guitar.(Gargoyle, you hardly ever posts chords--could it be that you had a crush on Lisle?)

Play four down strokes for each measure(between the slash marks) Each letter is two counts, unless it is connected to another with a hyphen, in which case, each of those is one count.

If you simply count play the chords as I have written them, you will be able to hear where the melody fall in. If you try to fudge your way through without counting, you will become hopelessly confused and stumble off the edge of the earth--


(verse)
||F-E F/C7 C7/F F/ G7 G7/
Gm7 Gm7/ F F/Gm7 G7/C7 C7
F-E F/C7 C7/F F/G7 G7/
Gm7 Gm7/F F/Gm7 C7/F F|
(bridge)
|Bb Bb/C9 C9/B9 B9/Bb Bb/
Bb Bb/C9 C9/ G7G7/ C7 C7|
(end)
|F-E F/C7 C7/F F/Bbm Bbm/
F-E F/D7 D7/G7 G7/F#7F#7/
F F||



The F chord I had in mind is the first position bar chord:
1-3-3-2-1-1
Gm7 is:
3-0-3-3-3-3
C9 is one note different:
3-0-2-3-3-3
Slide it up two frets for D9.
G7
3-0-3-4-3-3
Slide it down a fret for F#7--
Bb:
1-1-3-3-3-1
Bbminor:
1-1-3-3-2-1