Help identifying tune on guitar

[missyburd]

On messing about with note plucking I often "stumble across" a note that starts me off on a tune I recognize and I find the rest of the notes by ear. However there is this one tune that I've learnt the first bit of but I don't know any more so can't complete the tune! I can't for the life in me remember where I know this tune from so I'm wondering if any of you avid guitarists can help me...

Unfortunately, I only know names of strings and cords, not individual notes on the noteboard. So I've looked up a diagram and found the notes corresponding to my tune. It's not very long, but I have absolutely no clue as to what this tune is, could be a modern one, classical one or oldie, an advert even!

So using the diagram below this is my tune:

FGFGFGFG
EGEGEGEG X2
FGBGFGBG
EGCGEGCG


http://www.brendanburns.com/Lessons/pdf/guitargifnote.gif

I know this is ever so slightly random and probably doesn't make much sense but I would be much obliged if someone recognizes it to let me know! Thankyou for reading!

My guitar's just a little acoustic btw :)



EDIT: Have recorded it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jcHSCJd0K8

[missyburd]

bump?

[Dappa D]

wish i could help ya, but as u know im just starting out (can now play eric claptons wonderful tonight tho including tho solo! :-) ...)

bumpidy bump...

[Nobbylad]

Is there some program you could punch the notes in to re-produce the tune and then post it here, or even record yourself and post the .wav file here?

Alternatively, create a YouTube performance for us to listen to?

[Supervox]

Sorry,

I've played it over and over & it doesn't mean anything to me.

[missyburd]

Sorry,

I've played it over and over & it doesn't mean anything to me.

:-( thankyou very much for trying though :-)

I guess I could try record. If anyone has such a program as mentioned by Nobbylad would save me a job lol :mrgreen:

[Mr Speirs]

I'll give it a go 2moro n see if I can recognize it. :)

[GregK2]

To me that sounds like the song Chopsticks by Liz Phair on her Whip-Smart album. There is a sample if you search Amazon.

[dizzyblonde]

dunno don't know how to read that stuff. Can't you record it, and send it to me..might be able to tell ya then......

...not much help am I.




edit....actually it does sound familiar......got anymore of that...might be able to recognse it further in

[missyburd]

To me that sounds like the song Chopsticks by Liz Phair on her Whip-Smart album. There is a sample if you search Amazon.
Yes it's definitely the first bit, but the next bit in that song doesn't match the tune in my head :confused: Thankyou though, I've never heard of this song but perhaps it's been on an advert or something? I may have just made up the next bit lol

here's the link to the song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTQ_HfLtXyE

[missyburd]

Right ok I'll use me new camera and record a small vid of me doing the tune in a bit

[dizzyblonde]

I'm pretty certain its from something older than that...never heard of her so it can't be her song that it sounds familiar to....

[missyburd]

I'm pretty certain its from something older than that...never heard of her so it can't be her song that it sounds familiar to....
No that thought did occur to me lol. Curiouser and curiouser!

[missyburd]

Ok here we are, it's not perfect lol but fairly clear http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jcHSCJd0K8

Good luck!

[Wideboy]

norp cant think of anything

quick release it make a mint

[missyburd]

lmao I haven't just made it up, i don't think :confused: Damn this is sooo bugging me now!

[dizzyblonde]

almost thought it were Trumpton, but its slightly different. Its buggin me now

[Wideboy]

bit of a long shot but not thinking of jose Gonzales - Heartbeats (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bb8P7dfjVw) :lol:

that song is the one reason i want to get another acoustic

[missyburd]

bit of a long shot but not thinking of jose Gonzales - Heartbeats (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bb8P7dfjVw) :lol:

that song is the one reason i want to get another acoustic

Beautiful song, but no. I have his album and its truly amazing but tried to learn a song? No chance, maybe in a few years if I get better lol

[dizzyblonde]

I love finger picking, I find it a lot easier than playing chords.

In fact I hate playing chords

[missyburd]

I love finger picking, I find it a lot easier than playing chords.

In fact I hate playing chords
I like both, a good old strum and a pluck is what makes the world go round :-D

It's reading music I can't be bothered with, why waste the time when I can mess about without the effort. I love making new little tunes but am a bit sad like that. I don't play with the aim to become an expert just because I love hearing the music and knowing that I'm in control :mrgreen:

[Wideboy]

i know what you mean, its surprising how many little tunes you can come up with just sitting there strumming through cords, just words cant do them :lol:

[dizzyblonde]

I like it when I hear a song first time and start playing it half way through. I've made a few people laugh over the years when they've said 'here listen to this' and i pick up my acoustic in the corner and start playing it to them.

I can't read music, and I only play by ear.

[xXBADGERXx]

Listened to it and Noaf hucking eye deer

Sounds a bit "Alpine" to me as if Julie Andrews is supposed to be Yodelling along with it :p

[missyburd]

Listened to it and Noaf hucking eye deer

Sounds a bit "Alpine" to me as if Julie Andrews is supposed to be Yodelling along with it :p
lol, nope I know that film inside out (with a name like Maria I can't not lol), nothing from there I'm afraid!

[dizzyblonde]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NKhMP2r4XGk

still don;t sound like this, but its bugging me

[missyburd]

Aww that takes me back Dizzy! Might teach mesen that next :-)

[Wideboy]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NKhMP2r4XGk

still don;t sound like this, but its bugging me


haha yeah sounds similar

[dizzyblonde]

I want to learn this...sorry for the dodgy bloke but its the only oneI could find

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9M-IFMs1IL0&feature=related

[missyburd]

That's a nice one. take a while though. This was the first song I learnt, no idea why. Brahm's lullaby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDsjwa8lVX4&feature=related

Suppose it will be useful if I have kids :lol:

[dizzyblonde]

this was the first one I learned

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Eulr53DwYsI

hasten to add I ain;t as good as that!

but but I have defo got to learn me this

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mguzKze1sYo

[missyburd]

Hehe, I'm glad I made this thread now, got some useful tunes to keep me going when I get bored!

[Wideboy]

i got bored and learnt how to play airwolf a while back :oops:

heavy metal version of course :smt035

[dizzyblonde]

your goonna be wiggin out hehe

I wish that i could sum up the courage to sit with folk and learn,,,,cause if I did, I;d get smudge to teach me to play proper like. I used to sit and jam with my mate Buddha chris, and learned a lot from him, but alas I haven't seen him for many a year, since me an the ex split. Smudge and him have a similar personality that would suit me for learning

[Neeja]

For some cool acoustic stuff, try Andy McKee: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4

And Heartbeats really isn't that hard to learn to play!

[dizzyblonde]

MARIA>>>>>
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xnAFXazFtaQ&feature=related


lOOOK WHAT I FOUND....

I am gonna cheat now...lol

[missyburd]

For some cool acoustic stuff, try Andy McKee: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4

And Heartbeats really isn't that hard to learn to play!

Nah this is the one I need to learn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM5rR1ElPgg&feature=PlayList&p=6887327147E49B86&playnext=1&index=25 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZNn1nnRpIM&feature=related)

[missyburd]

I am gonna cheat now...lol

lol cheat away, I still like to find out myself :)

[dizzyblonde]

well the melody line is pretty easy, its the fingery bits that are complicated. I pretty much figured out where me fingers were before i found the how to guide. I can hear it and see it in my head before I get the guitar out.....

You my friend have given me summat to do tomorrow...oh apart from cleanign the bike

[missyburd]

well melody is pretty easy

dunno what Mel would have to say about that Dizz!! :p

Anyone glad I've given you something to do, shame I didn't think of it sooner then maybe I could have distracted you away from that gorgeous carrot cake and got YC to swipe me some :-D

[dizzyblonde]

ahhh now seee theres none left...finished this morn :-)

[missyburd]

I know, hence why i wish I'd thought of it sooner :-( lol. Never mind, will just get Chris to stop off at Bala and give him the challenge of keeping a piece of their deeelicious carrot cake in one piece the rest of the way to aber hehehe