A Challenge to all Guitarists
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Topic: A Challenge to all Guitarists
Posted By: Negoba
Subject: A Challenge to all Guitarists
Date Posted: February 01 2009 at 12:51
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Alright, after reading another thread, I set a challenge for myself that I thought some others might join in. I was always the utility man in my bands, and ended up playing alot of keyboard parts and sax solos and other such stuff. So why not learn the motherload of prog keys? I'm working on the intro to "Firth of Fifth" for guitar. Right now I'm just doing the right hand which you can hear isolated when Banks repeats the theme in the middle of the song. I'm eventually going to learn the left hand and play it on a bass. It requires clipping the low octaves to single notes, but everything else is pretty reasonable. Any other takers?
Here's the sheet music.
http://www.bloovis.com/music/firth.pdf - http://www.bloovis.com/music/firth.pdf ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: February 01 2009 at 16:23
A challenge to all guitarists would be to play this on piano 
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: February 01 2009 at 16:32
Erm . . . could somebody tab this fecker out? Not every guitar player can read music, you know . . .  
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: February 01 2009 at 18:34
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I may tab it out once I decide on a fingering, but there are multiple ways to play something like this and one person may like one over another depending on your picking style. It's basically a massive number of arpeggios in groups of 4, 3, and 2. Here's a start.
---6-----------6-----------3------1-------3--------1-------------3---+--8-----5---10----6---9------8-----6------6------8-------
--------3--6-------3--6-------4------3--------4-------3---5------5-+------6-----------6---------6------6-----4----7-----9------
-----3-----------3-----------3------3--------3-------3--------5------+----5-----------7---------6------5-----3---------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------
This is the very first section which ends up getting repeated at least 4 times during the 1:10 or so of the intro. The first chord is Bb and can be fingered just as a regular E shape bar chord.
I tried playing just the right hand for the above section on piano. I think I could eventually do it up to speed but I'd get tendonitis before I was finished. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: cobb2
Date Posted: February 01 2009 at 22:16
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Here's a link to a Guitar Pro version. Everything is already tabbed out. http://www.911tabs.com/link/?2228802 - http://www.911tabs.com/link/?2228802 Of course it will only open if you have Guitar Pro installed.
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: February 02 2009 at 18:45
| Thank you both. Gonna try this one out. Firth is one of my favorite Genesis pieces. |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: February 07 2009 at 02:57
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I should get onto this. Wish I could play any other instrument than the electric guitar with any degree of reasonable proficiency, I guess I'd have to put the other instruments in using software. I can play bass to an extent, but I'm too poor to own one though. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: February 07 2009 at 08:50
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I'm more of a Livgren-like man when it comes to music. I play keyboards and guitar, the latter with more proficiency, but I do well enough on either. I can play the introduction to "Firth of Fifth" on the piano, but have not bothered learning it on the guitar (Apparently I'm happy enough I can play "Clap" and "Mood for a Day"). Anyway, I happen to have these bookmarked: ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: February 07 2009 at 12:08
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Alright folks, I've got the right hand tabbed out the way I want now, I don't have Guitar Pro to check out the other fingering. It's not bad. I'm playing it on an acoustic cutaway so it should be very reasonable on electric (18th fret is as high as it gets). Keeping some separation on the triplets is a bit of a challenge. I'm also trying to get it flatpicked rather than finger picked.
It actually makes alot more sense musically without the sheet music. A fair number of chromatic shifts that look atrocious on paper but really aren't that big a deal on the fretboard.
Hope I have some others on board. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |