accordion attempt #2

[jwgh]

Another They Might Be Giants song: She's An Angel

One thing I'm working on is my bellows technique. If you've a mind to, you will be able to hear my left wrist get progressively wearier as the recording goes on. (You'll also hear a blatant edit towards the end.)

Comments

[plorkwort.livejournal.com]

Yay accordion! Is there TMBG tab somewhere, or are you deriving it yourself?

[jwgh]

It's deriving me nuts!

I figured out the chords myself -- the verse is all 'B' and the chorus goes:

/A    /E            /B      /A           /E
  Why?  Why did they send her over anyone else?
   /B          /A         /E           /B        /A
How should I react?  These things happen to other people;
/E           /B         /A
  They don't happen at all in fact.

/E                        /B                      /A                      /[X]E B
  When you're following an angel, doesn't mean you have to throw your body off a building.
/E                              /B                     /A                     /[X]E   B
  Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead calling you an angel, calling you the nicest things.
/B                    /A                       /E                   /B
  I heard they have a space program, when they sing you can't hear: there's no air.
   /B                      /A                  /E                /B
Sometimes I think I kind of like that and other times I think I'm already there.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

How universal are tabs? I've got no musical knowledge at all, here; I quit my piano lessons after 2 years, and that was some 17 years ago.

There are sites full of TMBG tabs:
http://www.twistid.com/tmbg/tabs.cfm
(Twistid used to be a superb source of free boots and DAS recordings, but IIRC they gave the collection to TMBG when they couldn't afford the traffic any longer)

http://www.tmbw.net/wiki/index.php/Category:Guitar_Tabs
Obviously it says guitar tabs, and whether guitar vs. accordian tabs are English vs. Metric I do not know. However, you at least get a fruit-filled wiki outta the deal

http://www.tmbg.org/band-info/songs/
Click an album to explode the menu, and the click the guitar for available chords, which by all accounts are the same things as tabs.

I hope this helps, as I really have no idea.

[annarama.livejournal.com]

AWESOME!!! wow, i am impressed!! :D

[jwgh]

Thanks! It's coming along ...

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

This was excellent!