I keep remembering that I'm not doing breathing exercises and then promptly forgetting again. Really this would help my singing and my emotional life...so I ought to fucking just do it. Seriously, it takes less than 5 minutes a day.
I've noticed more so than lack of power that my voice waivers. I can't hold a note on pitch...it sounds weak and variable. The breathing thing (especially if I used a note on the exhales) would fix that.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Fundamentals Week Two
The second week of class is about the 2 beat (bass on 1, 3...snare/hi hat on 2, 4). This is my go-to basic beat...so not that hard (though of course there is room to improve). The song is Flashlight by Parliament. A great groove...but nothing technically difficult. The trick is in keeping the groove consistent for five and a half minutes.
I was pretty stressed out about class last week and had to take a step back and chill out. This is all meant for personal growth and fun...there's no need to expect perfection and to stress myself out (and then feel bad about myself) if it isn't attained. Take away what you can but be realistic. It isn't a miracle.
Got a B+ on the first assignment. The comments were basically to keep the sticks closer to the heads between hits (the intro part of Separate Ways I was pulling them away, which I'd only do in a wide open part like that. I kind of reject the comment. I understand the benefits of economy of motion...but theatrics isn't a horrible thing when performing...and that's what that felt like more than a mistake)...and that I rushed the prechorus, which I knew. He complimented me for getting back into time though. His comments in general for eveyone fell into about 4 streams and were, though personalized, generic (copy and pasted). I don't think this is going to get too detailed. On the other hand, I suppose that people tend to make the same mistakes.
Anyway, this week's lesson feels more laid back. We'll see how it goes when we get into the Latin shit.
I was pretty stressed out about class last week and had to take a step back and chill out. This is all meant for personal growth and fun...there's no need to expect perfection and to stress myself out (and then feel bad about myself) if it isn't attained. Take away what you can but be realistic. It isn't a miracle.
Got a B+ on the first assignment. The comments were basically to keep the sticks closer to the heads between hits (the intro part of Separate Ways I was pulling them away, which I'd only do in a wide open part like that. I kind of reject the comment. I understand the benefits of economy of motion...but theatrics isn't a horrible thing when performing...and that's what that felt like more than a mistake)...and that I rushed the prechorus, which I knew. He complimented me for getting back into time though. His comments in general for eveyone fell into about 4 streams and were, though personalized, generic (copy and pasted). I don't think this is going to get too detailed. On the other hand, I suppose that people tend to make the same mistakes.
Anyway, this week's lesson feels more laid back. We'll see how it goes when we get into the Latin shit.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Fundamentals Week One
So I am taking an online college course (Fundamentals of Drum Kit) on drums through Berklee School of Music. Monday was my first day. So far I really like the format. The concept of having assignments due is a little terrifying, but so far so good. The first lesson was a lot of basics that I already had down...but plenty that was challenging too. It reassured me that I have a solid musical background (if you went into this course not knowing how to read music, I think you'd be lost, even though the course is supposed to cover that). It DOES make me a little nervous for future lessons...because once we hit the stuff that I don't know it'll feel crazy fast. They aren't waiting for anyone to catch up...let's put it that way. And I will pretty much need to work on this every night of the week to get my assignments turned in on time. Here's the topic outline and the assignment songs for each week:
Week 1, Basics: Separate Ways
Week 2, Basics: Flashlight
Week 3, Time and Ghost Notes: Cold Sweat
Week 4, Single Stroke Rolls and 32nds: Swingtown
Week 5, Double stroke open and bossa nova: The Girl From Ipanema
Week 6, Samba: variations
Week 7, Half-time suffle: Rosanna
Week 8, Compound meter grooves: Spellbound
Week 9, Afro-Cuban 6/8: Afro Blue
Week 10, Jazz Shuffle: Things Ain’t What they used to be
Week 11, Swinging: April in Paris
Week 12, Cha Cha: Naima
The format is...several videos by the instructor on various topics with text, sheet music and audio files to accompany. There's a discussion question...a weekly live chat (which I can probably only make some of the time due to work)...and two songs to learn (an etude and a pop song), record, and turn in. The first song is simple...but has challenging elements.
Here's the hardest part of the song for me...though this part is in the "extra credit" portion of the assignment.
Like I said, if I didn't already read music...and read DRUM music...it would be SUPER hard. As it is I'm gonna have to work on the song a bunch. I already have the book that most of these songs come out of...along with a slow-downer cd which will help...so I can work ahead a bit. I've been trying to learn Swingtown for years...so they aren't easy. The Latin grooves terrify me too...but of course that's why I'm doing this...to be challenged and go to the next level. I really like being able to work alone and at my own pace. So far they seem to do a good job with the pacing and materials (better than other online lessons I've seen)...so I think it will be good. Guaranteed freakout at some point in the next 12 weeks though. Don't say I didn't tell you so. It will probably happen the week of Feb 6th...just saying...I know myself but always forget.
Week 1, Basics: Separate Ways
Week 2, Basics: Flashlight
Week 3, Time and Ghost Notes: Cold Sweat
Week 4, Single Stroke Rolls and 32nds: Swingtown
Week 5, Double stroke open and bossa nova: The Girl From Ipanema
Week 6, Samba: variations
Week 7, Half-time suffle: Rosanna
Week 8, Compound meter grooves: Spellbound
Week 9, Afro-Cuban 6/8: Afro Blue
Week 10, Jazz Shuffle: Things Ain’t What they used to be
Week 11, Swinging: April in Paris
Week 12, Cha Cha: Naima
The format is...several videos by the instructor on various topics with text, sheet music and audio files to accompany. There's a discussion question...a weekly live chat (which I can probably only make some of the time due to work)...and two songs to learn (an etude and a pop song), record, and turn in. The first song is simple...but has challenging elements.
Here's the hardest part of the song for me...though this part is in the "extra credit" portion of the assignment.
Like I said, if I didn't already read music...and read DRUM music...it would be SUPER hard. As it is I'm gonna have to work on the song a bunch. I already have the book that most of these songs come out of...along with a slow-downer cd which will help...so I can work ahead a bit. I've been trying to learn Swingtown for years...so they aren't easy. The Latin grooves terrify me too...but of course that's why I'm doing this...to be challenged and go to the next level. I really like being able to work alone and at my own pace. So far they seem to do a good job with the pacing and materials (better than other online lessons I've seen)...so I think it will be good. Guaranteed freakout at some point in the next 12 weeks though. Don't say I didn't tell you so. It will probably happen the week of Feb 6th...just saying...I know myself but always forget.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Drum "Riser" Project
I've been having a hell of a time with my setup at home. Pedal problems...then bounce problems. Last weekend I put down some 2x8 boards under the kit and most of my issues seem resolved. But it's pretty unstable and looks like shit. So this weekend I'm going to try to build a more permanent solution.
My goal is not a riser so much as to have the entire drum kit and all the stands on a single piece of wood that doesn't bounce. Sturdy. And it has to be cheap and easy. I've read a bit that true risers have all kinds of good and bad sonic side-effects...and I'm just not fancy enough to deal with all of that. So I will not be looking to get any height off the floor. Just to solidify everything.
I think that I will shoot for either a (5 ft x 5ft) or a (5 ft x whatever size fits in the space and means I don't have to cut many pieces of wood) footprint of 3/4 inch to 1 1/8 inch particle board. The bottom to be reinforced by 2x4s. The 2x4s I plan to lay down on the wide edge. I might change my mind about this and put them on the thin edge...but I don't want much air space under the "riser" to avoid the aforementioned sonic side-effects. We'll see. If I lay down the particle board and it does the trick by itself I might not even worry with bracing. If I do the bracing, I'm thinking 6 - 2x4s. Much of the design concept is based on my loft bed.
Update:
Well, the end prodect seems to be working pretty good, but it didn't end up going how I thought it would. I figured out pretty quickly that I wasn't strong enough to move a huge sheet of particle board and that it wouldn't fit in my car. So I changed my mind and bought small sheets instead. Feeling cheap and lazy, I also gave up the idea of cross braces. So here it is:
What this is...is four 2 ft by 4 ft by 3/4 inch sheets of particle board. They were called handy sheets or something like that. On top of that is two 2 ft x 3 ft thin indoor/outdoor carpets with rubber backing. I bought some plates to nail them together, but have decided to see if I can avoid any kind of faseners at all. The final footprint is 6 ft wide at the front and 4 foot long for the bulk of the piece. There's an extra 2x4 tacked on the back to give an extra base for the throne and my vocal mic. It was sort of optional but makes things less crowded. I didn't put a carpet on this section. It is sort of offset...so that the back left side is deeper than the the back right side. It looks uneven because of this, but it works great for the space. I didn't have to move any other furniture and I don't need the base were it isn't...so it is actually perfect. There wasn't a single cut made, hole drilled, or nail pounded. It took 2 hours to put together from the moment I got in the car to buy the supplies to finished.
It works ok. I think it would work better if the sheets were 2 inches deep like the planks I'd been using were. I looked into that, but again...too heavy to move and too big for the car. I have the bass drum and pedal all on one sheet together. That seems to be the key. It bounces a bit on the particle board...but only at the top of the toms...the pedal and bass drum don't seem to be bouncing against each other any more. I played for 2 hours straight last night will no leg pain or difficultly in execution. Played The Drain and Green Day and crap like that with fast bass pedal to really test it.
The sheets were about $6.50 each and the carpets were $9 each. I bought too much supplies...but of what I actually used...the cost was just about $38-40.
My goal is not a riser so much as to have the entire drum kit and all the stands on a single piece of wood that doesn't bounce. Sturdy. And it has to be cheap and easy. I've read a bit that true risers have all kinds of good and bad sonic side-effects...and I'm just not fancy enough to deal with all of that. So I will not be looking to get any height off the floor. Just to solidify everything.
I think that I will shoot for either a (5 ft x 5ft) or a (5 ft x whatever size fits in the space and means I don't have to cut many pieces of wood) footprint of 3/4 inch to 1 1/8 inch particle board. The bottom to be reinforced by 2x4s. The 2x4s I plan to lay down on the wide edge. I might change my mind about this and put them on the thin edge...but I don't want much air space under the "riser" to avoid the aforementioned sonic side-effects. We'll see. If I lay down the particle board and it does the trick by itself I might not even worry with bracing. If I do the bracing, I'm thinking 6 - 2x4s. Much of the design concept is based on my loft bed.
Update:
Well, the end prodect seems to be working pretty good, but it didn't end up going how I thought it would. I figured out pretty quickly that I wasn't strong enough to move a huge sheet of particle board and that it wouldn't fit in my car. So I changed my mind and bought small sheets instead. Feeling cheap and lazy, I also gave up the idea of cross braces. So here it is:
What this is...is four 2 ft by 4 ft by 3/4 inch sheets of particle board. They were called handy sheets or something like that. On top of that is two 2 ft x 3 ft thin indoor/outdoor carpets with rubber backing. I bought some plates to nail them together, but have decided to see if I can avoid any kind of faseners at all. The final footprint is 6 ft wide at the front and 4 foot long for the bulk of the piece. There's an extra 2x4 tacked on the back to give an extra base for the throne and my vocal mic. It was sort of optional but makes things less crowded. I didn't put a carpet on this section. It is sort of offset...so that the back left side is deeper than the the back right side. It looks uneven because of this, but it works great for the space. I didn't have to move any other furniture and I don't need the base were it isn't...so it is actually perfect. There wasn't a single cut made, hole drilled, or nail pounded. It took 2 hours to put together from the moment I got in the car to buy the supplies to finished.
It works ok. I think it would work better if the sheets were 2 inches deep like the planks I'd been using were. I looked into that, but again...too heavy to move and too big for the car. I have the bass drum and pedal all on one sheet together. That seems to be the key. It bounces a bit on the particle board...but only at the top of the toms...the pedal and bass drum don't seem to be bouncing against each other any more. I played for 2 hours straight last night will no leg pain or difficultly in execution. Played The Drain and Green Day and crap like that with fast bass pedal to really test it.
The sheets were about $6.50 each and the carpets were $9 each. I bought too much supplies...but of what I actually used...the cost was just about $38-40.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Update on Pixies Tunes
Last night was a good reminder that people all have different ways of looking at the world. CJ discussed what songs we plan to bother learning. I've been discussing that here with myself over the last week and thought I had a handle on it. But everyone is different, and so I was a little surprised by what everyone else thought.
There was really only three of us in on the conversation, so it is entirely possible that we missed "Joey's" opinions and that those could change things again...but here's what we agreed to work on...
Ana
Wave UK
Space
Velvety
Lovely Day
Build High
Weird at My School
Cecilia Ann
Rock Music
Hangwire
Dance the Manta Ray
Motorway to Roswell
In Heaven (Kim Deal version)
Rock a My Soul
The Happening
(update: on 1/11/2012 we decided to add Santo to above list)
Bailey's Walk was vetoed for being too screamy though I feel like it is a key b-side (we'll do the Kim Deal version of "In Heaven" for the same reason). I was shocked...shocked...to see "Velvety" rise to the top of the list. I listened to it a dozen times this morning and it won't be hard to pick up...but it still surprised me as I'd totally written it off. It's a fun song though, so I'm fine with it. I was also a little surprised to see "Lovely Day" on the list...but I'll have it ready soon so that's fine. "Rock A My Soul" isn't as suprising as it might be because I've always known that EH loves it...but it will be harder to find videos (it is in the TT Bear's video, but the quality is poor) and tab for. I have some draft chords and that's it.
This leaves the following to be undone in theory...
All Over the World
Stormy Weather (though RS expressed some love for it)
Havalina
Navajo Know (CT loves this, the rest of us hate it, so it is still up to debate)
Bailey's Walk
Make Believe
The Thing
Santo (update: on 1/11/2012 we decided to add this to above list)
Bam Thwok
Boom Chicka Boom
Theme from NARC
and all the remaining covers
Winterlong (EH hates this song)
Evil Hearted You
Wild Honey Pie
Ain't that Pretty At All
Can't Forget
Born in Chicago
Hang on to Your Ego
I've Been Waiting
Everything is still up to debate, of course...and the idea of doing a "weird ass" song show isn't off the table, in which case everything is game. There's nothing left off that I have strong love for...though I DO think that we ought to play total Bossonova and total Trompe shows...so I'm probably push to learn those tunes to perform at least once.
Last night we blasted through Blown Away, Bird Dream, and D=RxT like they were nothing, though I know that CT still isn't happy with his parts. Next week we'll tackle Ana, Wave UK, Space (or at least get a start on it...since this is probably the hardest song left...maybe the hardest song period besides maybe Alec Eiffel), and Velvety.
There was really only three of us in on the conversation, so it is entirely possible that we missed "Joey's" opinions and that those could change things again...but here's what we agreed to work on...
Ana
Wave UK
Space
Velvety
Lovely Day
Build High
Weird at My School
Cecilia Ann
Rock Music
Hangwire
Dance the Manta Ray
Motorway to Roswell
In Heaven (Kim Deal version)
Rock a My Soul
The Happening
(update: on 1/11/2012 we decided to add Santo to above list)
Bailey's Walk was vetoed for being too screamy though I feel like it is a key b-side (we'll do the Kim Deal version of "In Heaven" for the same reason). I was shocked...shocked...to see "Velvety" rise to the top of the list. I listened to it a dozen times this morning and it won't be hard to pick up...but it still surprised me as I'd totally written it off. It's a fun song though, so I'm fine with it. I was also a little surprised to see "Lovely Day" on the list...but I'll have it ready soon so that's fine. "Rock A My Soul" isn't as suprising as it might be because I've always known that EH loves it...but it will be harder to find videos (it is in the TT Bear's video, but the quality is poor) and tab for. I have some draft chords and that's it.
This leaves the following to be undone in theory...
All Over the World
Stormy Weather (though RS expressed some love for it)
Havalina
Navajo Know (CT loves this, the rest of us hate it, so it is still up to debate)
Bailey's Walk
Make Believe
The Thing
Santo (update: on 1/11/2012 we decided to add this to above list)
Bam Thwok
Boom Chicka Boom
Theme from NARC
and all the remaining covers
Winterlong (EH hates this song)
Evil Hearted You
Wild Honey Pie
Ain't that Pretty At All
Can't Forget
Born in Chicago
Hang on to Your Ego
I've Been Waiting
Everything is still up to debate, of course...and the idea of doing a "weird ass" song show isn't off the table, in which case everything is game. There's nothing left off that I have strong love for...though I DO think that we ought to play total Bossonova and total Trompe shows...so I'm probably push to learn those tunes to perform at least once.
Last night we blasted through Blown Away, Bird Dream, and D=RxT like they were nothing, though I know that CT still isn't happy with his parts. Next week we'll tackle Ana, Wave UK, Space (or at least get a start on it...since this is probably the hardest song left...maybe the hardest song period besides maybe Alec Eiffel), and Velvety.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
The Home Stretch
A few days ago I posted about the remaining Pixies songs left to tab. Since then I finished "Weird at My School" and I realized that "Wild Honey Pie" is essentially done too. Beyond that, let's drill down.
Remaining songs that are incomplete:15 songs
Album-based: 1 song
Lovely Day
B-sides: 7 songs
Rock A My Soul
Make Believe
Velvety Instrumental
Santo
Bam Thwok
Boom Chicka Boom
Theme from Narc (kind of a cover too)
Unreleased: 1 song
Brackish Boy
Covers: 6 songs
Evil Hearted You (Yardbirds)
Ain't That Pretty at All (Warren Zevon)
I Can't Forget (Leonard Cohen)
Born in Chicago (Paul Butterfield Blues Band)
Hang on to Your Ego (Beach Boys)
I've Been Waiting For You (Neil Young)
I am going to make a judgement call and say that the unreleased song and the covers are totally and completely unneccesary. Not that I won't still try to learn them...but really these just don't count.
So that leaves only the album-based song and the b-sides...and that's 8 songs. I'm nearly done with "Lovely Day"...so that's only a matter of time. The 7 remaining b-sides may or may not ever get done.
"Rock a My Soul" and "Boom Chicka Boom" are songs that they only played early in their career and no one but a die hard Pixies fan would have ever heard them. I think "Rock a My Soul" is only on the purple tape and that "Boom Chicka Boom" only exists in early performance video. "Bam Thwok" while being a song that I love, really isn't part of the core catalog. I don't think it was ever released anywhere but through itunes and I don't know if it is still available. The fact that they have toured widely after recording it but never play it speaks volumes. The other four...Make Believe, Velvety Instrumental, Santo, Theme from Narc...are b-sides that they've also chosen not to play in the modern era. "Velvety" Frank Black recorded later in his career with lyrics, so I feel like that's really one of his songs, not a Pixies song proper and I suspect that they feel that way too. I read an interview in which Kim Deal said that she should be killed for writing "Make Believe" even though I think it is kind of hilarious. Still it is by far the most jokey and most dated of their songs and probably better left alone. "Theme from Narc" is just fucking hard to play I think. I've not attempted the bass line, but the right foot bass drum is fast and I don't want to put EH through that. It's another "only a die hard Pixies fan would care about this" song. And that leaves "Santo"...which I recall the last time it was brought up in rehearsal being given a certain "Ah...Santo" dismissive tone. I don't know that it is such a bad song...but not well known for sure.
For my personal sense of completeness, of course, I'm never gonna feel right unless I tab all 89 songs. But reasonably speaking, I'm also getting tired of this project and know that these last few serve no purpose. We will never play them live...or if we do we'd play them once only in some special kind of "weird songs" set. Even if we did that...there are plenty enough good b-sides and rarities that these don't seem to rise to the call.
And so I'm left thinking that Lovely Day may end up being the last Pixies song that I tab. Which seems both weird and anti-climatic. At the start if one would wager what the last song would be...I doubt Lovely Day would have been the bet. That said...I didn't even know the names of all the songs at the start...so I wouldn't have been able to make an informed wager. In the end Lovely Day falls to the end because no one else has posted the bass tab on the web yet...which either means that no one cares about the song or that the bass line is so easy that it isn't worth tabbing. I don't think the latter is completely true (since it is taking me a bit to figure out)...nor has it guided whether other tab has been posted...I mean "Where Is My Mind" is tabbed in a billion places...and that's pretty damn easy. So while I'd argue that "The Navajo Know" is the worst Pixies song...perhaps the bass players out there in the world think it is "Lovely Day."
More likely...I've been caring about this far longer than any reasonable person should.
Remaining songs that are incomplete:15 songs
Album-based: 1 song
Lovely Day
B-sides: 7 songs
Rock A My Soul
Make Believe
Velvety Instrumental
Santo
Bam Thwok
Boom Chicka Boom
Theme from Narc (kind of a cover too)
Unreleased: 1 song
Brackish Boy
Covers: 6 songs
Evil Hearted You (Yardbirds)
Ain't That Pretty at All (Warren Zevon)
I Can't Forget (Leonard Cohen)
Born in Chicago (Paul Butterfield Blues Band)
Hang on to Your Ego (Beach Boys)
I've Been Waiting For You (Neil Young)
I am going to make a judgement call and say that the unreleased song and the covers are totally and completely unneccesary. Not that I won't still try to learn them...but really these just don't count.
So that leaves only the album-based song and the b-sides...and that's 8 songs. I'm nearly done with "Lovely Day"...so that's only a matter of time. The 7 remaining b-sides may or may not ever get done.
"Rock a My Soul" and "Boom Chicka Boom" are songs that they only played early in their career and no one but a die hard Pixies fan would have ever heard them. I think "Rock a My Soul" is only on the purple tape and that "Boom Chicka Boom" only exists in early performance video. "Bam Thwok" while being a song that I love, really isn't part of the core catalog. I don't think it was ever released anywhere but through itunes and I don't know if it is still available. The fact that they have toured widely after recording it but never play it speaks volumes. The other four...Make Believe, Velvety Instrumental, Santo, Theme from Narc...are b-sides that they've also chosen not to play in the modern era. "Velvety" Frank Black recorded later in his career with lyrics, so I feel like that's really one of his songs, not a Pixies song proper and I suspect that they feel that way too. I read an interview in which Kim Deal said that she should be killed for writing "Make Believe" even though I think it is kind of hilarious. Still it is by far the most jokey and most dated of their songs and probably better left alone. "Theme from Narc" is just fucking hard to play I think. I've not attempted the bass line, but the right foot bass drum is fast and I don't want to put EH through that. It's another "only a die hard Pixies fan would care about this" song. And that leaves "Santo"...which I recall the last time it was brought up in rehearsal being given a certain "Ah...Santo" dismissive tone. I don't know that it is such a bad song...but not well known for sure.
For my personal sense of completeness, of course, I'm never gonna feel right unless I tab all 89 songs. But reasonably speaking, I'm also getting tired of this project and know that these last few serve no purpose. We will never play them live...or if we do we'd play them once only in some special kind of "weird songs" set. Even if we did that...there are plenty enough good b-sides and rarities that these don't seem to rise to the call.
And so I'm left thinking that Lovely Day may end up being the last Pixies song that I tab. Which seems both weird and anti-climatic. At the start if one would wager what the last song would be...I doubt Lovely Day would have been the bet. That said...I didn't even know the names of all the songs at the start...so I wouldn't have been able to make an informed wager. In the end Lovely Day falls to the end because no one else has posted the bass tab on the web yet...which either means that no one cares about the song or that the bass line is so easy that it isn't worth tabbing. I don't think the latter is completely true (since it is taking me a bit to figure out)...nor has it guided whether other tab has been posted...I mean "Where Is My Mind" is tabbed in a billion places...and that's pretty damn easy. So while I'd argue that "The Navajo Know" is the worst Pixies song...perhaps the bass players out there in the world think it is "Lovely Day."
More likely...I've been caring about this far longer than any reasonable person should.
Lovely Day
Lovely Day Structure
Intro:
8 measures, probably in Bm
Verse:
Bm
At the station
at the border
an egression G F#
to the exterior law and order upward plantation
Bm
i remember your red dress
like a field full o' poppy
you were making me dreamy G F#
stunned by a love got to do what your head says could not let it stop me
Chorus:
D G Em7
they got one leaving today
D G Em7
they got one leaving today
D G Em7
they got one leaving today X 2
G F#
and it's going away
(there’s a transition of a few measures, first guess as follows: Bm F#7)
Verse:
Bm
got my feet in the stirrup
it can be kind of banal G F#
but i dream of your red dress riding down these dry canals oh baby it's not europe
Bridge (1:12):
Bm
but i'm sending you money
i'm sending you lots of money
so you can buy a ticket
you will be my martian
honey
all the
G F#
day
Chorus:
D G Em7
they got one leaving today ha
D G Em7
they got one leaving today ha
D G Em7
they got one leaving today ha X 2
G F#
and it's going away
(there’s a transition of a few measures)
SOLO/OUTRO (1:45)
About 13 measures, a lot like the ends of the choruses for a while
Below is a first guess at progression in outro
(Bm F#7) x3
(Bm E) x2
Bm G
Bm (longer)
Another possible chorus prog
Bm E F#
Bm E F#
Bm E F#
G D
x3
Bm F#7
Intro:
8 measures, probably in Bm
Verse:
Bm
At the station
at the border
an egression G F#
to the exterior law and order upward plantation
Bm
i remember your red dress
like a field full o' poppy
you were making me dreamy G F#
stunned by a love got to do what your head says could not let it stop me
Chorus:
D G Em7
they got one leaving today
D G Em7
they got one leaving today
D G Em7
they got one leaving today X 2
G F#
and it's going away
(there’s a transition of a few measures, first guess as follows: Bm F#7)
Verse:
Bm
got my feet in the stirrup
it can be kind of banal G F#
but i dream of your red dress riding down these dry canals oh baby it's not europe
Bridge (1:12):
Bm
but i'm sending you money
i'm sending you lots of money
so you can buy a ticket
you will be my martian
honey
all the
G F#
day
Chorus:
D G Em7
they got one leaving today ha
D G Em7
they got one leaving today ha
D G Em7
they got one leaving today ha X 2
G F#
and it's going away
(there’s a transition of a few measures)
SOLO/OUTRO (1:45)
About 13 measures, a lot like the ends of the choruses for a while
Below is a first guess at progression in outro
(Bm F#7) x3
(Bm E) x2
Bm G
Bm (longer)
Another possible chorus prog
Bm E F#
Bm E F#
Bm E F#
G D
x3
Bm F#7
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