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Desperado - by the Eagles
I've just now finished an arrangement of Desperado by the Eagles.
here's a youtube of them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFsz7...os=uuTNDgwpBM4 It sounds like they are doing it in the key of G. For my solo acoustic instrumental of it the fingering works out better for me in the key of C. Then if I capo at 2nd position it puts it in my vocal range and I can just reach the highest instrumental notes around the 12th fret. My simple arrangement uses C F G AM EM DM. I may try to embellish it later but these basic chords seem to work pretty good. What do you think ? How do you play it ?....any suggestions? - Larry
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This seems to be a pretty accurate C version based on the way I play it in G
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/...perado_crd.htm You can click on Transpose "Up 5 half steps" and see how they interpret it in C. |
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Please post your arrangement for guitar when you're ready. |
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Joe, thanks so much for that link -
it filled in some things I had not figured out yet. Marty, yea, I'll post what I come up with after I improve it using the info from the link Joe gave me. - Larry
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Here's the chord chart I figured out a few years ago and it's served me pretty well. I do the piano intro with some partial chords before going into the strummin' and singin'. I keep it in the key of C.
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thanks for your version-
strange thing - I tried to COPY so I could PASTE into my word processor to print but the COPY does not work. Anybody know why ? I'll study your version - thanks so much This is my favorite EAGLES song. - Larry
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I think variety is cool. I’ve always played it in G but with no instrumental aspect, so I’ve been messing around and have decided I like doing it with an Esus capo in key of D relative to the capo (sounds in E) and still singing part of it and playing instrumentally too...the Esus capo brings a nice touch to it. |
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break...its such an emotional song... I'm not familiar with an ESUS capo (you are at a level much higher than me) I'd say I'm an advanced beginner aspiring to be a beginning intermediate player. The way I got started on this song - the phrase 'desperado' came to mind and I was in a C chord and did a slide on the 2nd string d note up to the e note and back and then down to the C note and played vibrato on that high C note while holding the C chord ( I can do it on my classical - I'm not sure it would work on steel) - that's the DES-PER-RA-DO That sounded good so I began to work out the rest of the song.... after listening to it on youtube to get the melody set in mind. Then I worked out the chords and the positions on the neck to follow the melody. I got the basic chords - and now with ' a little help from my friends ' I'm working on the details ' I'm pretty much doing it 'by ear' with some knowledge of music theory at this point - I'm beginning to learn to read TAB - - Larry
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OK, since you're learning to read tablature -- and it's probably my favorite Eagles song as well -- I figured out the intro & outro and put it into tablature form. If there's any mistakes, let me know.
Good luck and have fun. geokie8
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Covering 6-5-4-3 on the second fret and leaving the e-b strings open is the ESUS setup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iws9Utfab3o
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thanks so much for the TAB...I printed it off..
I definitely want to learn those parts. How did you make it and insert it into a post ? ======================= Larry, I bet it does sound really good with the esus capo. Listening to your clip - the tone would match well I think to the overall mood of the song. - Larry
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First I created it in Word as a document. Then I printed out a hard copy. Next I scanned the print out, but as a photo rather than a document. That allowed me to save it as a .jpg file.
Next I signed up at photobucket.com per forum's suggestion. For as few images as I'm going to be uploading, it's free. Copy the address of where the photo is stored. Using the forum's picture button, paste address into field that pops up and it shows up on your post. geokie8
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GEOKIE8, thanks for taking the time to help a newbie
I have WORD, - don't have a scanner - but could take a pic with my digital camera. So now I need to sign up for photobucket - and then start using the picture button. I take it you have some sort of 'template' with TAB lines stored in WORD and then " mod / save as " when you do something new like the tab you made for me. - Larry
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