Somewhere Over the Rainbow

[mmmaak]

Originally Posted by Ryler

Here's one I stumbled upon online that looks doable:

http://www.guitardownunder.com/Scores/rainbow.pdf

I haven't played it all the way through, but in the second measure it suggests you play the Em7 with one finger on fret 7, 1st string and another on fret 2, 4th string. Ouch. I need to play that instead as a barre Em7 at the seventh fret, pulling that E on the 5th string.

You know what, I'm pretty sure that was a mistake in the tab. Unless the player was specifically going for the timbre of the 4th string, there's no good reason to not play that note on the 5th, as he does in the 3rd beat of that same bar

[TBman]

Originally Posted by Bern

Not to hijack the thread, but I do have a question to all of you. Do you prefer a virtuoso or a straight forward, happy kind of, version ?

I like a straight forward rendition, which is why I prefer Mark Hanson's version over TE's

[Oracle]

Originally Posted by michaeljohnr

I always liked Eva Cassidy's version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce-5OWBNGNw

That's the way I learned it anyway...

+1 For Eva.


Mike

[mmmaak]

Originally Posted by TBman

I like a straight forward rendition, which is why I prefer Mark Hanson's version over TE's

Actually, if we throw out all those crazy harmonics (which aren't really part of the melody at all), Tommy's version is surprisingly straightforward and simple.

But then, it wouldn't be Tommy-ish anymore

Barry, would you happen to have an MP3 of Mark's version? I'd like to listen to (at least some part of) the arrangement before I decide whether to buy the Oz book

[TBman]

PM me Mmmaak

[Billy Memphis]

I do not have an arrangement per se to recommend. I just wanted to say I love this song and I have been working on it and making it my own for a month or so. I play it on a classical and play the melody along with the chords over and over until I know it by heart and then it becomes an arrangement of my own. I love the romanticism in this song.
"dreams really do come true".

[whoa]

I am so going to marry Eva Cassidy if she comes back from the dead and turns out to have bad taste in men and my wife turns out to have been an illusion.

[SlimPickins]

Not sure you would want to learn this arrangement but I thought it was interesting coming from Eric Clapton. Sure is different seeing him sing this one but very tasteful.........


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V2yT...eature=related

[Herb Hunter]

Originally Posted by SlimPickins

Not sure you would want to learn this arrangement but I thought it was interesting coming from Eric Clapton. Sure is different seeing him sing this one but very tasteful.........


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V2yT...eature=related

Thanks for the link.

[MikeTX]

+1 on Clapton! Great, peaceful, happy version - such pros...

Love Tommy E also, but he's un-reachable, for me...