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Guitar Riffs on Franz Ferdinand cover "Was There Anything I Could Do?'"
The Scottish/English rock band Franz Ferdinand did a great acoustic cover of a song by the Aussie band The Go-Betweens called "Was there anything I could do?" -- a song about the significant other dumping the protagonist to seek "fulfillment."
A universal theme, we might all agree. Anyway, it shows how you can do a great song with just 3 chords -- Emin, C, and D. No bridge. No chord changes in the chorus. It certainly +helps to have a great bass player and drummer, but the song works anyway. I can't quite figure out the what the second guitarist, (Nick McCarthy) is playing up the fretboard. I think the Eminor is the Dminor shape but what he is doing for the C and D, I can't quite make out. And then in instrumental interlude, the lead singer, Alex Kapranos, is also doing some stuff up the freboard at the high strings I can't make out. Anybody have thoughts? Song starts at 0:42.
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He's playing this: Code:
e|---0------------0------------0---------------------------------------------| B|---5------------5------------5s7-------------------------------------------| G|---4------------4s5----------5s7-------------------------------------------| D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| Quote:
Try this: Code:
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| B|------------------0-7-7-7-5---5-5-0---7-7-7-5---5-5-0---------------0------| G|----7-7-7-5---7-5-------------------------------------7-7-7-5---5-5--------| D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| e|----5-5-5-3---3-3-0-3-5-3-0---0-0---3-5-5-3---3-5-3-5-3---3----------------| B|----------------------------------5---------5-----------5---5--------------| G|--------------------------------------------------------------4------------| D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| The trick here is in the second line. Play the E on the second string with your ring finger and keep that note down as you play the first string with your index and pinky fingers. That way the E rings out and creates a bit of dissonance. . . |