W***@aol.com
2005-12-14 08:01:26 UTC
Last night I watched the Bob Dylan documentary "No Direction Home,"
which is good. I've always liked Dylan's songs, and enjoyed the DVD
and recommend it to you all.
Anyway, one of the extra features is a few of the folks like Liam
Clancy and Mavis Staples each singing a Dylan song. The best
performance among these is Joan Baez singing "Love Is Just A Four
Letter Word" in its entirety.
It was kind of frustrating, though - the camera would hold back far
enough to be able to see her chord formations throughout the first part
of the melody, but then zoom in on her face toward the end of the verse
each time, never once showing what the chords are at the end and how
it's tied off.
Baez sings it in Eb natural, with the guitar capoed at the first fret,
playing in D formation (she was using her dandy little signature model
Martin, too!) Through the first melodic phrase she's playing a D major
chord, then quickly going to E minor. That repeats, then she goes to
an A minor and I THINK an E minor (this is where the camera would come
in closer to her face)
As she got out of that minor phrase it looked as though she was playing
a C with a G in the bass, but from there I'm baffled.
I did poke around looking for the chords in a Google search, but found
only the lyrics. Do any of you know or play the song? Even if you're
using completely different phrasing and chord formations from Baez, I'd
be able to transpose and figure it out from there.
Thanks in advance.
It's really a very pretty song, but sitting down and singing it made me
realize just how much range it takes. Baez is such a gifted singer you
don't hear a significant change in timbre in her voice as she goes from
the high first phrase to the rest of the verse, but it's quite a
stretch.
Wade Hampton Miller
Chugiak, Alaska
which is good. I've always liked Dylan's songs, and enjoyed the DVD
and recommend it to you all.
Anyway, one of the extra features is a few of the folks like Liam
Clancy and Mavis Staples each singing a Dylan song. The best
performance among these is Joan Baez singing "Love Is Just A Four
Letter Word" in its entirety.
It was kind of frustrating, though - the camera would hold back far
enough to be able to see her chord formations throughout the first part
of the melody, but then zoom in on her face toward the end of the verse
each time, never once showing what the chords are at the end and how
it's tied off.
Baez sings it in Eb natural, with the guitar capoed at the first fret,
playing in D formation (she was using her dandy little signature model
Martin, too!) Through the first melodic phrase she's playing a D major
chord, then quickly going to E minor. That repeats, then she goes to
an A minor and I THINK an E minor (this is where the camera would come
in closer to her face)
As she got out of that minor phrase it looked as though she was playing
a C with a G in the bass, but from there I'm baffled.
I did poke around looking for the chords in a Google search, but found
only the lyrics. Do any of you know or play the song? Even if you're
using completely different phrasing and chord formations from Baez, I'd
be able to transpose and figure it out from there.
Thanks in advance.
It's really a very pretty song, but sitting down and singing it made me
realize just how much range it takes. Baez is such a gifted singer you
don't hear a significant change in timbre in her voice as she goes from
the high first phrase to the rest of the verse, but it's quite a
stretch.
Wade Hampton Miller
Chugiak, Alaska