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The Gumbo Pages has a lot of excellent lead tabs for most of the songs off of A.M. For some reason after that they become progressively less accurate. Of course, you can always post a request if you want a particular lead transcribed. It will most likely be ignored. But if it's ignored long enough, I'll do it.

Hmm... SomewhatHonest brings up in interesting point (though I'm a touch hurt that he called delay and synth stuff nonsense, expecially since that is precisely how Wilco got those sounds on YHF, which is what Artifex was asking about in the first place ): you can get surprisingly noisy results with relatively common items used in uncommon ways. Anyhoo, Artifex, maybe you could tell us what equipment you have available to you and, if you plan on buying more stuff, what your budget is. That way, we can figure out cool ways to use the stuff you already have or are likely to get, rather than

Here's the link: Noise Sample The level is a little off because I really don't know what I'm doing with ProTools so it might be a touch soft. Anyhoo, I'm using a Korg CX-3 Hammond Organ clone (just like Mikal! before he got a real Hammond Organ), a Boss Overdrive/Distortion pedal (not my first choice, but all I had lying around the house), a Korg KAOSS Pad (new! just like Nels!), and an ProTools MBox on a iBook. There are only 4 tracks but they're each heavily processed (there are 6 elements below but they only appear on 4 tracks since I'm all about conservation). Three of the four

Overdub! Even stuff that isn't that weird or noisy, when mixed with other things that by themsleves aren't that weird or noisy, become really weird and noisy. Warning! Can be overdone -- you want interesting noise, not white noise (which is profoundly uninteresting and why you call the TV repair guy). Filter! The most mundane sound becomes really interesting when a bunch of its frequencies are cut or boosted in really unnatural ways. Wah-wah pedals are types of filters (band-pass) that are readily available. Especially useful is messing with the filter frequency and resonance in real-

When in doubt, copy someone else: When I saw Son Volt recently, Jay Farrar was playing a Gretsch Electromatic Pro Jet with Bigsby at $490. AC Newman with the New Pornographers was playing a Gibson Les Paul faded double-cutaway for $770.

It could be a Korg MS-20, which you can see here: vintagesynth.org or it could be the controller from the Korg Legacy collection (you know how Mike loves his soft synths). The controller is modeled on the MS-20, except 84% of its size: korg.com

This is my hastily-made tab for Won

I've added the tab to Corduroy Cutoff Girl in a new post. Enjoy!

Okay, here

Hee hee. Yeah, they're semiweighted in that they are heavier than synth keys and original Hammond waterfall keys but not as heavy as a piano. I find that it is an uncomfortable compromise -- too heavy for organ, not heavy enough for electric piano -- but some people love them. Again, it's all about personal preference. I just miss the swinging hammer which makes a piano feel like a piano. Cheers,

The Nord Electro is a very good piece of hardware (I love mine, but my new austerity program might force me to sell it) but it fails to meet the conditions on two counts: (1) It does not have weighted keys (2) Its acoustic piano sound is subpar I'm guessing that when you say weighted keys you mean hammer-action keys because of the primacy of the acoustic piano sounds. You might have a bit of a problem getting hammer-action keys and a decent B3 clone in one package (that's why Mikal and Pat each have at least three keyboards on stage) especially at your price point without getting used

Well, I might have mischaracterized it. Portamento (or glide) is not an effect like distortion or chorus, but a function in many synthesizers that controls how the synthesizer switches between notes as you play them. It's actually a collection of parameters but the one most used is portamento time, which controls the time it takes for the pitch played to rise or fall to the next pitch played. Short portamento times will not be noticeable but long portamento times will sound like playing slide guitar. I know this is lame, but a good example of portamento is in the solo to "Lucky Man" by EL

Yeah, I'm not sure what was used in the studio (live they are using a Nord Lead 2) but I think the effect is portamento or glide and not the pitch wheel.

Hmm... that transcription there is slightly wrong. I can't remember the bridge (I'll get that for you later) but here's the verse: [E] Wind will [A]blow and the [E]sun will shine [E] On that [F#dim7]hill where we [A]used to climb [Am] I look in [b7]your eyes and [E]you'll be [C#m]mine [C]Someday, someday [E]soon F#dim7 can be played: e---2--| B---1--| G---2--| D---1--| A------| E------| I hope this helps. Cheers

Yup, that's right.

I believe Pot Kettle Black is in Open D rather than Drop D. Radio Cure is in Drop D, I think, as is Not for the Season.

Hey, here's my go. Never [D]doubting Always [C]faithful She re[G]turns [C] [G] [C] She says she [D]loves me And I could [C]always Come to [G]her [C] [G] [C] ... and so on For best effect, hammer on the F# (second fret, high e string) when playing the D chord. The lead parts are mostly just G minor and major pentatonic licks played in the third and first positions, respectively. I can transcribe a few of them if you'd like. Cheers

Hey, no problem. Thanks for the compliments. It looks like the years of not getting chicks because I was in high school marching band and jazz band have paid off. Let me know if you have any questions after you try it out.

Okay, here

Can you post the song?

You know, I should really stop posting tab from work as: (1) I should be working, and (2) I don't have a guitar handy to verify what I'm posting Anyhoo, I corrected a bit of a mistake in my previous post. I reserve the right to screw this up, too. Enjoy.

The chords are on the altcountrytab site: I Can't Keep From Talking Tab The tabbed intro there seems a bit off, though, so here's my go: e----------------|---------------------------|---------------| B----------------|---------------------------|---------------| G--x-x-x---------|------------------------4--|--2------------| D--x-x-x------0--|-----0h2--0--0h2--0-----2--|--4---------0--| A--x-x-x--0h2----|---------------------2-----|-------0h2-----| E--x-x-x---------|--0------------------------|---------------| e---------------------------|---------------| B---------------------------|--

Well, I took a listen/viewing last night and the first thing I can say is it's not in open C. Well, it kinda is. It's in open C tuned down a step so it's really open Bb. Tuning (low to high) would be: Bb F Bb F Bb D The chords are pretty easy in this tuning especially if you don't worry about thirds (theory geeks will understand). You can get most of the chords (as indeed Tweedy does) by barring the middle four strings at the appropriate frets: Bb (open -- make sure to let the lowest -- 6th -- string ring out) F (7th fret) Gm (9th fret) Eb (5th fret) C (2nd fret) Eb (5th fret) I

Here's the tab to the version I play which sounds suspiciously like the version Jeff plays on the live performances section of the IATTBYH DVD (I would say it's a tab of that, but that implies some guarantee of accuracy). I capo second fret (which matches the Gumbo Pages key) but IIRC Jeff capos 4th or higher for that version. Just capo where you are comfortable singing. A note on left hand fingering: the chord shapes are basically C G F with some passing chords. A note on right hand fingering: Use your thumb for all the notes on the low E, A, and D strings; your index finger for th

Oops! I got the Edim7 fingering wrong. It should be: | Edim7 | e---3---| B---2---| G---3---| D---2---| A-------| E--(0)--| I corrected it above, too (so that there is no record of my screw-up). Cheers