If I Had It All & harmonics

xero · Post by **xero** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:40 am

Perhaps one of the resident gurus can help me out here.

I'm trying to find out what haronics Stefan is playing (if any -- they ARE in there, right?) during the verses to IIHIA. Right now I'm playing (in order) 4th fret A, 5th fret A, 4th fret D, 5th fret D, 5th fret G for that part. I'm almost sure that's not right, and I flat-out have NO ear for this at all. The rest of the song is dead simple, but I cannot figure this out. Any and all help is appreciated.

Thanks.

xero · Post by **xero** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:38 am

No takers on this?

i like tictacs · Post by **i like tictacs** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 9:13 am

I'll listen in a minute

i like tictacs · Post by **i like tictacs** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:52 pm

I don't hear any harmonics, except in the beginning which sounds more like Boyd plucking

xero · Post by **xero** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:38 pm

The very beginning is all Dave, heh. I'm surprised you can't hear them during the verses. Around 0:20 into the album version, when Dave sings, 'My screams come...,' those are harmonics, aren't they?

Anyhoo, I forgot this was on the FF DVD, so I'm gonna see if there's any shots of the verse on there. If anyone else can help out, I'd appreciate it.

i like tictacs · Post by **i like tictacs** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 3:03 pm

I don't hear anything, maybe it's butch.

xero · Post by **xero** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:03 pm

OK, so I checked out the FF DVD... The verse normally seems to be:

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G|--------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------4-(/)-7--9--|
A|--------------------4--5--------------|
E|-0----3-3----5-5----------------------|
B|--------------------------------------|

And the harmonics (which can be seen in the beginning of the second verse) look like:

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G|-------------------------<5>--<7>--<9>-------|
D|--------------------<5>-----------------<9>--|
A|---------------------------------------------|
E|-0----3-3----5-5-----------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------|

<> - harmonic

Anyone else want to try that out to see how it sounds? It sounds a LOT better than what I played in my initial post, and I'm pretty sure that's what he plays on the DVD. I could probably tab the rest of the song if there's interest.