Help with No Rain by Blind Melon

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Help with No Rain by Blind Melon

Unread post by dmb_josh » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:51 pm

I play the verse Emajor, Dmajor, Amajor, Emajor. It is a pretty straight forward syncopated rhythm, but there is a small chord change at the end of each verse that I'm having trouble nailing down. The guitar sounds something like dum da dum dah. Can anyone help me figure out the best way to play that?

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain

I like watching the puddles gather rain (dum da dum da)

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Unread post by dmbvideos » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:03 am

Try a G chord in there.

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Unread post by dmb_josh » Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:32 pm

G didn't work...and I think it is two chords anyway.

thanks though

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Unread post by dmbvideos » Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:24 pm

I play it like this:

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E                         D                
All I can say is that my life is pretty plain.

   A                         G      E             G       E
I like watching the puddles gather rain..

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Unread post by dmb_josh » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:00 pm

Are you playing an open G or a barre G? I cannot for the life of me get it to sound right...are you using upstrokes? Any help would be greatly appreciatd.

Thanks

Josh

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Unread post by mrjones » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:17 pm

i cant get the intro to sound right
For us living any other ways was nuts. with all the goodie-goodies working shitty jobs for bum pay checks, took the subway work and worried about their bills were dead. they were suckers, they had no balls. if we wanted something we just took it, and if anybody complained twice they got hit so hard believe me they never complained again

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Unread post by dmb_josh » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:11 pm

How are you playing the intro? I can tab out the way I do it if you want

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Unread post by smedley » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:24 pm

http://www.dmbtabs.com/boards/viewtopic ... t=rain+tab

i made that tab a while back, check it out
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Unread post by seth_southerland » Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:51 am

isn't it E7 E E7 E?
Hadoken!

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Unread post by mrjones » Sat Apr 01, 2006 1:01 am

dmb_josh wrote:How are you playing the intro? I can tab out the way I do it if you want
yes please
For us living any other ways was nuts. with all the goodie-goodies working shitty jobs for bum pay checks, took the subway work and worried about their bills were dead. they were suckers, they had no balls. if we wanted something we just took it, and if anybody complained twice they got hit so hard believe me they never complained again

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Unread post by c_tietze » Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:07 pm

Poor BM, a great band that was pushed into obscurity thanks to overplaying one pretty good track.
~ And rain washed away all her tears and I smiled done away was the sum of all my fears ~

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Unread post by Ando » Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:59 pm

I've never gotten sick of No Rain.
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Unread post by sfmartins » Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:45 pm

Ando wrote:I've never gotten sick of No Rain.
Me neither...

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Unread post by Blake » Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:22 pm

sfmartins wrote:
Ando wrote:I've never gotten sick of No Rain.
Me neither...

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Unread post by i am sam2 » Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:47 pm

c_tietze wrote:Poor BM, a great band that was pushed into obscurity thanks to overplaying one pretty good track.
they were pushed into obscurity because shannon hoon, the lead singer, died. side note, they didnt even think no rain was that good of a song.
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