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Damien Rice - Rootless Trees

Unread post by Teego Time » Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:49 pm

Quite an easy song to play. I have all of it except one part. Anyone want to help?

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Damien Rice
Rootless Trees

Tuning: Half Step Down


Here are the basic chord shapes for the verse, he picks through these.
|--------3---------------         -1&0---
|--0&1---1---3---0&1-----         -3-----
|--2-----0---0---0------- End on  -2-----  Then I suspect is goes to some variation of F
|--2-----3---0---0-------         -0-----  and then on to G. But it’s tough to hear.
|--0---------3---2-------         -------  Any ideas?
|------------------------         -------  


Chorus

|--0---1---0---0---
|--1---1---1---1---
|--2---2---0---0---
|--2---3---2---x---
|--0---3---3---2---
|------------------
Kahn » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:56 pm
the vaginal fluid they are secreting is the same composition of urine minus the uric acid and phosphorous. i learned that in 11th grade anatomy. btw, sometimes it does have a FAINT smell of Pizzle.
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Unread post by buffjam9011 » Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:24 am

i know it's not the help your looking for but live he plays this song with a capo... i think, i'm not sure i seen some shitty video on youtube and he was playin up on the neck
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Unread post by captainburrito » Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:22 am

I play it with a capo on the 4th fret, standard tuning...Em, C, G, D for the most part...and Am, C, D for the last line of the verse. I don't think it is 100% correct, but it doesn't sound too bad.
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Unread post by Easy E » Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:30 am

captainburrito wrote:I play it with a capo on the 4th fret, standard tuning...Em, C, G, D for the most part...and Am, C, D for the last line of the verse. I don't think it is 100% correct, but it doesn't sound too bad.

do you play the D with an F# bass?
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Unread post by Appfro » Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:21 pm

here are the chords for the intro, i won't tab the whole thing out cause there's a lot of extra notes in there but basically it's capo 4

Em
x
0
0 you can hear him go from the 4 to the 0, makes a really pretty sound
4
2
0

C
x
3
0
2
3
x

G
x
0
0
0
2
3

F# (D)
x
0
0
4 he does the same lick from the F# that he did from the Em
(0) i put () around 0 cause i'm nto sure about that note.
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Unread post by Teego Time » Thu Nov 16, 2006 7:41 pm

I kind of figured it was with a capo, but it also sounds decent half step down. Thanks for the the info with the capo on the 4th! I'll have to try that out asap.
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Unread post by Appfro » Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:34 pm

Teego Time wrote:I kind of figured it was with a capo, but it also sounds decent half step down. Thanks for the the info with the capo on the 4th! I'll have to try that out asap.
yea, you had it figured out perfectly. i just used what you wrote and transcribed it to the capo. sounds good either way, but capo is so much easier than tuning down
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Unread post by Easy E » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:20 pm

anybody want to try to transcribe 9 crimes. All the tabs that are on eskimo friends had it starting with a D chord, but it's obviously an A root, what i've figured it out is 5 7 9 5 x x, im not sure what that is exactly
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Unread post by Appfro » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:21 pm

i thought it was just Dm, Bb, F, C/G. that's excluding the piano part
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Unread post by Easy E » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:23 pm

like i said transcribe it from the beginning, meaning including the piano part
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Unread post by Appfro » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:24 pm

sorry, guess i didn't read that in your other post.
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Unread post by Easy E » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:28 pm

i guess i wasnt really clear, i say transcribe when its different instruments, tab when its guitar, anyway appsy, DO IT
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Unread post by Appfro » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:38 pm

can't. not good enough. but it is just arpeggioed Am, F, C, G.

i guess the Dm thing was from the video and i never played along w/ the album, i didn't know they had changed the key.
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Unread post by Easy E » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:43 pm

alright, playing through it i guess the other chords are pretty standard

the first chord can be played open like this x 0 2 4 1 x
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Unread post by Coldchillin » Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:53 am

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Rootless Tree - Damien Rice

Capo on 4 (all relevant to capo)

Intro

E|--------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------0----------3---3---------0------------------------|
G|--------0---0--------0-------0-------0----0---------0---0-----|
D|------4-------4----0-----0--------------0---0-----4-----------|
A|----2-----2------3-----------------2------------5-----5---4---|
E|--0------------------------------3------------2---------------|

E|--------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------0----------3---3---------0------------------------|
G|--------0---0--------0-------0-------0----0---------0---0-----|
D|------4-------4----0-----0--------------0---0-----4-----------|
A|----2-----2------3-----------------2------------5-----5---4---|
E|--0------------------------------3------------2---------------|

E|--------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------0----------3---3---------0------------------------|
G|--------0---0--------0-------0-------0----0---------0---0-----|
D|------4-------4----0-----0--------------0---0-----4-----------|
A|----2-----2------3-----------------2------------5-----5---4---|
E|--0------------------------------3------------2---------------|

E|--------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------0----------3---3----------------------------------|
G|--------0---0--------0-------0-----------<5>--------0---0-----|
D|------4-------4----0-----0------------<5>---0-----4-----------|
A|----2-----2------3-----------------2------------5-----5---4---|
E|--0----------------------------0h3------------2---------------|

Verse
                                                                  x3
E|--------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------0----------3---3---------0------------------------|
G|--------0---0--------0-------0-------0----0---------0---0-----|
D|------4-------4----0-----0--------------0---0-----4-----------|
A|----2-----2------3-----------------2------------5-----5---4---|
E|--0------------------------------3------------2---------------|

                                                                 x1
E|--------------0---------0-------------------------------------|
B|--------1-------1---1------1--------3----------------3--------|
G|------2---2-------2---2-----------0---0----------0-----0------|
D|----2-------2---------------------------0-----0---------------|
A|--0---------------------------0h3---------3h5-----------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------|

                                                                 x3
E|--------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------0----------3---3---------0------------------------|
G|--------0---0--------0-------0-------0----0---------0---0-----|
D|------4-------4----0-----0--------------0---0-----4-----------|
A|----2-----2------3-----------------2------------5-----5---4---|
E|--0------------------------------3------------2---------------|

                                                                 x1
E|--------------0---------0-----------------------(0)-------------|
B|--------1-------1---1------1--------3------------3--3--3--3--3--|
G|------2---2-------2---2-----------0---0----------0--0--0--0--0--|
D|----2-------2---------------------------0-----0--0--0--0--0--0--|
A|--0---------------------------0h3---------3h5----5--5--5--5--5--|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------|

Chorus
                                                                x4
E|--0------0----------------------------------------------------|
B|--0------3------0------0--------------------------------------|
G|--0--x6--0--x6--0------0--------------------------------------|
D|--4------0------0--x5--4--x7----------------------------------|
A|--2------3------2------5--------------------------------------|
E|----------------3------2--------------------------------------|

Post-Chorus
                                 x7
E|----------------------------|
B|---------3---3-----3--------|
G|-----------0---0------------|
D|-----0-----------0----------|
A|---3------------------------|
E|----------------------------|

                                 x1
E|----------------------------|
B|---------3----(3)-----------|
G|-----------(0)-----0--------|
D|-----0---------------0------|
A|-----------------------0----|
E|---2------------------------|

Order

Intro
Verse
Chorus
Post-Chorus
Verse
Chorus
Post-Chorus x4
Chorus x 2
Post Chorus to end


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