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Open E Tuning: Help Me Find Out Two Chords of Classic Cat Stevens Song

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leonardmccoy
Posted 2016-03-23 7:04 AM (#523065)
Subject: Open E Tuning: Help Me Find Out Two Chords of Classic Cat Stevens Song



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Going by the subject line, this may indeed sound like an odd request. But I need the help of a more knowledgable player than I am.

Thing is, for my Cat Stevens Guitar Tab fan project site, I'm in the midst of transcribing one of Cat Stevens' classic acoustic songs, namely "If I Laugh" from his album Teaser and the Firecat (1971). And that song is played in Open E tuning.

And so I'm stuck figuring out two rather transitional chords in that song. It's all about the exact chord shape Cat Stevens is using to play over the F#m7 and C#m7 harmonics.

Here is a video of the original performance with the timestamp set to the chords that I need: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqVtmIVD9xc&t=3m7s.

Here is what the tablature would look like and the missing pieces I'm trying to figure out:

Going by the original performance (see video), my suspicion is that, for the chords in question, he's playing something like F#5 (222xxx) or F#5sus4 (2223xx) and C#m7/G# (420000) respectively. What do you guys think?

Any Open E players out there, please step up!

 



Edited by leonardmccoy 2016-03-23 7:17 AM
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leonardmccoy
Posted 2016-03-25 7:56 AM (#523120 - in reply to #523065)
Subject: Re: Open E Tuning: Help Me Find Out Two Chords of Classic Cat Stevens Song



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Yep, pretty sure I'm going with F#5 and C#m7/G#.
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leonardmccoy
Posted 2016-03-27 1:37 PM (#523206 - in reply to #523065)
Subject: Re: Open E Tuning: Help Me Find Out Two Chords of Classic Cat Stevens Song



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The song is fully tabbed out now at https://catstevensguitar.wordpress.com/teaser-and-the-firecat-1971/i...
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