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Post by Leonard on Sept 7, 2006 4:19:47 GMT -5
Hi Christine,
I'd like to send in a tab I made especially for majicat.com. You may be aware that it's quite impossible to post tabs in this forum due to the forum's architecture (only 1 space between two characters ...). Would you please give me your contact Email address, so I can send the tab to you?
(Mine is: luobailong@gmail.com)
Here a short example:
INTRO Guitar 1 NH NH 2x E||----------------------------------|| B||-----------10--------------10-----|| G||--------7------7--------7------7--|| D||--[12]------------[12]------------|| A||----------------------------------|| E||----------------------------------||
INTRO Guitar 2 *D-Riff*
D D4 D D2 Em/G A4 A A4 2x E||--------2-----4--3--0-----|--0--------0-------------------|| B||-----------3-----------2--|-----0--3-----3-----2(h)--3----|| G||-----2-----------------3--|-----------------2-------------|| D||--0-----0-----0--0--0-----|-------------------------------|| A||--------------------------|--------------0-----0----------|| E||--------------------------|--3-----3----------------------||
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Post by Leonard on Feb 22, 2006 7:22:07 GMT -5
My Lady D'ArbanvilleThis version is basically DJ Illingworth's one but with added riffs as played live by Cat Stevens. Thus, credits go to him. If you find any mistakes, e-mail me: jacky4jkd@yahoo.com Intro
--Q-E-E-Q-E-E---Q-Q--H-----(4x) |-------------|-----<12>----| |---0---0---0-|-------------| |-------------|-------------| |-------------|-------------| |-7---7---7---|-7-----------| |-------------|---0---------|
Hm. It's crap to write it in this forum, for I cannot add more than 1 space between words which makes it impossible to write real taps. I will rather send it in via Email as txt-file. It is less work due to the dated forum version (sry to say that ).
Jacky
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Post by Leonard on Feb 26, 2008 11:51:21 GMT -5
Nope, not at all. Ouch.
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Post by Leonard on Feb 26, 2008 11:53:39 GMT -5
After listening to the album 24/7 I really gotta say that the album is really good. Market Place and Old Bourbon are just great songs. Especially Market Place sounds very Irish . I am not too fond of Alun's Portobello Road version with the Banjo - I just dont like the Banjo in there. It doesn't suit the style of the song if you ask me but apart from that the album is an interesting approach.
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Post by Leonard on Feb 23, 2008 18:53:21 GMT -5
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Post by Leonard on Oct 19, 2007 18:45:51 GMT -5
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Post by Leonard on Oct 2, 2006 18:00:02 GMT -5
I gotta agree with White Satin. I dont like her adaptions of Fill My Eyes, and The First Cut Is The Deepest ... that's too much country style for me ... That's ... ... ... so ... ...
Jacky
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Post by Leonard on Oct 9, 2006 15:13:18 GMT -5
Cat had only a little chord book and a cheap Italian guitar to start playing with. His first chords were E, E4, and A - if I'm not wrong. And there you almost have "I Love My Dog."
^.^
Can no one tell me the genuine Steve chord for "B" ?
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Post by Leonard on Oct 8, 2006 14:33:16 GMT -5
Just have a look at the picking version by DJ Illingworth, its pretty close to the original. Alun Davies used a Capo in the 7th fret for picking "How Can I Tell You".
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Post by Leonard on Oct 8, 2006 13:45:58 GMT -5
How Can I Tell You is played by Alun with a Capo at the 7th fret, using Am D etc..
Cat simply strumms it with Em7 Asus4/E (+addG) D D/F# (D-String) Em/E (on D-string) G G4, etc.
Watching the BBC Theatre live performance helps quite a lot ^.^
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Post by Leonard on Oct 8, 2006 5:45:04 GMT -5
Hello all Guitar fans out there, Cat Stevens is the man in the guitar and music world that most guitar players wanted to copy or to reinterpret. Back in the 60's and 70's playing full barré wasn't quite popular because of the width of the neck of the guitars, etc. Great players such as Steve, Jimmi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, etc. never played barré in the time back then. Then the 70's came and a new style of playing guitar evolved - e.g. Alun Davies playing full barré and half- or thumb barré. Well, the question that drives me is which chords has Steve played instead of a fully barréd Bb, B, or Fm, etc. Steve never learned guitar from a guitar teacher. He taught it himself - and developed an own way of playing uncomparable to others. It is also known that Steve disliked some chords, and never played them - such as B7 in the first fret. You will never see him playing it there. As for Bb (as in Hard-headed woman) I am of the opinion he played: Bb x10221 -T-RLI CHORDS FINGERING: T= Thumb I= Index finger M= Middle finger R= Ring finger L= Little finger But what about B ? There are some songs such as "Oh Very Young," "Another Saturday Night," "The Day They Make Me Tsar", etc. where you will need this chord. Can anyone help here, and tell me the Genuine Steve Chord for "B"?
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Post by Leonard on Sept 22, 2006 9:34:27 GMT -5
A nice picture showing Cat playing his Ovation Custom Balladeer pretty relaxed ^.^ ~Jacky
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Post by Leonard on Sept 22, 2006 9:49:57 GMT -5
Cat's most famous guitar was his Gibson Everly Brothers, later known as J-180 (J for Jumbo). It's the black beauty you can see in the "Father & Son" Promo video. In "Tea for the Tillerman Live" or "the Old Grey Whistle Test on BBC" he used a J-200.
Later on, when Ovation manufactured the best live-stage and recording guitars he was often using a Custom Balladeer 1712 on stage (as Alun Davies) and Ovation guitars in general from the album "Catch Bull at Four" on.
Alun Davies always used his numerous Martin Guitars (D-41, etc.) or his Epiphone before he also went into playing Ovation for a better performance (due to a preamp, etc.).
~Jacky
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Post by Leonard on Nov 24, 2005 16:22:00 GMT -5
I always thought the ovation was a very poor guitar choice. I would have to agree with the Gibson, but I play his songs on a martin d35 it really makes If I laugh sound great with my martin's deep sound. By the way If I laugh is also up there for best song. spondulix Playing "If I laugh" on guitar has always been a riddle to me. How do u actually play "If I laugh"? I'll never get it correctly. BTW, Cat's new Ovation guitar looks like a CUSTOM LEGEND Model 1719 to me - or something like that.... Jacky
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Post by Leonard on Jul 29, 2005 14:17:14 GMT -5
Well, the guy that wanted to get rid of his old Ovation, must be nuts, I dunno. What kind of strings do you use for your Ovations? D'Addario EXP?
Jacky
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Post by Leonard on Jul 27, 2005 7:17:17 GMT -5
Really?! Two weeks ago? A left-handed 1614 Folklore for only $211... :/ That's really not fair... The force is not with me... Moreover, I'm kinda afraid of buying from eBay.com due to the following reasons: 1. The guitar cud be broken in the one or other way. 2. The Delivery fees are kinda inhumane... My last attempt of buying an Ovation from ebay.com ended up with a guy who wanted more than 500€ from me for the delivery to Germany... Thats why, I gave up on eBay, and bought from Ovation Germany, which is pretty expensive. But the one advantage is that you got the newest technique, the OP Preamps, and lighter lyrachord corpuses. I dunno how the older Ovations sounded, plugged or unplugged, and if they are worse than the new ones, or even better due to their age - some guitar get better after 30 yrs.. Jacky
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Post by Leonard on Jul 26, 2005 14:41:27 GMT -5
Well, what guitar do I have? I wish I had Cat's . But as student, you wont be able to afford such good ones. I study North America studies, and sinology (Chinese ) My first guitar is a classical one (Konzertgitarre). It's a Martinez, quite unknown - but it looks almost the same way like Cat's Black Beauty Gibson - the J-180 Everly Brothers. Honestly said, I cant play on it anymore, for the neck is just too wide, I got used to thin necks already.... My 2nd, my treasure, my GODDESS, is a steel-string guitar. After watching the Majicat DVD far too often, I got kinda addicted to Ovation type guitars. Thus, I spent some money on an Ovation Celebrity Blue Burst, with OP-30. (Left-hand) Moreover, as left-hander you dont have much choice, at all. It's a pain in the a** when it comes to buying guitars. Testing guitars before buying it is almost impossible as southpaw, for there is almost no guitar shop that offers more than 2 or 3 lefties. Oftentimes, they are of low quality as well. Jacky
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Post by Leonard on Jul 25, 2005 12:09:14 GMT -5
With PLZ, I mean "Please" ^.^ Some kind of chat abbreviation. Now I know why it's so hard to play non-barre chords with my guitar. It must have a much wider neck than Cat Stevens' Jumbo Gibson "Everly Brothers". I wish I cud get my hands on this guitar. The warmth of the strung strings must be the point Cat liked so much about this guitar, I guess. It's kinda hard to play a guitar with wider fretboard (Nutwidth: 1 11/16") the cat-way, non-barré. Well, but as you said - it's getting better day by day, step by step . Actually, it's kinda sad if someone wants to get rid off the barré-chords and instead play it with the thumb and the rest of the hand . Jacky
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Post by Leonard on Jul 24, 2005 8:02:55 GMT -5
Tell how the Gibson sounds, PLZ!!!!!!
Jacky
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Post by Leonard on Mar 25, 2005 13:22:06 GMT -5
Yeah, I had a good look at EBAY USA; and I gotta agree with you, in contrast to Germany the Ovation Guitars are ALOT cheaper in the USA, even the older ones of some real precious discontinued Ovation series. Getting a D-41 would be a dream, but I first long to get a good Ovation Folklore (left-handed). Jacky
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Post by Leonard on Mar 24, 2005 9:22:03 GMT -5
Well, as far as I can say his OVATION Folklore with the wider fretboard is one of the greatest guitars I have ever seen in my life so far. I also do like the Jumbo Gibson alot. But Alun's D-41 is also great . Ovationguitar, where did you get your Ovation from? I'm also from Germany, left-handed, and would like to have one in the future; best would be a folklore but I do hate cutaways . It always makes me think that something is missing there... Jacky
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Post by Leonard on Jul 29, 2005 14:18:24 GMT -5
Sure, mail me the words; would be pretty funny, and your Katmandu version, too if its not too much to ask for.
Jacky (jacky4jkd@yahoo.com)
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Post by Leonard on Jul 26, 2005 14:32:28 GMT -5
Yes, I'm also from Germany (Berlin). Its nice to hear that there's also a German version of "Morning has broken", couldnt imagine that. But I guess, I will better stick to Cat's beautifully performed version. Though, I would like to listen to the German versions, too. I never had great luck with song adaptions of Cat's compositions, except maybe for the Tremelouse or so. I never liked Rod's "The First Cut Is The Deepest"... But I'm always open for new stuff . U made a German version of Katmandu? Sounds interesting. I still wonder how he played some fingerstyle parts in Katmandu. Maybe you can pin that song down, on TAB? U must earn quite some money, in order to afford such great classic guitars... I wish I cud do so, too ^.^ Jacky
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Post by Leonard on Jul 25, 2005 12:15:49 GMT -5
Wow, thanks for the list. Quite impressive. Will keep this list, as wish list for future guitar shopping tours . You really sure he used a Nylon-string guitar in Lady D'Arbanville..?! I'm not so sure... Well, but I could also be very wrong about that ^.^ It seems that you have almost bought up every guitar Cat had his fingers on . I wonder, how good you play his songs . Jacky THANKS for the list again!
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Post by Leonard on Jul 24, 2005 7:56:08 GMT -5
I am of the opinion that he did not take lessons, too. Which isnt bad. By that time, it was quite common. But he also had Alun Davies later on, who was a great addition to his musical repertoire. A really good team. I took up playing guitar due to the beauty of Cat's songs. I can only recommend it to everyone. But best is to pay some bucks for a teacher; there are some things, some real ugly mishabits you might get when doing it on your own, that you wont get rid off so easily. I really like the way Cat plays guitar. Using non-barré (laying Finger 1 across all the strings) is not bad in my opinion - its very practical, for you dont have to change the position of your hand under the neck - which can get on one's nerves... Using the thumb + the rest of your fingers is quite as good, although no guitar teacher, not even mine, would agree, I guess. I am still working on some, I hope, real good TABs of some of Cat's songs: Lady D'Abanville, Sad Lisa (Fingerstyle), Moonshadow, Where Do The Children Play, ... With MUCH more detailed explainations on how to play it the Cat-way. I will most likely make use of the Power TAB Editor, being free and which is a powerful tool to document the songs, and how you should play it (http://www.power-tab.net/). Ovationguitar, if you would be so nice and list up all the guitars that Cat Stevens used throughout his career. That would be very nice, for this kind of info is really hard to find. I, personally, think that he did not use his 1st guitar for Lady D'Abanville - for you know a 15 pound guitar sounds really, really, really bad. I dont think he used that one in the recording sessions of Lady, or any other song on Mona Bone Jakon. I think he used his Everly Brothers, made by Gibson - but its only my opinion. Correct me, if I'm totally wrong about this one. Jacky
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Post by Leonard on Feb 13, 2008 16:35:56 GMT -5
Amazing. I ordered it right away. Thanks for the linking.
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Post by Leonard on Oct 14, 2007 11:28:31 GMT -5
I think the DVD is great, and the concert he held wasn't a bad one, either. What troubles me most though is this one technical flaw of the DVD. Especially, in pan shots you can see that there are missing a lot of frames, and the video runs choppily.
What do you think?
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Post by Leonard on Nov 14, 2006 14:45:41 GMT -5
[...] by receiving it in the mail. Christine Moreover, I would not recommend downloading any album from the Internet. It is mostly MP3, a reduced and compressed music format, meaning that some part of the music got substracted to make the file size much smaller. If you really want to enjoy Yusuf with all his vocal and musical power go and buy the masterpiece album "An Other Cup." ~Jacky
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Post by Leonard on Nov 12, 2006 5:03:48 GMT -5
Dear fellow majicats,
living in Germany has the advantage of being able to already get the album on November, 10. I bought the Special Edition with the 44 page illustrated book and the extra song: There Is Peace.
VOICE First of all, the debate about Steve's voice that is going on that his voice got rougher over time cannot be confirmed by me when listening to his new album. His voice is much finer, and more gracile than ever before; his voice being much mature and eternal like a rock in the vast sea.
ARTBOOK I have to say that it is really worth to buy the Special Edition. The artbook is basically showing the lyrics with illustrations. You can see that there has been put so much love and care into making this that when putting up the book and listen to the album you are gonna go on a journey to your "I."
THE SONGS Being backed up by old musician fellows like Alun Davies, Jean Roussel, etc. the album turns out to be a master piece. It does not connect to the Tea for The Tillerman era as stated by many newspapers. 'An Other Cup' is far beyond that. It was arranged and composed so fine with rhythm, melodies and a vast range of instruments that it can hardly be compared to the minimalistic (not meant negatively) 'Tea For The Tillerman' or 'Teaser & The Firecat.'
'An Other Cup' is, chronogically seen, the album after 'Back To Earth'. It can hardly be compared to Cat's '70s albums, though as mentioned by Steve before, songs like 'I Think I See The Light' or 'Greenfields, Golden Sands' were composed in the 60s (70s). But the sound is not the sound of the past. It goes beyond that with a beautiful and powerful string, voice and chorus arrangement that simply could not be done back then in the '70s.
I want to avoid listing up every song, and put my comment under it. It would not make any sense. Listen to the album, I am more than overwhelmed by it. It shows a Steve who has found his way - you will not hear the inner quarrel, but mere peace in his songs, and voice. A complete Steve so to say.
~Jacky
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