Nick Tabs

[justthebo]

haha seems ya right there like!.........does anyone have any nick tabs?? anything at all? little snippets youve worked out? nick chords or riffs? does anyone have the 'she rules my world' tab off rooben??

maybe we cud start a works in progress thing? ive just been having a go at aeroplane and its starts with a c chord ( in nicks super low standard tuning )
then a bm chord...........


c
remembering my dad
bm
grabbing hold of my feet spinning me round........


maybe i shud of started new threads with all of this........



easy

[scotpaulabear]

Hello there! Lovely to have you on board :seeya:

Rooben (big Nick fan from Glasgow) had a site with Nick tabs, but it seems to be down - let me see if I can get in touch with him or find the archived version of it on the Wayback Machine :wink: (it's rooben.com if anyone wants to look!)

[justthebo]

ah nice one cheers,

the work in progress thing wud be good if anyone out there has any ideas then post em!!!



justthebo

[WrexTheDragon]

You can try http://www.stormcock.net/vb/showthread.php?t=353

[justthebo]

ive seen the riverside tab but thanks for the info anyway!!

[WrexTheDragon]

If you need the full tab as a PDf just PM me.

[HarperPR]

Freestyle

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/n/nick_harper/freestyle_crd.htm

[Rainbow]

Many thanks for the 'Freestyle' tab Linn ... very much appreciated :cheers2:

Best regards ... Rainbow:)

[lemurjim]

I did the Freestyle tab, I was fiddling on the old guitar when the chords C,A,D, Fmaj7 started to sound like Freestyle

[lemurjim]

I've worked out a little bit for Magic Feather from the Miracles album, it's the bit after he says 'Parliament,' this is in standard tuning by the by.
E-----------------|
B-3---2--0--2-----|
G-----------------|
D-2---2--2--2-----|
A-----------------|
E-----------------|

Does anybody have any other chord ideas for Magic Feather?

And also i've worked a bit out for "One Of The 38"
Em G Em
Where ever I've been
Em G Em
What ever my fate
Em G Em
I am one
G Em
of the 38

Bend the strings when you play the G chord

[Rainbow]

Thanks are in order to lemurjim ... cheers!! :cheers2:

Will have a go at Magic Feather and One of the 38 when I get a chance and post when I make progress ... cheers for the start ... good to have some posts on the tabs front again. :wink:

Best regards ... Rainbow:)

[lemurjim]

Thanks are in order to lemurjim ... cheers!! :cheers2:

Will have a go at Magic Feather and One of the 38 when I get a chance and post when I make progress ... cheers for the start ... good to have some posts on the tabs front again. :wink:

Best regards ... Rainbow:)

There'll be plenty more little bits and bobs from me, I'm always working little bits of Harper songs out :-)

[lemurjim]

Chords for Spandau Ballet's 'True' is a good place to start for how to play 'Three Magpies' from Seed ;-)

[Travellerman]

Good lord! You're onto something there! :biggrin:

[dotjay]

Rooben (big Nick fan from Glasgow) had a site with Nick tabs, but it seems to be down - let me see if I can get in touch with him or find the archived version of it on the Wayback Machine :wink: (it's rooben.com if anyone wants to look!)

If anyone's interested, it looks like the content of rooben.com can still be found online here:
http://www.douglas16.worldonline.co.uk/.

Tabs and notes on Nick's guitar setup can be found in the "Harper" section (http://www.douglas16.worldonline.co.uk/Harper.htm).

[lemurjim]

If anyone's interested, it looks like the content of rooben.com can still be found online here:
http://www.douglas16.worldonline.co.uk/.

Tabs and notes on Nick's guitar setup can be found in the "Harper" section (http://www.douglas16.worldonline.co.uk/Harper.htm).

Thanks very much, I'll probably fail horribly trying to play any of them, but still, thank you

[NoCelebrity]

[QUOTE=lemurjim;12855]I've worked out a little bit for Magic Feather from the Miracles album, it's the bit after he says 'Parliament,' this is in standard tuning by the by.
E-----------------|
B-3---2--0--2-----|
G-----------------|
D-2---2--2--2-----|
A-----------------|
E-----------------|

Does anybody have any other chord ideas for Magic Feather?
/QUOTE]

I had the song repeat on iTunes for a while before I picked up my acoustic. I guess I'm better at picking out fast leads and power chords, but the syncopated classical & skiffle styles are harder. Anyway, the intro is simple enough (but I can't pick out those odd-beat harmonics that Nick ALSO plays everywhere)

Intro, repeat with first lyric (ending "parliament")
G 2^4 G 2 D4 0 4 / G2^4^2^4 2 D4/

D2^0^2-(last note ties with first note of lemurjin’s tab)

the following are lines my brain picked out and/or made up from the lyrical melodies:

“’cause he’s white...”
B 1^3^1^3^1 G 2^0 D3 G0 2 D4 E*2 B3 (repeat)

“’cause he’s white...(same as previous example)”
E3^1 A0 E3 A0 E2 (also F G F#?)

“can you believe...?”
E*2 3 5 2 3 5 2 B3 E*0 B3 / E*1^0 B3 E3 5 2

key: “^” = hammer-on OR pull-off
“/” used to indicate roughly equal time divisions (I hope!)
“E” = low E (sixth string)
“E*” = high E (first string)

I did NOT notate bends, trem or vibrato. Hope my tab shorthand for one-note at a time is clear. Please let me know, keep me updated. My most completed versions of Roy are for "Cherishing The Lonesome" which is close, and "Hangman" which is complete, but not very close to the original. Hopefully I can contribute these soon (I did put the opening to Cherishing somewhere on here a year or so back).

[lemurjim]

I had the song repeat on iTunes for a while before I picked up my acoustic. I guess I'm better at picking out fast leads and power chords, but the syncopated classical & skiffle styles are harder. Anyway, the intro is simple enough (but I can't pick out those odd-beat harmonics that Nick ALSO plays everywhere)

Intro, repeat with first lyric (ending "parliament")
G 2^4 G 2 D4 0 4 / G2^4^2^4 2 D4/

D2^0^2-(last note ties with first note of lemurjin’s tab)

the following are lines my brain picked out and/or made up from the lyrical melodies:

“’cause he’s white...”
B 1^3^1^3^1 G 2^0 D3 G0 2 D4 E*2 B3 (repeat)

“’cause he’s white...(same as previous example)”
E3^1 A0 E3 A0 E2 (also F G F#?)

“can you believe...?”
E*2 3 5 2 3 5 2 B3 E*0 B3 / E*1^0 B3 E3 5 2

key: “^” = hammer-on OR pull-off
“/” used to indicate roughly equal time divisions (I hope!)
“E” = low E (sixth string)
“E*” = high E (first string)

I did NOT notate bends, trem or vibrato. Hope my tab shorthand for one-note at a time is clear. Please let me know, keep me updated. My most completed versions of Roy are for "Cherishing The Lonesome" which is close, and "Hangman" which is complete, but not very close to the original. Hopefully I can contribute these soon (I did put the opening to Cherishing somewhere on here a year or so back).

Can you use this template for the fret positions please, I'm finding it hard to understand it the way you've done it. Thanks
E-----------------|
B-----------------|
G-----------------|
D-----------------|
A-----------------|
E-----------------|

[NoCelebrity]

Can you use this template for the fret positions please, I'm finding it hard to understand it the way you've done it. Thanks
E-----------------|-----------------|-------0--------0-------|-0--------0--------|
B-----------------|-----------------|-------3---3---2-----2-|-0---0----2-0^2--|
G--2^4-2--------|-2^4^2^4-2---|-------0-0---0-0---0---|-0-0---0-0--------|
D----------4-0-4-|---------------4-|-2^0-2--------2-2-----|-2--------2-------|
A-----------------|-----------------|----------------0--------|----------0--------|-
E-----------------|-----------------|-------------------------|--------------------|

Well, I hate trying to type fuller TABS without equal character spacing. I did the others on my WP then pasted them. Do you use a specific FONT that works correctly? I'll try to edit this to keep it neat.

Repeat the first two bars once for the intro, then repeat ALL for first two lines of lyric, and so on.

This is just the first part for now, but everything else I've picked out or made up so far is just one note at a time. Quick hammer on/pull offs are always tricky for me to read anyway, because the timing can work out so many ways. I have to hear it (in my head/with my ears or both). And I suspect you have the more of the natural/learned ability to add all those skiffle style notes. I'm guessing with bars 3 and 4 anyway, where I added my ideas to your basic template.

Who are we TABists going to get to make guitar notations UNIFORM? Can we keep adapting to new systems?

P.S. OK, it's neat enough. My shorthand I typically only write the letter of the string once when all the notes following are on the same string, until I switch strings. Multiple Rapid hammer on/pull offs "^" are typically done on a single string, so writing the letter seems excessive and confuses the "^" symbol.

The rest I haven't re-notated isn't really what Nick plays, they're just ideas that work for me (at least for now). I have add'l notes for possible chords, but have to practice them again with the music/lyrics to remember the timing. For me, I need to practice trickier timings a lot over a week or two to recall them quickly. I'll try to post these soon, but our taxes are due to be sent by the 15th. Hopefully you'll have contributed more to the GROUP project by then!:D

[lemurjim]

Thanks very much, I'll give it a go :-)

[NoCelebrity]

Don't be afraid to change my ideas.

I don't have to like it!:biggrin:

[NoCelebrity]

Well, I'm NOT completely satisfied with any of the TABS i've come up with so far. I discovered it was easier (for me) to play the stuff higher up the neck, so you'll note I follow each older version with a different newer version.

I hope everyone will play around with it and figure out what I've missed, gotten wrong, etc. I also put three versions of two accent notes, none of which seems quite right. Nick seems to vary and progress each line and verse in what I think of as part of "skiffle" style (I'm NO expert on what constitutes "skiffle" except some ROY).

I hear Nick bending DOWN to some notes also.

MAGIC FEATHER copyright 2007 by Nick Harper (TABS/NoCelebrity)

“Little rook in the midst of the parliament...”
1 E--------------- ---------------------- -0------0------ -0-----0-----0-
2 B--------------- ---------------------- -3--3---2---2- -0--0--2-------
3 G-2^4-2------- -2^4^2^4-2-------- -0-0-0-0--0-- -0-0-0-0--0^2-
4 D--------4-0-4- --------------4-2^0- -2------2-2--- -2-----2-2-----
5 A--------------- ---------------------- --------0------ -------0-------
6 E--------------- ---------------------- --------------- ---------------
“Little rook in the midst of the parliament...”
1 E------------- ------------------- ----------------- -----------------
2 B------------- ------------------- -5-------5----- ---------5----8/10-
3 G------------- ------------------- -7---7---6---6- -7--7---6---------
4 D-7^9-7-0-- -7^9^7^9-7------ -5-5--5-5--5-- -9----9-5-5/7-----
5 A--------9-9- ------------9-7^5- -5-------7-7--- -7-7----7---------
6 E------------ --------------------- ---------5----- -7------5---------


“‘Cause he’s white...” (end 1)? “‘Cause he’s white...”(end 2)?(end 3)?
1 E------------------------ -----0^1-- ------------------------ --------- -----
2 B-1^3^1^3^1--------- -------- 1- ------------------------ -----5+- -6+--
3 G---------------2^0--0- -2-------- -5^7^5^7^5--------- -------5- ---7-
4 D--------------------3--- --4------- ---------------7^5--5- -7-4---- -----
5 A------------------------ ---------- --------------------8-- --------- -----
6 E------------------------ ---------- ------------------------ --------- -----


“Can you believe...”
1 E-2-3-5-2-3-5-2---0-- -1^0--3-5-2-
2 B------------------3-3- ------3-------
3 G---------------------- ---------------
4 D---------------------- ---------------
5 A---------------------- ---------------
6 E---------------------- ---------------
“Can you believe...”
1 E-------------------------- -------------
2 B-7-8-10-7-8-10-7---5-- -6^5--5/8-10-
3 G--------------------7--7- -----7--------
4 D-------------------------- -------------
5 A-------------------------- -------------
6 E-------------------------- -------------

“^” = hammer-on OR pull-off
“/” = slide-up
“+” = bend(up)

I had to adjust this since it doesn't translate the equal-spacing font (courier new) into equal spaces. If there's some way to do it on this forum without scanning an image file into the forum, someone let me know.

Hope I made all the necessary corrections to keep the notes in order.

[aspwatterson]

Nick seems to vary and progress each line and verse in what I think of as part of "skiffle" style (I'm NO expert on what constitutes "skiffle" except some ROY).I hear Nick bending DOWN to some notes also. Hope I made all the necessary corrections to keep the notes in order.


I think once you can play with confidence on each string you can give each/ various combinations of note[s] a certain prominence. The fretboard becomes your playground and you can bend your emotions spontaneously up/down/in between.

Random on your momentary sensitivity contemporaneously. So for you to sit down and try to work out the bending tablature is quite freaky really.

I admire your studiousness. I could never follow every thing as such; always drifted on tangents, and not copy for copy's sake other's songs religiously /plagiaristically, or whatever - just so I could prove that I could play / cover someone else's songs /ideas.

But always know I am not fluid enough coz never had the impetus as a youngster to learn all the theory. Ther are different schools of thought whether knowing theory can somehow dilute your spontaneous effort. Or,like me, trapped in a stlyle vicarious. But I love it, and perhaps, each artist have their own persona / timbre which is their unque signature irrespective. Like our planet.

For instance when every guitarist in the land had to learn the iconic Stairway to Heaven etc I made a point of not learning it coz everyone else was playing it. Like the intro to Pinball Wizard , Smoke on the water, the latest Bob Dylan etc. etc..

Anyway back to work in five hours and forgotten what I was saying originally, go to sleep Andy, get out of this timezone for a while..

andi

[NoCelebrity]

I thought I was clear enough, Andy, I'm just trying to figure out a framework for someone like me to start with. I can't really improvise until I've learned where the notes are. When I write something for myself, I might practice something a thousand times before I hear more ideas in my head. Some stuff is easy to improvise. Unlike you, I'm not strong at an impressionistic approach to music, but I still love it.

I wouldn't have looked for the chord structure without lemurjin pointing it out. And I'm not good at all practicing that part of my tabs yet. If I practice everyday for two weeks, I might put all the parts neatly together.

I do improvise with bends, trem, vibrato, slides, and varying notes and chord structure, but I'm an inconsistent guitarist with a limited repertoire. I usually sing or whistle a tune to practice in my head. Yet I play a little guitar almost everyday.

Frankly, it was an interesting challenge and I picked some consistent notes out at the beginning. But the rest of what I TABBED is not what Nick played or IMO would ever play. Still, I found what I put down to be one harmonic starting point of many. I didn't even try to indicate the individual note lengths. Plus, It's easier for me to TAB than read someone else's TABBING.

Lastly, the subject matter sounds familiar, but I'm not sure who "Little Rook" is (though Gandhi seems possible), or what the "Magic Feather" is (a pen, an airplane, a Native American name?). My first guess is it's more recent or contemporary. Will someone please enlighten me?

For that matter, ANDI, I was hoping I might learn something from others about Nick's techniques, etc. (But don't try to explain the syntax of "Random on your momentary sensitivity contemporaneously." Idiom, Youdiom, We-All-diom. i.e. I actually understood it!:D)

[aspwatterson]

I think it's something to to do with Dumbo the elephant or something? But beautiful song/lyrics/melody/singing-ability in whatever connotational metaphor you care to interpret/put on it.

Andi

[NoCelebrity]

I think it's something to to do with Dumbo the elephant or something? But beautiful song/lyrics/melody/singing-ability in whatever connotational metaphor you care to interpret/put on it.

Andi

Well, it's not Disney's version (unless Little Rook is from the Dumbo Story?). We don't have a Parliament. That reasoning would also eliminate Native Americans. No elephants, either, except zoos (so it's possible). Related Mammoths and Mastadons went extinct 10,000 years ago. And Buffalo could only be the vaguest of poetic allusions.

India/Pakistan, South Africa for Parliament.

Asia/Africa for Elephants.

Magic Feather for Robert Plant (his rune)?

Perhaps it's just a beautiful fiction Nick concocted from his imagination?

It's a beautiful song I hadn't registered in my memory until lemurjin drew my attention to it (but I just got the CD with "Last Guitar").

[NoCelebrity]

I think once you can play with confidence on each string you can give each/ various combinations of note[s] a certain prominence. The fretboard becomes your playground and you can bend your emotions spontaneously up/down/in between.

I admire your studiousness. I could never follow every thing as such; always drifted on tangents, and not copy for copy's sake other's songs religiously /plagiaristically, or whatever - just so I could prove that I could play / cover someone else's songs /ideas.

andi

So how'd you get started with guitar, Andi? How did you get introduced to skiffle and other styles?

I had two girlfriends (one at a time!) in college who wrote songs, played guitar, and sang beautifully. I had violin in 3rd grade (quit). Learned to whistle and sing at an early age. Piano for 8th grade (teacher moved). I picked up guitar to figure out accompaniment for two songs I wrote in college. I had an early intro to music theory in FILM class (really! a DISNEY short in High School), Chorus, and my year of piano. Music (the diatonic/12-note scale) is also studied in Math as an example of logarithms (and Blues:D).

So, I mostly watched others and practiced by myself. When I wanted to figure something out, I often made up an example to practice, and sometimes it sounded real good AND original, and if I was lucky, I came up with lyrics. Half of my songs came to me this way, the other half came LYRICS and/or Melody first.

[lemurjim]

Here's various new bits and bobs I've worked out over the last few months.

Three Magpies: Standard Tuning
G_______________Bm________G__________________Bm
From the badlands through the plains, and around the lane. etc
C______D_________C__________D_____Em________D
I think I saw myself, runnin' along side myself, even then.

The Sky Goes All The Way Home: Custom Tuning: EADGAE

This is the intro bit
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-5-5--4-5-2-0-------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-0-0--0-0-0-0-------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------|

I have a suspicion that this song is in Dmaj tuning; DADF#AD.


By My Rocket Comes Fire: Standard Tuning

(Bar Chords)_____Thank you, for inviting me to the party... etc
e|----x-------x--------------------------------------------------|
B|----x-------x--------------------------------------------------|
G|----x-------x--------------------------------------------------|
D|----7-------11-------------------------------------------------|
A|----7-------11-------------------------------------------------|
E|----5-------9--------------------------------------------------|

I'm a baby in this world, but I'm going to climb much higher.
e|-----x--------0-----x----0--------------------------------------|
B|-----3--------0-----3----0--------------------------------------|
G|-----0--------6-----0----6--------------------------------------|
D|-----4--------7-----4----6--------------------------------------|
A|-----5--------0-----5----0--------------------------------------|
E|-----x--------x----- x----x--------------------------------------|


Vampire Song: Standard Tuning

______C__________G_________Dm_______Fmaj7
And I'll wake, with a start, like a vampire at sunset

------------------------------------------------------------------------

And there's still a few more bits to come :-)

[fuzzytnth3]

I hear Nick bending DOWN to some notes also.


Just a small point but I think I'm right in saying that Nick has banjo machine heads on his Lowden and that lets him change the string tuning while he is playing like he does a lot of in A Hundred Things and he does in Kilty Stone

BzOP80_uDZ8

[scotpaulabear]

Absolutely true, Graeme - there's more about it on Nick's site here (http://www.harperspace.com/nick-harper-guitar-space-06.html) (though it's about the guitars he had in 1997, I suspect much of the tech is unchanged)...

[just jane]

Has anybody got any tabs for Field of cloth of gold because my 17 yr old is learning it from this video and has got most of it but needs a little help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmZeGPZc4e4



How do I post videos so they show up?

[aspwatterson]

Has anybody got any tabs for Field of cloth of gold because my 17 yr old is learning it from this video and has got most of it but needs a little help.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmZeGPZc4e4How do I post videos so they show up?
Go to :
http://www.stormcock.net/vb/showthread.php?t=272&highlight=field+cloth+gold

If you want to post YTvids to show up, do this to the above Youtube ref you gave us by putting [youtube] at the beginning of kmZeGPZc4e4 and followed by /youtube but in [ ] brackets. That's the only way I can describe it without it automatically going to it if I wrote it down for you




ok?

chrs
andi

[bigchris]

If you want to post YTvids to show up, do this to the above Youtube ref you gave us by putting [youtube] at the beginning of kmZeGPZc4e4 and followed by /youtube but in [ ] brackets. That's the only way I can describe it without it automatically going to it if I wrote it down for you

or you can look at the page PD created for us, that explains how to embed stuff - http://www.stormcock.net/vb/showthread.php?t=1064&highlight=youtube

[just jane]

Thanks to both of you.

[fuzzytnth3]

In the comments of the video James describes what he does thus :-

If you start at C you should be able to work it out. I've got a capo on the third fret I believe.

C, then run down to Am. Play a G on the bass string then F, G back to C.

If that makes sense.

Seems I fooked up a tad as I missed out the Am chord and just played the A note in the bass. I like how he does the ending shall have to have a go at learning that.

Thanks for the link to the video Andi as I hadn't seen that before.

[jimness]

Hi folks,

This thread might be a bit quiet but I figured I'd post what I've done here...The Magnificent G7, as recorded on Double Life. Hope the format is OK; feedback would be appreciated! Tuning should be A D A D F# A, but if you don't fancy detuning that much, you could go for D A D F# A D and play everything down a string.

I started tabbing this ages ago and finally decided to finish it after Nick's stellar Surya gig the other night :) Included in the zip file is the PowerTab file and an HTML output of ASCII tab. Enjoy!

Jim

[fuzzytnth3]

Thanks your Jimness I shall check this out tomorrow.

Apologies for not picking up on this sooner but I mostly am an infrequent visitor to this here forum.

[fuzzytnth3]

Hi folks,

This thread might be a bit quiet but I figured I'd post what I've done here...The Magnificent G7, as recorded on Double Life. Hope the format is OK; feedback would be appreciated! Tuning should be A D A D F# A, but if you don't fancy detuning that much, you could go for D A D F# A D and play everything down a string.

Jim

I can't get my strings to cope with the A tuning so I have had a go using the DADF#AD and also tried it using DADGAD tuning. Trouble I've been finding is I need a 7th string in the middle section, or I just have to miss out a bass note or two!

So I had a go at transposing to get a compromise so I could get the lowest note but then found that screws up some of the middle bit again where the pull offs and twiddly bits don't quite work cos the notes are on different strings.

So I've still got a bit more head scratching to do to rework the fingering. All in all its been great to play it so thanks for posting up your tab.

[fuzzytnth3]

For those of you that don't Tabledit here is a link to a PDF of the same file here (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/399074/sites/trapdoor/Nick%20Harper%20-%20Magnificent%20G7%20AFsharpDADA%20tuning.pdf)