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rombsix -> Urgent help needed with chord transposing (May 5 2007 21:56:22)
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Hey people,
This request may turn out to be the stupidest thing you might have heard of, but I was stumped when I tried to solve the following problem and I need help desperately because I need to have this done within the coming 15 hours.
Let me give you some background info: I am part of a band with a great vocalist (Arabic pop music if you're wondering!) that insists on playing guitar (along with me). He can only play some basic chords, and I take care of all the rest (on a cutaway crappy electro-classical guitar). So what happens is that every time he wants to perform a new song (covering popular songs that is), he tells me to listen to the song and come up with the chords. I do that, and then transpose the chords using a capo so that they end up being simple first positions chords (i.e. one of the following nine chords that DO NOT include barre chords: A, Am, C, D, Dm, E, Em, F (which he plays abridged, without barre), G .. those are the only chords he can play, since he cannot play barred chords). So this time, after four years of this, and doing this "transposition" to all the songs he's given me, I finally got stumped. There is this song with the following chords:
D, C#m, A, F#, E, C#, F#m, Bm, G, and B ... they are ten chords in total. So I tried to put the capo on various positions of the neck so that I can transform these same chords (i.e. for example, a C#m will have the shape of an Am but with a capo on 4, etc.), but I failed. I thought to myself that all the songs I have been playing with this vocalist in the past four years have each had only a maximum of nine chords, and thus I was able to do this capo transposition for the vocalist to be able to play using his rudimentary chords. However, since this song has ten chords, I think it is impossible to do this capo transposition, and make the above ten chords transform into basic shapes (like the nine chord shapes that the vocalist can play). Am I right, or am I missing something? As I said, this may be the dumbest thing you have ever heard, but hey, I have an endocrine physiology exam on Monday and I have four rehearsals and two concerts to play in next week (which I have to prepare for along with the exam), so my head is not working well enough. If you have a solution, please help. If this problem is impossible to solve (simply because ten chords cannot be transformed into nine chord shapes), then please tell me so that I can clear my head.
THANKS.
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