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Intro to "Only The Lonely" - The Motels?


ChasIII

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From memory - no keyboard at hand! - so I may have a note or two wrong, but I think this is close.

 

Simple single note bass, with shifting two note pairs for the right hand. See if the way I wrote this below makes sense:

 

Ab bass, F-Bb to G-C right hand

F bass, G-Eb to Ab-Eb right hand (holding the Eb with your 5th finger)

Db bass, Eb-G to Db-Ab right hand

 

Hope that helps.

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From memory - no keyboard at hand! - so I may have a note or two wrong, but I think this is close.


Simple single note bass, with shifting two note pairs for the right hand. See if the way I wrote this below makes sense:


Ab bass, F-Bb to G-C right hand

F bass, G-Eb to Ab-Eb right hand (holding the Eb with your 5th finger)

Db bass, Eb-G to Db-Ab right hand


Hope that helps.

 

 

Yes, that does help, Thanks. Is the bass one note or an octave? Also did you let the bass note play during the right hand notes?

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Yes, that does help, Thanks. Is the bass one note or an octave? Also did you let the bass note play during the right hand notes?

 

 

During the right hand notes, the bass should play a 5th, so after the Ab, when the right hand 4ths are playing, you play an Eb.

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I have been trying to figure the intro out to this song for a long time. Do any of you know how it is correctly played? Thanks for the help.

 

Hi ChasIII -- I hate to say this, but shouldn't you be concentrating on the outro instead of the intro? I think the outro is way cool -- Peace -- :idea:

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Here's a youtube link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uquEXROFja0

 

If you have a good "ear" you should be able to figure out the chord pattern. It's simple enough - A flat block (Aflat-Aflat) root in the lefthand and 5ths in the right - alternating F+Bflat to G+C and back.

 

The patch sounds like a detuned/chorused L.A. E-piano layered with vintage strat guitar synth sound.

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Hi ChasIII -- I hate to say this, but shouldn't you be concentrating on the outro instead of the intro? I think the outro is way cool -- Peace --
:idea:

 

Yeah, I have that down. I also like it. It was not too difficult to figure out by ear. You me the yamaha CP electric piano part at the end, right?

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