Improvement for "Here Without You"

[mcd220]

This is another thing I've been doing for years. The song ends on a B major, which is yet another genius oddball twist from Gene Clark.

Try this:

Right when you go to hit the "B", grab a Pinball Wizard B up at the seventh, AND LEAVE YOUR "A" STRING OPEN, BUT GRAB THE LOW "E" AT THE 7TH WITH YOUR THUMB, CREATING A "B" ROOT.

Then of course, using your pinky, attack and pull off the suspended 4th, and let the whole chord ring out, with BOTH the open "A" string, AND your thumbed "B" ringing out, and again, it creates a wonderfully sad dissonance that adds very much to the loss and melancholy that the songwriter is experiencing.

With the "A" going one place, and the "B" going another, it gives off a disjointed, unsure place of loss and loneliness. Of not knowing where to go, where to stand, where to sit, what to eat, how to love, etc, because the B AND A are BOTH DOMINANT.

MAKE SURE your not playing a Shocking Blue Venus Bm7 add 11 (Hard days night at the 7th fret), or it will sound odd.

Has to be a Townshend Pinball phrasing.

This voicing is used to very good effect in 10CC's "I'm not In Love", and Hall & Oates "She's Gone" during the intros of both.

Hang on...I'm not even warmed up yet.


Christian

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