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    Default Transpose this song for Tenor?

    I love this tune, but I'm not a music prodigy. I've been doing this stupid thing just by taking the guitar chords and playing those chords in Tenor-form, but I was just curious what others could come up with. I would usually tune my six string a full step down, and just go E and A minor. This is a song by Voltaire, I love this tune; story of my life

    Ex Lover's Lover

    Em Am
    Three heavy stones will keep it from floating,
    Em Am
    weigh it down to the bottom, food for the fishes.
    Em Am Em
    And I know that it won't be discovered
    Am
    'cause I will be careful, so very careful.
    START HAMMERING THE CHORDS ON HERE, BUT KEEP STRUMMING
    Em Am Em
    What if it doesn't rain for days and the river is
    STOP HAMMERING
    Am
    reduced to its muddy bed?
    Em Am
    With a corpse exposed I would work in haste
    Em Am
    and... I might bury the bones in a shallow grave.
    A7 or Am
    And the rain comes and moves rocks and the stones
    A7 or Am
    washes away all the dirt and the mudflows
    A7 or Am
    Bones are exposed and well.
    A7 or Am
    you know how that goes!


    Em
    I wait for the day when I'll finally defile
    Am
    the bodies of my ex lover's lovers.
    Em
    I'll pile high to the sky
    Am
    the bodies of my ex lover's lovers
    Em
    Die, die, die diddle die,
    Am
    die diddle die, diddle die,
    Em
    watch them die.
    Am Em
    watch them die.
    Em
    Die, die, die diddle die,
    Am
    die diddle die, diddle die,
    Em
    watch them die.
    Am Em
    watch them die.

    (play Em to Am twice)

    START HAMMERING THE CHORDS ON HERE, BUT KEEP STRUMMING
    Em Am
    I saw you with him, You looked so happy..
    Em Am
    All of that can change! 'cause, I am so lonely,
    Em
    and I have lots of time, to, send you straight
    Am Em
    to the Devil, I'm taking my time
    Am
    to, plan your demise.
    Em Am Em
    What if I were to cut you up and mail each part
    Am Em
    to a different town? It would take the most
    Am Am or A7
    brilliant private eye the rest of his life
    Am or A7
    just to put you together.
    Am or A7
    a piece in each mailbox all over the planet
    Am or A7
    from Moscow to Tokyo to Guadalajara.



    Em
    I wait for the day when I'll finally defile
    Am
    the bodies of my ex lover's lovers.
    Em
    I'll pile high to the sky
    Am
    the bodies of my ex lover's lovers
    Em
    I wait for the day when I'll finally destroy
    Am
    the bodies of my ex lover's lovers.
    Em
    I'll pile high to the sky
    Am
    the bodies of my ex lover's lovers
    Em
    Die, die, die diddle die,
    Am
    die diddle die, diddle die,
    Em
    watch them die.
    Em
    Die, die, die diddle die,
    Am
    die diddle die, diddle die,
    Em
    watch them die.


    Em Am
    I saw you with him, you looked so happy.
    Em Am
    That will never change, because I know myself
    Em
    too well. I don't have the courage
    Em
    to carry out my dreams
    Am
    And only there will I see them
    Em
    Die, die, die diddle die,
    Am
    die diddle die, diddle die,
    Em
    watch them die.
    Em
    Die, die, die diddle die,
    Am
    die diddle die, diddle die,
    Em
    watch them die.
    Em
    Die, die, die diddle die,
    Am
    die diddle die, diddle die,
    Em
    watch them die.
    Em
    Die, die, die diddle die,
    Am
    die diddle die, diddle die,
    Em
    watch them, die.
    I don't hate people, I just feel better when they're not around --Charles Bukowski

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    Default Re: Transpose this song for Tenor?

    Not sure what you want here ... one needn't transpose a song just because one is changing instruments. If you like it in Em, play it in Em.

    Didn't know Voltaire wrote that ... is it from Dictionnaire philosophique or Treatise on Tolerance? Tell Voltaire that if he wants to talk about his feelings, too bad ... Dr. Freud won't really get started for about 110 years after Voltaire has left the building.
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    Default Re: Transpose this song for Tenor?

    I just play it like the chords, I'm not very experimental. I strung my tenor to GDAE; I got the gauges by D'Addario as singles, the 17, too at one of musician stores where I live and play it in that tuning. I think I'm probably tuning my tenor wrong, though. I tune each note with one of those chromatic tuners, go to the next note when that green light goes off.
    I don't hate people, I just feel better when they're not around --Charles Bukowski

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    More and more people are tuning their tenors that way. But if you feel like trying another tuning, no one's going to stop you.
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