Re: Trying to learn an STP song and hoping for some help???
According to the sheet music I posted it's a Bbmaj 13 chord. Is that not it?
No way it is that chord. Even if it was a Bb-based chord, that prominent E in it would be the b5 of Bb...not in a Bbmaj 13 chord. Also, a Bbmaj 13 has a bunch of intervals in it that are not heard in that chord on the record. A major seventh, a ninth, and an 11th are not there, and I cannot hear the 5th and the third either (D and F). Some of those intervals can be dropped and you can still call it a maj 13 chord, but not all of them.
As for the notes I can actually discern clearly, a low A# and it's octave on one track, the G above that, the E above that, and the G above that. I cannot pick any other distinct note out, at least on my 1" computer speaker.
I'm thinking it is an incomplete G, Bb, or E diminished chord (partial because it has no C#). It depends on where you hear the root of the chord...and that is ambiguous, as there is no melody right there. But the songs settles into G eventually, and so I tend to hear the tonic as G, not A#. That is largely because that E note in the chord sounds distinctly like a 13th to me, not like a b5.
If it wasn't for that fact that there is no dominant 7th, I'd call it a G half diminished add 13.
But all that nonsense aside, the way I would play it would be, from 1st to 6th strings: 350XXX or 080X7X (or 3502XX). And I'd have someone else ring out those feeding back A# octaves. That is what they did on the record, with at least two tracks, probably three. Or, if you must do it alone, do: 080876 or 0808X6. (In the later version, dead the 5th string with your free middle finger.)
And I originally thought the chord in the end was different, but I don't think it is.
One other thing: Their guitarist often uses non-standard tunings, which probably make this chord a lot easier to play live without the benefit of multitracking.
