Re: Trying to learn an STP song and hoping for some help???
No offense, I tried these chords and none of them even sound close to the recording.
I am stuck.
This sounds closest and it works in the band setting...although not an exact match of what he is doing - x03330
They all sound fine to me. It's not offensive, just makes me think you are listening to something other than what I am listening to. Are you listening on a microscopic laptop speaker? If so, put some headphones on and crank them up. As I said, you need three guitarists to pull it off exactly like the record anyhow, so any single chord that attempts to do it will not sound ideal (but will certainly get the job done).
What I think is happening is that the notes I wrote are a decent replication of the notes on the record, but you are not able to play them the same way as they are played on the record all in one strum. On the record, they are split into at least three parts, with the note or two on each track played so that they can ring and feed back. Playing everything in one strum will sound very different. Personally, if things were ideal, I'd split that chord with another guitarist and/or keyboardist if I really wanted to bother to nail it. More than likely in the real world, I'd just come up with something that sounds good enough without needing to perfectly replicate the record.
All I know for sure is that I can hear a high E, two octaves of G, and two octaves of A# in it. There may be other notes that I cannot discern, but those five are definitely there, and that basically amounts to an incomplete diminished chord, which could be said to be based on E, G, or A#. Melodically speaking, E can be ruled out, so it's a G or A# diminished which is incomplete. If in doubt about what has been suggested here, I say just look up a A# diminished or a G diminished in one of those cheesy chord books and use whatever stock fingering they give you (but delete any C#s in the chord). It'll do the job for 99.9 percent of your audience.
Good luck. You'll figure something out if you don't like what has been offered. And if you don't, it's not a big deal anyhow. It's just a few chords in a short song, which all basically amount to dissonant noise anyhow.
P.S. You're not playing along with that You Tube version that has been raised half a step, are you?
