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June Afternoon chords

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songwriter2005 said on January 30, 2006 14:45:

Hey out there!

The sun is shining here in parts of eastern Germany today... it’s like getting some kind of spring-feeling...maybe it’s June Afternoon-Feeling although it’s not summer yet*hehe*

So, can anybody help me with the chords? :-) Would be very nice.

Thanks!!

kingboul said on January 30, 2006 17:15:

“June Afternoon”

Didn’t I tell you everything is possible in this deja vu? G-C-D-G ( G-D-C)
Try the river boat, the carousel, feed the pigeons, Bar-B-Q. G-C-D-G
Look at all the people, happy faces all around.Em-C-G-D
Smiling, throwing kisses, busy making lazy sounds Em-C-G-D

It’s a bright June afternoon, it never gets dark. A-D-E-R-A-
Wah-wah! Here comes the sun.F#m-D-E
Get your green, green tambourine, let’s play in the park. A-D-E-D-A
Wah-wah! Here comes the sun F#m-D-E

Some folks are on blankets, slowly daydreaming
and reaching for their food.
Let’s go buy an ice-cream and a magazine with an attitude
and put on a cassette, we can pretend that you’re a star
cos life’s so very simple just like la-la-la

It’s a bright June afternoon...

There’s a painter painting his masterpiece.Em-Bm
There are some squirrels jumping in the trees, Em-Bm
There’s a wide-eyed boy with a red balloon. C-G
All my life I’ve longed for this afternoon. Bm-D

songwriter2005 said on January 30, 2006 19:54:

Thank you! That was really fast :-)

and
Have a nice day *g*

tcooh said on January 30, 2006 21:58:

What chords is that R in the first verse of the chorus? :P hehe

And I’m right that it’s what I call ’wide chords’ for G and C? (like G = 320033 and C = x32010)

kingboul said on January 31, 2006 17:06:

The R is a “D” in fact, my mistake ... ;-)

And , yes, the chord you call “wide” can be played in the verse, between the G and the C, when you listen to the song, it’s right on the word “everything”
I just wanted to make it it simple for everyone around here ...

Galning said on January 31, 2006 19:09:

@tcooh: The C-Chord you wrote down (X32010) is not totally correct. In June Afternoon he playes a chord called “C9” - it is played that way: x32033. So you see something similar to the G-Chord = You have the same notes on the two (or even three) highest strings while playing G and C9 (G=320033 and C9=x32033)....

Just to make it some more PERfect....

Per often uses this chord. And I use it also often. Even when I play overdrived I play the G5=3x0033 and the C9=x3x033 - try it, it sounds very powerful...

Galning said on January 31, 2006 19:14:

oh and in the first line kingboul made a mistake.

He wrote G-C-D-C (G-D-C). But it must be G-C-D-C (G-C-D-C)

You maybe thought that the C which I wrote additionally was a G. That is because the G and the C9-Chord are so very similary (like I wrote in my last answer...)

tcooh said on January 31, 2006 23:43:

@Galning: I meant to note C as x32033, but it was to late, and my brain was aprtially switched off :P

And to skip a string in the middle, like on G5, is too hard for me, hehe ;)

Besides some chords have several names, where as I’ve not yet found a website that can tell me then name of this C chord x32013 (not that I found that in any Per song). Websites know this chord C x32030, but not the one I wanted to know..

Galning said on February 7, 2006 12:02:

x32013 doesn´t have a special name. It´s still a C. Only that the highest note of the chord is not a “e” but a “g”. So it doesn´t change the chord itself. If you play a 3 instead of the 1 on the 5th string (=second highest) - so that it is x32033 - it changes the chord into C9 (ok, you allready know). But with x32013 it doesn´t change the “basis harmony”....

I do SOMETIMES play x3x013 as a C5 with overdrived sound. It´s like 3X0033 = G5. You can try it. There is a X on that place where normaly stands the 2 in the G. So put your finger on the second string on the 2 and don´t press it down - so that no sound comes from that string. Sometimes I stopp the second string with the finger I have on the first (=lowest) string...

I need those “special-Chords” sometimes because it sounds some more “harder”. I´m playing in a Cover-Rockband... www.2rock-band.de