Is this guitar strumming (from a wedding video) a real song or just some innocuous chords? By “real song” I mean a rendition of something available on Amazon or iTunes and that someone on SDMB has heard before or can identify somehow.
I’m not a video person, and got lassoed into shooting a wedding with borrowed, inappropriate equipment. It would be nice to have a clean version of the song to use as sonic background. (I could work out the chords and record it with my marginal guitar skills, but that’s not a preferred option.)
All I can offer is: yes and no. The person playing sounds like they are doing a variant of a G, C, Em/Am to D type of chording. That is the basis of a bazillion songs. I can’t tell if he/she is: a) playing a specific song; or b) so comfortable with that particular chord set (and the little fill licks inserted between chords) that he/she is filling in the logical “next chord” or “next structural bit of chords” because…well, that’s what musicians do.
So I can’t point you to a specific song, sorry.
ETA: What kind of guitar was being played? The recording is iffy so that is a factor, but it sounded like a fairly inexpensive, thinnish bodied Japanese acoustic. Holds a tuning well, but kinda meh tone-wise. Sorry, I do that when I listen.
Speaking as someone who is proudly crap to mediocre on the guitar, I am happy and encouraged to hear that knowing the key of G qualifies you as a “musician”.
You’d be surprised at the number of people in bands that don’t really know what the key of G is. :)*
I agree with WordMan, it’s a normal enough set of changes that it could be a lot of things, or nothing. I have a habit of noodling out a song/non song when I pick up the guitar. When I’m asked what song I’m playing, my wife answers “nothing, just screwing around” for me, if she’s present.
But now I want an answer to WordMan’s question if you have it. My guess would be any acoustic, but they’re using a piezo pickup. If it’s not plugged into something like an amp, then he’s probably right.
*And I shouldn’t be so glib. I’m a bass player, and I still can’t really count any strange time signatures. I can play in it by feel, but I can’t explain how to do it to anyone else.
Yeah, I think you hit it. Thank you muchly. It isn’t, to my ears, indisputably “Heaven”, but it’s very close, and – from watching Youtube versions with lyrics – the song seems like a natural for a young couple to request.
I’m not sure how I’ll proceed from here, but knowing the song will probably come in handy. We shall see.
Yeah, I agree, it’s not an exact match. But I’m a guitar player, and it sounded to me like something sounds when I’m mindlessly strumming a song I know (mindlessly being the key word). Depending upon how much I’m paying attention, I might slop up the breaks, do two verses instead of one, go back and do the bridge over because I @$#^ed it up, start another song then go back to the first one, etc. You can generally recognize the song, but you definitely don’t want to work out the tabs from one of my performances while I’m strumming the guitar and watching TV or carrying on a conversation.
Sounds almost, but not quite like, Pink Floyd “Green is the Color”. I agree with Stratocaster, it also sounds like my typical strum/noodling when I’m not worrying about rigid strum patterns, or I’m taking a really boring strum pattern and trying to keep myself from falling asleep by adding some little fills and flourishes.
