Chords for It's Just This Idea I've Had - The Story So Far Episode 1
Tempo:
87.675 bpm
Chords used:
C#
G#
B
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Pour Some Sugar On Me.
Wow, yeah.
Arguably our most iconic song, possibly our most well-known song, worldwide at least.
We collectively were scattered.
We were in Holland as a unit recording, but there was only me there [G#] and Mutt Lang,
who was engineering and producing the record.
Phil and Steve I think had gone to Paris, Rick had gone to Amsterdam, Savva had gone back to England.
And I was working on the vocal for Armageddon It, and we took a break, and Mutt went off to get a coffee,
or whatever producers do, and I picked up this acoustic guitar that was sat in the corner of the room
and just started playing [C#] this riff, chorus thing, three chord turnaround, and singing the chorus I guess.
And Mutt came back in and he said, what is that?
And I fully, to this day, believe that he thought at the time
I was just playing some Stones or Kinks on the guitar.
And I said, it's just this idea that I've had knocking around,
but we were 11 songs deep into this record that had been taking the best part of two years to record.
So I didn't dare suggest it to anybody, but he picked up on it and went, no, he says, that's the best hook I've heard for years,
many a year in fact.
We [B] should do this.
So he literally took the multitrack off the machine, put a brand new piece of 2-inch tape on,
and said, right, play it again, have it go, and we programmed a drum machine and then put some kind of synthesizer basing on it,
and then I showed him the chords and he played it, and [C#] then we just started piecing this thing together.
And we put as much of it together as we could on our own, so that when the rest of the guys came back in,
I think we were working through the weekend, and they came back in on a Monday or whenever it was, we were going to say, guess what?
And that's exactly what we did.
Guys, we've kind of got a new song, and I'd rolled a little bit from certain members of the band,
but when we played it within a minute or so of this demo running past, everybody's like, oh yeah, we're in.
So technically it was the last thing that we wrote, it was the quickest thing that we recorded,
and arguably the most important song on that particular album, Hysteria.
Maybe even our entire career.
Wow, yeah.
Arguably our most iconic song, possibly our most well-known song, worldwide at least.
We collectively were scattered.
We were in Holland as a unit recording, but there was only me there [G#] and Mutt Lang,
who was engineering and producing the record.
Phil and Steve I think had gone to Paris, Rick had gone to Amsterdam, Savva had gone back to England.
And I was working on the vocal for Armageddon It, and we took a break, and Mutt went off to get a coffee,
or whatever producers do, and I picked up this acoustic guitar that was sat in the corner of the room
and just started playing [C#] this riff, chorus thing, three chord turnaround, and singing the chorus I guess.
And Mutt came back in and he said, what is that?
And I fully, to this day, believe that he thought at the time
I was just playing some Stones or Kinks on the guitar.
And I said, it's just this idea that I've had knocking around,
but we were 11 songs deep into this record that had been taking the best part of two years to record.
So I didn't dare suggest it to anybody, but he picked up on it and went, no, he says, that's the best hook I've heard for years,
many a year in fact.
We [B] should do this.
So he literally took the multitrack off the machine, put a brand new piece of 2-inch tape on,
and said, right, play it again, have it go, and we programmed a drum machine and then put some kind of synthesizer basing on it,
and then I showed him the chords and he played it, and [C#] then we just started piecing this thing together.
And we put as much of it together as we could on our own, so that when the rest of the guys came back in,
I think we were working through the weekend, and they came back in on a Monday or whenever it was, we were going to say, guess what?
And that's exactly what we did.
Guys, we've kind of got a new song, and I'd rolled a little bit from certain members of the band,
but when we played it within a minute or so of this demo running past, everybody's like, oh yeah, we're in.
So technically it was the last thing that we wrote, it was the quickest thing that we recorded,
and arguably the most important song on that particular album, Hysteria.
Maybe even our entire career.
Key:
C#
G#
B
C#
G#
B
C#
G#
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Pour Some Sugar On Me.
Wow, yeah.
_ Arguably our most iconic song, possibly our most well-known song, worldwide at least. _ _
_ We collectively were _ scattered.
We were in Holland as a unit recording, but there was only me there [G#] and Mutt Lang,
who was engineering and producing the record.
Phil and Steve I think had gone to Paris, Rick had gone to Amsterdam, Savva had gone back to England.
And I was working on the vocal for Armageddon It, and we took a break, and Mutt went off to get a coffee,
or whatever producers do, and I picked up this acoustic guitar that was sat in the corner of the room
and just started playing [C#] this riff, chorus thing, three chord turnaround, and singing the chorus I guess.
And Mutt came back in and he said, what is that?
And I fully, to this day, believe that he thought at the time
I was just playing some Stones or Kinks on the guitar.
And I said, it's just this idea that I've had knocking around,
but we were 11 songs deep into this record that had been taking the best part of two years to record.
So I didn't dare suggest it to anybody, but he picked up on it and went, no, he says, that's the best hook I've heard for years,
many a year in fact.
We [B] should do this.
So he literally took the multitrack off the machine, put a brand new piece of 2-inch tape on,
and said, right, play it again, have it go, and we programmed a drum machine and then put some kind of synthesizer basing on it,
and then I showed him the chords and he played it, and [C#] then we just started piecing this thing together.
And we put as much of it together as we could on our own, so that when the rest of the guys came back in,
I think we were working through the weekend, and they came back in on a Monday or whenever it was, we were going to say, _ guess what?
And that's exactly what we did.
Guys, _ we've kind of got a new song, and I'd rolled a little bit from certain members of the band,
but when we played it within a minute or so of this demo running past, everybody's like, oh yeah, we're in.
So technically it was the last thing that we wrote, it was the quickest thing that we recorded,
and arguably the most important song on that particular album, Hysteria.
Maybe even our entire career. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Pour Some Sugar On Me.
Wow, yeah.
_ Arguably our most iconic song, possibly our most well-known song, worldwide at least. _ _
_ We collectively were _ scattered.
We were in Holland as a unit recording, but there was only me there [G#] and Mutt Lang,
who was engineering and producing the record.
Phil and Steve I think had gone to Paris, Rick had gone to Amsterdam, Savva had gone back to England.
And I was working on the vocal for Armageddon It, and we took a break, and Mutt went off to get a coffee,
or whatever producers do, and I picked up this acoustic guitar that was sat in the corner of the room
and just started playing [C#] this riff, chorus thing, three chord turnaround, and singing the chorus I guess.
And Mutt came back in and he said, what is that?
And I fully, to this day, believe that he thought at the time
I was just playing some Stones or Kinks on the guitar.
And I said, it's just this idea that I've had knocking around,
but we were 11 songs deep into this record that had been taking the best part of two years to record.
So I didn't dare suggest it to anybody, but he picked up on it and went, no, he says, that's the best hook I've heard for years,
many a year in fact.
We [B] should do this.
So he literally took the multitrack off the machine, put a brand new piece of 2-inch tape on,
and said, right, play it again, have it go, and we programmed a drum machine and then put some kind of synthesizer basing on it,
and then I showed him the chords and he played it, and [C#] then we just started piecing this thing together.
And we put as much of it together as we could on our own, so that when the rest of the guys came back in,
I think we were working through the weekend, and they came back in on a Monday or whenever it was, we were going to say, _ guess what?
And that's exactly what we did.
Guys, _ we've kind of got a new song, and I'd rolled a little bit from certain members of the band,
but when we played it within a minute or so of this demo running past, everybody's like, oh yeah, we're in.
So technically it was the last thing that we wrote, it was the quickest thing that we recorded,
and arguably the most important song on that particular album, Hysteria.
Maybe even our entire career. _
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