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April 17th, 2008
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guitar duets
I have been learning guitar for two years since I was given one for my fiftieth birthday and having learnt chords and built up a list of songs I could strum to, I've now started to learn finger picking. I play once a week with a friend of mine who is at about the same level as me. We have looked without much success for fairly simple songs with tabs for two guitars. We found one for Clapton's 'Tears in Heaven' and also 'Time in a Bottle' by Jim Croce but no more. I can't find any books for guitar duets apart from classical pieces. Any ideas anyone?! We'd be grateful for any help......
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One idea and song that comes to mind is "I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Rain" by James Taylor. He plays it in D with a capo on the 3rd fret. The other guitar plays it in F without the capo (the key it is written in). So, even though you are playing the same chords, they sound different and you add a little bit of style differences based on the chords (e.g. D, Dsus2, Dsus4, etc). I'm sure there are many other songs that could be done like this.
You could also do "Duelling Banjos" on guitar.
HTH.
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Thanks Nutty, We'll have a look at that at the weekend....
Duelling banjos is getting a bit trick though!
Jon
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Hi John Scarborough fair by Simon and Garfunkel can be played with two guitars, this might not be what you're looking for but I thought it may be of use to you. Here's the tab.
Scarborough Fair by Misc. Traditional - guitar chords, guitar tabs and lyrics - chordie
Best Wishes
Chris
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Thanks
Excellent - thanks Chris. It's surprising how difficult it is to find tabs showing two guitar parts. This is great.
Jon
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Pleasure Jon, I'll see if I can find a few more 
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April 19th, 2008
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A good way to get two guitars going at once is to capo one of them. So if you're playing in G for example, get the other player to capo up on 7th fret and he plays as if in D. You can use the chart here to transpose all the chords. You'll find that if each of you is finger-picking through the chords in different positions like that, you'll automatically set up a very nice effect. Just make sure you re-tune the guitar after you clamp the capo on ... they tend to pull things out a bit ... but once they're in tune, it's a beautiful effect.
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Well, I'm too late again - one of the few useful tricks I know and Kirk beat me to it by 18 hours! 
One good thing about music is that when it hits you, you feel no pain - Bob Marley
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