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Jeff:  Thanks a million for hosting.   Great fun as usual.  Always a pleasure to hear you, Zurf and Roger play, and today I got to "meet " normtheguitar, who, by the way, is an amazing player.  My thanks to all of you for sharing your talents.

norm:  "I've never played this one before, but I'll have a go.":  Superstition by Stevie Wonder.  Just . . . wow.

For those of you who missed out, make it a point to join next time.  You won't be sorry.

OK.  Whatever works for you. 

My ear definitely does NOT hear C-Em, but if that's what you hear, cool.

I did make one mistake.  I said the chords were C and B, but I think it should be C and Bb.  I get really close to the sound when I capo 5 and play open G and a D shape on fret 5 (which is really fret 10), playing strings 1-3 only.

Good luck!

Yee-aah  boy-eeee!   Dat's what I'm talkin' 'bout!

Or something.

Seriously . . . this is some GREAT fun.  I can't sing nor play worth a darn, but it's the only real chance you'll have to put faces to names.  If you don't want to play, just hang out and have a good time with us.  Drinking is strongly encouraged.  It's aways after 5:00 somewhere, but on Saturdays, who cares?

Thanks for clarifying, Roger.

Stop911:  It's a bit hard to decipher becase he is fingerpicking and not strumming, but I think the song is in G.
The intro is G and C, and the verse is G, C and D.  On "seems" @1:33, that's an F#m.  That's as far as I went with it.  Play around with those and you've likely got it covered.

Of course if you want to fingerpick it like he does, you'll have to look for a tab, not chords.

I don't know anything about Larrivee, but I have both a Martin (D-35) and a Taylor (814ce).  The Martin sounds better but is harder to play.  The factory action on the Martin is really high and once it gets lowered (if you choose to lower it) it loses some intonation, but still sounds great.  The Taylor sounds almost as good but it plays like butter without any setup.  If they (Taylors) are not overpriced, it's a better investment IMO.

Hi Stop911.  We can't post songs on Chordie.  It's a search engine.  More info here:
http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4613

Are you sure you got his name right?  I Googled STEPHEN FAIRING and got no hits whatsoever.  Wasn't even searching for chords, just his name.

Sorry, I can't be any of help on this one.  I can usually figure out chords, but when it comes to trying to duplicate somebody like David Gilmour (especially high on the fretboard), then I'm pretty much useless.

I did a number of internet searches and came up empty.  Maybe somebody who (unlike me) is a real guitar player can decipher it for you.  Hang in there.

From what I can glean from YouTube, "Avila" and "Sweet Peace" are the same song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPR389YKAWs

The video is for a song called Avila, but the chorus says "Sweet Peace" in it twice.  So I'm assuming they're the same thing.  Anyhow . . .

It's in the key of B.  The guitarist in the video is capo'ed on fret 7 using E fingering to get the B.  I'm not gonna do that because there's an easier way.  Instead, put a capo on 2 and use A fingering.  It will sound good enough IMO.

Intro:  Alternate between D and A

Chorus:
(D)Oh ... (A)peace ... (D)never ... (A)fallen ... (D)never ... (A)fallen ... up(E)on this (E)town
(D)Oh ... (A)peace ... (D)never ... (A)fallen ... (D)never ... (A)fallen ... up(E)on this (A)town.

Then a short interlude in A.

Verse:  (Note:  The verse is identical to the chorus, except substitute two F#m chords for the D and A at the beginning of the second half like this:)
(D) ... (A) ... (D) ... (A) ... (D) ... (A) ... (E)everything (E) burned
Have you for(F#m)gotten ... (F#m)live here ... (D) ... (A) ... (D) ... (A) ... (E) ... (A)

Then another chorus.
Then a solo (violin in the video) which follows the verse chords.
Then another verse.
Then another chorus.
Then a chorus where the audience sings along.
Then the outro, which is another violin solo that follows the verse chords.

And that's it.

Welcome to the forum.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfzGhyx3R_U

The song is in the key of A.
The main chord of the song is A, and in the verse he changes to E for a beat and then back to A.  Example: "... (E)to come (A)back" at 0:37.

The chorus can be played as:
(A)long (D)long (E)long (A)gone (X2)
It won't sound quite the same as the recording unless you use a descending bass line, which would be best played on (wait for it) a bass.

Anyway, that's my ear.  Good luck with it.

No problem.  Welcome to the forum.

It's in the key of B.  To make playing it easier, you might put a capo on fret 2 and play this:

A - Amaj7 - F#m - D - A - E - D - Dm - A

That's the intro.  The rest of the song is probably variations on these.  I didn't listen to it all.