• From: Sunny France
  • Registered: 2009-01-04
  • Posts: 20

Topic: Wind Beneath My Wings

Harlow everybody peeps! Greetings from an Englishman abroad in sunny France.

Forty years ago I played a tuba in a brass band, but now have got back in to music again with a lefty acoustic-electric so that I can take more part in open mic and other spontaneous nights.

Just a couple of things for clarification first, if poss.:

a. Only been learning since just before Christmas, and tend to enjoy the slower, soulful music (at least initially until I get faster at chord changing.) To that end, I'm looking for a strumming pattern for Bette Midler's Wind Beneath My Wings. It seems that the slower the piece, the more difficult it is to strum. Or is it me?

b. Clarification - generally a chord is made up of the root, 3rd and 5th notes of that particular scale e.g. key C is C, E and G. The usual chord progression in e.g. key C are chords built on the root C (I), F (IV) and G (V), so that F will be FAC, and G will be GBD. Have I got that correct?

Many thanks.

Cheers.

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  • From: Starkville, Mississippi USA
  • Registered: 2006-03-04
  • Posts: 2,069

Re: Wind Beneath My Wings

Hello Matelot & a hearty (if belated) welcome to chordie!

Sorry, I did not see your posting until now . . .
Tuba is a magnificent instrument.  My father is a professional tubist!  As a kid I went to sleep many a night hearing him teach private brass lessons. 

Glad you are getting back into Music - this site is great resource.

Regarding chord structure - here is a link to a 'chord building grid' on my MySpace page.  It is based on an article that was in Wikipedia.  The article has since disappeared from their index, but I had printed out a copy so I just sort of re-created the substance of the chart.

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c … Id=1277923

The grid is very useful to 'see' what tones and intervals are used to build common chords (major, minor, 7ths, suspended, diminished, augmented, etc).  Plus, this grid is just really cool!

You can print it out as a full page - just read the instructions at the bottom of the image.  There are 2 versions there - one in flats and one in sharps.

Hope this helps & glad to make your acquaintance,
James

"That darn Pythagorean Comma thing keeps messing me up!"
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma[/url]

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  • From: Sunny France
  • Registered: 2009-01-04
  • Posts: 20

Re: Wind Beneath My Wings

An excellent resource. Duly saved and printed.

Many thanks. big_smile

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  • From: A black hole in deep space
  • Registered: 2007-10-28
  • Posts: 7,865

Re: Wind Beneath My Wings

seems like this is the same post but a differnt topic but anyway the song you are asking chords for was originally composed and sung by Gary Morris heres the link to the words and chords smile
http://www.cowboylyrics.com/tabs/morris … -3101.html

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