Topic: Fis????

I've been trying to play Jack Johnson's Situations but I have no idea what "abm" or "Fis" means. Would someone be able to explain this for me. Thanks.

<div class="pre"><pre>[B] Situation number one [abm] It's the one that's just begun [E]                    [Fis]      E But evidently it's too     late      </pre></div>

Re: Fis????

Well the abm is supposed to be written Abm. This means it is an A flat minor. As far as the F chord I have no idea.


This ia an Abm


E-----4---

B-----4---

G-----4---

D-----6---

A-----6---

E-----4---



Eddie

Re: Fis????

what a great chord Abm is, I just picked up and played that shape of chord up and down the fret vboard and annoyed the faeces out my wife.


Fis, ???? never saw that either

but I am taking a drunken guess ( on a good single malyt glen livet) it might mean F integrigated susstained.

And how do you play that I dont hear you ask? No idea, but I bet there might be away



hic


Ken

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending

Re: Fis????

Fis is F#

Fes is Fb


its in germany, austria and swiss the name of the chords

Re: Fis????

And Norway

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So the morel to the story is this?

Music is the universal language,

However musical notation is a tower of Babel . . .

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

Re: Fis????

thanks alot for your help guys

Re: Fis????

I din't think there was an Fb.  Fb would be an E, correct?


David

Please talk slowly I don't hear good any more.

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I din't think there was an Fb.  Fb would be an E, correct?


David
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You are right, but I'm reading it as Fis means F#. Ees meaning Eb would have been a better example of a flat, there being no such thing as an Fb.