Officially wrong tab - In bloom

[Zittra]

Kurt Cobain is playing very different chords in this video than in Rocksmith. WTF?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbgKEjNBHqM

[grimlog]

As far as I can tell this are the same chords. He plays some of them on different strings, eg he plays 1st fret on A-String (yellow) Power chord instead of 6th fret on E-String (red).

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yeah, Rocksmith doesn't go for the same placement all the time when they transcribe songs. They just go for any Am, Emaj7 etc. The artist may have played it differently, but its still the same chord on paper.

[Zittra]

Same chord? Kurt Cobain uses chords the RS version uses quints these are not the same.

[grimlog]

Hmm? What chords other than power chord does Kurt play? All I see is power chords, same as RS, but some on different strings. The G might be something different, but it's hard to tell for me from the video.

[Loco]

If you do play it the same way Cobain does, the game registers the notes as what they show.

It's one of the songs I can't look at the screen or it starts being confusing.

[Age]

Originally posted by Loco:

If you do play it the same way Cobain does, the game registers the notes as what they show.

It's one of the songs I can't look at the screen or it starts being confusing.

glad to hear it's confirmed accurate. :)

[Zittra]

No power chords in RS, but quints.

[Zittra]

I mean in this song.

[grimlog]

Originally posted by Zittra:

No power chords in RS, but quints.

What do you think power chords are? They are the base note plus the quint. You can also add the octave and that's it.

[|MTL|CrystalMethod]

Originally posted by Loco:

If you do play it the same way Cobain does, the game registers the notes as what they show.

It's one of the songs I can't look at the screen or it starts being confusing.

Many of the RS songs are like this. If you know your theory, you're playing the same thing. My best scores are when I play songs I already know how to play, and don't look at the screen. When I try to play what RS is telling me to play I get confuzzled, and end up missing all sorts of chords and notes.

[Zittra]

Originally posted by grimlog:

Originally posted by Zittra:

No power chords in RS, but quints.

What do you think power chords are? They are the base note plus the quint. You can also add the octave and that's it.

You can say anything you want, the RS version is not the same as the original. It matters how to change chords in music. Am I right?

[PiratePuncher]

Not if they play the same pitch. Just because Rocksmith is telling you to play in a different position doesn't mean it is the wrong pitch.

[grimlog]

Originally posted by Zittra:

Originally posted by grimlog:

What do you think power chords are? They are the base note plus the quint. You can also add the octave and that's it.

You can say anything you want, the RS version is not the same as the original. It matters how to change chords in music. Am I right?

Yes. And the chords are the same. Just look at the things Kurt plays, compare to what RS tells you to play and try to find a single chord that does not match. There is none. Kurt uses different voicings at times, but the chords remain the same. You know, there are a bazillion ways to play certain chords on guitar. Adding the base note an octave higher simply does not change the chord. For example E-Minor is E-G-B. It does not matter where you play the E, the G or the B or how often you double these on the higher strings. E is base, G is minor third and the B is the quint. Base, minor third and quint define it's a minor chord. A major third (G# in this example) defines it's a major chord. Again no matter where you play it. If you leave out the third, it's a power chord. The absence of the octave does not change it, because the octave adds no important harmonical information to the power chord. It's not even mentioned anywhere in the chord names. Look at how RS names power chords: G5. G is the base, 5 means quint. That's all, nothing more. So it's simply a fact, that the things you call "just quints" are power chords - just quints would be single notes, the B in case of base E.
The "Tabs" (these are no tabs by the way) might not be perfectly accurat, but they are not "wrong", just because Kurt plays some things slightly different in a music video. You know, the guys who charted the songs know how to play guitar. Why you would think they could fail on something as simple as "In Bloom" is beyond me, especially given the fact, that the song sounds quite right, when you play it as RS tells you.

[hertston]

I know Kurt Cobain favoured short scale guitars. That does suggest he might well have sought out alternative chord voices that were easier to reach (I do the same thing). If that's the case, RS is right to use standard chord voicings, as much as there is any such thing, rather than something unusual just because Cobain happened to prefer it because his hands were on the small side.

[Strangepowers]

Originally posted by hertston:

I know Kurt Cobain favoured short scale guitars. That does suggest he might well have sought out alternative chord voices that were easier to reach (I do the same thing). If that's the case, RS is right to use standard chord voicings, as much as there is any such thing, rather than something unusual just because Cobain happened to prefer it because his hands were on the small side.

You also have to consider Kurt was a junkie and created riffs that were easy to play in a herion induced fog. He was also making fun of you, us, in that very song... listen... he's the one...

Poor guy is rolling in his grave if he knew his songs are in a video game.