Key signatures

[Peestie]

I know I'll look like a bit of "n00b" ( ) asking stuff like this, but I find it really hard to do myself. I was hoping someone could maybe tell me what key these songs are in, and if the ones I have listed are correct.

If anyone can help me I'll be very happy

Beautiful Child
Big Love (studio, same as the rest)
Bleed To Love Her (SYW) - A(m?)
Blue Letter
Book of Love*
Caroline
Come - Em
Crystal
Little Lies - A
Say You Love Me - A
Silver Springs - A

*Can any please help me with the first 4 bars of this? The chord progression is all I need really. I spent ages on it, but my lack of knowledge of chords really gets me thrown off

I know its simple and I should be able to do all this on my own, but I'm going to blame playing the violin for 10 years instead of the guitar. I know virtually no chords since you don't use them on the violin more than once in every 50 songs and even then you don't learn what they are since they are so uncommon. I plan on learning them, but first I have to do my A-levels so have little time to spend learning guitar stuff (that's what you get when you do 5 A-levels instead of 3 like everybody else )
I find figuring out key signatures difficult because I've never been taught how so pretty much I just guess and if it doesn't sound right I pick another lol. Again it's the violin's fault because for 10 years I was just playing things that were handed to me (with any enthusiasm I must add) and I just played the key, I didn't ever learn anything about it's sound or character. The best I can do is differentiate between major and minor (melodic and harmonic) and even that is pretty dodgy.

Sorry for my longwinded-ness
Thanks

[David]

Beautiful Child: somebody told me they play this live in B
Blue Letter: always played live in A
Little Lies: A or F#m, which is A's relative minor
Say You Love Me: always played live in A
Silver Springs: always played live in C

[Peestie]

Originally Posted by David

Beautiful Child: somebody told me they play this live in B
Blue Letter: always played live in A
Little Lies: A or F#m, which is A's relative minor
Say You Love Me: always played live in A
Silver Springs: always played live in C

Thanks.
Are the studio ones the same? I meant to ask for the studio version of them all and I realise that it must have looked unclear since I had "studio" after Big Love which would imply that the rest were live, but that was because most of the time people seem to assume I'm talking about the acoustic version.

[David]

Originally Posted by Peestie

Are the studio ones the same? I meant to ask for the studio version of them

Studio keys
Beautiful Child: C
Blue Letter: A
Crystal: G
Little Lies: F#m
Say You Love Me: A
Silver Springs: C

I don't have the others on CD. Somebody else can do the scutwork, or if you can post a clip of them here, I can use that.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by David

I don't have the others on CD.

WHAT???

[Peestie]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

WHAT???

LMAO!

Thanks David, I'll post some clips tonight when I get a bit of time.

[Peestie]

Big Love sample:
http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...I0H7CV0SWRQF0C

Book of Love sample:
http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...338NFA5Y8GXQON

Caroline sample:
http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0...K1PG1SW34QPUM3

Any chace I could get some help with that sample of Book of Love? I get the first chord as x7999x and the second as 577655, but the next two I'm not sure about. I'm sure they're simple but then so am I lol. Please help.

[MiniLindsey]

Beautiful Child - studio version in C major, live version in B major
Big Love - live version in C sharp minor, studio version in D sharp minor/E flat minor
Bleed To Love Her - A flat major
Blue Letter - A major
Book of Love - E major
Caroline - A minor
Come - Live version in E minor, studio version in A minor
Crystal - G major
Little Lies - F sharp minor
Say You Love Me - A major
Silver Springs - C major

The chords to this section of Book of Love:
E - B9sus4 - E - Aadd9

[David]

Originally Posted by Peestie

Big Love sample:
http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...I0H7CV0SWRQF0C

Book of Love sample:
http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...338NFA5Y8GXQON

Caroline sample:
http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0...K1PG1SW34QPUM3

Any chace I could get some help with that sample of Book of Love? I get the first chord as x7999x and the second as 577655, but the next two I'm not sure about. I'm sure they're simple but then so am I lol. Please help.

Big Love studio: Ebm
Caroline: Am
Book of Love: E

Book of Love: E | A/E | E | A/E | E | B7sus4 | B7 | E | Asus2 | A

[Peestie]

Originally Posted by MiniLindsey

Beautiful Child - studio version in C major, live version in B major
Big Love - live version in C sharp minor, studio version in D sharp minor/E flat minor
Bleed To Love Her - A flat major
Blue Letter - A major
Book of Love - E major
Caroline - A minor
Come - Live version in E minor, studio version in A minor
Crystal - G major
Little Lies - F sharp minor
Say You Love Me - A major
Silver Springs - C major

The chords to this section of Book of Love:
E - B9sus4 - E - Aadd9

For Bleed To Love Her you are taking the tuning down 1/2 a step into account for the key aren't you? It's still played in the position of the key of A isn't it?

So will the fingers for that BOL section be something like this?
E - 022100
B9sus4 - x24420
E - same one yeah?
Aadd9 - x02420

Thanks

[David]

Originally Posted by Peestie

For Bleed To Love Her you are taking the tuning down 1/2 a step into account for the key aren't you? It's still played in the position of the key of A isn't it?

So will the fingers for that BOL section be something like this?
E - 022100
B9sus4 - x24420
E - same one yeah?
Aadd9 - x02420

I don't know about any of that stuff, but heres how I play it on the piano:

http://s4.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0F...B1K9AEWMNAW2S3

On the electric piano, you just hit a button or turn a knob if you want to tune up or down!

[MiniLindsey]

Originally Posted by Peestie

For Bleed To Love Her you are taking the tuning down 1/2 a step into account for the key aren't you? It's still played in the position of the key of A isn't it?

So will the fingers for that BOL section be something like this?
E - 022100
B9sus4 - x24420
E - same one yeah?
Aadd9 - x02420

Thanks

Bleed to Love Her is played in the sounding key of A-flat, but Lindsey's playing in A tuned down a half-step.

As for BOL, in that context I guess I'd play B9sus4 as an A/B chord (x22220), and Aadd9 as either a regular A (x02220) or an Asus2 (x02200), or maybe alternating them. But I never really looked at that one.

-Mike