Charlie17

Anything strings, they generally have that one guy..what's his name..he did a remix of True Love. He plays a unique kind of electric set of string instruments. Take for instance the ending to the song X&Y. That's not some sample library or synth patch. If it's a cover though, no need to make a perfect carbon copy. We already have the album track. You can make something a little different and new right

Sure you guys are on top of his one. But here's a cover of miracles I did in the key of Eb. I layered some chord voicings on acoustic guitar. As always, just let me know if you're interested and I'll gladly share. If not, thank you and have a great may 29th :) https://soundcloud.com/cedmo013/miracles

The lyrics to wedding bells are amazingly sad in a beautifully written perspective

I'll post parachutes. Tuning from Low E -------> High e 1. Don't Panic. Standard 2. Shiver. E-A-B-G-B-D# 3. Spies. E-A-C#-G-B-C# 4. Sparks. Capo on 6th. E-A-D-G-B-D 5. Yellow. E-A-B-G-B-D# 6. Trouble. E-A-D-G-B-D 7. Parachutes. E-A-B-G-B-D# 8. High Speed. D-G-D-G-B-D 9. We Never Change. E-A-D-G-B-C# 10. Everything's not lost. kind of n/a. Standard. These are correct for rhythm/acoustic guitar

This might actually not be a bad idea. Just for tunings. not for tabs and everything

my ears say the Mylo Xyloto book is wrong, at least for the portion with acoustic guitar towards the end of the song when he sings, "might have to go.." I have the book as well. It's no help on this song imho. :)

If you'd like the chords I play in this cover on guitar let me know. They're different than anything i've come across on the internet. I love the song tool https://soundcloud.com/cedmo013/up-with-the-birds

How so

And last...for now. the final section or two sections of Up with the Birds. I play this differently than everything i've come across in printed song books. I just don't think they're correct by my ear. Not referring to the piano based section of the song, but from when Johnny plays the electric riff through the ending...about the final two minutes. I play, for Johnny's part, basically a normal D chord with the various hammer-ons and pull offs then switch to a D3add4 (X-X-0-0-3-2). The main hammer-on is from a D-chord (x-x-0-2-3-2) hammer on second string 4th fret and play the third string open before a strum of a Dchord again. have to use your ear. and before the acoustic guitar comes in, it's a Dsus2 (X-X-0-3-2-0). Acoustic Guitar: Standard tuning: D chord to BminorAdd4 (X-2-4-4-3-0) eventually followed by a Gmaj7 of your choosing (3-x-5-4-3-2) or (3-5-5-4-0-2). then basically your normal Emin when he says "a simple plot," to a normal-ish G then D. Ends with a Gmaj7 "oh yeahhhhh." In this cover I layer the Gmajor 7 with a second acoustic guitar playing a G6 (3-5-5-4-2-0) It's the only way I feel like the chord is fully the way I hear it on the record. Not sure what chord those two make combined like that but it sounds lovely. If i had six fingers I'd play the Gmaj7 (3-5-5-4-3-2) but I am stuck with standard issue human anatomy and I can't make that one. Here's what it sounds like. The album track is in the background at a very low level. I'm playing the electric guitars, the acoustic guitars, the bass and the singing in the foreground. Cheers, Charlie https://soundcloud.com/cedmo013/up-with-the-birds Feel free to tell me i'm wrong or deaf or both or if you wanna know something i might have forgotten. :)

And here is another one that's great to play. Just heard this last month. "I Bloom Blaum." Open D tuning ( D-A-D-F#-A-D). And make a traditional C chord shape with the root note up two frets to the fifth fret and start from there. https://soundcloud.com/cedmo013/i-bloom-blaum

Hi guys, I never heard this song until relatively recently (last couple years) and shouldn't have been surprised I liked it a lot. It's also a lot of fun to play on the guitar because it's doable but still kind of challenging for people in my range of playing ability. it's very Chris Martin too, despite being in standard tuning. This cover is down a semitone so my guitar is tuned Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb but the album track is standard. If anyone want's i can share some chords. just let me know. Charlie OH! it's "Careful Where You Stand." Almost forgot to mention that! https://soundcloud.com/cedmo013/careful-where-you-stand

wow that's amazing man. This gives me the chills. Glad they experimented with this ambient dark sound for a little, at least. Nice work man. Video is not my thing I can tell you that.

That's a cool picture from the Midnight video i right? midnight is one of my favorites that gets little attention. It's so good

Thanks :)

I would love to say thank you but that's actually chris Martin singing. I just pitch shifted the whole song down three notes and played some guitar, piano, drums and sang the oohs and ahhhs in the chorus. Glad you like what I did though :)

For anyone who is interested, here is a link to a version of yellow with the original album track shifted into the key of G# from B as well as some additions from me instrumentally. I think it kind of breathes a little life into it if you've heard it 1,000 times just by switching the key alone. Still think it's one of the best songs i've ever heard if not the best. -Charlie https://soundcloud.com/cedmo013/yellow-in-g

I threw some songs into Melodyne to see what kinds of reference pitches Coldplay has used and if there were any apparent patterns (you might expect that other songs using piano on AROBTTH would have been roughly the same as the Scientist if he liked using that particular piano which happened to be 24 cents sharp). So yeah.. Yellow was recorded with an A4=447 Hz, 27 cents sharp. The Scientist was indeed 446 Hz, or 26 cents sharp. Warning Sign is 433Hz or -28 cents A Rush of Blood to the Head is 444 Hz or 15 cents sharp Amsterdam is 445 or 18 cents sharp Their more recent stuff tends to be 440 more often. But I know Magic, for example is like 15 cents sharp, I think. Not much, but enough to be annoyed if you try to play along with a digital piano or something. Not too long ago, before all the processing we have now to boost upper frequencies with EQ and add harmonic distortion with tube or valve amplification, orchestras were constantly experiencing "pitch inflation" because when a stringed instrument is tuned sharper, it produces a "brighter" sound for some complex and and also some obvious reasons. Maybe with some of the strings tuned down on yellow and other songs on parachutes, the thought it'd sound better to regain the string tension by tuning a little higher. Could also have been done for vocal reasons to make flipping in and out of falsetto as natural as possible. who knows.

They use backing tracks. It's not "cheating" or "faking" it. It basically boils down to the fact that there are only four people in coldplay. If you look at the studio version of any pop song, Coldplay included, there are between 40 and 100 tracks of recorded sound. Some of it is the fact that each drum and cymbal has it's own mic, and also some of it has to do with different effects on the vocals for the verse and the chorus, but those monumental walls of sound can't be produced by four people playing drums, a bass, a piano and a telecaster. They have their in ear monitors with a metronome so they can stay in time with the backing tracks, hear their own instruments and hear whatever else they need to play their parts. Very sure that Chris does not use autotune whatsoever and they all absolutely play their instruments and then some.

I can't even remember what I had for lunch today. Don't remember where I got that

Think it sounds great man. Especially the tone you got from your guitar. Just like the album. It was funny, I literally was doing a cover of the same song when I saw this. Definitely across like the "one-upper" type of guy. Not the intent. But for grins, here's mine too. :) https://soundcloud.com/cedmo013/you-were-an-island-1

I think this song (even though i don't particularly care for it) exemplifies one of my favorite things about coldplay. The same song sounds so different and means such different things to different people. I remember distinctly hearing it for the first few times (there has never been an album in my life I have so eagerly awaited as X&Y, I remember seeing grown men, businessmen in the Washington D.C. area, at the store at midnight getting their hands on the CD and looking at it front and back with a sort of wonderment and disbelief they had it in their hands). The lyrics meant to me, at the time, the struggle and anxiety of writing such a hugely anticipated follow up and awaiting a response (how long do i have to climb this mountain, how long before you decide..ideas you'll never find, the sign i couldn't read), very much anxiety-ish lyrics that could apply to his art or a romantic pursuit or just life, then stepping back in the chorus and seeing we're all just small pieces of a vast system or universe and that puts it in perspective. And sure, maybe the arpeggiated piano riff at the beginning is a bit of an extension of clocks...but the similarities end there in my opinion...except for the English and honest self doubt and voicing of inner struggle that is quite common among his lyrics and also quite disarming. Secret Agent stuff? sure why not. likely? um....i think they ended the interview process for position of secret spy when he released a song called spies on a platinum album. :)

Wait, so "Up with the Birds" is about missiles? And "Spies is about spies?" And Oceans is about waiting for his call back from the CIA and realizing he'd been rejected by the organization he'd formed an emotional attachment to? Coldplay will never sound the same :( jk man. that is quite imaginative if not slightly conspiracy theory-ish. Take care -Charlie

I don't have it. Mann. That's so dumb of me to throw out. I know I uploaded it on this sight once to settle a friendly disagreement about a tuning. I remember seeing cemeteries of london and being surprised. Honestly I think it was standard...or...something with a few consecutive same notes, like E-A-D-G-C-C or something with a capo somewhere. I'll let you know if I find it cause it's definitely an official setlist. Think it might have been a picture of a page in the program passed out to the crowd or something like that

Man. I had a picture of a setlist from the Viva era and it had the guitar tunings on it for the roadies so that Chris's guitars were correct. I think I have it somewhere...hopefully my iPad. I know it had Cemeteries of London

I wonder if I'm the only avid Coldplay fan on Earth who bought Parachutes the same year I bought the Cash Money Millionaires album (lil wayne, juvenile, manny fresh etc.) with Bling Bling on it. Or even who owns both. Or owned. Man...whatever happened to my CD collection. My spinning tower of melodic soft rock and southern rap...