Rain Down (Delirious)

By Kenny & Tadeu

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I've received some negative feedback about some of the new contributors' posts. While the quality of the video recording may be lacking to some of you, please understand that these are their first posts. Firstly, the video quality may not be as good - I had to experiment with all sorts of angles and lighting to get it right. Also, playing in front of a camera, with the computer recording, can be quite a nervous experience - I experienced the same while playing for a large congregation, with video cameras and all, initially.

I do want to encourage the contributors to develop in the longer run, so that readers would benefit from faster request responses (and so that I have less work to do!), so please give them your support. I'll also probably have more joint posts, like this one, to keep the standard at a reasonable level.

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Rain Down, by Delirious, is a pretty radio-friendly song. The first part (done by Tadeu, though I overdubbed his recording) comprises of notes plucked over an open D string - as an exercise, experiment with the notes that sound good with other open strings. There is actually no guitar part for the verse, but I've played the organ part on the guitar instead.



Tabs
Intro & Chorus
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-9-11-11-9-11-11-9-11-11-9-11-11-12-12--
-0-0--0--0-0--0--0-0--0--0-0--0--0--0---
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-9-11-11-9-11-11-9-11-11-9-11-11-12-11-9-
-0-0--0--0-0--0--0-0--0--0-0--0--0--0--0-
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-7--7-7-7-----------------------
-10-8-7-8-(strum the chords)----
-7--7-7-7-----------------------
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Verse:
-----2-----2-----|0-----0-----0--|
---3-----3-----3-|----3-----3----|
-4-----4-----4---|--4-----4------|
-----------------|---------------|
-----------------|---------------|
-----------------|---------------|

-0-----------0---|---------0-----0-|
-------3---------|---3---------3---|
-----4-----4-----|-4-----4---4-----|
---5-----5-----5-|-----5-----------|
-----------------|-----------------|
-----------------|-----------------|

Repeat the above, followed by a D chord, and then:

-7--7-7-7----------------------------------
-10-8-7-8-(strum the chords 4 times each)--
-7--7-7-7----------------------------------
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12 comments:

Anonymous said...

what effect did you use for this recording?
thanks.

user said...

On my pod xtl? The Rat distortion, into a Vox 30 amp.

Anonymous said...

what key is this song being played in?

user said...

It's in D.

Unknown said...

Thanks, this is awesome. It's a great key and everything!

Anonymous said...

Hi, is it possible to download the clips unto my hard drive? Your great by the way! Thanks for all the help!

Jung said...

-------
-------2-
-----2---
----4---
---2----
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its gonna rain~~

Anonymous said...

hey kenny in delerious' live version they used an effect in the intro and i dont know if its a flanger or a phaser, can you help me out?

user said...

flanger

Anonymous said...

o sweet thanks! for the effect would i use the same settings that you used with you video on the flanger like with one way and stuff? what does he play in the intro, just power chords?

Anonymous said...

hi!

any people have a bass tab of RAIN DOWN???

send your answer here:chris_093@hotmail.com

thanks

Anonymous said...

im confused, i'm playing the tabs but they don't sound right and i dont understand why the dots are in the middle of the tab like that. sorry but i'm new can someone explain