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You probably recognized that line from “The Sound Of Silence “ by Paul Simon. So, if you are a struggling song writer you might want to do what Paul Simon did, go into the bathroom, turn the lights off, so it’s just you in the darkness, where it’s nice and quite, no telling what you might touch. Who knows, it might also help you concentrate. It apparently helped him.

Anyway the song is in the key of F#, but that could be a little misleading, because it’s sounding in the in the key of D# minor. I guess Paul didn’t want to play D#m, C#, F# and D#sus2 chords or maybe it had to do with his or Art Garfunkel’s voices.  So, he transposed those chords to A minor chords and then to get those D# Minor sounding chords, placed  his capo on the 6th fret.

You might take a look, doesn’t seem to difficult of a song.Here is another version without capo

https://www.sixstringfingerpicking.com/thesoundofsilence/

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Pretty cool! Thanks for the info!

I have always liked that song... I think I'll give it a look! 

 

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Pahrump, now there’s a town waiting for a song. Not many places can boast of buried treasure, (6 million in silver, if I remember correctly ) murder and a book with connections to Dylan’s song Positively 4th St. The only thing missing,  it’s  not on ET highway.

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On 9/1/2020 at 1:46 PM, Triple-o said:

Pahrump, now there’s a town waiting for a song. Not many places can boast of buried treasure, (6 million in silver, if I remember correctly ) murder and a book with connections to Dylan’s song Positively 4th St. The only thing missing,  it’s  not on ET highway.

Area 51 is close enough, lol! This is quite a unique town!! 

Been here 2 years and loving it! Still searching for more folks to play music with though. That can be a bit of a challenge in a smaller community.

I did find a lively group of ukulele players and until the whole 'virus' I played bass for them.

I have sadly not been able to find any buried treasure, lol! :)  If I do I have a few guitars on my wish-list 😇

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@Triple-o, thanks.  This song brings back such fond memories,  A long time ago I had posted here about the band I was in in High School.  When we did it, our drummer and I (i played bass) left the stage.  Just our two guitar players stayed and did an electric version.  The two guys had beautiful voices and did a great job with the song.   Memories of a great time.

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