Back To The Old House THE SMITHS KIT MORGAN travels back through time to transcribe this popular acoustic Smiths tune. And HARRY WYLIE looks at the history behind one of Johnny ue Smiths were ne af those ands that managed to write Bsies that were a good fn eter than the Acide ofthe single, The exelent How Soon tr Now? was the Bs of Willan It Was Bally Noting alone, with lose, Pave, Moase Let Me Cet What 1 Wont an! Back To The Old House was B-side to ‘hei thd sigle, What Diferenoe Des Te Make? ‘When particu ile-minded jouralit put the dea to Thom Yorke of Radiohead that his band wer the bes pop band since The Smiths, Thom reacted vitiolcaly~ the Smiths woren a rock band, they were «folk band, he laimed. And if yo stop and think abovt it, Thom s probably Correct The gta ines played by Johnny Marr ‘en soled complex ingepoked patterns, and Marr himself cites fll players ike Beet Jansch as ‘he defining iluences on his techrique Some ofthe Suits best tines were pled on acoustic guitar and Mace ix still a seioaly under regarded player on this nstuxnent. Wal Wonder snd That Joke fen Funny. from Meat Bs Murder Tah featured great couse parts. But perhaps the hrs example of is Binge picking sl Back T> The Old Hone, originally recorded est in 1983, re-recorded for 4 Jolin Pel session the nex year TECHNIQUE Yl need to se some form of ingore technique to play the part accurately thumb and two gens wl sl, althongh occasionally Mare brings in the thd (eng) ger to bring nt the top totes of some ofthe chords, Hybrid pleking iplectrum an two Rogers) could also be nse if you pele although its harder to reproduce his Saft tone onthe bass notes “The min theme is based around C shape chords ad their elatives (Am, F, Get), But on the F shapes theres no need to strgale with «Fit wen) ta) vane amr GD A OD Bm? GD. Marr's best guitar lines. E, finger barre across the neck the fs fret of the 6th string itt payed at all so wy make ie lift for yoursell2 The mide section gets ery tls atthe end of brs and 5 thoee an doa ‘olen used by follies —a baie C major chord ‘which slides np so frets eating pleasing Zeatone clash between the ope thie and Futh fre ofthe fourth string. Atbar6 youl come across that old Clit (Bin in capo spe) whieh rarely gets used tutside a jrzclub, and at har 8 there's a disney jazzy sounding maj? shape. Aer the middle" Section, we're Int verse two, which extended by sping back to the intro and playing through the nol lot aga, adding four extra has to the verse ‘ter the second time through che middle section, simpy play the fit two bars ofthe theme 8 ght tines, and end on aD maj7 (Cravath aE expo} chord —e« normal Cshape with on fale af. Fll esate printed on the lt 7 ae a 3 aveusT 1998 mut 46Bret re od rua) oomteh 16) wen re) te) Yon were) Etue2 AsuediD AD Bn? GD AOD Bn? GD. 2 Fad A tot 2 ven pelt) (peo) fonete) 18) inn por 8) ° Bn? GD A OD Eeus2 Asus AD Bn? GD OR wasn) © EA a tena ton Geass * Pa D Edge = Ffm? Oma? oad Issub 48 AUGUST 1995 oo