A Note About Playing the Music On This Site In a Band Setup
To best recreate these Savage Garden songs in your own band or group setup, consider the following suggestions when arranging the pieces to certain instruments. You don't HAVE to do it the way I suggest, it's your life. Though as the sole arranger of all this, I arrange them to match closely the way they are played by SG. Feel free to tinker with it so it works best for the instruments you use. Drums are out of my league, but I'll mention it if it's an important component of the song...
The Best Thing: The best setup for this is vocals, two guitars, bass guitar, drums, and keyboard (optional). The bassist should play the bass tablature (your time to shine!). Two guitarists should play "Guitar 1" and "Guitar 2" of the tablature. The "Guitar 2" part generally has the solos or more melodic parts, so the solo guitarist should probably play it, and the rhythm guitarist take "Guitar 1." The keyboard is not a particularly important component in the song; with the exception of the intro, they're rarely heard. The keyboardist could play the piano part sheet music in the intro, and the chords during the more "heavier" parts of the song, such as the chorus and instrumental break.
Break Me Shake Me: Vocals, two guitars, bass guitar, and drums. For some extra pizzaz, have someone also snapping and/or playing the tamborine rattle (which is every four snaps). The bassist should play the bass tablature, a rhythm guitarist should play the chords, and a solo guitarist should play the tablature.
Chained To You: Vocals, guitar, bass guitar, drums. To pump up the song with all those 80 power chords, also have someone on keyboard/synthesizer, or, substitute an extra guitar. The bassist should play the bass tablature, the solo guitarist should play the tablature, and the additional keyboardist/guitarist should play the chords (but more muted than the solo guitarist, or the tablature part will be easily overpowered).
I Knew I Loved You: It's not what it sounds. Vocals, drums, acoustic guitar and bass. The guitarist should play the guitar tablature, the bassist the bass tablature. If you're partial to the acoustic version remix, leave out bass and drums.
Love Can Move You: Vocals, bass, drums, and two guitars is all that's really needed here. The bassist should play the bass tabs, the rhythm guitarist should play the "Guitar 1" part in the tablature, and the solo guitarist should play the "Guitar 2" part in the tablature. Very simple.
Tears of Pearls: For this song, vocals, bass, drums, two guitars, and a keyboard covers all parts. The bassist should play the bass tabs, the rhythm guitarist should play the "Guitar 1" part in the tablature, and the solo guitarist should play the "Guitar 2" part in the tablature. The keyboardist should play the keyboard part. The same person could play Guitar 2 and the keyboard-- which is what Daniel does, anyway.
Truly Madly Deeply: This is probably kind of confusing because I did extra parts of this song-- so if you read this you are a step ahead. This works best with vocals, keyboard/piano, guitar, bass, drums, and maybe a second pianist OR guitarist. The first pianist should play the piano part sheet music (NOT "solo part"), the guitarist should play tablature, the bassist the bass tabs. If you have another person involved that plays keyboard/piano or guitar, he should play the chords... but that part is NOT necessary!
Two Beds and a Coffee Machine: Here's an easy one. Really all you need is piano and vocals. The pianist should play the piano part sheet music (NOT "solo part"). For a different effect, an acoustic guitar, playing the tablature, could accompany the vocals.
Back to Map::Back to Music Lessons