Standards Guitar Lessons
5 lessons from 2020-24. Ongoing
Women's Studies
Originally posted August 17th, 2021
From a very sweaty basement when I should have been practicing my golf, but a mighty storm thought otherwise.
Kids Today
Originally posted August 24th, 2020
Because you asked for it and also I think it is one of my better, maybe best songs.
Lyrically I'm particularly happy with it because it was a song with a specific idea and it really wasn't working until I came up with the device of mixing up the generational stuff.
I forgot a couple of things in the video. One is that I'm subconsciously muting the low strings with my thumb when I don't want them ringing. There is also an alternate version of the E chord for the end of the chorus that I sometimes play, that same major 9 that's in Loveless and Rattlesnakes, I put it on the chord chart.
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