Re: Recommendations

"Stephen Calder" <calder9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Mike C. wrote:
>
> >"Stri" <email.given@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >news:MPG.1d6873785feab4e498ad9d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >>Jailhouse Bones Dupree proclaimed...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Neil Young's Rockin in the Free World is pretty simple. So is Hey Hey
My
> >>>My. For Your Love by the Yardbirds is another simple one, Down on the
> >>>Corner by CCR is easy too. Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison is another
> >>>
> >>>
> >one.
> >
> >
> >>>Those were some of my favourites to practice and play (over and over
and
> >>>over and over) during the past year.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Seriously, I've got some of the tabs for them, thanks
> >>
> >>--
> >>"Now that there is one damn fine coat you're wearing."
> >>
> >>www.stri.tk
> >>
> >>
> >
> >There's some of your problem. Get the recordings and try to figure them
out
> >on your own. Forget the internet tabs, they're most likely wrong. Realize
> >that the guy that has posted the internet tab of the tune is probably no
> >better at it than you are. You *can* learn to do this. The tunes listed
are
> >easy to figure out. Don't let some amateur transcriptionist give you the
> >chords and/or notes to a tune that you could just as easily figure out
> >yourself. Give it a go, it's not that difficult.
> >
> >
> >
> As a total beginner, the problem for me was hearing it. I later became
> aware that everyone has a primary modality, or preferred learning
> channel, when absorbing information. For some people (like me) it's the
> visual channel. I easily absorb information that's presented visually,
> but have more difficulty learning by hearing. The other modalities, less
> common, are kinesthetic (feeling) and audiodigital (thinking through
> processes and patterns).
>
> My secondary preferred learning channel is kinesthetic, with audio last.
> There's nothing I can do about it, it's like my height, but I did learn
> to develop my ear after a long time. At first I found it difficult to
> hear whether my guitar was in tune, and whether my voice was sharp or
> flat, let alone be able to identify a chord, even as major or minor, let
> alone the major sevenths and half diminished chords. I still have
> trouble, though it's much easier than it was and if a song is an easy
> I-IV-V progression it's now a piece of cake. If only I had been able to
> do this when younger, I could have learned many of the songs I loved to
> hear, but it was just an impossible task for me when I was starting out.
>
> This is not to discourage Mr Dupree from doing as you suggest. Far from
> it. But if he is having difficulty with the songs mentioned he may not
> be at a stage where this is feasible, and I would like him to know that
> if it isn't as easy for him as Mike makes it sound that's not a reason
> to think he is deficient in any way or unable to learn how to do it with
> time.
>
> If you really can't find a teacher then find other players in your area,
> make contact and learn from them. Join a folk club. Folk music is
> popular because most of it is easy to play, and even if you don't
> particularly like it you already know a lot of the material. Since one
> has to start somewhere, it's a logical setting off point.
>
> --
> Stephen
> Byron Bay, Australia

Yes, I didn't mean that they're easy for anyone, but on the overall scale of
songs, they're about as easy as songs get. "Brown-Eyed Girl" and "Down On
The Corner" are at least as easy as "Bad Moon Rising", as they are the same
chords, if transposed into the same key. They're all I-IV-V tunes, and
should be easy to figure out, and the added benefit of understand what is
meant by "I-IV-V" is included.

If anyone here doesn't know what "I-IV-V" means, please feel free to post
here or e-mail me directly and I'll explain it.

--
Mike C.
http://mikecrutcher.com
Teaching: http://findmeateacher.com/contact.php?id=1107

"As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I
sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking
and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way."
- Jack Handey


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