Let It Be Me |
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Aint She Sweet |
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken |
Joan Baez with muppets - listen for the key changes (wonderful).
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Hello Dolly |
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Rainbow Connection |
initial cut - try it out and we can finalize arrangement later
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And I Love Her |
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Ukulele Anthem - Amanda Palmer |
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Michelle |
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Here's more hard work -- the Beatles song "Michelle."
Yes, it's hard work, but here's why it's a really useful song to learn: 1. Diminished chords: Michelle uses a C#dim (which we know from Hello Dolly), but it does something very interesting with it. If you move the shape of a diminished chord up three frets, then the chord ends up still being the same. It is the same, but the notes are inverted. That is, the same notes are played, but they appear in a different order. What makes this cool is that you are playing the same chord, but it sounds like there's a lot of movement going on in the song. It's a little bit of sophistication we can throw into songs on occasion. It makes us sound like we've actually studied a bit (there go our gigs!). 2. Lines within a chord. I have talked about how songs move and sound better when they have internal lines. What does that mean? It means that you hold a chord, but each time you play it one of the notes goes down (or up) a step. Michelle starts with an Em chord that drops a note at a time to give to the following sequence: Em - Gaug - G - Em6 -unknown chord name 1 - unknown chord name 2. It sounds really sophisticated, but the downward motion of the one line (i.e., string) points to the song's direction. The listener can easily hear this and figure out what you are doing. It's a great way to liven songs up! The Beatles were geniuses!!! OK, it will take some work. But on the other end, you will have a sophisticated little song that draws on strumming and fingerpicking. It will amaze your friends! It will scare your enemies!! It will arouse the interest of ASCAP!!! It will make Jake jealous!!!! And, most of all, it will make you extremely joyous at the fact that you decided to pick this little instrument up! Wow! The power of music. | ||
What a Wonderful World |
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