I woke up one morn
not feeling too well
my guitar just sat there
silent and still
Could it understand
the feeling I had
fever and chills
and stopped up head
I wanted to hold it
but somehow I knew
that beautiful sound
probably wouldn’t come through
Maybe tomorrow
will be a brighter day
I’ll pick him up
and we’ll both go play
Be sure and check the new drop-down item in the middle of the menu bar “Sites and Info”. You will then find goodies about artists and their music! Enjoy!
I went out to my shop and this dude was settin’ there pickin’ some mean steel geetar. He said ” hey can you help me find the Big B?” I said you mean the Big E?” He said no, the Big B!! He said ” The Big B got a lotta Big E in him”. I said, ” Heck I been knowin’ that for years . I said ” I’ll just take you to him”. He said thanks pard, I’d appreciate that.” So, there ya go. Another adventure in the life of BW and G.
Since I didn’t have any students the other day, I decided to put on some rhythm tracks, activate my portable Sony recorder and play along for a while. This is always a good thing to do frequently so that you don’t forget how to play!!! I sure don’t get enough practice nowadays!
Dobro Guitar Rag
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Honky Tonk #1
Honky Tonk #2
Milk Cow Blues
Panhandle Rag
In the first post of “Yes, You CAN Read Music I showed you a simple chord chart for the song, “Amazing Grace”. Click here if you didn’t see it. In this post I’ll show you an example of a chart that has both words and chords. Remember, you must be able to make chords appropriate to your instrument! Go here to see some guitar chords! So far, I’ve been talking about how to play the accompanying rhythm for a song, not the individual melody notes. I’ll tackle that part later! Here is a chart for “Amazing Grace” that has the chord-to-be-played written just above the appropriate syllable in the corresponding word. There are also hash marks (or slashes) above the words to show when to strum your instrument.
Yes, I forgot to mention the E minor in the last line!
I stated on the first page of this website, “You don’t have to read music to enjoy playing”. Well, let me give you some examples of printed music that is easy to read!
First, there are chord charts that look like this:
If you are familiar with making chords on your instrument, you should be able to strum each of the chords (starting at the Intro and continuing through all four lines of the verse!
