Plays guitar! Makes lessons (YouTube) and hand-rolled PDF chord sheets (Patreon).
Austin, TX
Joined January 2013
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Want access to my library of 200+ PDF chord sheets, all hand-made with care by yours truly? Quick vid here, explaining how it all works! youtube.com/watch?v=-wUT2i9G…
Get my PDFs @ patreon.com/songnotes
Browse all my video lessons @ playsongnotes.com
I also made two extended videos – watch them both at playsongnotes.com/lessons/45…
One tackles a few more advanced topics. e.g. playing the chorus melody while strumming, some advanced rhythm/strumming tips, and a percussive approach to the bridge.
The other is a playthrough w/ tabs
#449 - "Personal Jesus" as covered by Johnny Cash (2002). Quite the fun reinterpretation of the original Depeche Mode version from 1989.
youtube.com/watch?v=C0qngy53…
If you need help with the swing aspect of things, check out my lesson notes @ playsongnotes.com/lessons/44… – where I have audio recordings of the riff played in both ways. Hopefully a helpful way to hear the difference!
And as usual I have a song sheet written up – 3 pages, hand-crafted to give you all the info you need while keeping things readable. You can grab this at musicnotes.com/l/fVlMJ
🎸 #448 Alternating Bass Note Fun with "Don't Worry Be Happy"
Bobby McFerrin's 1988 classic uses a repeating 4 chord progression, from start to finish – here's an easy to play it using alternating bass notes. Add percussive slaps on the 2 and 4, to taste
youtube.com/watch?v=G1AbCj9l…
View my full notes, plus a link to the 2-page PDF with tabs for each of the 4 exercises I show in my lesson:
playsongnotes.com/lessons/44…
Fun fact: Don't Worry Be Happy is the first a cappella song to reach #1 on the Billboard Top 100 Chart.
It stayed there for 2 weeks, displacing Sweet Child O' Mine (which to this day is GNR's only #1 single).
youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65s…
🎸#447 Easy-going blues groove in A-minor
Where I show you can lean hard into using b3 and b7 notes, played in between strums of Am/Dm/E7, to really add some nice flavor. Played over a 12 bar blues sequence.
youtube.com/watch?v=KhSRDwvs…
Follow along with my print-friendly tabs (3 pages, PDF) – which includes a bunch of handy notes & fretboard diagrams.
Extended video lesson (w/ full playthrough + tabs) also available, as well as a jam track for you to play along with.
Get all these @ playsongnotes.com/lessons/44…
#446 - Southern Cross by Crosby, Stills & Nash
youtube.com/watch?v=pMs6MrLb…
I also made an extended video tutorial (showing additional tabs/strumming diagrams for some of the tricky sections). It also includes a few alternative ways to play the main riff.
And, a full play-along cover!
View them both @ playsongnotes.com/lessons/44…
Here's a great video of Guy Clark playing it, from an ACL recording in 2008. youtube.com/watch?v=7SXlSjco…
And the album version, if you want to hear the intro riff played super cleanly.
youtube.com/watch?v=DXCCvBzZ…
Over on my Patreon page I recorded 2 play-along covers, as well. One with singing and lyrics, the other at a slower tempo showing tabs for each section.
patreon.com/posts/65504354
And of course there is my print-friendly song sheet, 6 pages! Best way to follow along if you want to fully dive in and master the song.
musicnotes.com/l/McvMb