Oops, yes I meant Public News. Guess the brain wires need resoldering. Maybe I should teach myself the drums. It might be faster than actually tracking someone down.
We have actually fired our drummer a couple times to only ask him back b/c he always turns out to be our best option. Lynus, if you are serious, email me. We are trying to get someone in the next 4-6 weeks. You can check us out at The Satellite Lounge on August 25th. Thx for the endorsement, Jeff! Be talkin' to ya
how did you all learn to play guitar? ive wanted to forever and have tried out of books and things but all they teach me is this old man and stuff so i get bored. Any suggestins on how to learn and anything i need to learn. Oh yea and i want to be jimmi in a week
I used to be purty damn good at percussion back in school. After that, with no organized playing , I just let it go. I LOVE music though! I guess because of my percussion backround, I tend to like anything with a "dope beat"!
Jimi in a week??? Aint gonna happen. The one thing about learning guitar is, there are no shortcuts. I started by playing along with Beatles records then moved on to Clapton and Hendrix. Went through the heavy metal phase, then came to my senses and have been playing the Blues ever since.
God bless the Beatles for writing simplistic songs that I could play along to. The only thing easier is The Velvet Underground. Once I ran throught those two, I became more intrested in theory than technique, but once I was sure I wanted to learn I went out and bought the big white bible. That and OLGA are plenty to give you a basic understanding of the guitar.
I tell you what, though. Pull out a couple of Beatle's song books and check out the chord structures. Those are pretty damn advanced for "simple" pop songs. You are right that, as guitar parts, they aren't always that tough, but Blackbird and Here Comes the Sun, for example, aren't exactly 3-chord rock. I learned She's Leaving Home the other day for an acoustic cover gig I've been doing and it's got some pretty odd turnarounds for pop music. They never cease to amaze me.
There's a great series of articles at: Alan W. Pollack's 'Notes On' series where this guy who really knows what he's talking about goes through and breaks down every Beatle's song from the standpoint of 'classical musical analysis'. This is the greatest resource in the world for a songwriter, as far as I'm concerned. The general theme, basicaly, is that the more bizare that the Beatles songs get on the surface, the more fundamentaly 'classical' they are. For instance, something like 'Dear Prudence' is a perefect example of a pedal point based around 'D'. It's also wonderfully intresting in terms of the tension it build by always pointing back to the aformentioned pedal point, yet never actualy resoving to it. Also, 'I Am The Walrus', despite all of the strangeness on the surface, IS a standard 3 chord song. So, while some of these songs are odd from a traditional 'I-IV-V' standpoint, they all follow some sort of logic no mater how twisted, as opposed to something like the somewhat haphasard structures of Nirvana songs. The site also, BTW, does a great job of breaking down tendancies in 'Lennon' vs 'McCartney' vs 'Harrison' songs. Things like almost all of the Beatles songs written in waltz time are Lennon songs.
