Note Learning

One helpful thing for any guitarist to learn is every note on the fretboard. Sometimes staring at a diagram or writing these things out doesn’t seem to help much.

The purpose of this exercise is to help learn those notes. Between the open string and the twelfth fret lies every note. Pick a note at random and play that note on every string.

The idea is to do a few a day every day until you learn them all. Boring? Yes. Effective? Definitely.

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The History of Pop Music in 4 Chords

Stole this one from Digg. Also managed to dig through the comments and get the song list. This is Benny Davis performing The Four Chords Song.

  1. Blink 182 – “Adam’s Song”
  2. Kasey Chambers – “Am I Not Pretty Enough”
  3. Alex Lloyd – “Amazing”
  4. The Calling – “Wherever You Will Go”
  5. Bush – “Glycerine”
  6. Tea Party – “Heaven Coming Down”
  7. Five For Fighting – “Superman (It’s Not Easy)”
  8. Lighthouse Family – “High”
  9. Bic Runga – “Sway” (the song from American Pie)
  10. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Soul to Squeeze”
  11. Maroon 5 – “She Will Be Loved”
  12. U2 – “With Or Without You”
  13. Crowded Horse – “Fall At Your Feet”
  14. Natalie Imbruglia – “Torn”
  15. Missy Higgins – “Scar”

    16. *Dramatic pause*

  16. Paul McCartney – “Let It Be”
  17. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Under the Bridge”
  18. Michael Jackson – “Man In The Mirror”
  19. Elton John – “Can You Feel The Love Tonight”

Walk Away

I really don’t have the recording time to do something like this, but I went ahead and tried anyway. I’m not real happy with the angle the camera is at. But you have to understand when I played it through I ran out of time exactly where it ends. I thought it was karma or something.

By mistake I sang part of the chorus I was supposed to cut out to save myself time so the ohhh after walk away was something I had never tried before. It will end up in future versions.

I think it’s a lot better then my last singing attempt. I’m afraid you won’t get any other originals until after xmas (if I’ve been a good boy) and have a bigger memory card.

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