Subject: I Saw Her Standing There Melody 2
I Saw Her Standing There Melody 2
June 23rd, 2017 at 8:26 am EDTHey Friend, I put together an alternate version of the verse to let you hear what “I Saw Her Standing There” would have sounded like using the chords from the normal harmonic progression of E major. Like we reviewed with the chord lessons, the ...
I Saw Her Standing There Melody
June 22nd, 2017 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, We’re flying up to Cleveland this morning to attend my nephew’s wedding, so I put together a short lesson for today and tomorrow. I mentioned yesterday that the minor 7 note has a lot of influence on the melody in ”I Saw Her Stand ...
I Saw Her Standing There Lesson 2
June 21st, 2017 at 8:31 am EDTHey Friend, How did you do with the exercises yesterday? The tempo is quite a bit faster than we’re used to working with, but not as fast as the boys originally played it (compare to the video from two days ago). It’s not the exact strum eithe ...
I Saw Her Standing There Lesson 1
June 20th, 2017 at 8:31 am EDTHey Friend, Let’s look at the first verse of The Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There.” The song is in the key of E, and the chords throughout stay within the key with the exception of a C major chord in the chorus. Here’s a reminder of ...
Let’s Compare Chords
June 19th, 2017 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, We’re going to start off studying The Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There.” Since you’re already familiar with 12 bar Blues, you’ll be happy to know this song loosely follows that structure. This was one of the first songs r ...
Happy Father’s Day
June 18th, 2017 at 9:31 am EDTHey Friend, Just want to take a quick moment to say Happy Father’s Day to all of you dads. We all have a male contributor in our lives, but that doesn’t necessarily make them a father - or Dad. I hope you have been fortunate enough to have a g ...
Get the Blues Today
June 17th, 2017 at 8:27 am EDTHey Friend, Found a cool video that locks in some of what we’ve been talking about for the past few weeks. This one is more focused on Blues tones and phrasing, but it expands on one of the lessons we did earlier. I mentioned that the dominant 7t ...
Mixing 7ths 4
June 16th, 2017 at 8:23 am EDTHey Friend, I actually remembered to create a separate exercise MP3 demonstrating today’s lesson’s standard progression. Yay me (sorry, way too many years having to watch Disney channel with my kids)! I think this will be the last generic demon ...
Mixing 7ths 3
June 15th, 2017 at 8:40 am EDTHey Friend, Well that was a "fun" little excursion to the edge. If nothing else, my little household emergency over the past few days has slapped me "upside the head” with a reminder that I’ve got some changes that have to happen if I’m going ...
It’s Not The End of the World, But...
June 14th, 2017 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, Sorry to say we’re on Day 2 of a household meltdown and the nerves are a bit frazzled… and well, preoccupied. Hope to have the issues stabilized today so I can get my head back on straight (well, as straight as it’s going to get, ...