Tonight's guitar lesson...

Legionreturns

Teacher: Hi Chris, how was the Big Jam?

Me: Yeah pretty good, fantastic da...

Teacher: Right, now stfu about it, let's get back to learning cool stuff instead of fannying about with that Manics song.

Me: Err..ok...

Teacher: Puts these in front of me:


One of them you've mentioned before, the other one I've picked. These are going to properly teach you some cool chord voicings, including inversions and diminished chords. 

Me: Err... Sounds...difficult

Teacher: Yeah, but once you can play these properly, their combined power will snap knicker elastic at 20 paces. 

Me: Then what the fuck are we waiting for? 

I'm actually doing alright on both of them so far, and I'm a little bit in love with them! 

Yay for not having to think about jam organising for a while!

(Yes I'm aware that there are a couple of mistakes on the tab, we fixed that at the lesson) 

Danny1969

What Manics song was it ? 

Legionreturns

Danny1969 said:

What Manics song was it ? 

No surface, all feeling. Which I didn't completely destroy at the northern fretboard jam on Saturday 

Arktik83

Yellow Ledbetter is one of my favourite Pearl Jam songs, the tone on that recording is as smooth as honey and the intro is so good!  GL with both of 'em

Legionreturns

Arktik83 said:

Yellow Ledbetter is one of my favourite Pearl Jam songs, the tone on that recording is as smooth as honey and the intro is so good!  GL with both of 'em

I've jammed it before just playing the chords while attempting to sing it... @Dontgiveupyourdayjob ;; usually does the widdles and to be fair, does a very good job of it! I'm a massive PJ fan so that was the one I'd mentioned before. 

Danny1969

Legionreturns said:

Danny1969 said:

What Manics song was it ? 

No surface, all feeling. Which I didn't completely destroy at the northern fretboard jam on Saturday 

Ah cool, love the band, love that song and all of Everything must go 

mrkb

Legionreturns said:

Arktik83 said:

Yellow Ledbetter is one of my favourite Pearl Jam songs, the tone on that recording is as smooth as honey and the intro is so good!  GL with both of 'em

I've jammed it before just playing the chords while attempting to sing it... @Dontgiveupyourdayjob ;;; usually does the widdles and to be fair, does a very good job of it! I'm a massive PJ fan so that was the one I'd mentioned before. 

I started learning that last night after hearing you two jam it at the weekend! Simple chord structure with nice inversions and fills.

E - B - A - E
I  - V - IV - I

Arktik83

Legionreturns said:

Arktik83 said:

Yellow Ledbetter is one of my favourite Pearl Jam songs, the tone on that recording is as smooth as honey and the intro is so good!  GL with both of 'em

I've jammed it before just playing the chords while attempting to sing it... @Dontgiveupyourdayjob ;; usually does the widdles and to be fair, does a very good job of it! I'm a massive PJ fan so that was the one I'd mentioned before. 

Aye, James came round my gaff for a trade and he played the intro and did a superb job, especially the double stop shift from 12 to 14 and back, I always end up fucking that right up!

Phil_aka_Pip

I disagree with the notation for the diminished chords in Need Your Love So Bad. EG They've spelled the Cdim7 chord as C, F# A D# should be C Gb Bbb Eb

Legionreturns

Phil_aka_Pip said:

I disagree with the notation for the diminished chords in Need Your Love So Bad. EG They've spelled the Cdim7 chord as C, F# A D# should be C Gb Bbb Eb

It's entirely possible he's put the whole thing together in Chris speak ...I am blonde!

Plectrum

Phil_aka_Pip said:

I disagree with the notation for the diminished chords in Need Your Love So Bad. EG They've spelled the Cdim7 chord as C, F# A D# should be C Gb Bbb Eb

Convention is to use sharps or flats depending on the key signature. So in the key of A you notate as sharps, something like F you would notate as flats. I'm not sure what you'd use in the key of C though.

markslade07

Plectrum said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

I disagree with the notation for the diminished chords in Need Your Love So Bad. EG They've spelled the Cdim7 chord as C, F# A D# should be C Gb Bbb Eb

Convention is to use sharps or flats depending on the key signature. So in the key of A you notate as sharps, something like F you would notate as flats. I'm not sure what you'd use in the key of C though.

Shats

Bridgehouse

Does he have the bass tab for All Right Now?

Legionreturns

Bridgehouse said:

Does he have the bass tab for All Right Now?

I thought you knew that one? ...oh

Bridgehouse

Legionreturns said:

Bridgehouse said:

Does he have the bass tab for All Right Now?

I thought you knew that one? ...oh

Mate, I didn’t know any of the fucking songs I’d been put down for on Saturday - Differs showed me the riff for Come Together and he’s a drummer...

Legionreturns

Bridgehouse said:

Legionreturns said:

Bridgehouse said:

Does he have the bass tab for All Right Now?

I thought you knew that one? ...oh

Mate, I didn’t know any of the fucking songs I’d been put down for on Saturday - Differs showed me the riff for Come Together and he’s a drummer...

He is also a bassist to be fair. Obviously he's not as good as you though. He doesn't even know all right now. 

Bob was a bit handy with four strings...wonder if he'd have got it right?

Bridgehouse

Legionreturns said:

Bridgehouse said:

Legionreturns said:

Bridgehouse said:

Does he have the bass tab for All Right Now?

I thought you knew that one? ...oh

Mate, I didn’t know any of the fucking songs I’d been put down for on Saturday - Differs showed me the riff for Come Together and he’s a drummer...

He is also a bassist to be fair. Obviously he's not as good as you though. He doesn't even know all right now. 

Bob was a bit handy with four strings...wonder if he'd have got it right?

Funnily enough, I do actually know the solo - I learned it for Quad. And then we didn’t play the bloody album version...

It’s not so much that I don’t know the solo, more that it appears that I don’t know when I’m supposed to play it

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

Legionreturns said:

Teacher: Hi Chris, how was the Big Jam?

Me: Yeah pretty good, fantastic da...

Teacher: Right, now stfu about it, let's get back to learning cool stuff instead of fannying about with that Manics song.

Me: Err..ok...

Teacher: Puts these in front of me:


One of them you've mentioned before, the other one I've picked. These are going to properly teach you some cool chord voicings, including inversions and diminished chords. 

Me: Err... Sounds...difficult

Teacher: Yeah, but once you can play these properly, their combined power will snap knicker elastic at 20 paces. 

Me: Then what the fuck are we waiting for? 

I'm actually doing alright on both of them so far, and I'm a little bit in love with them! 

Yay for not having to think about jam organising for a while!

(Yes I'm aware that there are a couple of mistakes on the tab, we fixed that at the lesson) 

I randomly jammed on both of those exact tracks in 'room two' in Huddersfield, your teacher obviously has impeccable taste! I think it was @richardhomer who I played NYLSB with, and I have to say he did it a damn sight better than me! 

I don't think I could ever get bored of either of those tracks, could happily sit and noodle away for hours on either of them.

richardhomer

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:
I randomly jammed on both of those exact tracks in 'room two' in Huddersfield, your teacher obviously has impeccable taste! I think it was @richardhomer who I played NYLSB with, and I have to say he did it a damn sight better than me! 

I don't think I could ever get bored of either of those tracks, could happily sit and noodle away for hours on either of them.

Very kind of you to say so - thank you.

I hadn’t played in a band situation for well over 20 years until last Saturday - it was a real thrill for me - and loved the NYLSB jam. Everyone involved played really well.

You’re a very good player - and have youth on your side. Highly likely when you’re as ancient as me, that you’ll be significantly better than I am!

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

richardhomer said:

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:
I randomly jammed on both of those exact tracks in 'room two' in Huddersfield, your teacher obviously has impeccable taste! I think it was @richardhomer who I played NYLSB with, and I have to say he did it a damn sight better than me! 

I don't think I could ever get bored of either of those tracks, could happily sit and noodle away for hours on either of them.

Very kind of you to say so - thank you.

I hadn’t played in a band situation for well over 20 years until last Saturday - it was a real thrill for me - and loved the NYLSB jam. Everyone involved played really well.

You’re a very good player - and have youth on your side. Highly likely when you’re as ancient as me, that you’ll be significantly better than I am!

I would never have guessed it had been that long since you'd played in a group situation! You should be gigging every week!

And many thanks for your kind words. 

Legionreturns

richardhomer said:

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:
I randomly jammed on both of those exact tracks in 'room two' in Huddersfield, your teacher obviously has impeccable taste! I think it was @richardhomer who I played NYLSB with, and I have to say he did it a damn sight better than me! 

I don't think I could ever get bored of either of those tracks, could happily sit and noodle away for hours on either of them.

Very kind of you to say so - thank you.

I hadn’t played in a band situation for well over 20 years until last Saturday - it was a real thrill for me - and loved the NYLSB jam. Everyone involved played really well.

You’re a very good player - and have youth on your side. Highly likely when you’re as ancient as me, that you’ll be significantly better than I am!

He's annoyingly good for a twelve year old isn't he? Pisses me off every time we jam