Another acoustic night tonight.
At one point recently I had figured out, but forgotten to write down the chords for Ben Lee's "Catch My Disease." There was a nice, empty spot in my notebook for it and everything. I went back and filled that in tonight, which was a good first step.
The second part of my night has a story behind it, and it goes like this...
Entirely too many years ago to count (which really means that he would remember, and I simply don't right now), my brother ended up with a copy of Drunken Lullabies by Flogging Molly. All I can tell you about how he came into having it is that, somehow, it wasn't me that gave it to him. Anyway, the song he became obsessed with from that record was "What's Left Of The Flag," and the song that really caught my ear was "If I Ever Leave This World Alive."
Maybe it was the fact that it started out with a solo acoustic guitar, but by the end, wound itself up into headbanging mode, I don't know, but somehow loving that song never connected with figuring out how to play it. Sure, there were thoughts along the line of "I should really sit down and figure that out," but for whatever reason, I never got around to it.
Until tonight.
The funniest part for me? Even though there are a bunch of different sections to it, none of them are difficult to play, and the whole thing is basic chords in first position. Still, it's such a great tune, and I'm happy to have finally gotten around to learning it.
Today was a good day indeed.
At one point recently I had figured out, but forgotten to write down the chords for Ben Lee's "Catch My Disease." There was a nice, empty spot in my notebook for it and everything. I went back and filled that in tonight, which was a good first step.
The second part of my night has a story behind it, and it goes like this...
Entirely too many years ago to count (which really means that he would remember, and I simply don't right now), my brother ended up with a copy of Drunken Lullabies by Flogging Molly. All I can tell you about how he came into having it is that, somehow, it wasn't me that gave it to him. Anyway, the song he became obsessed with from that record was "What's Left Of The Flag," and the song that really caught my ear was "If I Ever Leave This World Alive."
Maybe it was the fact that it started out with a solo acoustic guitar, but by the end, wound itself up into headbanging mode, I don't know, but somehow loving that song never connected with figuring out how to play it. Sure, there were thoughts along the line of "I should really sit down and figure that out," but for whatever reason, I never got around to it.
Until tonight.
The funniest part for me? Even though there are a bunch of different sections to it, none of them are difficult to play, and the whole thing is basic chords in first position. Still, it's such a great tune, and I'm happy to have finally gotten around to learning it.
Today was a good day indeed.
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