Today I was fiddling around with All I Really Wanna Do... and I haven't got all the lyrics where I can always get at 'em... so I spit out a phrase just to keep the beat as it were and it sounded ok so I worked on it a little bit. Changed the chords around so the swipe wouldn't be, like, glaringly obvious. DAEA (just like Bob) DAE (stay on E this time... creative, hunh?). The same again. Then DEA twice; DAEA, DEA.
And the thing here is: you've gotta have a notebook right there where you're already banging out the chords so you can work it out. Half of the stuff you come up with that you tell yourself you'll remember later when you're working the same chord changes... you never do. It's like looking stuff up in the damn dictionary. If there's one right there, I'll take a look; otherwise I'll tell myself a pleasant lie about my good intentions and then soon forget it. I found this out long ago and keep dictionaries near at hand when I read; I'm not nearly so good with taking notes (not that I don't have reams of my own handwriting cluttering up the place back "home"). The flavor—home, office, or classroom—should be that of a studio where whatever tools the artist—that would be me—needed most recently or most often are generally closest to hand... one wishes at all times to be already getting on with the next thing that'll cause this cool project that one is in the midst of to keep getting better...
Get away from me
With your bogus sympathy
I can see what you want in your eyes
All you want from me
Is that I should agree
That I'm the kind of guy you should despise
You really oughta pick another victim
Some sucker who won't even know you picked him
I'm gonna make you see
That your victim can't be me
So get away from me
With your lies
Posts
another slogan of the season:
ReplyDelete"with only the tools at hand".
JAWOPPA
ReplyDeleteGet away from me
With your phony sympathy
I can see what you want
In your eyes
All you want from me
Is that I should agree
That I'm the kind of guy
You should despise
But you really oughta pick
A better victim
Some sucker who won't even know
You've picked him
I will somehow make you see
That your victim can't be me
So get away from me
With your lies
Here we go again
It's another phony friend
Pretending that they're oh so glad
They've found ya
And until you can escape
It's like emotional rape
You haven't got a chance
When they're all around ya
And they always seem to know
Right where to find me
And start right in
To own me or define me
I will somehow make you see
That that can never be
So get away from me with your lies
GAFMWYL Mister Salesman
GAFMWYL You flirt, you tease
GAFMWYL You politician
Get away from me you dread disease
Pretty please
(sung a few times last night;
ReplyDeleteprobably soon to be memorized)
If He had been Antichrist, Creeping Jesus,
He'd have done anything to please us;
Gone sneaking into synagogues,
And not us'd the Elders and Priests like dogs;
But humble as a lamb or ass
Obey'd Himself to Caiaphas.
God wants not man to humble himself:
That is the trick of the Ancient Elf.
This is the race that Jesus ran:
Humble to God, haughty to man,
Cursing the Rulers before the people
Even to the Temple's highest steeple
read the whole thing
the "hook" is of course
ReplyDeletehumble to god, haughty to man
i could sing that for hours....
the *next* cool trick in this songwriting cycle
ReplyDeletewas to've moved the DEA pattern and its variants
*up the neck*: instead of playing
"first position" chords like a beginner,
i've been practicing (on the high 4)
with D-add-Gflat, E-add-Aflat,
F-form-A. sounds great. just hard enough.
music will cure what ails ya.
with a partial barre. works great.
ReplyDeletei can also add the pinkie
ReplyDelete(and the fifth string).
it's a fuller sound but
less satisfying because the bass note
is then the same for the A and E chords.
(C-form D; E-form A; C-form E...
good exercise for the pinkie
if nothing else...)
"the same" three chords at the top of the neck.
ReplyDeletethere's this, um Am7-form D chord
in the first position, right?
the same thing you get from, say,
3-string barring an ordinary D
in the first position with index
and bird fingers and adding on...
let's see dammit... the fourth string
at the fourth fret (with the ring finger).
hm. there it is in my notes supra: g flat.
anyhow... C-form D, lose the bass
to put it still another way. the point is,
what i've already been doing for weeks
is DEA with this *D, an F-form A, and
the E you get from sliding *D up two frets.
in the new bit the *D-form, played at the 9th,
gives the A. christ. i'm counting on my fingers.
shoulda been doing so all along. alert the mathbloggers.
this A-BC-D-EF-G thing has *never* been second nature,
not really. i just could fake it for a few months
when i studied piano briefly. where was i?
oh yeah. you do D*-form 9 for the A
and F-form 10 and 12 for the D and E.
playing on the high notes is one of the dirtiest
attention getting tricks on the whole guitar
from my astonishingly limited understanding
so this is real progress or will be if and when
it actually sounds right quasireliably.
oh. i took the sixth string off.
ReplyDeletebluesman david king (a pseudo)
told my keith richard often plays
without it and that's good enough
to get me to give it a try.
very appropriate here since the point
of the whole ordeal is that the
three-string barre... i should've mentioned
that those F-forms are *wide-bar* F's...
is used throughout and that the
whole thing is happening on just
the first four strings.
"me" for "my" supra. can't edit these beasts. scandalous, really. hey, it's the 21st C and nobody stops to get it right anymore anyway. can't beat em join em.
ReplyDeletedavid told *me* keith plays on five strings.
i still play this pretty routinely
ReplyDelete(with or without the high-fret stuff;
it pleases me now to realize
that it's been *two years* now
since i've learned to play
"up the neck" at least a little...
it's very much part of the daily routine
now of course).
audio track (begins ~3.23).
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