Week Five- A Possible Goal in Mind?
March 3, 2009Sorry for being a bit slow on the update. This week was a little less productive than I thought I
Well, whatd’ya know, I actually tried a little harder, and here I can actually play that F chord I was having trouble with. It takes a lot of hand strength (especially with my tiny hands), but it’s there. I’m very proud, especially since most of the rest of this weekend was rather slow.
However, I may have come up with an idea for a final song for this class. There’s this lovely little folk piece that I really wanted to learn to play called “Thank God it’s the Morning Of” by Dennis Crommett. However, apparently he’s too obscure to have his music tabbed online yet (or to even have lyrics online!). I was thinking of possibly trying to use what musical listening skills I have to try and sound out some of the guitar accompaniment. So, I gave it a go…only to get immediately frustrated. In between trying to play along, I was talking to a friend online, and he helped to give me some advice, saying I should pay attention to the main melody notes to help me figure out what chord they might form. Soon, I had the first line down!
My friend also pointed out that if I do figure out a way to play the song, I should post it for others somewhere online. After all, it’s nice to give back when you use all this free information available online. I’m a little shy that I won’t do an accurate enough job to share it online…but we’ll see.
Image courtesy of SBishop on Flickr.
