Barre chords

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bloody ouch!

The good news is the Eagles song i'm trying to play, i just figured out that if i slide the F chord down two frets it's G and i don't have to flip my fingers back to the barre to do F again, i just slide back up.

:-) do i get a gold star?

And Tyler cant figure out how i can hold both the 5th & 4th strings with one finger, but he says what the hell... if i can get it to ring it's all good.

::shrug:: I can't figure out how *he* gets his pinkie up onto the 4th

Something that sounds cool - for a reason!

So I have this series of chords that i made up that sound good together that i kept playing all weekend. And i took it in to Tyler today to ask why they sounded good and he drew it out on the chart for me.

Basically i had G (gbdgbg) D (dad) A7 (aegc#e) and Em (ebegbe).

He rearranged it to the key of D and on the chord progression chart D is the 1, Em is the 2, G is the 4 and A7 is the 5th. Apparently 2, 5 & 1 are a very popular jazz progression :-)

So there, I'm happy that i made something that sounded good and apparently sounded good for a reason. :-))

So here it is, mixed with the distortion guitar in a sorta spokenword/poem thingy i made with it.

Goofing off at work

:-) I've been bringing the guitar with me to work on Sundays too since I'm usually alone. Usually just pretending to play along, although there are some songs at the station that i can mangle adequately and play along with. So this is me last weekend, running around the station, voicetracking, running my show, goofing off online and playing guitar off and on. Notice i don't put the guitar down unless i have to now that i have straplocks. It's probably safer to wear it than lean it against the wall and risk bumping into it anyway. I need another stand at work, the one we do have is in the other room with the studio's acoustic on it. This week I'm supposed to be practicing "Hotel California" but I've mostly been goofing off with some Tom Petty tunes and the newest Eagles song, I don't like "Hotel California" :-)

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