It's quite a straightforward tune, but playing the melody with the standard chords requires some huge stretches, so I had to work out what inversions of the chords would let me play up the neck a bit, where the melody notes are. So I'm travelling from a D major shape on the 5th fret to a D minor shape on the third fret, to a standard G7 and C major. Then again, but substituting the D minor shape on the 3rd fret to an A shape. I don't find these changes easy, and you can hear the lack of fluency in the tricky bits.
Sunday 13 August 2017
Here Comes Santa Claus
This popped into my head, although I couldn't remember what it was. My wife recognised it though, and filled in the blank for me.
It's quite a straightforward tune, but playing the melody with the standard chords requires some huge stretches, so I had to work out what inversions of the chords would let me play up the neck a bit, where the melody notes are. So I'm travelling from a D major shape on the 5th fret to a D minor shape on the third fret, to a standard G7 and C major. Then again, but substituting the D minor shape on the 3rd fret to an A shape. I don't find these changes easy, and you can hear the lack of fluency in the tricky bits.
It's quite a straightforward tune, but playing the melody with the standard chords requires some huge stretches, so I had to work out what inversions of the chords would let me play up the neck a bit, where the melody notes are. So I'm travelling from a D major shape on the 5th fret to a D minor shape on the third fret, to a standard G7 and C major. Then again, but substituting the D minor shape on the 3rd fret to an A shape. I don't find these changes easy, and you can hear the lack of fluency in the tricky bits.
Toppling
I just saw a picture of a load of guitars stood up in a row. It reminded me of domino toppling. Also works on motorbikes. I wonder if there is a world record for guitar toppling?
Guitars generally have 6 strings. The standard way of tuning them is (from bass to treble) E A D G B E. They can also be tunes to other tunings, so that if you strum the open strings, you get, say an A Major chord.
When a guitar falls over, it will play whatever it's tuned to.
So if you get lots of guitars, and line them up in the right order, it might just sound quite interesting.
Guitars generally have 6 strings. The standard way of tuning them is (from bass to treble) E A D G B E. They can also be tunes to other tunings, so that if you strum the open strings, you get, say an A Major chord.
When a guitar falls over, it will play whatever it's tuned to.
So if you get lots of guitars, and line them up in the right order, it might just sound quite interesting.
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