And I Love Her
“And I Love Her”, Lennon/McCartney in Dm at 85 BPM.
All My Lovin’
PDF chord sheet linked below.
“All My Loving” is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, from their second UK album With the Beatles (1963). It was written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney), and produced by George Martin. Though not officially released as a single in the United Kingdom or the United States, the song drew considerable radio airplay, prompting EMI to issue it as the title track of an EP. The song was released as a single in Canada, where it became a number one hit. The Canadian single was imported into the US in enough quantities to peak at number 45 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in April 1964.
Composition
According to journalist Bill Harry, McCartney thought of the lyrics whilst shaving: “I wrote ‘All My Loving’ like a piece of poetry and then, I think, I put a song to it later”. McCartney later told biographer Barry Miles that he wrote the lyrics while on a tour bus and after arriving at the venue he then wrote the music on a piano backstage. He also said “It was the first song [where] I’d ever written the words first. I never wrote words first, it was always some […]
Nearness Of You
“Nearness Of You”, Hoagy Carmichael in F at 95 BPM. PDF chord sheet linked below.
Download “Nearness Of You” PDF
“Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.” – Yehudi Menuhin
Thinking In Numbers
Looking for a nifty New Year’s guitar-playing resolution?
Try thinking in numbers!
As a new Year’s resolution, how about adopting a new way of thinking about what you already do? Adopting a numeric system for understanding how to move easily around the neck might be useful for you.
Let’s start with a core pattern that we can play over a chord progression. We can start with (1/5/6/5) played over (1/4/5) as a foundational exercise for numeric thinking.
Key Insights:
We will be using numbers to refer both to the strings (1,2,3,4,5 and 6) and the numeric value of notes in an octave (1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 1). This can be confusing so please be patient.
The guitar’s coursed strings allows for playing the same note in multiple locations, enabling the use of identical numeric patterns in different positions.
The (1 5 6 5) pattern works on string pairs 5-6, 4-5, and 3-4. It requires adjustment on pairs with the B string (2nd string) due to […]
In My Room
Download the music PDF: In_My_Room
“In My Room” is a song written by Brian Wilson and Gary Usher for the American rock band the Beach Boys. It was released on their 1963 album Surfer Girl. It was also released as the B-side of the “Be True to Your School” single. The single peaked at number 23 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (the A-side peaked at number 6, for a two-sided top-40) and was eventually inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. “In My Room” was ranked number 212 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The song is written in the key of B major and features a flat VII A major chord.
Gary Usher explained that: “In My Room” found us taking our craft a little more seriously. Brian and I came back to the house one night after playing ‘over-the-line’ (a baseball game). I played bass and Brian was on organ. The song was written in an hour … Brian’s melody all the way. The sensitivity … the concept meant a lot to him. When we finished, it was late, after our midnight curfew. In fact, Murry [the Wilson brothers’ father] came in a couple of times and wanted me to leave. Anyway, we got Audree [the Wilson brothers’ […]
All My Exes
“All My Ex’s Live in Texas” is a song written by Sanger D. Shafer and Lyndia J. Shafer, and recorded by American country music singer George Strait. It was released on April 10, 1987 by MCA Records as the second single from Strait’s seventh studio album, Ocean Front Property, following the album’s title track. Becoming his 11th number one hit single, Strait received his first Grammy Award nomination for “All My Ex’s Live In Texas” for Best Male Country Vocal Performance at the 1988 Grammy Awards.
The song has been used in various forms of media, including Strait’s version in the films Road House (1989), Necessary Roughness (1991), Cold Creek Manor (2003), Power Rangers (2017), and Bumblebee (2018), and in television with Halt and Catch Fire in 2016, Ash vs Evil Dead in 2015, and Chuck in 2011. Canadian rapper Drake name checks Strait and the song in the opening lyrics of his 2012 single “HYFR (Hell Ya Fucking Right)”.
“You have to be willing to eat–or not eat– for it. Then you’re a musician.” – Johnny Copeland
Caught somewhere in time
introduction. This piece speaks to our focus on the Em scale, which is the relative minor for G. You can consider this tune to be written in either G or Em, as they both have one sharp.
The G major scale: G. A. B. C. D. E. F#. G
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8/1
If you check the intervals you’ll see that this follows the pattern of WWHWWWH
Now, if we leave the scale as-is and shift the beginning note to the 6th degree (E) something wonderful happens. We are playing the relative minor of the G Major scale, so starting and ending at 6. This is the pattern for playing any scale modally, btw- play the scale, starting and ending on a number other than 1. Here we start on 6 (E) and that gives us the relative minor.
1-2: whole step
2-3: half step
3-4: whole step
4-5: whole step
5-6: half step
6-7: whole step
7-8: whole step
E F# G A B C D E
6. 7. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6
See? All we did was to start counting from 6 instead of one. The intervals are the same. They don’t change, only the note we start on. This is the 6th mode of a major scale, also called the “Aeolian” mode. Very handy for rock music based in classical theory!
Here is the introduction and we’ll look at what’s happening here […]
After You’ve Gone
Download after you’ve gone chords tabs, notation and lyrics
After You’ve Gone” was recorded by Marion Harris on July 22, 1918, and released by Victor Records.
The song became so popular that the sheet music was later decorated with tiny photographs of the 45 men who made the song famous, including Paul Whiteman, Rudy Vallée, B.A. Rolfe, Guy Lombardo, and Louis Armstrong.
The chorus adheres to a standard ABAC pattern but is only 20 measures long. There are four 4-bar phrases, followed by a 4-measure tag. The song is harmonically active, with chord changes in almost every measure. The opening four notes to the chorus are identical to the opening notes of “Peg o’ My Heart” (1912) -at the time songwriters often borrowed the first few notes of a hit melody.
“You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.” – Kelly White
Danny Boy
danny boy
“Danny Boy” is an Irish folk song with lyrics written by English lawyer Frederic Weatherly in 1910, and set to the traditional Irish melody of “Londonderry Air” in 1913.
In 1910, in Bath, Somerset, England, the English lawyer and lyricist Frederic Weatherly initially wrote the words of “Danny Boy” to a tune other than “Londonderry Air”. One story is that his sister-in-law Margaret Enright Weatherly (known as “Jess”) sent him a copy of “Londonderry Air” in 1913, and Weatherly modified the lyrics of “Danny Boy” to fit its rhyme and meter. A different story has Jess singing the air to Weatherly in 1912 with different lyrics. Yet another story is that Frederic did not set the poem to any tune, but that, in 1913, Margaret, who, with her husband Edward Weatherly, was living at the Neosho mine near Ouray, Colorado, in the US, set it to the “Londonderry Air”, which she had heard as a child in California played by her father and other Irish railway workers.
Weatherly gave the song to the vocalist Elsie Griffin, who made it one of the most popular songs of the new century. Ernestine Schumann-Heink produced the first recording of “Danny Boy” in 1915.
Jane Ross of Limavady is credited with collecting the melody of “Londonderry Air” in the mid-19th […]
silver bells
“Silver Bells” is a Christmas song composed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.
It debuted in the motion picture The Lemon Drop Kid (1951), where it was started by William Frawley, then sung in the generally known version immediately thereafter by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell. The first recorded version was by Bing Crosby and Carol Richards on September 8, 1950, with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra and the Lee Gordon Singers. The record was released by Decca Records in October 1950. When the recording became popular, Hope and Maxwell were called back in late 1950 to re-shoot a more elaborate production of the song.
History
“Silver Bells” started out as “Tinkle Bells”. Songwriter Ray Evans said: “We never thought that tinkle had a double meaning until Jay went home and his first wife said, ‘Are you out of your mind? Do you know what the word tinkle is?'”
This song’s inspiration is the source of conflicting reports. Several periodicals and interviews cite writer Jay Livingston stating that the song’s inspiration came from the bells used by sidewalk Santa Clauses and Salvation Army solicitors on New York City street corners. However, in an interview with NPR, co-writer Ray Evans said that the song was inspired by a bell that sat on an office desk that he shared with Livingston. Evans’s hometown of Salamanca, New York has taken […]