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How to play la grange

How to play la grange . This part 1 lesson is for solo guitar fingerstyle or voice accompaniment. A great tune, with a cool, identifiable and easily playable lick

2023-10-11T12:21:03-04:00

How to play margaritaville

How to play margaritaville- a well-known parrothead tune. This part 1 lesson is for solo guitar fingerstyle or voice accompaniment. A great tune, with a cool, identifiable and easily playable lick

how to play margaritavilleInterested in learning how to play margaritaville? This video may help. “Margaritaville” is a 1977 song by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett from the album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes. This song was written about a drink Buffett discovered at Lung’s Cocina del Sur restaurant (where High 5 is located today) at 2700 W. Anderson Lane in Austin, Texas, and the first huge surge of tourists who descended on Key West, Florida, around that time. He wrote most of the song one night at a friend’s house in Austin, and finished it while spending time in Key West. In the United States “Margaritaville” reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and went to number one on the Easy Listening chart, also peaking at No. 13 on the Hot Country Songs chart. Billboard ranked it number 14 on its 1977 Pop Singles year-end chart. It remains Buffett’s highest charting solo single.

Named for the cocktail margarita, with lyrics reflecting a laid-back lifestyle in a tropical climate, “Margaritaville” has come to define Buffett’s music and career. The relative importance of the song […]

2025-07-13T08:46:53-04:00

How to play the way you look tonight

How to play the way you look tonight. This was very early on for Art and myself and one of the first trio gigs we had! Of course, something had to go wrong… Patrick Kersson’s car broke down on the way to Whiting so he couldn’t make it! So we quickly figured out which songs in the set we could do as a duo and frankly, we didn’t do too bad a job of it. There are real advantages to playing with a solid pro like Art Baguer!

2023-10-11T12:24:45-04:00

How to play love and marriage

Lead sheet with chords and lyrics

Play “love and marriage” on guitar. “Love and Marriage” was introduced by Frank Sinatra in the 1955 television production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, which aired on Producers’ Showcase. Sinatra went on to record two versions of the song. The first was recorded for Capitol Records on August 15, 1955 and became a major chart hit. (A competing version by Dinah Shore also achieved popularity.) This first recording appeared on the 1956 album This Is Sinatra! The second version was recorded for the Reprise Records album A Man and His Music on October 11, 1965. The Capitol version was later used as the theme song for the 1987–1997 Fox TV sitcom Married… with Children.

2025-07-13T08:50:29-04:00

play “east of the sun”

“East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)” is a popular song written by Brooks Bowman, an undergraduate member of Princeton University’s Class of 1936, for the 1934 production of the Princeton Triangle Club’s production of Stags at Bay. It was published in 1934 by Santly Bros. and soon became a hallmark of the Princeton Tigertones, Princeton University’s signature all-male a cappella group. The Princeton Triangle Club performs the number every year at its annual Frosh Week show. The standard is also sung by the Princeton Nassoons.

2025-07-13T08:55:37-04:00

How to play Summertime


Play Summertime

How to play summertime over a backing track. The trick to this- well, one of ’em anyway- is to hold the idea of the chord in your head while you’re playing extemporaneously. I wouldn’t expect you to believe that I’m thinking of the chord tones as numbers but in fact, if you can understand that one chords 3rd is the same note as another chord’s major 7th you can treat that note as having either role.  Or any, really- that’s the beauty of making stuff up out of hand. Oh, plus the fact that you can find some tasty melody, commit it to some memorable form et voila! You have written your own music.

2025-07-15T10:58:59-04:00

How to play “Eleanor Rigby”

EEleanor Rigby for solo guitar. “Eleanor Rigby” is a song by the Beatles, released in 1966 on the album Revolver.It’s known for its melancholic melody, string quartet arrangement, and lyrics that explore themes of loneliness and isolation. The song tells the story of two lonely individuals: Eleanor Rigby, who lives a solitary life and dies alone, and Father McKenzie, a priest who performs her funeral with no one in attendance. 

Eleanor Rigby” is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. It was also issued on a double A-side single, paired with “Yellow Submarine“. Credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership, the song is one of only a few in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney later disputed primary authorship. Eyewitness testimony from several independent sources, including George Martin and Pete Shotton, supports McCartney’s claim to authorship.

“Eleanor Rigby” continued the transformation of the Beatles from a mainly rock and roll and pop-orientated act to a more experimental, studio-based band. With a double string quartet arrangement by George Martin and lyrics providing a narrative on loneliness, it broke sharply with popular music conventions, both musically and lyrically. The song topped singles charts in Australia, Belgium, Canada, […]

2025-07-16T07:42:18-04:00

How to play peter cottontail

How to play “peter cottontail”

Here comes Peter Cottontail
Hopping down the bunny trail
Hippity-hoppity, Easter’s on its way!

This recording features bass and guitar in a kind of “country swing” feel. A little experiment with Logic Pro. Peter Cottontail is a name temporarily assumed by a fictional rabbit named Peter Rabbit in the works of Thornton Burgess, an author from Sandwich, Massachusetts In 1910, when Burgess began his Old Mother West Wind series, the cast of animals included Peter Rabbit. Four years later, in The Adventures of Peter Cottontail, Peter Rabbit, unhappy at his plain-sounding name, briefly changed his name to Peter Cottontail because he felt it made him sound more important. He began putting on airs to live up to his important-sounding name, but after much teasing from his friends, soon returned to his original name, because, as he put it, “There’s nothing like the old name after all.” In the 26-chapter book, he takes on the new name partway through chapter 2, and returns to his “real” name, Peter Rabbit, at the end of chapter 3. Burgess continued to write about Peter Rabbit until his retirement in 1960, in over 15,000 daily syndicated newspaper stories, many of them featuring Peter Rabbit, and some of them later published as books, […]
2025-07-16T07:44:09-04:00

How to play dire wolf

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How to play dire wolf.

In the timbers of Fennario, the wolves are running round
The winter was so hard and cold, froze ten feet ‘neath the ground
Don’t murder me, I beg of you, don’t murder me
Please, don’t murder me
I sat down to my supper, ’twas a bottle of red whisky
I said my prayers and went to bed, that’s the last they saw of me
Don’t murder me, I beg of you, don’t murder me
Please, don’t murder me
When I awoke, the Dire Wolf, six hundred pounds of sin
Was grinning at my window, all I said was come on in
Don’t murder me, I beg of you, don’t murder me
Please, don’t murder me
The Wolf came in, I got my cards, we sat down for a game
I cut my deck to the Queen of Spades, but the cards were all the same
Don’t murder me, I beg of you, don’t murder me
Please, don’t murder me
Don’t murder me
In the backwash of Fennario, the black and bloody mire
The Dire Wolf collects his dues, while the boys sing ’round the fire
Don’t murder me, I beg of you, don’t murder me
Please, don’t murder me
Don’t murder me
I beg of you don’t murder me
Please, don’t murder me
No no no don’t murder me
I beg of you, don’t murder me
Please, don’t murder me
Please, […]
2022-06-27T21:32:52-04:00
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