This is me not managing to do the pre-chorus very well. Normally I don’t post things like this, I try to have some more practiced bits, but today I just did this and the chorus over and over. Not yet nailed it, but that’s why I practice…
I’ve played these same 5 chords like this for about half an hour. I’m terrible at strumming patterns and there’s an unusual chord shape in the middle, but Jimmy Page playing this in the film It Might Get Loud is one of the things that made me pick up guitar again so I’ll keep playing these same five chords until I get it.
A mash of SRV styles here. It’s interesting how much muscle memory I have for the locks, as I learned this a couple of years ago and haven’t played it much since, yet my fingers remembered more than my conscious memory :)
This was meant to be me phoning it in today, brain not on this morning as I worked late last night, and I learned this first 20 years ago. But in the end ensuring every note was clear and my picking was correct required practice to override bad habits from back in the day, and required I cut my nails :)
I find this one fun to play, so keep going back to it, but I also really struggle to throw the unusual jazz chord shapes - they seem to refuse to embed in my muscle memory.
This is a good example of where Hendrix style barre chords will be a lot more comfortable over the duration of an entire song. It’s also how Graham Coxon plays them, but that’s by the by, I play it this way as my thumb would hate me otherwise :)
An hour of practice where nothing was a nice wee clip, so here’s me trying to do the SRV texas shuffle and making a mess of it. But that’s what practice is a lot of the time!
Today I Practiced: Hendrix Style bar chords
A hectic day ahead, but I generally have a guitar stashed in Cambridge Makespace so managed to slip in ten minutes before things kicked off
Karen spotted I was using this to identify my 5th interval the other week. In fact, the entire riff is made up of the first five notes from the major scale, played first in C then repeated in F#. A good one to figure out by ear if you’re not very used to doing so like me :)
After a hectic week or so, getting back into my practice routine. I learned this one a long time ago, but it’s a nice one in that the intro riff is easy enough to learn, but tricky (for me at least) to master
If you’ve not seen the Annie Clark (aka St Vincent) version live with Nirvana then I can’t recommend it enough - it’s that version I have in my head for this.
Practice had been lax due to trying to get ready for Liverpool Makefest tomorrow, which I’m getting stressed about this year for some reason. Hopefully normal practice routines will return soon!
A friend of mine has started playing guitar and was trying this, which reminded me that I know very few chord based songs like this. I think stabby chords dripping in reverb is what passes for my “style” at the moment.