Lockdown 2020
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Tore Down House by Scott Henderson. Listen to the original here. I heard this song for the first time about four years ago. It popped up randomly on Spotify, and I loved it instantly. Amazing guitar tone, those weird accents in the intro that make you unsure what time signature it’s in (it’s 6/8!), an…
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…was in Ferns Community Centre, County Wexford, in 1995, I think. The band was called Junior’s Dad, and we weren’t great, though it probably wasn’t the smartest idea for me to publicly announce that over the mic after one song ended quite sloppily. Our setlist that night included Seek And Destroy by Metallica (our bass…
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I’ve loved this song for a long time. It’s one of those tunes that makes you want to climb up onto the table so you can properly belt out that last verse. I began working on the guitar part for this months ago, just for something to do. I had a simple piano score which…
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Here’s a playthrough of a beautiful tune by Gilbert O’Sullivan called We Will. It’s a fantastic melody, coupled with a very complex set of chord changes. In the next post I have a lesson video which breaks down the chord shapes that I’m playing in the video below, and also discusses the unusual harmony of…