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The SongBike Guitar Q&A Livestream #135Added:
Hey everybody, hope you had a great week. Welcome to the 135th Song by Guitar Q&A live stream here on YouTube.
I'm here for your questions. Uh I hope spring is treating you well. I'm here with a bunch of good teaching things to show you. Uh kind of a theme this week for this week's show is new stuff, new music, uh new albums from established veteran artists. Uh a new playalong song from a newish kind of person who I thought was new but isn't as new as I thought. I'll explain everything. Uh but it's a great song. I can't wait. It's been on my list for a long time. So stick around for tonight's playalong song. Uh we have uh a student quote of the week. We have two student quotes of the week. We have my own dumb question of the week. We have a bunch of WTFs, weekly teaching features. Uh, and like I kind of suggested, we have a bunch of new albums out from I'm looking at six uh that I made a list of just that I gathered very quickly. A lot of new music. Is it a springtime thing? Is it just because uh I'm out of the loop. So when I get back in the loop, I see everyone has a new album out. I don't know. A segment I call Who's in Town? a bunch of people on tour. A segment I began last time called Killer 45s. I'm just reaching into my little container of 45 RPM discs and just grabbing out a handful. I think you'll get a kick out of what I grabbed this week. I'm going to say a few hellos. Hello, Joseph Mfish. He says, "No audio." What do you mean no audio? No audio? Is that for real? No audio?
Does Is that true or just Is that just Mfish is getting no audio? I want to say hello to Scott, uh, Randy, Barry, Debbie. Hey, a lot of people already tuning in. Excellent. Don't forget to give this live stream a like. Uh, don't forget to uh uh subscribe if you haven't subscribed to my YouTube channel. I'm stuck at 200,000 subscribers, which I'm not complaining at all, but it's as if I'm in this weird uh algorithm where YouTube will not let me break out. You know, I'm getting new subscribers here and there. I lose a few here here and there. Uh so I don't know with your help, with your subscription, we can push it over 201,000 subscribers.
Uh meaning 201, uh yeah, 2011 0. I don't know. Let's get down to business. Uh you got your guitar handy?
I sure hope you do. Um I'm here for your questions.
throw your questions in the chat with a bunch of question marks so I know they're aimed at me. In between your questions, uh, I got a bunch of things.
I thought I'd start with that thing that I'm hooked on. Remember that scale page?
I know we've been doing this, uh, for a few times, uh, for a few live streams in a row. But that's that's why we're doing it. I want to get some consistency here.
What you're going to be looking at in one second is some that you've seen before.
And that's the idea, man. Let's just do this thing. uh window. There we go.
Let's do this one. Uh uh because we've done it before, we'll do it again. Uh it's a great way for us to get our brain, our head, our minds, and our fingers all in the same place. Uh the scale page, right? Uh those of you who are regulars here, and I know there's a bunch, I just from the chat, I can see there's a bunch of regular people. I see Robert RB, Matt, CLS, Chaz. Uh, you guys have seen this before. Let's just get warmed up for a second. E major scale, down, up picking, right? Alternate picking with your picking hand, your fretting hand in first position, meaning index at the first fret, middle hovering at the second, ring at the third, pinky at the fourth. Right, let's just do it.
That E major scale. How about this speed? 1 2 3 4. Nice. And here we go.
Ah, that comforting sound of the major scale. Let's do it again. Same one. E major scale. Ready? Go. Down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up.
Easy peasy. Now do it backwards, but with the same downs and up. So, you're going to start with an upstroke on that last two on the D string. Going to start with an upstroke there and reverse the whole thing. Ready? Go.
If you can do that, do it faster. If you can't do it, take it slower. But you want to be able to do this, up and down.
Okay. Now, uh this is obviously a physical test for both your hands, right? But let's use your brain in another way. Next scale down, the A major scale. Same pattern shifted down one string towards the floor. Here we go. A major scale. Ready? Go.
I'm going to reverse the A major scale with an upstroke first. Here we go.
Uh if you're like a lot of my in-person students, uh the downs and ups get off track when you change to a different string. That can happen. If you're not sure if you're getting the downs and ups correct, you you probably are not. But also, even if you are getting them correct, you want to know you are. You don't want to hope you are and think you might be. No, you want to know it. Uh, how about um are you remembering to use your middle and pinky on the two and the four? I I notice a lot of my in-person students that's this is a weird combination, right? Remember, you don't have to leave that middle finger down, right? Once you play that middle finger on the second fret, you're 100% uh encouraged to lift it off to reach up with your pinky. When you when you use your pinky on the fourth fret, are you staying right in the tip of that pinky?
Are you getting a nice clear tone or you getting a little flub?
Right? We don't want that, you know. D major scale. Watch out. The D major scale looks so innocent, but the ending, it's a plot twist. I call that a plot twist because the D major scale involves the B string, the second string. The pattern that we just got used to, gets thrown off. So, watch out for the ending of the D major scale. Here we go.
middle and ring at the end. In some ways, this that this is a tricky pattern because you don't get to use your index finger. We love our index finger. It's so smart. It's so brave. Uh but oh well.
D major scale descending in reverse.
Upstroke three on the second string.
Here we go.
If your final note is, you know, a down pick, if it's supposed to be a down pick, or if it's an up pick, if it's supposed to be an up pick, if you get the final note correct in terms of your pick direction, you probably did it right. Probably right. But, uh, one of the goals here is to get you so super aware of your pick direction that you know you're getting it right. You don't have to rely on, you know, you end it or whatever. Okay, last one. on the G major scale, possibly the easiest one because you got three open strings involved instead of only two. Uh, no pinky, >> you know. So, I would argue the G major scale that we're about to do might be the easiest. Uh, this time I'm not going to uh stop when I play that three at the end of the G major scale. I'm not going to repeat it. I'm just going to go right back down again. Okay? You'll see what I mean. Why not? G major. 2 3 4 I'll say this, the faster you go, the better it sounds. Like almost everything on the guitar, right? So, a one of many good reasons to push yourself to go a little bit faster. A little bit faster, you know? Okay. Now, I know we've done this page before. We've talked about it before. It serves a good purpose, though. Gets us in the mood, right? Okay. Uh that page, as usual, uh is one of many pages available for you at my website, song-bike.com.
I'll double check to make sure it's there, but it should be there. Okay, D.
There you go. Um scale page. All right.
So, I want to get us started that way.
Get our brains focused. Uh, I'm laughing. Let's get right to our student quote of the week. Uh, I had two student quotes of the week. Uh, as some of you might remember, I visit a preschool a couple times a month and play and sing and teach little kids.
And, um, one thing I found very quickly is kids love to sing Yellow Submarine by the Beatles. They love to sing that song. Uh so every few visits that's one of my songs in my rotation and uh I you know just as a means of introduction uh I I say to the kids hey here's a song you might remember um we sang it you know a few weeks ago. Uh I also say that so they don't start saying we already sang this one like I know we sang it but it was like three months ago you know.
Uh so I introduced this song Yellow Submarine by the Beatles. This one girl couldn't have been more than four years old. just close your eyes. And she shakes her head. She goes, "I love the Beatles.
Four years old.
There's hope, my friends. There's hope."
Uh, other student quote of the week. And this one has a a a punchline. Uh, one of my students, actually, we might have been doing this scale page right here. I think we might have been uh she she working for one of my adult in-person students. She um she played through it pretty well. I mean, she got the downs and ups and she'd used the right fingers and uh she just looked down at her guitar. She said, "I can't believe I just did that. Who am I?"
And I thought that's, you know, every once in a while you you just might surprise yourself, right? You might, you might, you know, it takes a lot of practice, but you just might surprise yourself. So, that's uh student quote of the week. She said, "Who am I?" But that's that's not the punch line. Here's the punch line. Uh I thought, "Oh, I got to write that down before I forget it."
But I didn't write it down at the moment. So, maybe an hour later, I'm with a totally different student and it pops in my head. I got to write down what she said. Right? So, I'm curious what that student thought. My stu students saw me grab a piece of paper and I what I wrote on the piece of paper right in the middle of this other student's lesson. I just wrote down who am I question mark and put it aside just so I wouldn't forget you know so I'm sure that student's like what's up with my guitar teacher having a deep philosophical crisis right during you know stairway to heaven or something I don't know I thought later I I I wonder if that student had questions about why I just wrote that down anyway so that's the second of two student quotes of the week cracking me up. What could I say? It's cracking me up. All right. Uh, hey, let's get into uh a WTF weekly teaching feature.
How about uh how do you feel about sexuplets? Anyone have a strong feeling about sexuplets?
Well, you're about to. You're about to.
Uh, let me make sure I'm pulling up the right thing.
Harmonize. There we go.
I have a big folder on my uh desktop on my home screen of all this stuff and that's the one I'm looking for. Okay, here comes some sexuplets.
I'm going to show you the the whole page and then I'm going to zoom in. We're about to do a slightly tricky hammer on exercise. Uh what you're looking at here on the page, I'm going to make it larger in a second.
uh the page I just put on the screen and give it a minute in case your screen is still black. It'll show up soon. It's another great page. Uh in fact, it's page 141 from that great book that I keep recommending to you guys called Guitar Soloing. Uh the authors are uh Gilbert and Marus. Um Beth Marles and oh, what was Mr. Gilbert? Paul, not Paul Gilbert. What was his first name? I forget his first name. Uh great book. Uh I've shared a link in previous uh live streams on how you could get that book, but it's a great book uh guitar soling.
So what you're looking at here is page 141. I'm not going to put this one on my website because darn it, I don't own this. They they wrote this and they deserve credit for it. So we all should go get this book. Uh, now I'm going to zoom in because despite the title at the top of the page, we're not what we're about to do has nothing directly to do with the harmonic minor scale. It's this sexuplet hammer on thing. Oh, that is that big enough? I hope so. There it is.
Okay, so here's what we're looking at here. uh groups of six, really groups of three.
Starting with a picked note and then two hammer ons.
Make this a little bit louder.
That's a 357. For those of you who are squinting at the very first note, you might think, is that an eight? What is that note? It's a three, as in three musketeers.
So, uh, a double hammer on. It's going to be a good workout for your fretting hand. You only pick the first note. I highly recommend doing a downstroke.
My index is on the three.
I'm using my middle to hammer on the five. Not only is that a strong and confident finger, but uh it creates what I call a momentum so that my hand is already rolling towards the pinky which is going to hammer on on the seven.
Now, I know some of you are already saying to yourselves, I cannot play three and then simultaneously hammer on onto five. I get that. Uh you can, but let me help you. Uh your thumb should be pointing up towards the ceiling or or possibly even slanted towards the uh the sixth or seventh fret. You know, bottom line is your thumb can't be hanging out up over the neck and can't be parallel to the neck like that. Okay. Number two, uh not only is your thumb position uh important, but you I call this a leap of faith.
You don't have to keep a death grip on the third fret note with your index while you're hammering on. You can take a little bit of a leap and if you hammer on hard enough uh with your middle finger, you can let go of your index.
Um, and so you there's no moment when you're literally touching the two frets with two different fingers spread out the way I'm doing it right now. Okay?
But it's a leap of faith. Your middle finger has to jump fast and firmly hit that fifth fret note.
Now, if you survive that, you have now come to the pinky hammer on, which may feel even less confident.
At least it's not a massive stretch.
Same deal though.
Take that leap with your pinky and and to the best of your ability, stay on the extreme tip of that pinky.
Now, your reward for that one is the same thing on the A string.
And what we have here is the G major scale. And you can see in the text above this example um well the the authors here you can see what they say. Uh the execution of three note per string shapes which are fairly easy for the guitars to perform using a hammer on technique. Okay. They said it.
That's their words, not my words. Fairly easy. Uh tap your foot.
Okay. Now, uh this is going to get easier as you head over towards the thinner strings. Uh you don't have to reach as far across the fretboard. And let's face it, skinnier strings are simply easier to hammer on and um because they're thinner, less material, right? Okay. So, what does this actually sound like?
I made it to the 5 7 8.
Now my hand has to shift as smoothly as possible for 10 12 13 then 10 12 14 with that final slide up to 15. We're going to talk about which fretting fingers to use in a second. Uh we're going to talk about that shift from uh 5 78 up the neck to 10 12 13. There's a lot going on here, right? Some of you are still back on the six string 357. And you know what? That's not a bad idea.
But if that's making you crazy, that 357, if it's not going well, then give yourself a break. Um, for the fun of it, let's shift over to the second string, the B string. 578. Why? Uh, it's going to be a little bit easier. 578.
Please use your index on the five, ring on the seven, and pinky on the eight.
Those of you playing electric guitar, you have a little bit of an advantage.
Uh, thinner strings, and the whole instrument is just more immediately responsive, right?
your notes are being amplified.
I'm not saying that it's easy for on electric guitar. It's easier, right? A little bit.
Okay. So, quick reminder, um this is uh com nothing but notes from a G major scale. And so, in a perfect world, as you're playing this, you would hear uh I can't I can't sing it and play it at the same time, but you know, it's a G major scale. Um, just for an example of a scale that starts really low on that G on the six string and ends up really high, 15 on the first string, you know.
Um, okay. Now, which fingers to use uh for the four base strings? index, hammer on with middle, hammer on with pinky. Do that for the three five sevens. Do it for the four five sevens. Index, middle, pinky, index, middle, pinky. When you get to the second string, the one we just did, index, ring, pinky for five, seven, eight.
Now your whole whole hand, you have no choice. Just have to as smoothly as you can shift your whole fretting hand up to 10, 12, 13. It's still going to be index, ring, pinky.
At least that's what I recommend. So, let's turn that into a mini exercise. 5 7 8 10 12 13.
And notice my eyes are glued to my left hand. I can't do this without looking at my hand. I mean, not right now. Maybe someday, but not right now. I'm trusting my right hand to stay on the second string.
I mean, I have to look at my left hand, right? Uh, so what's going on? I memorize the paper. I memorize the page, right? Focus on the hand that needs my attention. Trust the other hand. It's a it's a constant cycle. Whatever you're practicing, right? If you're able to memorize it, memorize it. If you're able to trust one of your hands or basically trust one of your hands, excellent. You know, what if you can't memorize it? You're going to have to trust both your hands. depends. It's a case-byase basis. Okay. So, that second string, there's a lot going on on that second string. For the first time, we're changing the index ring pinky, and we're also for the first time shifting up the neck. Once you survive that, now you've made it to the uh first string. I recommend going back to index ring pinky.
And the pinky is going to slide from 14 up to 15.
Uh, and if you can end up on that pinky with a nice ringing 15, give yourself a pat in the back.
Uh, now this is going to sound painfully obvious. Uh, this is supposed to be hard. Uh if you all could play this easily, you'd be looking at me like, "Come on, man." You know, you'd go to some other YouTube guitar lesson channel, right? This is supposed to be hard. Uh you are allowed to focus on on one part of this. There's no law that says next week there's a test on this entire exercise, right? But even by focusing say on the two bass strings, the E and the A strings, it's that 357 357. Oh, it's going to get your fretting fingers in shape, you know?
I really love this as a as a teacher. Uh the sentence right above the exercise, work on precise even execution, especially when position position shifting. And they're talking about that second string, right? Yep. And and to some extent that slide, that pinky slide at the end. Interesting. Hey Chaz, thank you for your super chat donation. I appreciate that. Uh so yeah, a little bit different, right?
Uh, I realize that for some of you, these are some pretty high numbers.
Eights and tens and 13s. That's all right. I always say you paid for the whole guitar. Time to use it. You know, those numbers are a little more comfortable for you electric guitar players. Um, okay. Questions, comments again. Uh, from a book, stop sharing. From a book called Guitar Soloing, Beth Marles. I'm so sorry. I can't remember Mr. Gilbert's name. Uh, but his last name is Gert.
It's available. It's out there.
Published by Howlettered Publications.
Okay, there you go. Uh, bear with me.
I'm going to check that off.
Check.
And we have a poll question. And the poll question ties in with today's theme of, you know, new stuff, new music. Are there any good new songs by new artists?
What do you think? Yes. No. I the two answers are yes and no. And uh what I what I put for the third one I have no idea.
Yes, no. I have no idea. Uh that's the poll question of the night. Um and it's going to tie in with our playalong song.
Okay. Uh how about a quick segment? I call Killer 45s since I have them in the red here. Uh went up to the attic, grabbed my container of 45 RPM records.
Uh quick segment. What did I find? Uh 45 RPM uh Pink Floyd. Another brick in the wall part two.
The Freak by Chic.
Uhhuh. Freak out. I had good taste, man.
I had good taste. Oh boy. Night fever by the beeges. Are these worth anything?
Anybody know of these? I'm uh I'm open to offers. I mean big offers.
Uh Kenny Loggins, Whenever I Call You Friend. Uh couple more. Oo, The Dirt Band, American Dream. Anybody remember this song? What a great song. I beg your pardon, Mama. What did you say?
My mind has drifted off on Martinique Bay.
Uh, what a cool song. American Dream by the Dirt Band. Uh, last few. Dreamw Weaver. Ah, Dreamw Weaver by Gary Wright. Love that. I still love that song. Oh, boy. I was I was a young kid when I got this one.
Casey and the Sunshine Band. Keep it Come love. That's a great tune. I've seen some great videos uh of Casey and the Sunshine Band live in concert like on YouTube or something. Uh great. And this one, talk about a deep cut. The band was called Night and the song, you know, And the song was called Hot Summer Nights. Anybody know that one?
Night. The song called Hot Summer Nights. It's about a band that's trying to like, you know, get their act together. That's the theme of the song, Hot Summer Nights.
1979 is the date on. Anyways, that's a little segment I call killer 45s. Those are some killer 45s.
Oh, well, okay. I'm looking to see what you guys are talking about. Uh uhhuh.
Uhhuh.
You guys you guys have some new have some uh positive things to say about Jesse Wells. There you go. New singer song. Joseph and Charlie and Barry.
Joseph and Charlie and Randy are all talking about Jesse Wells. Yeah. Protest songs of a of a sort, right? Got a bunch of Grammy nominations. Did he win any Grammys? I'm not sure. Joseph, I know you're saying he got Grammy nominations.
I think he did not win any. Um, nothing wrong. No shame there. Um, it's an honor just to be nominated. Barry saying, uh, there's a great new music up up venue five minutes a five minute walk from where you live. That sounds great.
DAC poet says, "I've been working on some hammer ons and pull-offs." All right. So, this this exercise we just did, DAC um might um mean we'll help we'll help with that, right?
Yeah. I'm just seeing what you guys are chatting about there in the uh in the chat. Uh Joseph, thank you for your uh your donation. I appreciate that.
Uh okay. And don't forget to vote in our poll. Uh and the poll question again uh is there any good music out there? Are there any good new songs? Specifically talking about new songs by new artists. Uh so that's the question. Now what um is prompting this? I will tell you right now. Let's do a little segment, a quick segment, but a good segment on new albums that are out. Uh now I chose six performers. And for each of these performers, I'm going to um include a YouTube video link to a a song slashvideo from their new album. In some cases, the album might not be out yet.
Only maybe the single is out, but the album's coming out soon. Okay, so who are uh the people that caught my attention who all have new albums either that just came out or coming out soon.
Okay, in no particular order, Ringo Star, new music from Ringo Star. Beck, Beck has a new album out. Train, remember Train? Of course you do. Train.
Bruce Hornsby has a new album out. Joe Jackson has a new album out. And uh Noah Kahan. Noah, I should know how to pronounce his last name. I think it's Kahan. Um, now I know I knew Noah Kahan was big, but man, I didn't know how many millions of views uh he had and how many thousands of YouTube subscribers. Holy cow. Uh, so every name I just mentioned, Ringoar, Beck, Train, Bruce Hornsby, Joe Jackson, Noah Kahan. Uh, those are just some of the I think many many many people who putting out new music this springtime. Every one of those people, there's going to be uh a link so you can check out what they're doing, what's new. Ringo is looking good. Ringo's sounding good. Uh I only listen to one of the songs. I think maybe in Ringo's case, maybe there's only one song out so far. I listen to all these folks, so now my mind is is mush. Um uh but lots and lots of new music out right now. And you know what? Maybe it's just that I'm I'm noticing it. Maybe it's uh maybe this happens, you know, every month or so.
But man, I you know what, not to be cynical, but it's to promote a summer tour, right? You know, you put out the album now and then you put the tickets on sale and you tour all summer and fall and and hopefully you make some good money because in a bunch of these cases, you can listen to the whole album for free on YouTube like right now.
So, the world has changed. What are you going to do? It's just changed, which is great, I guess. But um I don't know. So if you find an artist you love and an album that you love, see if you can go see them in concert because that might be the way that they're going to make a little money cuz it's not 100% clear how they make a whole lot of money from the actual recording itself. But what do I know?
What do I know? Anyways, Ringo, Beck, Train, Bruce Hornsby, Joe Jackson, and Noah Kahan are some of the many people with new albums out. Uh I always like to take a break and say hello to my mom. My mom is often watching these live streams. Hi mom. Uh Mrs. Songbike is moderating tonight's uh live stream.
Mrs. Songbike, hello. Hope you're well.
I'll be home shortly. We had some uh great Chinese food last night. And um being adults, we uh saved half of our portions for dinner tonight. Um it just seems like the grown-up thing to do. And man, was that good. Hey, Bruce is joining us. Hey, Bruce. Thanks for joining us.
Uh, so what else?
Let's do another weekly teaching feature. Um, sometimes I like to dig back to one that we might have done previously and uh and it's worth digging back because uh if it didn't 100% sink in the first time, then today is the day. And if it did sink in, then you get that beautiful feeling of confidence like, "Oh yeah, man. I learned that the first time and that I get it." Uh what I'm putting on the screen is uh I'm 99% sure we did this before, but it's worth a quick look again. Uh a lesson plan I call bar chord fragments.
And uh do let me know if it does not appear on your screen. Uh because as you know there's ghosts in the machine and sometimes I can see it and I assume you guys can all see it too. So bar chord fragments. This is not about bar chords.
Doesn't matter whether you're good at bar chords or not. I hope you all are great at bar chords but statistically statistically many of you are not great at bar chords. I'm sure. And that's great. That's great. That's the whole point of this. Uh when you are tasked with playing a bar chord, you're welcome to do it. Knock yourself out. You don't have to. You can play a fragment of the bar chord. So look what I did up there.
Uh taking that at face value at the top of the page is an F major bar chord.
You are allowed to play the two bass strings. That's the first diagram on the left under the dotted line.
Little F power chord, right? It doesn't sound as full and rich as the full bar chord, but it gets the job done. You want more of a sound, add your pinky.
That's the second bar chord under the dotted line. uh um RB as RB is pointing out these are both known as uh F5 an F power chord. By the way, I'm using the example of the F bar chord to break into fragments. We could do this with any um bar chord. It's just convenient to do it as an F. This is not to say you shouldn't get good at bar chords. This is not to say that you shouldn't get good at playing F lots of ways, but uh this is something that I do quite a bit and it's something that you're allowed to do. Uh and you can certainly here's my number one concern. I would hate for you guys to be playing a song, learning a song, and have one or two bar chords mess up your whole experience with that song. And I would hate you, especially if it's a favorite song. I'd hate for you to say like, "Oh, I guess I can't play that song because I can't play bar chords." Now, play a fragment of the bar chord. You got to be careful with your pick. See all those X's above all those diagrams? All those X's are are, you know, that's no man's land. You can't you can't strum those strings. But, okay, you know, you can do both things.
You could simultaneously work your way through a song using these fragments and separately be worked on your overall bar chord skills. Why not?
Okay, take a look at the third one under the dotted line. This is definitely a go-to. By the way, that's how I play F a lot of the time anyways. But remember, this isn't about avoiding F chords. It's about anytime you go to play a bar chord, playing a fragment instead. Any bar chord. Okay. So, notice I'm focusing on the four center strings.
I call those the four center strings.
Yeah, Charlie's making a good point.
Charlie says, "The problem I have with bar chords, I can play them, but I find it cumbersome to smoothly change into them." 100%. Oh, yeah. It's almost easier, ironically, if the whole song was nothing but bar chords.
If the whole song is nothing but bar chords, okay, well, then you're you're in it for the long haul. You know, it's when you're playing D and A and G and all of a sudden there's an F sharp minor. Ah, you know, you know, I don't know. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? Um, okay. So, I really like that. Uh, third F, the one that's focused on the second, third, fourth, and fifth strings.
Okay. Now, in that case, I that those four fingers on those four strings, that is giving the world an F major chord.
The first two are power chords. those first two, you know, fragments. Um, because of the notes that were omitted, it wasn't truly an F major chord. Okay?
It's a it's a quick and dirty substitute. You know, this one is an F major chord. No one can tell you it's not an F major chord. Uh, so is the next one. I'm looking at the the chord grip on the bottom left of the page. That three finger, that nice little diagonal line.
You can do that instead of the bar chord.
How about the next one? index finger making a little bar in the two treble strings and your middle finger reaching over.
Everybody clear on on why I'm using the term fragments, right? I'm using that top diagram as my starting point and I'm breaking off pieces fragments from that.
You know, the very last one, you could say the last one's the easiest one, the two skinny strings, index finger, I recommend using your index fingers, just clamping down on both of them.
That's not a complete F chord. Clearly, it's not even F major. It's like a It's a essentially it's another little power chord, you could say. Typically though, for whatever reason, that is called a double stop, not a power chord. In in my experience, um it's like you could say it's an F double stop with the understanding that it's the same two notes as an F power chord.
It's the note F and the note C. By definition, that is an F power chord, but it often gets called a double stop instead.
Okay, that's about all I wanted to say about this. Um, this, uh, if it's not already on my website, it will be soon. I'm pretty sure this one I already have uploaded.
I hear the first responders responding out there. Uh, questions though, comments about this. It's a worksheet, right? Just a worksheet. nothing to uh my hope is that this liberates you a little bit and uh makes you aware that um you have a lot of options. You got six options right there. You know, I have very mixed feelings about bar chords in general as a teacher, but frankly as a player too. I don't play bar chords and neither does Bruce Springsteen. I heard him say it himself.
Bruce Springsteen was being interviewed on Howard Stern and um said in a nutshell, he hasn't played a bar chord on stage. I don't think you could even remember 20 years, 30 years, 40 years.
There's options. There's alternatives.
Okay, there you go. Uh bar chord fragments.
Yeah, Charlie is pointing out uh that if you're doing a CFG chord progression that one those fragments are helpful.
Yeah, totally.
Totally. Yep. It's all about options.
Keep in mind that a chord a chord is a concept. It's not it's not some universal grip. It's not you know people don't walk around and say I'm gonna play a chord on the piano and they do this certain grip. We think of it that way partly because of teachers like me. Um but sooner or later teachers hopefully say, "Hey, by the way, you know, a chord is really a group of notes um that you can play all sorts of ways all over the grip that you do and then you're done with it for the rest of your life." You know, like a D chord. We all learn a D chord and that's great and you're going to find tons of use for it the rest of your life. But sooner or later you realize there's D chords scattered all up and down the fretboard. And that can be that that's on the teacher, right?
The teacher should be bringing that to your attention sooner rather than later.
It shouldn't be something that you find out, you know, after decades of playing the guitar. Um, hey Brian, I like how Brian's uh talking about some uh new artists that he recommends. Chris Angelis, Mark Scabilia, and Maggie Anton. Um, so yeah. So you guys, I think it would be great for you guys to put names of new or not new or maybe uh lesser known performers in the chat. You know, there are people who are, you know, overnight success. After 30 years, they become an overnight success, right? That counts.
That counts as new music. Uh little ironic. Um hey, stick around. How about if we do one more thing and then get right into our play along song of the week. So don't go anywhere. Um uh okay, let's do a quick segment. I call who's in town and more than ever, I mean every night of the week, someone is coming through smalltown Connecticut here. What the heck? Uh so some of these names are going to ring bells you guys.
Some of them you've never heard of. Uh that's okay. Uh but here is who's coming through my neck of the woods. Maybe they're coming right past your house on tour as well. Uh the squirrel nut zippers. Uh I I thought about whether or not to bring this up.
Uh I don't know much about the squirrel nut zippers. They've been around for a long time. Uh and and they're I'm sure they're great.
For better, for worse, they stand out in my mind because they received the the worst concert review I've ever read in my life. And I don't know if anyone deserved that review that they got. Uh my memory is that in Chicago, the local newspaper sent the classical critic to review the Squirrel Nut Zippers show, and he wrote just a scathing, horrible review.
And I just thought, "Ouch, just ouch."
Uh, now I don't know where that critic is now, but the scroll zippers are on tour, so I guess they get the last laugh. Uh, who else is on tour? Maline Peru, P Y R UX, Maline Peru is on tour.
Uh, Richard Shindell, Utmar Lebert and Luna Negra, The Bodines are on tour. Uh, Carolyn Wonderland, terrific blues guitar player, is on tour. and Melissa Manchester that was she um oh what was her I'm sure she had more than one famous song but I feel like I heard Melissa Manchester on the pop charts when I was just a kid.
Um she's on tour man.
Okay, the song I'm probably thinking of would be Don't Cry Out Loud. There you go. Don't cry out loud. 13 million spins on Spotify. Holy cow. So, uh, Squirrelnut Zippers, Maline Peru, Richard Shindell, Otmar Libert, and Luna Negra. B, the Bodines, Carolyn Wonderland, and Melissa Manchester.
That's basically an act every night of the week. And I'm not in or anywhere close to, you know, a big city like Boston, Manhattan, or even Hartford for that matter.
Go see some live music, my friends.
People are out there. They're all great.
They're hustling and uh if they're coming through here, they've got to be coming through your area as well. I wouldn't be surprised.
Okay. Uh let's do our play along song of the week. I can't wait. Uh the song I'm about to put up on the screen is a song that's been on my radar for quite some time. I I must have heard this song when it was pretty new because shocker. This is a song that is only from 2023. I was joking just recently about how so many of the playalong songs, all of the playalong songs that uh that we do here on the song by Guitar Q&A live stream are uh older tunes.
Well, tonight we're going to change all that. Uh soon on your screen you will see the lyrics and chords uh for a fantastic song called No California by IL. And I'm going to tell you more about ILY uh in a minute uh when we're done.
Uh but this song, I dug this song from the minute I heard it, I guess back in 2023. Um and it's been on my list of a song of my song songs to do with you guys for these playalongs. Uh can you guys read that? Okay. I'll tell you right now the the chords, which is what you're going to care about the most. Uh a lot of F major 7 and A minor chords.
uh C and G make an appearance. Um, but that's it. We'll talk about that G slashB in a second. But again, to recap, the chords you're going to need, F major 7, A minor, C, and G.
F major 7, in case you're not familiar with it, it's the easy version of doing F. You do not touch the skinny E string. You're going to strum it, but you're not going to fret it. Index finger second string B string first fret middle finger second string sorry middle finger third string second fret ring finger fourth string third fret it's basically an F chord just don't squeeze the skinny string but you're going to include that skinny string one of my favorite chords of all time it has this dreamy melancholy sound and I I think that would sum up the vibe of this tune. It's a dreamy melancholy kind of song. Uh um now you're going to be changing from F major 7 there to A minor. Well, guess what? Your index finger is right there for you. You can do it. You don't even move your index finger. It's already in the right place.
So, take one second and practice F major 7 to A minor. F major 7 to A minor. Easy peasy. Uh, as usual, yeah, I know I say it every episode.
Someone someone do a deep dive and tell me if there's ever an episode of our live stream here where I don't say do G with your middle and ring and your pinky. You're going to be coming from that F major 7. You're going to be so glad that you're you're good at doing G with your middle ring and pinky. And the next chord is back to A minor again, I think, in every case. And your index finger will be ready to grab the second string for A minor.
Okay. So, in terms of left hand, that's all I'm going to say at the moment about your left hand, uh, your fretting hand with one final fretting hand detail. Uh, in the chorus, there's a G slashB.
Now, let's let's start with, uh, the easiest solution for that chord. You could just play a G chord right there.
End of story. That the what that officially means is play a G chord with B as the lowest note. That's that fifth string, second fret note.
Now, you could just grab a G chord and strum everything but the fat string. And then technically, you are giving the world a G over B, G slashB. But that's not really the point of this.
The point of this is there's a walk down.
So, where it says G slashB, what they're really getting at is they want to hear the note B, fifth string, second fret, middle finger, loud and clear right there. This will make more sense when you hear in the context of the song. Uh, got to go somewhere the sun don't shine so bright. Uh, humor me for a second.
I'm going to repeat that line for a second. talking about the first line of the chorus starting in the C chord right by the word somewhere. Gotta go somewhere where the sun don't shine so bright. I strum the C chord for the G slashB. I singled out one note on one string. That middle finger, fifth string, second fret. That's enough.
That's enough to get the point across.
You don't have to strum any version of G. That note is truly the important thing. Got to go somewhere where the sun don't shine so bright. That note B literally connects the C chord to the A minor chord. But instead of just struming C and then waiting and then going to A minor, we insert that note in between C.
Ooh, so cool.
So, personally, that's what I would prioritize at that moment if you're capable of it, and I know you are.
Isolate that note. You won't won't regret it. Okay, let's talk about the strumming for a second.
This song doesn't have a super distinctive rhythm guitar part. That's good. We can do what we want. uh because it's such a common pattern and because it's it's going to work as one option for this song, you could do down up down down up down.
You're allowed to do that. That's how I'm going to start the song. It's going to be like uh drive to the ocean, lie by the waves, bathe in the mold.
Now I'm alone. I pray for rain to come.
Okay, that's not what's happening on the recording, but you could get away with that. I'm going to start off that way, but then I'm going to morph into some other strumming patterns uh that are that fit the song better and um that maybe you're not as familiar with. Then then after tonight you will be for instance uh uh how about if I start I'm going to start on the chorus and I'm going to change to out of here start a whole new life got to go somewhere where sun don't shine so bright everything around here everything about this place just brings me down okay so what am I doing right there again this is for the chorus part of the song I'm strum the F major seven and I'm strumming it a second time.
But I'm catching it so quickly after the strum. Got to get out of here.
Start a whole new life.
So for every one of those chords, well almost every one of them, strumming, let's call it strumming uh strumming loud and then strumming with a chop kind of sound. Loud. chops out the best word.
Staccato is the musical term. Legato and staccato. Legato. Staccato.
Doesn't seem very sophisticated. It fits the tune better than down, you know. Okay. Now, I may not be able to control myself. What I would do if I was performing this song, especially if there was a band, um I got to get out of here.
It totally reminds me of um uh Brick in the Walla.
Anybody else? I'm going to do this on a I think Brick in the Wall by uh Pink Floyd, isn't it? In the key of D minor.
I'm kind of stealing that rhythm guitar pattern from Pink Floyd and I'm probably gonna apply it to this tune.
Okay. Little little again, it's even that is not literally what's happening with the song, but it fits it so well, you know. So, I'm gonna I'm going to do that again. I'm going to do it with a with a F major 7. I'm going to slow it down. Down, up, down, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, down, up, down, up.
Got to get out of here.
Got to go somewhere where the sun don't shine.
Now, I'm glossing over that G slashB because whatever strum pattern you do, you have to I recommend accommodating that thing right there. So, no matter what I do, I'm going to try to call attention to that B note. Again, before I go any further, where it says G slashB in the chorus, you could play just a regular G chord. No apologies. Go for it. Uh, you're allowed to. You know, by the way, that's the only moment in the song where chords don't last essentially for four counts. Uh, it's again chorus right by the word somewhere. Two C's, two G's, G slashB, whatever you want to call it, and then back to four, you know, on the A minor.
Everywhere else in the song, I believe every other moment, every time you see a chord name, whatever you're doing on that chord, whatever strum, the chord uh lasts for four counts.
1 2 3 4 whatever, you know, except that one moment in the chorus where again C is for two beats and G slashB is for two beats. Um, at at the very beginning when I just isolated that one note, I said, "Oh, just play that one note."
In my mind, I'm that is it's lasting for two counts. The first beat I'm playing it. And the second beat, I'm letting it ring. So, it's still last for two beats.
Does that make sense? Got to go somewhere where the sun don't shine so bright.
somewhere where the sun don't shine. So, I just let it ring for the second beat.
Why not? Okay, you ready to try this?
Yeah. Sure you are.
No matter how I'm strumming it, you could keep doing it your way as long as it's working and we'll meet. Does that make sense? One of us is doing the high road, one of us doing the low road. But the song, the timing, the chord changes, the lyrics, all that is carved in stone.
So, we're allowed to do different strum patterns from each other as long as we agree on the content. Does that make sense? Uh, okay.
This has a very cool intro. Um, I can't I can't resist showing you the intro. Grab an A minor chord.
Now let go of the A minor chord and do a hammer on from the open strings onto the A minor.
And I'm strumming the three strings, but only the three strings uh from the A minor chord without getting too into the nitty-gritty of the intro. That's what you're going to hear when you hear the original recording.
That first hammer on, uh, I would do an upstroke. Again, I'm focusing on the three strings I'm touching, an upstroke on the open strings, maybe two upstrokes, and then a final downstroke on the ones I'm touching. I know this is not I know I'm whipping through this.
There's a little more to it than that, but that'll get you started. Okay, let's do this. Um, Joseph is saying, "Can pauses be thrown in here somewhere?" Um, yes, you could do one strum. You could leave lots of room. In fact, essentially the recording has lots of space. Uh, drive to the ocean, fly by the waves, bathe in the moment. Strum each chord one time and and then in your mind just go 2 3 4 2 3 4 2 3 next chord. That would totally work. In fact, that is in keeping with the vibe of the song. So why aren't we doing that? We don't have a bass player and a drummer who are keeping the thing going, you know? I don't. Do you got nothing? Uh, okay.
Instead of doing the intro, I'm going to just jump in. Grab your F major 7 chord.
Let's do this.
I'll see you on the other side.
One, two, three. We used to drive to the ocean.
Lie by the waves.
Ba in a moment.
Now I'm alone. I pray for rain to come.
Take me away from me.
Away from the hills full of promise.
Streets full of pain.
Even in winter bright sunny days I pray for rain to come.
Oh, but it never does.
Got to get out of here. Start a whole new life. Got to go somewhere where the sun don't shine so bright. Everything around here, everything about this place just brings me down.
There ain't no California without you.
without you. Yeah. There ain't no California.
Yeah. There ain't no California without you.
Without you. Yeah. There ain't no California.
There's cold in your shadow.
All that remains.
Ghost in the desert. Should I run away or pray for strength to come?
I'll run away.
Got to get out of here. Start a whole new life. Got to go somewhere where the sun don't shine so bright. Everything around here. Everything about this place just brings me down.
Cuz there ain't no California without you.
without you. Yeah. There ain't no California.
And there ain't no California without you.
Without you. And there ain't no California.
Here's the bridge.
I'll keep running, baby. I'll keep running till you stop running through my I'll keep loving you and I'll keep loving you. I don't really know. I know that I got to get out of here. Start a whole new life. Got to go somewhere where the sun don't shine so bright.
Everything around here, everything about this place just brings me down.
Cuz there ain't no California without you.
without you. Yeah. There ain't no California.
And there ain't no California without you without you. And there ain't no California.
I'll keep running, baby. I'll keep running till you stop running through my mind.
Of course, now I'm remembering things I want to suggest. All those F major 7s and A minors. Oo, it would have sounded great. Do nice little hammer ons with your middle finger.
Same thing on the A minor. Same middle finger on the A minor.
Sounds great. You could do it on the C.
But you know what? The C shows up right before that G slashB maybe. I don't know if you want to get too fancy on that C because nailing that B, which I did not nail the first time. I think I got it the subsequent times. I didn't I missed it the first time. My heart was in the right place. Uh, cool tune. Okay, so uh this I will upload to my website, but in case you're curious, and I know I was, I thought, you know, I should have a little background about this performer.
And was I surprised. Uh the link I'm about to put on the screen uh is a link that I'll put in the description of this live stream. Okay, give your screen a moment. If it goes dark, don't even panic. Don't worry. Speaking of panic, uh Ilsie, who wrote that song or co-wrote that song, uh had a number one hit song with Panic at the Disco. Ilsie Juber, uh oh, April 17, she just had a birthday eight days ago. Uh born April 17, 1986. Right now on the screen, uh you may be seeing your uh the Wikipedia page all about Oussie Juber. Now uh here's what I didn't know. I didn't know how good she was. I know I love the song. This is a successful successful person, man. Uh, number one, anyone who works with Mark Ronson, I really respect and enjoy Mark Ronson's music quite a bit, and she uh has worked with him plenty, but she's written songs for Miley Cyrus and Beyonce. Uh, so she's clearly a talented, talented, talented, successful person. Uh, now what I noticed as I educated myself is if her last name rings a bell, I'm scrolling down now, middle of the page, uh, it says she's the daughter of Lawrence Juber. Who's Lawrence Juber?
Well, played with Paul McCartney and Wings and uh, and for many years she's been a highly regarded uh, fingerstyle guitar player. Lawrence Juber. like, well, I've heard of Lawrence Juber, but it gets better. Uh, are you reading what I'm reading in the middle of the screen?
Uh, her maternal grandfather was Sherard Schwarz, the American television producer behind Gilligans Island and The Brady Bunch. So, I don't know if this is six degrees of separation. I don't know what's going on, but uh there you go.
So, all I want to know was uh you know what where where her career is at and who she is. And now I realize, oh my gosh, I'm very familiar with uh her dad's name. Certainly Lawrence Juber, uh, and how little, you know, I woke up this morning, I didn't know I'd be talking about Gilligans Island and the Brady Bunch.
That's who, uh, Ilsie Juber is. And I'm going to stop sharing that screen. Boom.
Uh, in the description of this live stream will be not only the Wikipedia link, but a link to her website, but also, hey, a link to her dad's website.
Uh, um, so you have all that to look forward to. What a cool tune. Um, by the way, according to Spotify, that's not even her most popular tune. Uh, anybody ever I I think I'm guilty of this. I find one song by a performer that I really like and sometimes I don't want to spoil it. I don't want to know everything else they've ever done because I think no, I'm never going to like any song as much as I like the one I like. Uh it's I I overthink it. Um hey Randy, thank you for your super chat donation. I appreciate that. So there you go. I've I've I've always dug that tune. Um why did it take this long for us to do it in a live stream? I don't know. I really don't know. I don't know.
It's a cool tune from 2023. Uh, our poll question, you might remember, of the night is boom, boom. Uh, are there any good new songs by new artists? Uh, and you guys, you're being very honest. Uh, 7% say no.
38% say yes, and my favorite, 55% say I have no idea.
you know. Hey, so which leads to my dumb question of the night? I ask it. So why do I ask it?
Let's all say it together. I ask it so you don't have to. My dumb question of the night. Uh, how are you supposed to even find good new music?
Where? How? You know, used to be you turn on the radio and you walking down the road, driving down the road, and you hear a new song like, "Oh, I like that song." That's that's about as complicated as it as it got. Or or uh sibling, friend, some kid at school, you hear the song like, "Oh, I like that song, too." Uh but now, how do you do it? All those things still apply. In fact, I hope you all get recommendations from your siblings and neighbors and other kids. Uh well, you're doing it right now. You just got turned onto a song that's only three years old. So this this is one way to do it, right?
You tune in to jokers like me and um you know, fingers crossed every once in a while we talk about a really great new song. Uh that's one way to do it, right?
Uh a lot of you use streaming services and streaming services are more than happy to suggest uh you know the whatever is hot and whatever is new and you know there's all these playlists, right? like Spotify, uh you go to playlist and um and you know what, give yourself the the permission to listen to 10 seconds and decide you don't like it.
Skip, skip, skip. But um it could be it could be that you know if you give yourself those 20 minutes, 30 minutes of listening to a little bit of a bunch of songs of new stuff on a streaming service, you might find that that one that one, right? And uh because I'm crazy, I think it's totally worth it to have that one song, that one sing along song. Oh, I I'll give you I'll give you another one. Uh since I can't resist, um I love this song, Inordinately.
I said it. Uh I'm going to put a YouTube link in the chat, but I'll tell you while I'm doing this. uh the band called the heavy heavy and this is also a pretty new song. Uh I want to make sure I get the title right. There we go. The heavy heavy the song called Miles and Miles. Oh, I love everything about this song.
Okay, I'm going to copy the link and I'm going to put Why not? I'll put uh I'll put it in the chat. I'll put in the description, too.
Man, I love this song. Is my enthusiasm coming through? The song called Miles and Miles by the Heavy Heavy. Uh oh, there's an example. Like I I don't know any other songs by them. I like that one song so much. I'm like, uh I don't want to jinx it. Uh so yeah, there's there's good music out there, but how do you find it? That's my dumb question of the week. How do you find it? I'll say this.
Number one, you have to want to find it, right? It's it's more than ever uh we are in our own little uh cubicles, our own little boxes more than ever and it's so easy to avoid stuff. It's so easy.
It's easier than ever. Uh specifically new entertainment, right? It's very easy. Um Joseph, I see what you're saying. Uh yeah, Joseph, you're basically saying Google it, right? Google it. Yeah, Scott saying Alexa. Scott saying that you know ask Alexa to play so and so and and similar artists. Yeah. Charlie saying serious is where I hear him. Okay. So you guys you guys are uh you know you're on it. What do you need me for? You guys are on it. Uh yeah lots of good music.
What what I I would caution everybody including myself is you know the stuff that you love from your early years all that stuff you love. Nothing's ever going to in in our minds, individual minds, nothing's ever going to be better than that. We know what we love and we love it. You're always going to love it.
So, what we're talking about is not something that's better um but something that like Yeah. and something that's refreshing, kind of reminds you a little bit of old stuff. Oh, uh last thing I'm going to say and about um IL and the song we just did, No California. Uh, one reason that what put me over the edge and said, "Dang it, we got to do this tune in our live stream." Uh, a young band called Goose covered her song. There's a live on Spotify. That was one of the options. I went to hear her version of it, her her original version of it, and I was also offered Goose's live version. Well, I know Goose is a very hip, talented young band. I thought, well, wait a minute.
They're covering her tune. To me, there's no greater stamp of approval than someone covering the song, right?
Right. I mean, that's, you know, they don't, no one has to cover anyone else's songs, right? That everyone writes their own songs. And Goose is a very hip band.
The fact that they would cover No, I thought, well, wait a minute, man. I I got to get on this bandwagon. I don't want to be I don't want to be the last person to be talking about this tune.
So, there you go. Uh, Goose. There's Goose and Geese. I am team Goose. I like Goose better than Geese. And yes, there are two bands with those two names and they're not the same. And you you might you can listen for yourself, but I'm team goose.
Nothing wrong. I don't you know, I'm just saying if I had to choose, uh I I I would go with goose over geese. I'm not even joking. I wish I could say I'm making this up. Um, uh, Jamie is saying, uh, that, you know, some radio stations have like an a a a segment where they, um, feature emerging artists. Yeah. Um, EQX, uh, Jamie, is that a radio station?
EQX Vermont.
Uhhuh.
Charlie, is that is that real? Uh, Charlie, is that real? A song called I Don't Want to Die in a Super Eight Motel?
Um Jamie is confirming that. Yes, EQX Vermont is a radio station. Yeah. Ah, there's so much new stuff out there. Oh, uh the the NPR Tiny Desk Concerts, uh National Public Radio, uh Tiny Desk Concerts, ju those alone. Oh, holy moly.
Holy moly. Those just just by scrolling through the the you know, hundreds of tiny desk concert performances. Just go to YouTube and type in NPR as in National Public Radio Tiny Desk Concerts. And I'm more than you can shake a stick at. So, so many of those.
And being a a YouTube concert video thing, you get to see, you know, what who who the performers are, what instruments they're playing, all that kind of stuff. But yeah, that's that would be a very quick way to scan through a whole bunch of brand new stuff.
All right, there we go. Uh, and I'm I'm not going to Well, yeah, why not? Let's finish off our new performer segment. Uh, let's see. I'm going to pull up this one. There we go.
Uh, here's a young performer who keeps coming across my, you know, desk, so to speak. Uh, Gwenifer Raymond.
I'm gonna check this out.
We're having pretty good luck uh tonight where I put something up on the screen to share with you guys. And apparently uh the screens are not going black. You guys are are seeing everything at the same time I am. So I don't want to jinx it, but I'm sure it won't happen at all ever again. Uh so hopefully on your screen you are seeing what I'm seeing right here. Uh from Wales, I believe the country of Wales, Gwennifer Raymond. uh very hip uh finger style player. And I'm going to scroll down because I think Oh yeah. Okay. In case in case you can see what critics are saying about any uh you know particular performer. Uh I always like seeing what critics say. You know I know some people feel like critics are just too critical.
I like seeing what they say. So among the many uh people singing her praises uh National Public Radio Band Camp, The Financial Times, that caught my eye. I have to admit, the the FA Financial Times wrote her music instrumental, intricate infinite gazes at the stars.
That is pretty poetic from the Financial Times. Mojo Magazine, my favorite Song Lions magazine gave her a big shout out.
You know, guys know you've heard me mention Song Lions magazine. uh Uncut magazine uh you know a bunch of albums of the year album of the year um you know mentions from the BBC from Thirst and Moore. You see what I'm seeing?
Thirst and More famous from what band.
Who knows what band Thirst and Moore made his name with.
Put it in the chat if you know who Thirst and Moore played with. Uh you could Google it and but I want to see if anyone knows. Uh so yeah. So, uh, Gwennneer Raymond, uh, as always, a link to one of her great YouTube videos will be in the description of this live stream, as well as a link to her website. And, uh, was there another? Did I have three things? I guess I guess two different YouTube videos and then a link to her website cuz why not? And you guys, if you haven't figured out already, uh, one of my favorite parts of preparing for this show is uh is uh finding new people um and sharing them with you guys or uh remembering some new person. Oh, I haven't mentioned them on the show yet, you know. I gotta I got to mention them in the show. And Randy, you are correct.
Thirsten Moore from Sonic Youth. Yeah.
Nothing but Chaz says, "Uh, she's intense." She is intense. Yeah, she's not playing, man. She's not playing. I mean, she's playing, but she's not playing, if you know what I mean. All right. Uh, hey, you want to learn something? I sure do. I sure do. Let's learn something. Uh, this one's going to be simple, but so cool. And I can't believe we haven't done this yet. But according to my notes, we have not done this thing I'm about to show you. But it seems like exactly the kind of thing we have done.
Now whether we have done this before or not in a previous live stream, this bears repeating as they say. Okay. For another WTF weekly teaching feature. Uh a little lesson plan I call power chord cousins.
What's going on here?
All shall be revealed.
Okay. So, what am I doing here? Uh, I love this name, Power Chord Cousins. And that some you guys should start a band called the Power Chord Cousins. Uh, why is that an amusing name? Um, I'll tell you why. Because power chords are at a minimum, it's two fingers, two notes.
The the most basic elemental power chord, right? Uh, and what we're about to do involves two fingers and two notes. But instead of getting that grinding powerful sound known as a fifth. That's what you get when you play a power chord. That's why power chords are named F5, C5, whatever. The interval here is a third and it's prettier.
Okay. So, uh, grab G however you want to grab G. But we're going to focus on the two bass strings and only strum the two bass strings.
Be careful. I know you're allowed to strum more, but we're going to focus in on only two.
So, that's third fret on the sixth string, second fret on the fifth string.
Any fingers you want, but only strum those two notes.
You want to listen for a balance. You don't want one string to be louder than the other.
Sometimes just willing yourself to to make them but just telling yourself make them balanced.
That alone sometimes magically fixes the problem. Until that magic happens, tilt the pick up towards the ceiling more so you glance off of the fatter string. You don't hit it with as much direct force because it's tilted up towards your chin. And that will help balance out the sound a little bit because we want both the strings to be audible, you know, and equally audible. Okay. Now, do the same thing on a C chord. Grab a C chord, but only strum the middle and ring, the fourth and fifth strings.
The two notes, whether it's the two from a G that you just played or the two that you just played there, are known as thirds. You're playing the first note of a C major scale and the third note of a C major scale. Take my word for it. And the musical distance between the first note of a C major scale and the third note of a C major scale, but musical distance is nicknamed a third.
And thirds are very pretty. They're very melodic and harmonious. Nothing wrong with fifths. Fifths are just a little aggressive. Here's a C fifth. We could call it a C power. Here's a C fifth.
And here's the C played as a third.
Now, you have to be listening for the difference, right?
And you can even write a little riff that's going back and forth between the third and the fifth.
Here's a little cheat. Since we have a concern that the skinnier of the two strings doesn't get drowned out by the fatter of the two strings. If you strum these as upstrokes, that takes care of that problem because now the first burst of energy from your hand is being received by the skinnier of the two strings.
Okay? Anyways, uh and the F chord is also prime real estate. Don't worry about how well you can play an F chord.
Don't worry about that. We're focusing in on the third and fourth strings of the F chord.
Also, the interval known as a third. You can see why I chose G and C and F as examples of like finding these thirds because you could do all of these with your middle and ring fingers, just different pairs of strings. For G, it's the two fat strings.
Drop down one string with both hands.
There's the C. And drop down one more and there's the F. Now, what can you do with these? You can play this instead of playing a chord. You're playing two of the three notes necessary for the chord.
You're playing the first degree of the scale and the third degree of the scale.
We should play one more note to make it officially a chord, but you're allowed to imply chords. So, uh, imagine playing electric guitar in a band. Um, and instead of playing a G chord, just playing those two fat strings and then these are alternatives to this sound.
Nothing wrong with that sound, but not for every song, right?
You can even write a song with a riff.
Maybe there's an intro riff that's based on those things right there. Right?
How cool is that?
We're on to something, right? Uh now at the bottom of the page, twist and shout in the proper key. Twist and shout goes D G to A. But we're not going to do the oldfashioned D G and A.
We're going to do D, G, and A as thirds.
Take your C chord, slide your whole C chord up two frets, and you'll have what you need right there for the D. You have five on the fifth string and four on the fourth string. So, we're going to substitute that thing right there. Two fingers. I'm taking my other fingers out of the way just on principle here. We're going to substitute that for an actual D chord. It's cool. Don't worry about it.
You're allowed to.
In fact, I'm about to play Twist and Shout with only those two fingers.
For G. Here's my G and G up two frets. There's A. Don't be distracted by my index and my pinky.
I try to take them out of the way. I don't want you to think I'm doing anything more than two fingers on two strings. In fact, it's the same two two fingers no matter what.
Uh, sounds very hip. Right now, you could play D G to A. You could do that.
What if someone's already doing that and then you come in and start doing it this way?
Ah, it' be so cool. And this is kind of easy, right? You do not have to do it with your middle and ring. You could do it with your any combination of fingers you want, but add this to your uh rhythm guitar repertoire.
Okay? Just so easy, but it sounds so good. Um, each of these is named after the name of the fatter string note. Okay. Five on the fifth string is the note D. Uh, three on the six string is the note G. Five on the sixth string is the note A. Okay, that's where that's the root note. And then we're adding in the third degree of the relevant major scale, you know. All right, there you go. Teach you a lesson you never forget. I think that's what I used to call these. Uh, a lesson you never forget. And now I call them WTF, weekly teaching features. Uh that what you just saw that might already be on my website, but it sure will be soon after our uh after our live stream. Okay. Check, check, check. I'm looking in the chat to see what you guys are talking about. Uh RB, could we play that song Cocaine but with thirds?
Kind of. Right. Um, I don't off the top of my head, I don't remember the actual key, the actual key of cocaine, but I'm doing it with that D at five and four and the C two frets back.
And that's not exactly how it goes, but that, you know, my parole officer would be very interested to know that I'm playing that song in any key, right?
>> I joke. Uh, is it is it D to C on RB? Is that the right is that the right key? I was just guessing. Remember, there's 12 keys in music. So, you have a one in 12 chance of just guessing the right key.
One and 12 is pretty good. You know, it could be worse.
Okay. Hey, somebody asked me a question.
Um, week after week I I label this the song by guitar Q&A live stream and I need some some cues. Uh, uh, because I don't want to I don't want to not call it the Q&A live stream because to me it sounds very inclusive.
Um, and uh, that's exactly what I want to communicate. Um, I don't want to be like, "Hey, the dude gives free guitar lessons on the internet." Although um but Q&A live stream just sounds ah it sounds so somebody asked me a Q uh put a bunch of question marks in advance uh when I when I first started this live stream oh almost two years ago. We're coming up on two-y year anniversary. I guess if you would ask me what I thought was going to happen, uh I I had this illusion that it would be like, "Hey, I'm working on the the lead guitar part for uh Wonderful Tonight.
Uh what finger should I use?" I guess I had this fantasy. It would be a neverending list of pretty simple questions to songs I was very familiar with. Uh and I would just bang them out.
I'd be like index finger. Uh, and then the next thing I'd be like, "That one is the fourth fret. Go to the fifth fret.
Next question." I just bang him out. You know, give me more. You know, uh, keep at the fourth fret. Go.
And after two hours, I'd be like, "That's it. I can't take it anymore.
I'll see you next week." Uh to the extent that I I had any vision for what the show would be, I guess that's probably what I thought it would be.
Uh so yeah.
Oh well, I have I I have fun. I hope you guys have fun. Thank you for being here.
By the way, uh I'm looking at my list of things we have not talked about. We've talked about Gwennifer Raymond.
I'm g talk about my dumb question of the week.
There we go.
Uh, beginner guitar lessons. I saw your name in the chat. Thanks for being here.
Beginner guitar lessons. Encouraging everybody to throw a like our way. We got a bunch of you watching. Uh, for whatever reason, uh, YouTube doesn't let me like my own live stream while I'm doing it. YouTube wants me to like keep working on it. Hey, you know what?
My accountant would love it if I promoted my books as fast. This is for you, accountant.
Uh I wrote nine books in five years. And I'm not telling you that because uh for any reason except I got nine books and uh the uh to me the real interesting thing is uh the fact that I wrote them mostly while on duty as an EMT.
Uh you know is a small town um without too much gunfire uh uh not too much uh horse play. So, a lot of times I'd be sitting just waiting for a call to come in, uh, either in the ambulance barn or at the local public library, which happened to be just right next to the ambulance barn. And so, I'd be sitting there with my little portable radio, uh, writing these books. Um, and for the most part, that's how a lot of them got written. I was an EMT for four years.
So, yeah. Um, now you know, now you know. So, what did I write? Uh, the Strum Pattern Bible.
Get yourself a copy of the Strum Pattern Bible. uh dozens of strumming and fingerpicking approaches with famous songs as examples. Nothing theoretical, nothing that's like, oh, this Jonathan thinks this sounds nice.
Nigh nigh where it's a long way from Christmas.
That's the point. Get yourself a copy of the Christmas song book.
31 Christmas songs presented three different ways. simple melody, simple chords, or a merger of chords and melody put together. Now is the time to get yourself a copy of the Christmas song book so you can be ready for Christmas.
Right? What I am showing you here, these are all available as electronic books.
In fact, they're only available as electronic books. Uh you're welcome to print them out. It costs too much for me to print them out and then ship them.
It's just so much faster for you to buy them. You get them emailed to you instantly and you can print them out if you want to. You can print out one page at a time. You don't have to print them out at all. Uh I'm very proud of my book for beginner beginners. My series for beginner beginners. The guitar week one, the guitar month one, the guitar year one. If you feel like you're a beginner, but you're not sure which is the right one for you, backtrack. Get the year one. If anything in there totally doesn't make sense, backtrack to month one. If anything there doesn't make sense, backtrack to week one. The week one is written for people who literally just got a guitar or maybe don't even have a guitar yet. Oh, if you know somebody who is about to start playing the guitar or they just did, I recommend these books. You don't have to know how to read music. You don't have to know anything. This is these are written for beginner beginners. Uh but I'm very proud of this series. All these are available as electronic books. They don't come in the mail. They come in your email and they're available for you at song-bike.com.
Um Debbie's asking any new books. I wish the um I have a list of uh songs for volume two of the chord melody song book and uh I I like writing books so much. Uh I I can't wait to do it. I I wish that was my like day job. Um because it's so fun.
Um uh so there will be a volume two for sure. Um because of all the written material that I spend time writing, you know, whether it's in a book or lesson plans, whatever, taking famous songs and arranging them to be played as a solo guitar player with chords and melody, my favorite thing 100%. So that's a good lead into this book. Ah, these songs are not that hard. Uh everything from Georgia on my mind, Moon River, Silent Night, uh Turn the Page from Bob Seager, Yesterday by the Beatles, After the Gold Rush by Neil Young. Uh 30 songs with a video. All these books have videos that you know are available written out in chord melody style. So you're like a one-person band. You are playing chords at times, but you're also playing melody notes in between the chords, and it all adds up. Oh, it sounds so good.
Love that book. Uh, the one that started them all off, the DCG trick. Uh, for whatever reason, that is my big viral video. The one that has, uh, the most the most millions of views. Um, uh, the DCG trick famous bands did with easy chords. Now, this one, uh, I'm going to rewrite this one. Uh, if only because I can make everything I my computer skills are so much better.
This is the first one I ever did, and it it came out okay. Um, I mean, the content is great, but the uh layout I just I'm I'm better at presenting stuff now. Um, but it's still a very hip thing. All the things you can do with DCMG specifically though, specifically for those of you who have come this far, but you're not aware that I I am the father of DCG. If nothing else, that's that's what I you know, regular D, the C, that's often called C add9, and then what I call four finger G because there's no better name for it.
An awful lot of songs are based on specifically that group of three chords.
And so I made a video about that. The video went viral. Uh and I let about seven years go by and I thought maybe I'll write a book to go with the video.
Um anyway, so that's that. And then uh the free one, the free electronic book, the song Bike Blues Guide. That's free. A lot of you have that already. I believe we're over 500 of those are out there in circulation. Everything I just talked about are not real books. They're electronic books that get emailed to you. If you want a real book, well, well, well, I got you. I got you. My hell letter publication called Easy Guitar Chord and Lead Tricks by Me. Uh, this one is real paper. I personally put this in a stiff brown envelope and mail it to you. Uh, and this has a bunch of things for rhythm guitar and league guitar. A lot of it is relatively easy, but even for those of you who are pretty experienced players, there's going to be a handful of things in here that you never thought of before. A handful of things that you might not have um come across, such as uh these are all known as tricks. the Dorian mode trick, the melodic shuffle trick, the open string blues trick, the B trick, the A to D trick, uh the E minor 7 trick. A lot of good things. All right, Sam's pitch over. Uh Joseph is asking a question.
Joseph says, "When is your next gig?"
Thank you for asking, Joseph. June 6.
June 6. Uh myself, Clay, and Johnny. Johnny the drummer. for sure it's gonna be the three of us playing at a small little cafe. Um, and it's uh June 6, which I think is a Saturday night, which means uh we will not be doing this live stream on June 6, but my intention is to stream the gig. Uh, yep. It's a Saturday night, so June 6 should be fun. Uh, it's not going to be a fancy schmancy live stream, lots of different camera angles or anything like that. Um, but uh we're going to do our best to get the sound and the picture great.
So, that's the next gig. We have another gig in July, another gig in August. Uh, and uh we have new songs in the works. Um, for those of you who might have missed it, uh, we have, hold on here, we we played for you guys a few weeks back, March, we played a bunch of original tunes. A lot of you guys tuned in, which I'm very grateful for. Uh, but in case some of you missed it, uh, here's a link. I'm going to put this Let's see how this works. There we go.
I'll put this link in the in the uh chat right now. Let's see what I do.
All right. The songs are written uh by myself and uh my buddy Clay. Uh sometimes he wrote more of one song, sometimes I wrote more of one song. Uh but um super super fun. So I just put the link to that in the chat. Uh in case you missed it or in case you want to see it some more. Uh it's it's short. We did six songs in 33 minutes. That was very important to us to not waste anybody's time. Let's bang out these songs, man.
Uh, and uh, it came out well. Uh, we can't wait to do it again because we learned a bunch of stuff and we got all of our nerves out, you know, up until the last minute. There little technical things that we've had to overcome. Uh, and we did. Uh, but now we now that we've done it once, you know that we can't wait to do it again. Um, so there you go. Thanks for asking Joseph about that. Uh, Schubert, thanks for checking in from Evston, Illinois. Evston, Illinois.
Hawkeye music. Uh Schu Schubert, hopefully you you go up to Hogy Music sometimes on central uh central street and say hi to Jim at Hogy Music. I that's the first place I ever taught lessons. I taught lessons essentially for 10 years. Well, yeah. Yeah. For 10 years. Um down in the basement. I've come a long way now. I have have windows.
Oh, it's raining. Well, we knew it was going to rain. you guys having spring weather where you are.
Uh if you're passing through the Chicago area or if you happen to live in the Chicago area, definitely make a visit to Hogy Music, Evston, Illinois. Tell Jim I said hi. Uh call first. Make sure they're open. Uh um I don't know what his exact hours are now. Very very It doesn't get cooler than Hawkeye music.
Uh acoustic instruments, uh guitars, banjos, mandolins. Uh just a very hip place. Uh a lot of guitar repairs um happened there and um and yeah, the bulk of my young adulthood was spent in that basement teaching 40 lessons a week. 50 half hour lessons, man. Banging them out down the basement, paying my dues. Uh you know, good times. I was a I was a inexperienced teacher. My heart was in the right place. And and sometimes that's all you have. Your heart is in the right place and the rest you learn on the job. Does that sound familiar? Is that ring any bells? Uh yeah. Yeah.
Um hey uh Debbie, you were asking about new books. I had another idea. And this is not as um not as uh a book of warm-ups, a book of exercises.
I'm trying to think of the right word.
Um, it's not like, hey, here's a blues book. Here's a such and such, you know.
Uh, but I I want to I want to do something and I keep coming up with more and more um great exercises. Well, mostly I learned them from other guitar teachers, different books and stuff. And so I can picture myself at some point compiling like my favorite 20 or something in into a book. And it'll probably be another freebie. Like the blues book is is free on my website song-bike.com.
Uh so it would probably be another freebie. Uh I think um you know a book I mean have to come up with a great title because if I if I just said you know guitar exercises I I wouldn't buy that book. Well I I actually I probably would but you know I got to come up with a a good title. Um, but it'll be full of stuff, including the the kind of stuff we do here. Uh, the scales and arpeggios and like that.
Um, in case you missed it, we did a cool double hammer on thing in the beginning of tonight's live stream.
Uh, so I could foresee myself doing that. I want to do another freebie. And at the moment, that's that's one idea I had. Uh, hey, checking with the poll. If you haven't voted in the poll, I encourage you to. Uh the poll question of the night was uh are there any good new songs by new artists? And uh I'm I'm so so happy you guys are, you know, pretty open-minded. Only 9% say no. And hey, you have a right to your opinion.
I'm not saying I'm not even saying that you're well, I guess I am saying that you're wrong. Um, but I I like I said, the music that you know and love that you've listened to for decades, there's nothing that's going to top that for you as a listener, and I feel the same way.
I mean, my favorite stuff, there's nothing that's topping my favorite stuff. But, um, there's a lot of stuff that I really I really like out there.
Uh, 53% are saying, "Honestly, I have no idea if there's any good new songs.
There any good new songs by new artists?" 38% are saying yes. Yes, there are uh good songs by new young artists. So yeah. Okay. Hey uh you guys, how about if we do one more uh teaching thing? Oh, this would be a a a quick one. Um this is another one that for the life of me I I think we did this before and if we didn't, great. But if if I show it to you and you're like, "Wait, that looks familiar." Well, that's good, too. Uh, recently, I've been reaching back into uh into the bag of stuff that we've been doing for almost two years now here in the live stream. And I'm bringing back some of the lesson plans that uh I think are worth it. And I mean, I I wish I could say every single one of them is worth review. I mean, they are, but some of them really stand out in my mind as an important thing to be comfortable with or familiar with. Okay, so for our last thing tonight, I appreciate you guys sticking around. Uh, what you're looking at here is a lesson plan 251 chord progressions. Uh, those of you who are songwriters, this is a great way to write a song.
meaning you take something that you has been vetted, you know, a chord sequence that the world has already decided sounds great, it's appealing, uh the chords are not particularly hard, and you use that as a as a at a minima as a way to start a new song. You know, uh I see a little delay here. Hope you guys are hearing and seeing this. Okay, my computer's moving a little bit slowly here.
Okay, that seems better now. Uh, those of you who aren't necessarily into being songwrit, you definitely want to be familiar with these chord sequences because you're going to see them a lot and some of them you've seen them already. Uh, so I'll tell you about the name. We'll get into the nitty-gritty, the music theory in a minute, but let's just play through them for a second. A minor to D7. Notice that pointer finger can just stay right there. A minor to D7. My pointer finger didn't move.
to G.
And if you listen carefully, you hear a certain amount of tension and then resolution on that G chord. A minor, A minor going to D7 leaves you feeling that something is unresolved, right? A minor to D7.
And you can hear the resolution. It's going to happen on the skinny first string.
You go to the G, especially if you know you call your attention to that skinny first string.
How about E minor to A7 to D? In fact, if you did E minor with your first two fingers and A7 with your first two fingers, then those same two fingers just keep hopping over for the D chord. It's a convenient way to do it.
Now, I'm whipping through these. If I were writing a song, I might stay on that E minor chord for a little while, right? There's no rush to get to the A7, right? Take as much time as you want. You're the writing the song, right?
>> You could sing anything with a D minor. You could keep saying with the E minor and then change to the A7, but don't go to the D too soon, baby. Now go to D. Okay. So, you can take as much time as you want with those. Uh D minor. Poor D minor. D minor hasn't done anything to bother anybody, but without a doubt, D minor does not get the attention or the love that the other popular chords do. It's a perfectly popular important chord. Uh D minor index finger is going to stay on the uh first string when you go to the G7.
Now, that is kind of a big jump. D minor and then middle and ring reaching way over to G7. When you stretch across with the G7, it's very important that the index finger, that note is audible on the on the G7.
That's where the tension comes from. In this case, it comes from that specific note of a G7 chord.
Ah, there's the C. Tension from the G7 resolution on the C. Music is nothing but tension and resolution. I heard someone say, and I think it's a great a great uh quote. Um, so uh you can treat this page simply as a chord workout. Great.
You could use it as a you know a songwriting start. Great. Uh, you might recognize some songs in here as you strum or as I was strumming. You might recognize like, wait a minute, that sounds like such and such. And you're probably right. Uh, by the way, if you are inclined to write songs for this stuff, don't forget by putting a capo on. Um, you you can be in any key you want, right? Uh, I chose these three keys, by the The top one is the key of G. The middle one is the key of D like dog. And the bottom one is uh key of C.
C like Charlie Beagle. Uh but you can do these in any key with the help of a capo, you know. Um remember I said there's 12 keys in music. I chose these three keys because these chords are pretty easy, right? Um okay. Uh where does this name come from? Why why is this called a 251 chord progression?
Uh, these are quick nicknames. Some people call this the Nashville numbering system. It was not invented in Nashville to my knowledge, but it's something that musicians, Nashville studio musicians were known to rely on. Um, and maybe they relied on it so much that uh they got the reputation for relying on it. But in case you ever hear someone refer to the Nashville numbering system, this is an example of that. This whole referring to these as 251s. Okay. So, look up at the top of the page. The reason the two is lowercase is because typically the two chord is a minor chord. So, they make it lowerase. Uh the five chord, see how it's it's the Roman numeral five, but there's a little teeny tiny seven next to it. That's because the five chord in this case, let's say D7 in example one. The five chord is often played as a seven. How you doing with that? A five chord played as a seven. Instead of playing just D major, you play D7. It's you're not obligated to if you're if you're the one writing the song, but just know that's an option. You could play just D major or D7. D7 has that built-in tension. D the D major doesn't have that tension, but it's your song.
You could play the D major and then later the D7 and then ultimately end up on the G. Um, and uh the real significance is the fact that the G chord is nicknamed the one chord. So, what's what are we talking about? Why twos and fives and ones?
uh the every song is in a certain key. The chord that shares the name of the key is nicknamed the one chord. If the song is in the key of G, then the G chord is called the one chord. Once we make those determinations, then everything flows from there. If, and this is a big if, if the song is in the key of G, then the G major scale is the relevant scale to begin our discussion. uh the G major scale, the note A is the second note. Therefore, the A minor chord is nicknamed the two chord. That's all. The note D is the fifth note. Therefore, the D chord or the D7 chord is nicknamed the five chord. That's all. And the 251 chord progression is a classic chord progression that's been used in many, many, many styles of music. Classical, rock and roll, you name it. Uh it's just it's been vetted. So, that's why I'm saying for you songwriters out there, you should write a song with a 251 chord progression. Especially if you want your songs to not all sound the same, then use this, right? Uh, one more tip for those of you who are songwriters. Say you want to use those first group of chords, the A minor to D7 to G as your song. I got it, Jonathan.
Okay, you can stop talking about that. I get it. Those chords sound good. Let me go write my song. The song doesn't have to start on A minor. You can start on G and then go to A minor and then D7 and back to G. Um, the 251 chord progression, think of it as a as a phrase, as something that you can insert in the middle of a song, in the middle of a core progression. Um, but instead of just inserting one chord, you're inserting three chords, you know, but you don't have to start on the A minor chord. You're welcome to, but the important thing is that sooner or later your song gets the A minor and then for sure it goes to D7 or D major after the A minor and then for sure it ends up on the G chord. So the premise here is that we're in the key of G. G is the main chord. Um, and that grouping is important, but the song doesn't have to start on A minor.
You know, Joseph, I see what you're saying about Yeah. G7. How you can get away with G7 and just fret the skinny string and then avoid the two fat strings. Now you have a one finger.
G7.
I had to add in a little vibbrd. Your ears are not going crazy. I just add a little vibra.
Oo, I'm a sucker for vra. What can I say?
Yeah.
All right. What do you think?
I'm good. If you're good, we did it. We did it. Take that off the screen. Uh, what else can I tell you? I don't know.
I hope you have a great weekend. I hope you uh I hope you hope your Sunday goes exactly the way you want to go. Better for better, for worse. I hope it's exactly what you think it's going to be with no surprises. Last Sunday I worked outside, I worked inside and then I fell asleep, man. Massive nap. Oh, it felt so good. And then had band practice Sunday night, which is Clay and I just having fun. Uh, band practice. Oh, but man, checked all the boxes. Worked outside, worked inside, took a nap. Oh, knock on wood, tomorrow will go just as well.
Uh, I'm gonna say a few good nights. Uh, Maliban, thanks for joining us. Randy, Debbie, Joseph, thanks for being here.
RB DAC Poet, thanks for being here.
Stephen, uh, who else do I see in the Chaz, thank you for your super chats, everybody. I appreciate that. Uh, Charlie, Jamie, thanks for being here, everybody. Uh, next week, we're finally into the month of May. Woohoo. Uh, May 2nd, next Saturday. All right, sounds good. Our final poll results, uh, final poll results. The question was, are there any good new songs by new artists?
38% yes, there are. 9% no. 53% say I have no idea. All right, that's very honest. All right, you guys, on that note, I'm going to end that poll. Uh, thanks for being here. I hope you had fun. I sure did. Have a great week. I hope spring is coming to your neighborhood. I'll see you next month, next Saturday. Uh, have a great week.
Hope you have lots of time to play the guitar. Hope you have a great Sunday.
And, uh, let's do this all again next time. Thanks everybody. My weekend begins now.
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