The band had a rehearsal last night. I recorded the whole thing again. Know something? I am not a good guitar player. I listened back and it was just painful. There were times when I sucked worse than I did on the first day I picked up the instrument. I’m actually in the process of drafting formal letters of apology to the artists who wrote the songs that I demolished last night. The first one goes to Greg Kihn. There were two Aerosmith songs that were especially molested too, but I really hate that band so they don’t get letters. Yeah, screw them.
That stupid Greg Kihn song is going to haunt me forever. The Breakup Song. Ridiculously simple. It has a little arpeggiated phrase that opens up the song and then pops in and out over time. When I first decided to join the band it was on the list of songs they wanted me to do. I’d never played it before, but in one listen I knew it was Amin -> Fmaj ->Gmaj and the picking pattern and fingering was pretty straightforward. I ran through it once or twice, then played it at my first band practice and all was well. Fast forward a month or two and I decided I could maybe play it a little cleaner. I went online to find some guitar tabs (music cheat sheets for guitarists who can’t read music. I can read music, I’m just lazy so I cheat and use tabs). I found a couple and set out to learn one of them. It made the song 10000000000000 times harder. I stuck with it for about a week and then canned it and went back to my old fingerings… and now I can’t f#$%^&g play my old fingerings either. Argh! I hate it when I suck up an easy song! Damn it!
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