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!