What's happening April 2020

The Virus has hurt the local music industry - anyone who was playing gigs can't, music lessons, stopped - it's not good. Aside from the loss in income, musicians need to play to audiences, it's what they do! I noticed a Perth local musician, Courtney Murphy, set up a live stream. The first once had techical issues but the wife and I tuned in for the second attempt. Somehow they had grabbed the reveley room at Perth Arena, their setup was nice, just Courntey and his drummer mate Chris. Courntey is the proverbial "paino man", will play piano and sing pretty much whatever you ask him to play.

I'm doing okay during The Vrius, so I threw him a $20 into his paypal and requested "INXS Never Tear Us Apart" which I figured he's be able to play.  Which he did, very nicely. (By the way Chris - you gotta sign harmonies man! ;-)) Skip to time stamp 1:19:00 for my mention:


Meanwhile, I heard another one of my youtube mates play "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and that was enough to make me finally have a crack.  I've spent a few hours with it so far, and have written it out in musescore, it needs a few last things added.  It's based on a few other arrangements, what I hear in my head, and around my usual style.

While My Guitar Gentle Weeps demo: