Paul Davids is such a likeable guy. Good musician, guitarist, video producer - he has a knack for how many words are too many - and are too few. I've been watching him for years, right back to when he was in his old house...yeah, he started his youtube channel 4 years after me... He has a quirky accent to boot.
Anyway, he talked about Never Going Back Again, the fantastic (Fleetwood Mac) Lindsey Buckingham fingerstyle piece. From one of the best albums of all time, "Rumours". It's a complicated piece, and I'd meddled with it decades ago, but never really bothered to properly learn it. It's one of those pieces that is already completely full, there's no room to add the melody on top - although Kelly Valleau did with a slightly modified tuning.
I haven't felt the need to learn something complete rote for a long time. But Paul Davids put out a challenge, so I am learning it completely from the sheet. Paul was nice enough to include tab portions on his video which I bashed into musescore, now it's just play play play until it gets into your head. It is within my capabilities, and I can play all the phrases. But there a big problem, which he did point out, and I also experienced while arranging and learning "The Great Gig in the Sky"...you have to hold strange bar chords for long times.
Now you can only really hold constant bar chords for a few minutes at a time, which isn't really enough time to get the Travis picking polyrhythm funky chord positions that the song is into your noggin.
The end result I had with "The Great Gig in the Sky" is play it every time you pick up the guitar, after a few months it will go in. Luckily this song is repetition of the same and similar phrases, so there is less to learn and you can go through the whole thing more then once in a sitting.
So it shouldn't take me months 👍
