Ah, seeing Naudo post this old classic again made me get out my guitar and noodle: Naudo Angie
I wrote down some of the notes I was hearing, and added some extras I wanted to hear, but left out some that I couldn't hear... or play. Here's some scribble, I'm not sure if I will take this on, so I'm posting this just in case I don't!
I haven't done a word cloud for ages, let's look at one generated by https://wordart.com/create for my 2022 posts!
The big stand out words come from the work I did on guitar necks and nuts this year.
"Album" features because of a huge article I wrote - and have edited numerous times - about the albums that have influenced me.
My article on swing made it no surprise that the word "swing" got a high rating. Yah to swing!
"Play" and "guitar" - I'd be disappointed if they weren't there. I was happy to see the word "just" didn't crack a mention. I just say "just" just too much!
Yep, it all sounds like me. "Good Play Go!" "Make Album Right!" "One More Nut!" "Now Song Guitar Another Classic Need!"
JAW
A few weeks back I discussed my lunchtime office playing with a work mate, and mentioned that I had a stalker - someone who I'd seen a few times, sitting in a booth at the very back mostly hidden, never saying anything. He asked if I played any stacker songs. I immediately thought "Every Breath You Take", but as the internet shows there have been quite a few stalker songs written. And then The Algorithm got me - when I next looked at my Youtube feed up came Gabriella's recent version of "Any Breath You Take". She played it in a style similar to how I would play it, so I picked up the guitar and had a crack.
I started on a G chord which was what I heard in my head. The chord progression turned out to be the basic doo-wap (Stand By Me chord progression) so G - Em - C - D. But wait! There are super tasty 2nd intervals in there, which come through loud and clear in the studio recording guitar riff. My understanding is we refer to them a Major Ninths - I guess if you played a G with the A two semitones up it would sound bad, but if you play the G and the A an octave + two semitones up it sounds delicious. What made me even happier with that is the Em becomes Em add 9 which is The Pink Floyd Chord, the first chord on the Dark Side of the Moon Album. Happy days!
When I looked back at Gabriella's version, I noticed she started on A. Ah, interesting. I then looked it up and the actual song starts on Ab. Too late, I had my heart set on G so I could play The Pink Floyd Chord :-) I didn't look at Gabriella's version again, but thanks for inspiring me Gabby!
It took under a week to arrange it "JAW style" learn it and memorise it, it is now in my Friday rotation, ready for any stalkers I might have. "Oh that beautiful wedding song!" "You mean that creepy stalker song?"
I really need to record some songs for you all don't I. Tell you what, for now, grab your guitar and play the intro as a primer:
JAW
Thanks to https://www.htmlwasher.com/ for having a html cleaner that thinks the same as I do. I probably should stop writing in html but it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
Thanks also to https://www.hooktheory.com/ for some interesting and well laid out insights into this song!
