Whatcha playin' on your 'gull this summer?

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Permalink Reply by Dave Fengler on July 27, 2012 at 10:06am

I consider myself an advanced beginner.  I have the Mark Hanson books, all I have to do is have the time to open them.

I've been working on The Band Perry's Postcard From Paris.  It has some very nice sounds chords that my Gull makes sound even better.  

I had been working on The Beatles Yesterday (standard D tuning).  I sort of had most of it down but I got to the bridge and lost interest.

Permalink Reply by Jud Hair on July 27, 2012 at 10:07am

I just learned this one by John Prine called "Angel from Montgomery" ... I really enjoy playing it "travis picked" on my Seagull Artist Mosaic or strummed on my Taylor 12 :-) 

 

 

Permalink Reply by Ian Miller on July 27, 2012 at 10:40pm

Hey Jud,

That's a good one,going to have to try it out!

Permalink Reply by CaliGull on July 28, 2012 at 12:03am

I love that song!

Permalink Reply by Phil Manuel on July 28, 2012 at 12:30am

I do that tune too, also Hello In There.

Townes - Pancho and Lefty, Gypsy Friday, If You Needed Me, For the Sake of the Song

Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue, Boots of Spanish Leather, Girl of the North Country, and When I Paint My Masterpiece

Blaze Foley - Clay Pigeons

Neil Young - Old Man, Cowgirl in the Sand, and Tell Me Why

Deep Ellum Blues, Dark Hollow, Don't Let Your Deal Go Down

I've been playing around with my parlor guitar, tuning it down a whole step, which just makes it growl.  I'll try to record a vid of my version of Robert Johnson's 32-20 Blues.  I do it as an instrumental rather than sing the lyrics, though.

Permalink Reply by Jud Hair on July 28, 2012 at 6:27am

Phil ... We have very similar play lists ... ;-)

Permalink Reply by Jason Derrick on July 30, 2012 at 1:02pm

Me too. :-)

Permalink Reply by Dan Benson on July 27, 2012 at 10:41am

Mother's Tears by Peppino D'Agostino. The tuning is EBEGAD. D'Agostino, of course, wrote and performs this on his Seagull dreadnought. I tried playing it on all of my guitars, but it sounds a little thin of my Coastline Folk, it just doesn't sound right on long scale Yamahas (maybe psychological?), but this song played on my S6 (with its screaming harmonics) will rip your heart right out of your chest.

Permalink Reply by Michael Swift on July 27, 2012 at 11:14am

I've been stuck on Bill Withers for a while now. Some Sunday morning Blues show came on the radio and played "Use Me". I was so stuck on it. Just two chords with a great bass line. E7#9 to an A7, but because it is down the neck at the 7th it is very easy to move all over the guitar for fill ins.

And the song is infectious!!!!!!!!!! Played it out 3 or 4 times now and everybody starts whoopin' and clappin'!!!!!! Simple but complicated enough.

Love it!

Michael

Permalink Reply by CaliGull on July 27, 2012 at 11:17am

@Michael:  "I said brother if you only knew you'd wish that you were in my shoes
You just keep on using me until you use me up"  :))))))

Permalink Reply by Michael Swift on July 27, 2012 at 11:24am

I said Baby, (Clap) Baby (Clap,Clap)Baby da Baby! When you love me I can't get enough!!!!

Man I love that song!!!

@Jud - There is a really bad recording of "With or Without You" that I did on my You Tube page at "mijoswift". I am re-doing my music room and hope to put some more up there this weekend. Mr Withers will be up there Too!!!!

Permalink Reply by Jud Hair on July 27, 2012 at 11:16am

Hey folks ... how about pulling out the iPhone or whatever recording device you have and putting some of these up on Youtube for the rest of us to enjoy.   We need some more stuff on the "Member Performance" page!  :-)

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