Western Kentucky invades Music City!

[corndogggy]

A friend of mine that I grew up two houses down from is an amazing keyboard/piano player and he's in a band called StraydAway and will be playing as the feature act at a club called Fuel in Nashville on March 31 if anybody is interested. I'm going to try to go. Actually Mike is also the best guitar player I know, but supposedly the other guys in the band are even better so he plays keyboard.
Another western KY band called 69 South will also be there, whom I know are really good, they play with the Paducah weather man here in town. Both these bands are from Dawson Springs.
Another guy called Ray Ligon from Madisonville will also be there. I don't know much about him but you can hear his music on myspace.com.
Actually all these guys have MySpace pages that you can listen to their music and all of them sound good if you like that kind of music, kind of like country with a rock feel.

http://www.myspace.com/69south
http://www.myspace.com/ray_ligon
http://www.myspace.com/straydaway2006

[Highbow]

How you doing on that new Ovation Corndog? I guess the daughter is blowing you out of the house on her strings. I'm still a long way from where I want to be on the guitar.

[corndogggy]

How you doing on that new Ovation Corndog? I guess the daughter is blowing you out of the house on her strings. I'm still a long way from where I want to be on the guitar.

My daughter got burned out unfortunately. She took lessons for a year then I tried to personally help her and she never could get past playing 5 or 6 chords very slowly and sloppily. So, she's not playing much anymore.

Personally, I've accomplished what I set out to do, being that I can play along using the chords on most songs that I know but I'm kind of at a plateau, kind of stuck on a low-intermediate level. Most recently been playing "she talks to angels" by the black crowes and John Denver's Rocky Mountain High. I've gotten coordinated enough that I can sing along too, as long as the strum pattern isn't too complex. I can play some solos, the ones that are on the level of "what I got" by Sublime, but I can't do anything more complex at this time. So yeah, I'm still having fun with it.

[Xi Bowhunter]

I'll bet it's going to be a great show.

[Highbow]

Maybe the girl will try later, glad you are getting it together. I'm still taking a few lessons, got a lot of chords and slow speed changing on some, power chords pretty wells. Trying to get the hang of finger pickin Simple Man, playing lead to Down On THe Corner and strumming the chords too. I'm finding a few riffs easy to play and learning more each week. Dueling Banjos is a fun easy one and right Susie Q is a hard one I'm tryin to get through.
Good Luck

[corndogggy]

playing lead to Down On THe Corner and strumming the chords too.

That was actually the first song I learned on a normal guitar. I used to play bass guitar so stuff like that is really easy for me. I kind of had a head start... played bass for 3 years or so and I've had about 11 years worth of music lessons. :D But yeah, anything with a halfway slow single note riff like Down on the Corner, crap, it's just back to bass guitar for me.

Hey, here is a list that I sent my manager of songs that I learned at first that are pretty easy, maybe some of them would stand out for you and would be something fun for you to play. Most of these are excellent for beginners and I've categorized them based off of difficulty. Hope this helps. :cool:

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Songs with “power chords” the whole way through….
Everclear – Santa Monica
Rick Springfield – Jesse’s Girl
Weezer – Beverly Hills
Bush – Glycerine
Green Day - whatsername


Basic chords…
Green Day – Time of your Life (G, C, D… (chorus) E minor, D, C, G…)
Jimmy Buffet – brown eyed girl (G, C, D)
John Cougar Mellencamp – Jack and Diane (A, E, D)
Dave Matthews – Lie in our graves (D chord, then some simple single notes I’d have to show you)
Violent Femmes – Held her in my arms (A, D)
Hootie and the Blowfish – I’m going home (E, B, A, E… (chorus) E, B, D, A… the solo is easy too)





Slightly harder stuff:
Jack Johnson (Hawaiian… cross between Dave Matthews and Buffett) - http://www.jackjohnsonmusic.com/main.asp?page=music.asp?Navid=7 (http://www.jackjohnsonmusic.com/main.asp?page=music.asp?Navid=7)
Flake (I’d have to show you... D minor, F, and B flat I think)
Bubble Toes (G, C, D, but has a more complex strum pattern)
Mud Football (I forget, but it’s only 2 or 3 chords, probably D, C and G)


CCR – down on the corner (G, C, F… bunch of single bass line notes)
David Lee Murphy - dust on the bottle (B, F#, E, B, G#, F#, E)
Violent Femmes – American Music (C, F bar chord, G bar chord… (chorus) A minor, E minor, F, G)

Really hard:
Lynrd Skynrd – Sweet Home Alabama (D, C, and G, but pluck the strings separately… you can strum it though and it sounds good, but then there’s solos and other crap)