Canard
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A friend sent me a link to video of a UCLA trio, The Ladies of the Roach Motel, doing a cover of the CSN song, Helplessly Hoping. It was of a talented amateur quality with a minimalist strummed guitar part--no Travis picking. Nice enough in its own way.
But in the side bar I noticed this dude giving a tutorial for the song on a Guild dread. The guy has a good instructional touch, slow and patient.
It is a beautiful, heartfelt song with a melody you can't kill with a baseball bat. I understand that it is a Stills composition--Stills is the Harlequin helplessly hoping, while he uncomprehendingly watches his relationship with Judy Collins disintegrate.
The wonderful guitar part, even with the Travis picking, is relatively low tech and should be accessible even for a determined and hard working beginner, or so I think. Standard tuning. Easy key for guitar. Easy hammer-ons. Mostly first position chords (with one momentary barre chord if memory serves). Complexity is not a prerequisite for a good guitar piece. Talent and imagination are always more important.
But in the side bar I noticed this dude giving a tutorial for the song on a Guild dread. The guy has a good instructional touch, slow and patient.
It is a beautiful, heartfelt song with a melody you can't kill with a baseball bat. I understand that it is a Stills composition--Stills is the Harlequin helplessly hoping, while he uncomprehendingly watches his relationship with Judy Collins disintegrate.
The wonderful guitar part, even with the Travis picking, is relatively low tech and should be accessible even for a determined and hard working beginner, or so I think. Standard tuning. Easy key for guitar. Easy hammer-ons. Mostly first position chords (with one momentary barre chord if memory serves). Complexity is not a prerequisite for a good guitar piece. Talent and imagination are always more important.
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