[cowparsleyman]

Heres a little tune for @PaulyX who rememberers me playing this a while ago...

Hope you dig it, it aint rock n roll but sure is a lovely so g from the early 1700’s

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Any questions just let me know, apologies for the poor video, audio but not the bum notes as it’s rather tricky...

[Wicked Deeds]

Respect, I can see how tricky this is to play. I love playing classical guitars. They are quite unique and demand to be played in a classical style.

Paul

[pompeyjazz]

Excellent Rich 

[cowparsleyman]

Thanks for listening, it’s not meant to be serious this vid thing, just offering something a little different...It makes one think differently about playing...a way away from the traditional pentatonic shapes so often found as the basis of so many rock licks.

It’s liberating

[5 guys named Lars]

Blimey Rich, thats great. Could you send me the chords so I can play it too?  Brilliant stuff man.

[cowparsleyman]

Thanks larses...snigger snigger...

Well it starts off with a D7 then a Bm7 then there’s a bits faffing around then it ends...there is some very odd use of the low E string mind you....

Hope this helps

Jose’ parsleymanana

[CaliaMoko]

Huffda...that was fun to watch and hear. I just searched for "extremely easy classical guitar music" so I could try something on a much simpler level. Maybe I'll even keep a video record of my progress....

[cowparsleyman]

@CaliaMoko - hope your headache didn’t get worse....

Thanks for your encouragement Vicky...there are quite a few easy to play classical pieces, ai can recommend a book by Frederick Noad some lovely short etudes in there and a short Bach piece in the early pages, some of my favourites in there.

Also jesu joy of mans desiring can be easy or extremely hard.. take your pick.

When I watch it again it looks like Im fighting it not caressing it...well it is 9 years since I played it seriously.

Ill try and dig out a link to. A great version by a Chinese bird wearing a skirt made out of a curtain

[CaliaMoko]

@cowparsleyman ... My headache improved when I took off the headphones. They're too tight, I guess.

I'll check for that book at the local music store; I'll probably go shopping tomorrow. I did get some hits from my "extremely easy" search, although I'm not sure I agree they're extremely easy. I did start practicing one. Opus 60 No 1 In C Major by Fernando Sor. It's written out in tab form, which I'm not accustomed to reading, but I'm catching on faster than I expected. The problem with that is, I'm not learning the NOTES on the guitar. I know A (2nd fret, 3rd string) up through C (1st string) pretty well, but the lower ones, not at all. Although I can play the C major scale from C on the low A string up through that C and back down. Not too fast, though. And my brain isn't saying the note names as I go, so it's like I don't actually know what notes I'm playing as I play them. Although I know it's the C major scale, so how can I not know what notes I'm playing???

Chinese bird wearing a skirt made out of a curtain? I need to see that....

[cowparsleyman]

At last ...found it...

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There’s a great book on how to learn reading the dots for guitar published by Hal Leonard...

[Kafla]

Really beautiful man 😍😍😍😍

[cowparsleyman]

@Kafla - Yeah you don't get curtain material like that anymore 

[Kafla]

Bach and legendary curtain material...what more could you want 

[Jamie]

Nice playing Rich, I think your second version with the black wig on was better.......
Jamie

[cowparsleyman]

@jamie Ni Hao, me old cocker.