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Listen to Guitar Crew Play Faded Love
Last night wrapped up the Late Winter 2025 session of Guitar Crew. The Crew was made up of five guitar players with experiences ranging from less than a year to many years.
We finished by recording our own arrangement of Bob Wills’ Faded Love. This is a recording of the five members of this sessions’ Crew. I’m accompanying on percussion.
We covered many skills and concepts this session. Some of those topics, which you can hear in this arrangement, were:
- Basic chords changes
- Learning songs by ear
- The hows and whys of playing songs in different keys
- Knowing our roots and 5ths of each chord and using that to play alternating bass strums
- Working with the major scale and using that to create bass walks in between chord changes
- Singing and playing at the same time.
- Playing the chord changes in different locations on the guitar, either with “mini shapes” or using a capo.
- Ensemble playing (play strong and also make room for the other musicians)
- Playing a melody and improvising over chord changes
Here’s Guitar Crew with
Faded Love
In class, we work together to make the arrangements of the songs we play. These are the notes from our arrangement of Faded Love. I think it sounds so good! Congratulations, Guitar Crew!
The Early Spring session of Guitar Crew begins in mid-March. We’d love to have you be part of the Crew! Send me a note if you have anyquestions.
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Guitar Crew: Group Guitar Class
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For Beginning Improvisers – Chan Chan from Buena Vista Social Club
A student has been working on this awesome song and learning to both improvise on her own, and to transcribe the improvisations of others.
I made a simple recording that she could upload to an app that we use to slow down, and repeat certain parts of a recording. If you load the recording I made into such an app, the changes of the song play over and over. That is a great way to practice your improvising!
This song is in D minor, and for this exercise we’re using just the notes of the D minor pentatonic scale.
D F G A C
The accompanying graphic shows one location of those notes on the guitar, bu those notes are all over the guitar, too. Find those notes anywhere and improvise a new melody over these very fun changes.
Enjoy!
This is my simple recording.
This is the app we use to make the track repeat over and over. I really like it, but there are a lot of different similar apps. I’m sure you’ll find one you like.
