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I recently began teaching piano to someone that’s been asking me about some lessons for several years.
This ‘student’ of mine is currently working on many things but mainly pop tunes.
She takes on these artist tribute gigs like it’s her job and generally has 30-40 tunes on her plate.
She comes to me with the ones she’s having issues with and we go from there.
A bit avant-garde but it seems to work.
Although many things I say are met with that ‘deer-in-the-headlights’ stare,
there are moments when the light goes on and the aha moment presents itself.
This week we were going through several songs: I’m in you by Peter Frampton,
Yesterday Once More by the Carpenters and
Mandy by Barry Manilow.
No cheap-shot Manilow comments, okay?
Jeepers.
(and my student kind of gags when she plays these)
She generally goes to the web and finds a chord chart for a given song
and prints it out hoping to get a head start before she has her lesson.
I easily figured out why she’s been having so much trouble.
The chord charts suck.
Bad, appalling, ridiculous, shitty, WRONG are all adjectives that describe these
toilet paper-like charts that I wouldn’t even wipe a strangers ass with never mind my own keester.
These charts were written by someone that #1, has no ears (literally & figuratively),
#2, has little to no natural musical talent and #3, wouldn’t know what a minor seven flat five chord was unless it bit them is the ass.
I could not believe what I was seeing.
They should come with a *disclaimer:
“These chord charts are guaranteed to raise your suck factor
to levels beyond your wildest dreams.
They’re so poorly written you won’t even be able to play the song!”
Or
“Musically illogical chord charts. Yeah, they do sound like shit, don’t they?
Hell, we don’t think we got one chord right!”
Jesus Krispies.
Figuring out chord changes to a song is not brain surgery
but for the bonehead that put some of this crap on the web I really have to wonder.
Bottom line?
It you’re trying to learn a song, stay the hell away from the web.
It will musically scare the hell out of you.
I am still shaking my head.
For your edification, THIS is one of the URL’s in question.
And not to totally diss this site (which I have done) this is a chord chart from someone
that doesn’t have their head up their ass.
Deacon Blues
So… you’re saying you DON’T like the chord charts? Could you be more clear? :sly:
I didn’t do any of them ~m…honest!
I say that, because if I did try, they would just suck big hairy dog balls, cos I have less musical bones in my body than I do artistic ones, and I have 5 parts of bugger all when it comes to anything artistic.
But hey, if you say they suck then they must, cos you’re a musical type person right??
:music:
the piano equivalent of guitar tablature… sigh… it generally takes me several tries before i find good tab. the guitar sites often allow users to ‘rate’ the tab, and that helps with the filter…
ps: the unknown manilow stuff? surprisingly good… his pop stuff was just that, but there are buried treasures out there. shhhh…. don’t tell anyone…
I once got bitten by a minor seven flat five chord. Couldn’t sit down for a week.
I am not allowed to outwardly make fun of Barry Manilow due to the wife’s fondness of him. However, please realise that I am mocking the hell out of him on the inside.
‘Tis the least I could do.
Wow, new theme ~m???
About bloody time we saw a new one, I mean hell, the last one had been up what?? 2 weeks????
:tongue:
where do you download music sheets for pop music like taylor swift ?