I subscribe to a website that teaches me how to play guitar, more specifically, the site includes detailed lessons on how to play select songs.
This is a goldmine for budding guitarists like me.
In the 70's, when Yella and I were on the road playing music, we played one of the rock anthems from the early 70's, the Eagles "Already Gone." Granted, at the time we played it at a minimum level of skill. Even so, it was popular with our audiences and the band loved to play it.
Over the years, it has remained one of my favorite songs, that I listen to regularly.
I found this song on my website. Holy shit! I have wanted to really learn how to play it for since the 70's!
I have been holding off for a week from looking at it because I had other things to do and learn on guitar. The delay made it even better.
Today I looked at it.
The lessons are 10 segments long, each segment 7 to 10 minutes. So it is a slug of information to wade through.
As I started, it was impressive. My mindset was in the work mode of simply learning it. And it was stretching my abilities to the max.
But the simplest things were just right...the rhythm guitar work was so perfect...open chord ringing guitar...pent up expectation and energy...waiting to explode out of the song...was all present...but still I was in work mode, trying to learn it.
As I progressed through the series, into the first lead guitar stuff, and the second lead guitar stuff, and the third lead guitar stuff and the FOURTH lead guitar stuff, I lost my sense of detachment and became enthralled with the beauty and skill of the music.
Now I was watching without learning. Thrilled to see how master musicians craft a song. And did they craft this one.
I'm not going to get technical because it would bore you, unless you are a musician, of course.
But my reaction to it was beyond enjoyment and fun, into that strange land of awe and inspiration, being moved, catapulted into some kind of different dimension of reality.
What a gift!
I love it!
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