Three-Chord Harmony Decoder Ring (with bonus points)

I offered an LJ acquaintance my personal tips on listening to a song and figuring out the chording. So here they are.

( skip this if it's not your thing )

Underdone bluefish / garden journal

Underdone Bluefish gave me the day off yesterday -- I was feeling pretty good, biked on two separate errands. But it's making a repeat appearance, with low fever and TMI effects. Not as bad as the other day, though, and I've just taken drugs so I may feel fine pretty soon.

I looked around our little back yard and saw some progress I will want to chart.


( garden stuff you can skip )

And now I'm all sweaty, which I think means the drugs are kicking in and the fever is breaking, so perhaps I'll feel more like working.

For halfmoon_mollie

Three-Chord Roy breaks down "You Are My Sunshine" with the sort of lame excuse for a G chord you'd teach a six-year-old (which is what his father taught him) at 1:00 in this video:

Check out those guitarists' fingernails on his right hand. (I should have nails that long...) His left hand fingernails are appropriately nubbined. I bet he had calluses like little tiles on his fingertips. EDITED TO ADD. Also: look at that line of knuckles precisely parallel with the edge of the fretboard. **envy** **must remember that for correcting my own approach**