Practice Journal, 2007-09-25

Guitar and Vocals:

• In The News: played along with Kris x2, then along x2, both with finger picking. I'm having a bit of trouble keeping the correct timing with some of the chord changes.
• Long Black Veil x2. Still a hand buster for me.
• Me and Bobby McGee x2. Still slow and clunky going from the B to the F# chords. Vocals sound pretty good in standard tuning.
• It Ain't Me Babe x2

'In The News' by Kris Kristofferson

I think I've figured out the finger picking and chords for In The News. This is my interpretation and I'm posting it so I'll have access to it where ever I am, so I hope it isn't a copyright issue. Unfortunately the blog formatting doesn't seem to publish blank spaces, so the chord progressions above the lyrics didn't work out.

.........D................... A.......................G..........
e [----------------1---][---------------0---][--------------3--]
B [-------3-----------][------2------------ ][-----0-----------]
G [------------2------][------------2------][-----------0-----]
D [ --0---------------][--------------------][-----------------]
A [-------------------][-0-----------------][------------------]
E [-------------------][--------------------][--3---------------]

D
Read about the sorry way he done somebody's daughter
A D
Chained her to a heavy thing and threw her in the water
D
And she sank into the darkness with their baby son inside her
A D
A little piece of truth and beauty died


D
Burning up the atmosphere and cutting down the trees
A D
The billion dollar bombing of a nation on it's knees
D
Anyone not marching to their tune they call it treason
A D
Everyone says God is on his side


D G
See the lightning, hear the cries
A D
Of the wounded in a world in holy war
G
Mortal thunder from the skies
A D
Killing everything they say they're fighting for


D G
Broken babies, broken homes
A D
Broken-hearted people dying everyday
G
How'd this happen, what went wrong
A D
Don't blame God, I swear to God I heard him say


Chorus
D G
"Not in my name, not on my ground
A D
I want nothing but the ending of the war
G
No more killing, or it's over
A D
And the mystery won't matter anymore"


D G
Broken dreamers, broken rules
A D
Broken-hearted people just like me and you
G
We are children of the stars
A D
Don't blame God, I swear to God he's crying too

Repeat Chorus

Repeat First Verse

Practice Journal, 2007-09-23

Guitar and Vocals:

• 6:45 pm: Me and Bobby McGee x2
• 7:00 pm: In The News x2
• 7:15 pm: Long Black Veil x3

Practice Journal, 2007-09-20

Guitar and Vocals:

• Afternoon: Me and Bobby McGee x2

Guitar:

• 10:00 pm: major scale in A, all 6.5 positions x2.

Practice Journal, 2007-09-19

Guitar and Vocals:

• 12:00 am: Me and Bobby McGee x2
• It Ain't Me Babe x2
• Long Black Veil x1

Back and arms getting too tingly to continue.

Practice Journal, 2007-09-18

Guitar:

• 8:10 pm: pentatonic scale, positions 1-5 for 20 minutes.

Practice Journal, 2007-09-17

Guitar and Vocals:

• Afternoon: Me and Bobby McGee x2
• It Ain't Me Babe x1

Guitar:

• 10:20 pm: major scale in E, all 6.5 positions for 30 minutes.

Practice Journal, 2007-09-16

Guitar:

• 6:00 pm: pentatonic scale, positions 1-5 for 35 minutes.
• 6:40 pm: Simple Man finger picking for 15 minutes.

Guitar and Vocals:

• 8:00 pm: Me and Bobby McGee x2

Practice Journal, 2007-09-15

Guitar:

• 9:00 pm: pentatonic scale, positions 1-5 for 45 minutes.

Practice Journal, 2007-09-13

Guitar and Vocals:

• Some time in the afternoon: Me and Bobby McGee x2.
• It Ain't Me Babe x2.

Guitar:

• 10:00 pm: Simple Man finger picking for around 10 minutes.
• 10:15 pm: Hunger Strike finger picking for around 10 minutes.

Practice Journal, 2007-09-12

Guitar and Vocals:

• 5:00 pm: Me and Bobby McGee x2.

Practice Journal, 2007-09-11

Guitar and Vocals:

• 2:00 pm: Me and Bobby McGee x1, then worked on the B-F# barre chord progressions.

Guitar:

• 3:00 pm: major scale in E, all 6.5 positions for 25 minutes.
• 10:00 pm: Brian Setzer licks for 20 minutes.

Practice Journal, 2007-09-10

Guitar and Vocals:

• 7:00 pm: Me and Bobby McGee x1
• 11:00 pm: Me and Bobby McGee x2

Practice Journal, 2007-09-09

Guitar and Vocals:

• 2:00 pm: Me and Bobby McGee x2

Practice Journal, 2007-09-08

Guitar:

• 5:50 pm: pentatonic scale, positions 1-5 for 25 minutes.

Guitar and Vocals:

• 9:00 pm Me and Bobby McGee x2
• It Ain't Me Babe x2
• I Walk The Line x2

Practice Journal, 2007-09-07

Afternoon
Guitar:

• Hunger Strike finger picking for around 10 minutes.

Guitar and Vocals:

• <2:00>Me and Bobby McGee

Practice Journal, 2007-09-06

Theory:

• did a little reading on chord theory, and I'm wondering how it relates to musical keys since both are related to harmony. Not feeling very well, so I'll definitely have to come back to this in the near future.

Guitar:

• did some stumming of chord progressions in the keys of G Major (G-D-C-Em) and E Minor (Em-B-Am-G). The Em chord is the relative minor of the G chord, which in turn is the relative major the Em chord. I think it sounds neat to go from the key of G into the key of Em.

Guitar and Vocals (afternoon):

• It Ain't Me Babe x2
• Me and Bobby McGee x1

Guitar and Vocals: (9:20 pm)

• major scale in E, all 6.5 positions for 30 minutes. Sang solfege (movable Do method) where my vocal range would allow (pretty much from the low E up two octaves to the first E on string 1).

Break

• (10:45) Me and Bobby McGee x2
• Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down x2

Practice Journal, 2007-09-05

Guitar and Vocals:

• 11:00 am: Me and Bobby McGee x2
• 1:00 pm: Me and Bobby McGee x2
• 1:45 pm: Me and Bobby McGee x2

Guitar:

• 7:50 pm: pentatonic scale, positions 1-5 for 15 minutes.
• 8:30 pm: Duane Eddy licks for around 45 minutes.

Practice Journal, 2007-09-04

Guitar:

• major scale in E, all 6.5 positions for 15 minutes.

Break (3 hours)

• Simple Man finger picking for 15 minutes.

Break (60 minutes)

Guitar and Vocals:

• Me and Bobby McGee 3x, break for 5 minutes, then 3x.

Practice Journal, 2007-09-03

Guitar:

• pentatonic scale, positions 1-5 for 15 minutes.

Back is still sore dammit.

Guitar and Vocals:

• It Ain't Me Babe x2
• Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down x2

Practice Journal, 2007-09-02

My back/neck is still pretty sore.

Guitar and Vocals:

• Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down 5 times.