Chords for Play Guitar w/ LARRY CRANE Sam Ash Music Indy February 25 @2pm

_ _ Well, I'm glad you guys are all here. _
Really what I'm gonna do today is just we're gonna talk about a song that I did with John Mellencamp.
It's called play guitar. _
And we're just gonna kind of go through, hi Pat.
We're kind of gonna go through
what that process was [F#m] and
you know how we came up with what we came up with basically. _
_ _ _ _ Where do I start? _
But
_ [A] Anyway, we're this is not so much a guitar lesson more like I'm gonna be talking about
_ _ _ The process of recording guitars and how they fit in with songwriting and _
that's that's really kind of
Where my expertise is because that's what I've always done.
Little tiny space and I'll do it again
_ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _
Right there _ _ _ _ _ _
That's a breath I call that a breath _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [C#] That allows the drums to go bam bam they're set up now
_ So those little tiny things because if you got a keyboard player hanging over bass player hanging over a cymbal hanging over _
It don't work because that space that little tiny space is taken up and believe it or not
Those are the things that make and break _ a lot of songs and a lot of performances _
When you hear a band you say man, those guys are tight.
That's what they're doing.
They're stopping when they're supposed to stop
and okay
_ _ but he would just come in and play the chords and
_ _ Then sing the melody.
So what we'd have to deal with we'd have
_ _ Whatever rhythm whatever you want to make of it
_ The lyric and the melody and
_ _ That's how we at least the way I approach the song.
Those are the things I look at
You know, I don't look at the chord progression and go.
Oh, he's playing a D G G G G
Whatever.
As a matter of fact, sometimes I would change those chords to relative minors or throw a third on the on the low end and
Just to color them up a little bit so because they're folk songs when they come in basically
Now the song we're doing today is the exception to that rule
_ friend of ours _
Dan Ross
Had this song that he had started and we sort of finished for him and [D#] we love the idea
It's called play guitar and it's just a goofy look _
at
Kind of tongue-in-cheek if you want to get the girls you got to play guitar
_ and
So with that in mind, it's not like a real serious song
_ Not to mention it's the same chords over. _ _ _ _
You know, what do you do with that?
Well, I'm gonna explain that today how the thought process so I started playing some high school bands
_ _ _ And just kind of went from there I was hanging out with this cute little girl _ _
Sorry, this cute little girl named Janet Mellencamp that lived in our neighborhood
She was a couple years younger me and one day I was sitting around playing the guitar
And she says, you know, my big brother plays guitar
You guys ought to get together
_ So next thing, you know me and John are sitting in my mom and dad's living room
Playing some god-awful song that he had written
_ _ _ _ The good thing is a good thing is I used to go nowhere
Nowhere without my little tape memory little tape recorder
And I had one long playing cassette
And that's the only cassette that I had
In there and I recorded everything on that little green cassette
_ _ You know and I would go over stuff
But I've got me and John and his brother-in-law at the time Dennis Esterline
_ In mom and dad's front room Dennis playing bass me playing guitar and John playing flute
_ _ _ _ _ _ Playing the flute _ _ and _ singing some all god-awful song.
They was called carnival girl or something like that _
_ _ _ my parents are
Saints so I mean who does that who lets their kids do that?
With some wild crazy guy in the front room.
So that's kind of how we got started _ _ _ _ _ _
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