>> New Target and Pay Per Lesson release - If you could read my mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:50 pm
by TGMatt
Today's Target and pay per lesson is no live..
Gordon Lightfoot was a well-known songwriter in the mid 1960s but in 1970 he became a household name with the release of If You Could Read My Mind. It features a gentle, rolling arpeggio fingerpicking pattern, and a relatively easy set of chords backing a beautiful melody.
This guitar lesson looks at Gordon’s repetitive pattern as well as how to expand and improvise a bit around it. There is also a short interlude that incorporates the melody into the accompaniment.
The song is fingered in the key of G but with a capo at the second fret, putting it in the key of A. The lesson is done without the capo.
Re: >> New Target and Pay Per Lesson release - If you could read my mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:03 pm
by dieguy
Well I've been waiting for this one, so very great that it's here! :cheer:
Thanks TG!
Cheers
Ness
Re: >> New Target and Pay Per Lesson release - If you could read my mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:34 pm
by Lavallee
Glad to see that one,
Chris now you can go to heaven (figure of speech).
Marc
Re: >> New Target and Pay Per Lesson release - If you could read my mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:00 pm
by sbutler
I do believe this may have been the most requested song on the site.
He is a man of his word. What a classic in every since of the word.
Oh yeah, the song too.
Scott
Re: >> New Target and Pay Per Lesson release - If you could read my mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:14 pm
by Lavallee
Wów Neil!
I just watched the play through of the song, and I really think this is YOUR song!
I don't have to go over your playing, but man, if I may say so, you sang this so beautifully and with so much emotion.....I can't believe you didn't do this one before!
Well I can't help saying so, but I leaned back and I just LOVED it.....
Cheers
Vanessa
Re: >> New Target and Pay Per Lesson release - If you could read my mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:28 pm
by TGNeil
nesh16041972 wrote:
Wów Neil!
I just watched the play through of the song, and I really think this is YOUR song!
I don't have to go over your playing, but man, if I may say so, you sang this so beautifully and with so much emotion.....I can't believe you didn't do this one before!
Well I can't help saying so, but I leaned back and I just LOVED it.....
Cheers
Vanessa
Thanks for the kind words. I have to confess that there was a time that I sang a lot of songs and this was one of them. It was ingrained enough in my system that I could not ever forget the words. My long time familiarity with it partially contributed to how long it took to get to it. There are a handful of songs that are so important to me that I am not sure how to do justice to them in a lesson. This frequently leads to procrastination on my part. Classical Gas was another song that fell into this very special category for me.
Neil
Re: >> New Target and Pay Per Lesson release - If you could read my mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:49 pm
by TGMatt
TGNeil wrote:
nesh16041972 wrote:
Wów Neil!
I just watched the play through of the song, and I really think this is YOUR song!
I don't have to go over your playing, but man, if I may say so, you sang this so beautifully and with so much emotion.....I can't believe you didn't do this one before!
Well I can't help saying so, but I leaned back and I just LOVED it.....
Cheers
Vanessa
Thanks for the kind words. I have to confess that there was a time that I sang a lot of songs and this was one of them. It was ingrained enough in my system that I could not ever forget the words. My long time familiarity with it partially contributed to how long it took to get to it. There are a handful of songs that are so important to me that I am not sure how to do justice to them in a lesson. This frequently leads to procrastination on my part. Classical Gas was another song that fell into this very special category for me.
Neil
Don't forget Bob the Builder , and Muppets Christmas..I know we are no far away from those going live..
Re: >> New Target and Pay Per Lesson release - If you could read my mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:17 pm
by unclewalt
TGNeil wrote:
Classical Gas was another song that fell into this very special category for me.
Neil[/quote]
Maybe you should switch your thinking on this, then, and jump into the ones you worry most about, because Classical Gas might be the best lesson on here, and this one looks pretty good, too.
Re: >> New Target and Pay Per Lesson release - If you could read my mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 4:37 am
by neverfoundthetime
A great day at TG!
This has been my all time favourite song and I have been playing it for 25 years or more... so its good to finally have a lesson there so I can learn to play it properly at last! Looking forward to learning the fill-ins and embellishments. Thanks Neil, this one's special!
PS: Marc, heaven can wait.... so many songs to learn!
Re: >> New Target and Pay Per Lesson release - If you could read my mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:20 am
by Lavallee
neverfoundthetime wrote:
A great day at TG!
This has been my all time favourite song and I have been playing it for 25 years or more... so its good to finally have a lesson there so I can learn to play it properly at last! Looking forward to learning the fill-ins and embellishments. Thanks Neil, this one's special!
PS: Marc, heaven can wait.... so many songs to learn!
I meant TG Heaven of course. Heaven can wait was a great movie
