Nessa,A bloody idiot.....hmmmm....
This story is also ancient history, I was 14/15 I think and having this performance at school. Those were the days that I absolutely loved to play and sing Elvis-tunes and a lot of Elvis' songs start out with the singing and then the music comes in (like Blues Suede Shoes, One night and so on), I had already played a number of songs and getting more relaxed I guess.
Anyway I went on with Tutti Frutti, you know the '"A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom!" (yeah yeah, I know it's originally a Little Richard-song) and after the first line I started to play of course ............HUH???? :ohmy: WHAT happened??? :huh: Sómething was completely off, well I had totally forgotten about hitting the I-chord first, so that I would have known in what key to sing.....well as you can imagine, the guitar and the singing were nót in the same pitch, it was hilarious of course, the audience laughed, I laughed, and I quickly started over, but I indeed felt like a 'bloody idiot', haha! :laugh:
Lesson: Néver ever forget to check the key you're about to sing in!
Nessa
Great story! Great lesson! Hilarious. B)
M.