Re: Suzi and Dennis collaborate on "Wild Horses" ... with one problem.
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:26 pm
One of my favorite things about getting together with Dennis was that it gave me my first taste of what it can be like to play WITH another person. This was my first real experience with that (not counting the very small bit of playing I did with my guitar teacher when I first started playing and a short stint playing with a friend when, again, I was a real beginner), and it made me realize how different it is to play with someone rather than just by yourself. For one, you notice your own mistakes far less because you aren't on display. Secondly, playing with Dennis made me far more comfortable playing something that I barely knew or that I had never played before. A good example of that was playing Across the Universe with him. I'd never played the song, but he gave me a chord sheet and I just started strumming along, watching him for key chord changes. Thirdly, playing with another person means you can do so much more with a song. We experimented quite a bit with each of us playing different parts for one song (rather than just both strumming the same thing). For example, we played I've Just Seen a Face, with Dennis open in A and me capo'd at the 2nd in G.
I agree with Dennis that one of my favorite moments was playing Landslide for Jamie to sing along to. Another was singing along to Country Roads, which Dennis's wonderful friend Heather had just learned to play (she just started learning guitar a few months back). Watching her persevere despite the challenges of a new instrument and a new song, and being able to support her by singing along, was a really great experience for me.
Suzi
I agree with Dennis that one of my favorite moments was playing Landslide for Jamie to sing along to. Another was singing along to Country Roads, which Dennis's wonderful friend Heather had just learned to play (she just started learning guitar a few months back). Watching her persevere despite the challenges of a new instrument and a new song, and being able to support her by singing along, was a really great experience for me.
Suzi