is it me or..

Kukini · Post by **Kukini** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:27 am

dmfollower wrote:
HumbleMonkey wrote:
checkii wrote:why is it i can sing and play billies verse but not sing and play the chorus?
because the verse is just playing straight through, the timing is different for the chorus. if you know what i mean
The verse is played just as it is sung(?). You can totally tell....
"we were above......you were standing......underneath us.....we were not yet lovers....la laaa...etc. I swear most of daves songs are like this i.e. so much to say, lover lay down, tons more.

I believe they call that writing music.

Sciaracastro · Post by **Sciaracastro** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:40 am

Kukini wrote:
dmfollower wrote:
HumbleMonkey wrote:
checkii wrote:why is it i can sing and play billies verse but not sing and play the chorus?
because the verse is just playing straight through, the timing is different for the chorus. if you know what i mean
The verse is played just as it is sung(?). You can totally tell....
"we were above......you were standing......underneath us.....we were not yet lovers....la laaa...etc. I swear most of daves songs are like this i.e. so much to say, lover lay down, tons more.
I believe they call that writing music.

dmfollower · Post by **dmfollower** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:53 pm

Kukini wrote:
dmfollower wrote:
HumbleMonkey wrote:
checkii wrote:why is it i can sing and play billies verse but not sing and play the chorus?
because the verse is just playing straight through, the timing is different for the chorus. if you know what i mean
The verse is played just as it is sung(?). You can totally tell....
"we were above......you were standing......underneath us.....we were not yet lovers....la laaa...etc. I swear most of daves songs are like this i.e. so much to say, lover lay down, tons more.
I believe they call that writing music.

a1075dd63aa12 · Post by **a1075dd63aa12** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:56 pm

i dont think i will ever be able to do the stretches necessary for that song and a few others

HumbleMonkey · Post by **HumbleMonkey** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:02 pm

wkpggrvn2001 wrote:i dont think i will ever be able to do the stretches necessary for that song and a few others

i love having big hands

a1075dd63aa12 · Post by **a1075dd63aa12** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:28 am

HumbleMonkey wrote:
wkpggrvn2001 wrote:i dont think i will ever be able to do the stretches necessary for that song and a few others
i love having big hands

my hands are decent size, ive just never really practiced any of the big stretches enough to be really efficent with them. honestly, i probably know maybe 10 dmb songs, all of the way through on guitar. i try to stay diverse with the covers i play. id rather make original stuff than learn a lot of covers.

bighuk · Post by **bighuk** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:22 pm

It just takes determination really. I thought i had the smallest hands in the world until a friend of mine who'd been playing for about 4 years put his hands up next to mine and then said you wanna learn you just gotta be determined, his hands were the same size as mine... From there on out I believed I could play everything. A thing that helped me is that I was determined to play songs with huge stretches or nothing but them. Songs like.

#41
Tripping Billies
jm - message in a bottle

Some people even have trouble with crash but the only trouble I had with it was the strumming rhythm.

Once you learn big stretches and play them non stop you'll open alota new doors and be much more confident in your abilities.