If you could read my mind how to#

Young’ for opening the door for him and giving him the opportunity to play. He was almost 75 at the time and his voice is not the same but he has modified the song structures to suit his voice and his band is so tight that he played through a set of his golden classics to an appreciative audience. When he was asked to step in with less than a month to go before the show he stepped up and performed admirably. Lanois and his promoters scrambled to find a suitable replacement with a name and the ability to draw a crowd. When we went in 2013 for the first time it was supposed to be to see Neil Young but he bailed. Earlier this month I mentioned the Greenbelt Harvest Picnic that was created by Daniel Lanois in Dundas. Before I get to the song I want to share the personal memory. While I write I am listening to a part of his extensive library of music and it only illustrates what a national treasure we have in Gordon Lightfoot. Lightfoot, but today I have chosen ‘If You Could Read Mind’. There are many songs to choose from when it comes to honouring the greatness of Mr. LOL But of the hundreds of tutorials I've seen for all kinds of songs and techniques, it happens that this is near the tippy-top of my list.Happy 80th birthday to the legendary Canadian singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. Of course, then I made the mistake of trying to actually play, and found that my skills were remarkably similar to where I'd left them the day before. He made it so clear, so approachable, that I felt my skills increasing just as I listened to him. Want to play something that sounds uncannily like Gordon considering you're on a ukulele? Here's the finger picking, riffs, and solo. Ready to add a few riffs? Here's the intermediate version. Up for playing a few beginning chords with the island strum? Here ya go. Marco is the guy who teaches this one, and he builds it in layers. Man, their tutorial for this song is one of the best things I've ever seen. I'm doing a lot more tutorials from the Morristown Uke Jam. If you want the easiest route, start with Munson. Capo on the 2nd fret to get to Gord's original key, a variety of strumming patterns, etc. So he's got a tutorial in G with some variations that you can level up as you see fit. He has a real gift for making things as easy as possible without sacrificing everything that matters for making songs more than the sum of their chords. There's a guy named Munson who has gazillions of covers for ukulele, banjo, guitar, bass, mandolin, piano.and I'm probably leaving some other instruments out. I find things that are helpful and not in various tutorials.but it happens that I've been thinking about this very song for a while, one of my all-time favorites, and had bookmarked some tutorials to pursue soon. Heck, I'm barely more than a dozen chords along.

If you could read my mind how to#

Still learning the basics of theory, how to read tabs, etc. And in a little fairness to me, I'm an old dog with no musical background, just a few weeks into my journey. I'm a big fan of video tutorials, because I'm an idiot and need pictures with everything. 0,0,0,3 is C maj for standard ukulele tuning. Ie, 0,0,0,3 is G maj for a baritone ukulele/ guitar. So, if you take the standard shapes for the guitar chords in the key of G over the highest 4 strings, and just play them on your ukulele, you will have transposed the key of G maj chords up 5 semitones to the key of C maj.

They will just have different pitches and names. So, ANY ukulele chord can be played on the first 4 strings of a guitar and the highest 4 notes of any guitar chord can be played on a ukulele. It just has a different name and a different pitch. On a baritone ukulele D maj is 0,2,3,2 and with regular ukulele tuning, 0,2,3,2 is called G maj. On a guitar, the open D maj chord is x,x,0,2,3,2. Note that the D,G,B,E is the same for both Guitars and Baritone ukuleles and that in fact the relationships between the strings is exactly the same for the higher 4 strings between standard ukulele and standard guitar tuning its just that the ukulele is 5 semitones higher. I never thought I could feel this wayĪnd I just can't get it backsee the next post for the C version You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand I never thought I could act this wayĪnd I've got to say that I just don't get it Of bringing all the good things out in me When you reach the part where the heartaches comeīecause the ending's just too hard to take In a castle dark or a fortress strongĪs long as I'm a ghost you can't see