Your diversity of interests continues to amaze me. Very happy for you to get to participate in this, even if it wasn’t what you had planned for the time.
Isn't it true of so many things in our life that the key is to relax? Also, Song for Sharon and the whole Hejira album is one of my all-time favorites. Did you read Ann Powers' Joni Mitchell biography, Travelling? It was interesting.
I play a little guitar, but not Joni Mitchell songs because her tunings are too much for me. But I've been trying to learn a bunch of Indigo Girls' songs lately.
My son and daughter-in-law gave me that book for Xmas and I've been dipping into it since then. Interesting, indeed. I do play the Joni songs on guitar because the open tunings actually make it way easier to play them than if I had to do actual weird bar chords or sus 7 or whatever (can you tell I have zero music theory but play by feel?). Now the internet will tell you what the tunings are. When I was learning, it meant listening to the live album Miles of Aisles and playing over and over again the part where she's chatting to the audience while changing her tuning. That's how I figured out what the strings were set to. DADF#AD, for one.
Okay, maybe I'll give it a try. I have two guitars, so I could do the open tuning on one. Also now I want to listen to that live album. Does she tell the audience what tuning she's using?
I love the passion in this post, and how you describe the transformation and vulnerability that go with singing. I mainly sing in my car, but when I'm feeling less inhibited, I love to sing with others. The friendships you've made, and the reunions your group holds, are testament to the power of singing together.
It really is a beautiful thing. Sure, there's a lot that can be kinda nerdy about a cappella singing (you don't even want to see old photos in which we all wore vests of some sort as our "uniform"). But it's such a wonderful experience of community.
Your diversity of interests continues to amaze me. Very happy for you to get to participate in this, even if it wasn’t what you had planned for the time.
It's a rare thing, to get to sing with other people. I wish there were more readily-available opportunities!
Loved this!
Isn't it true of so many things in our life that the key is to relax? Also, Song for Sharon and the whole Hejira album is one of my all-time favorites. Did you read Ann Powers' Joni Mitchell biography, Travelling? It was interesting.
I play a little guitar, but not Joni Mitchell songs because her tunings are too much for me. But I've been trying to learn a bunch of Indigo Girls' songs lately.
My son and daughter-in-law gave me that book for Xmas and I've been dipping into it since then. Interesting, indeed. I do play the Joni songs on guitar because the open tunings actually make it way easier to play them than if I had to do actual weird bar chords or sus 7 or whatever (can you tell I have zero music theory but play by feel?). Now the internet will tell you what the tunings are. When I was learning, it meant listening to the live album Miles of Aisles and playing over and over again the part where she's chatting to the audience while changing her tuning. That's how I figured out what the strings were set to. DADF#AD, for one.
Okay, maybe I'll give it a try. I have two guitars, so I could do the open tuning on one. Also now I want to listen to that live album. Does she tell the audience what tuning she's using?
I love the passion in this post, and how you describe the transformation and vulnerability that go with singing. I mainly sing in my car, but when I'm feeling less inhibited, I love to sing with others. The friendships you've made, and the reunions your group holds, are testament to the power of singing together.
It really is a beautiful thing. Sure, there's a lot that can be kinda nerdy about a cappella singing (you don't even want to see old photos in which we all wore vests of some sort as our "uniform"). But it's such a wonderful experience of community.