One of my students requested to learn this song. I hadn't heard it before tonight but I love it. It's funny just how much this sounds like his father. But I think it's a beautiful, simple song, with lovely lyrics.
I didn't find any correct chords on-line so I thought I would post on my blog the chords that I'm hearing in this.
(This is all relative to Capo VI:) It sounds like he is having some fun with the C chord. He is adding the 9 (a D) to the chord, and he is not playing the high E string, so the chord ends up something like this: x3203x. He also turns it into a Cmaj7 chord in the intro just by removing the D note on the B string to reveal the major 7th: x3200x.
ADAM COHEN - WHAT OTHER GUY
Cadd9: x3203x
G: 32003x
Em: 022000
D: xx0232
G/F#: 2x0003
G/B: x20003
Capo VI
Intro:
Cadd Cmaj7 G
Cadd9 G
I know what you look like in the morning
Cadd9
Your kisses are soft and warm
G
I can draw you with my eyes closed
Cadd9
See you with nothing on but the radi-o
G
I know how many years of French you took
Cadd9
Your favourite movies, your favourite books
G
I know what really gets you going... glowing
Em D Cadd9
I know where you go with your beautiful friends
Em D Cadd9
I know what you taste like when the night ends
Here is a beautifully animated tribute to the Beatles from the Why Music Matters series. I hope to see you at our Beatles Burlesque show September 15th! The child reminds me of myself when I was a kid. I "played" with the Beatles most days too.
The Beatles had some of the first songs I ever learned to play on guitar as well. I remember figuring out how to play Twist and Shout on my own--I felt utter joy when I discovered that I could reproduce that sound. Of course I was playing on a rather shoddy nylon-string kid-sized guitar, but to my ears it was close enough.
"If you can sit quietly after difficult news, if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm, if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy, if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate, and fall asleep after a day of running around without a drink or a pill, if you can always find contentment just where you are, you are probably a dog."
How is it that we lose touch with the things that are most important? It takes time to enjoy life. Let's just all agree to take that time, shall we? Let's work less, fret less. Let's listen to music more. Laugh more, and love more.
