Scrivener July 2nd, 2008
183/366 [Halfway there!]
Give me your hand
Your mother is drunk as all the firemen shake
A photo from father’s arms
Cinder and smoke
You’ll ask me to pray for rain
With ash in your mouth
You’ll ask it to burn again
I’m trying to learn “Cinder and Smoke” by Iron and Wine this week. It’s only 3 chords (Am, Dm+7, and Em) but the picking pattern is a little complicated.
I think next week will be “Sunset Soon Forgotten.”
Scrivener June 24th, 2008
Jonsi pounding on his guitar with a bow and Georg beating out a rhythm on his electric bass with a drumstick. They were so fracking amazing.
Scrivener May 7th, 2008
I’m taking the cure so I can be quiet
Originally uploaded by Scrivenings
I bought my guitar two years ago yesterday. When I got home with it, I realized it was my blogiversary and put up a post joking that I had gotten it as a present for my blog, that’s how I know the exact date. So to mark the date, here is a little video clip of the first 90 seconds of me playing “Needle in the Hay,” by Elliott Smith. I learned this song not too long into my lessons and just loved playing it and kept coming back to it even as I got new songs, but then eventually it got wrapped up in learning all these new songs and I probably didn’t play it at all for close to a year. A few months ago, I was flipping through my older lesson book and saw it and played it again. I’ve been playing it off and on since then. You know, it’s still one of the songs that I most enjoy playing.
So, just shy of two years of guitar lessons and I can at least kind of play 90 songs now! Full list beneath the fold.
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Scrivener March 18th, 2008
3.16: Cuz you will never stop looking and I will never stay, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.
Practicing Kathleen Edward’s “The Lone Wolf.”
Scrivener February 13th, 2008
2.10: Is it getting heavy?, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.
41/366
I grabbed about ten minutes while the kids were in the bath to practice “Waitin’ for a Superman” as covered by Iron & Wine. The chords aren’t difficult, but it’s my first real attempt at finger-picking, so it’s still causing me fits.
Scrivener November 18th, 2007
The song I’m learning for this week is from The Decemberists’ album Picaresque, “Of Angels and Angles.” It’s really not too difficult, though I still seem to have to play it through a couple of times before I can start to get the feel of the rhythm right.
