311 - Beautiful Disaster {WORDS}
Aerosmith - Same Old Song And Dance {WORDS}
Alanis Morrissette - You Oughta Know {WORDS}
Alannah Myles - Black Velvet {WORDS}
Alex Bevan - Skinny {WORDS}
Alice In Chains - Got Me Wrong {WORDS}
Alice In Chains - Rooster {WORDS}
All American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret {WORDS}
All American Rejects - Gives You Hell {WORDS}
All American Rejects - Move Along {WORDS}
Allman Brothers - Ramblin' Man {WORDS}
Allman Brothers - Statesboro Blues {WORDS}
Allman Brothers - Whipping Post {WORDS}
America - Ventura Highway {WORDS}
Animals - House Of The Rising Sun {WORDS}
Arlen & Koehler - Stormy Weather {WORDS}
Band - Up On Cripple Creek {WORDS}
Beach Boys - Sloop John B {WORDS}
Beatles - Across The Universe {WORDS}
Beatles - Blackbird {WORDS}
Beatles - Come Together {WORDS}
Beatles - Day Tripper {WORDS}
Beatles - Eight Days A Week {WORDS}
Beatles - Eleanor Rigby {WORDS}
Beatles - Hard Day's Night {WORDS}
Beatles - Helter Skelter {WORDS}
Beatles - Here Comes The Sun {WORDS}
Beatles - Hey Jude {WORDS}
Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There {WORDS}
Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand {WORDS}
Beatles - If I Fell In Love {WORDS}
Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds {WORDS}
Beatles - Revolution {WORDS}
Beatles - Something {WORDS}
Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps {WORDS}
Beatles - Yesterday {WORDS}
Beatles - You've Got To Hide Your Love Away {WORDS}
BeeGees - Holiday {WORDS}
BeeGees - How Can You Mend A Broken Heart {WORDS}
Ben E. King - Stand By Me {WORDS}
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine {WORDS}
Billy Idol - White Wedding {WORDS}
Billy Joel - It's Still Rock And Roll To Me {WORDS}
Billy Joel - She's Got A Way {WORDS}
Billy Joel - You May Be Right {WORDS}
Billy Squier - Everybody Wants You {WORDS}
Black Crowes - She Talks To Angels {WORDS}
Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf {WORDS}
Blind Melon - No Rain {WORDS}
Blue Rodeo - Til I Am Myself Again {WORDS}
Bob James - Angela / Taxi Theme {WORDS}
Bob Marley - Natural Mystic {WORDS}
Boston - More Than A Feeling {WORDS}
Boys Like Girls - On Top Of The World {WORDS}
Bruce Springstein - Pink Cadillac {WORDS}
BTO - Taking Care Of Business {WORDS}
Bush - Comedown {WORDS}
Cage The Elephant - Ain't No Rest For The Wicked {WORDS}
Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better {WORDS}
Carole King - I Feel The Earth Move {WORDS}
Carolina Liar - I'm Not Over {WORDS}
CCR - Bad Moon Rising {WORDS}
CCR - Fortunate Son {WORDS}
CCR - Have You Ever Seen The Rain {WORDS}
CCR - Heard It Through The Grape Vine {WORDS}
CCR - Proud Mary {WORDS}
Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me {WORDS}
Cheap Trick - Surrender {WORDS}
Christmas - Baby It's Cold Outside {WORDS}
Christmas - The Christmas Song {WORDS}
Christmas - Deck The Halls {WORDS}
Christmas - Frosty The Snowman {WORDS}
Christmas - God Rest You Merry Gentlemen {WORDS}
Christmas - Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer {WORDS}
Christmas - Hark The Herald Angels Sing {WORDS}
Christmas - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas {WORDS}
Christmas - Joy To The World {WORDS}
Christmas - Let It Snow {WORDS}
Christmas - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer {WORDS}
Christmas - Silent Night {WORDS}
Christmas - White Christmas {WORDS}
Clann An Drumma - Sgt MacKenzie {WORDS}
Classics IV - Spooky {WORDS}
Coheed & Cambria - Favor House Atlantic {WORDS}
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head {WORDS}
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting {WORDS}
Cranberries - Linger {WORDS}
Cranberries - Zombie {WORDS}
Cream - Crossroads {WORDS}
Crosby Stills & Nash - Southern Cross {WORDS}
Cult - Fire Woman {WORDS}
Cult - Revolution {WORDS}
Cure - Friday I'm In Love {WORDS}
Damned - Shadow Of Love {WORDS}
Daniel Lanois - That's The Way It Is {WORDS}
David Allen Coe - Coffee {WORDS}
David Bowie - Starman {WORDS}
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust {WORDS}
David Lee Roth - Just A Gigolo {WORDS}
Death Cab For Cutie - Soul Meets Body {WORDS}
Def Leppard - Foolin' {WORDS}
Depeche Mode - Insight {WORDS}
Dickey Lee - Patches {WORDS}
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing {WORDS}
Don McLean - American Pie {WORDS}
Doobie Brothers - Blackwater {WORDS}
Doors - Alabama Song {WORDS}
Doors - Crystal Ship {WORDS}
Doors - People Are Strange {WORDS}
Doors - Riders On The Storm {WORDS}
Doors - Roadhouse Blues {WORDS}
Dr. Hook - Sharing The Night Together {WORDS}
Drifters - Under The Boardwalk {WORDS}
Dusty Springfield - Son Of A Preacher Man {WORDS}
Eagles - Desperado {WORDS}
Eagles - Hotel California {WORDS}
Eagles - Lyin' Eyes {WORDS}
Eagles - Rocky Mountain Way {WORDS}
Eagles - Seven Bridges Road {WORDS}
Eagles - Take It Easy {WORDS}
Eagles - Witchy Woman {WORDS}
Eric Clapton - Cocaine {WORDS}
Eric Clapton - Lay Down Sally {WORDS}
Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven {WORDS}
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight {WORDS}
Everclear - Santa Monica {WORDS}
Everly Brothers - Bye Bye Love {WORDS}
Everly Brothers - Wake Up Little Susie {WORDS}
Fall Guy - Unknown Stuntman {WORDS}
Fame - Dogs In The Yard {WORDS}
Firefly - Hero Of Canton {WORDS}
Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another {WORDS}
Fleetwood Mac - Gold Dust Woman {WORDS}
Foo Fighters - For All The Cows {WORDS}
Frank Zappa - Jewish Princess {WORDS}
Game Of Thrones {WORDS}
Gilligan's Island - Gilligan's Isle Ballad {WORDS}
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive {WORDS}
Golden Earring - Twilight Zone {WORDS}
Gordon Lightfoot - Canadian Railroad Trilogy {WORDS}
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown {WORDS}
Grateful Dead - Casey Jones {WORDS}
Grateful Dead - Friend Of The Devil {WORDS}
Grateful Dead - Ripple {WORDS}
Grateful Dead - Truckin {WORDS}
Grateful Dead - Uncle John's Band {WORDS}
Grease - Hopelessly Devoted To You {WORDS}
Green Day - 21 Guns {WORDS}
Green Day - Basket Case {WORDS}
Green Day - Longview {WORDS}
Guns & Roses - Patience {WORDS}
Halflife Portal - Still Alive {WORDS}
Halflife Portal 2 - Want You Gone {WORDS}
Handsome Family - Far From Any Road {WORDS}
Harry Chapin - Cat's In The Cradle {WORDS}
Harry S. Miller - The Cat Came Back {WORDS}
Hee Haw - Pfft You Was Gone {WORDS}
Highwaymen - Highwayman {WORDS}
Hoobastank - The Reason {WORDS}
Housemartins - World's On Fire {WORDS}
Howard & Emerson - Hello Ma Baby {WORDS}
Huey Lewis & The News - Power Of Love {WORDS}
Incubus - Drive {WORDS}
INXS - Devil Inside {WORDS}
INXS - Don't Change {WORDS}
Irene Cara - What I Feeling {WORDS}
J. Geils - Centerfold {WORDS}
Jackson Browne - Running On Empty {WORDS}
James Bond
James Taylor - Carolina In My Mind {WORDS}
James Taylor - Fire & Rain {WORDS}
James Taylor - Handy Man {WORDS}
James Taylor - You've Got A Friend {WORDS}
Jamey Johnson - In Color {WORDS}
Jane's Addiction - Jane Says {WORDS}
Janis Joplin - Me & Bobby McGee {WORDS}
Jay Livingston - Que Sera Sera {WORDS}
Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath {WORDS}
Jim Croce - Leroy Brown {WORDS}
Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim {WORDS}
Jimi Hendrix - Highway Chile {WORDS}
Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary {WORDS}
Jimmy Buffett - Cheeseburger In Paradise {WORDS}
Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville {WORDS}
Jimmy Buffett - Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw {WORDS}
John Denver - Country Roads {WORDS}
John Denver - Jet Plane {WORDS}
John Michael Montgomery - Sold {WORDS}
John Prine - Paradise {WORDS}
Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire {WORDS}
Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now {WORDS}
Journey - Any Way You Want It {WORDS}
Journey - Lights {WORDS}
Journey - Who's Crying Now {WORDS}
Kansas - Dust In The Wind {WORDS}
Kenny Rogers - Gambler {WORDS}
Kevin Fox - Smokey {WORDS}
Killers - For Reasons Unknown {WORDS}
Kinks - Lola {WORDS}
Led Zeppelin - Hey, Hey What Can I Do {WORDS}
Led Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop {WORDS}
Led Zeppelin - Over The Hills And Far Away {WORDS}
Led Zeppelin - Rock And Roll {WORDS}
Led Zeppelin - Thank You {WORDS}
Lego Movie - Everything Is Awesome {WORDS}
Leon Redbone - Bittersweet Waltz {WORDS}
Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows {WORDS}
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah {WORDS}
Les Miserables - Stars {WORDS}
Linda Ronstadt - You're No Good {WORDS}
Lit - My Own Worst Enemy {WORDS}
Local H - No Problem {WORDS}
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World {WORDS}
Love & Rockets - Holiday On The Moon {WORDS}
Lumineers - Salt And The Sea {WORDS}
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird {WORDS}
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme 3 Steps {WORDS}
Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride {WORDS}
Men At Work - Down Under {WORDS}
Men At Work - Overkill {WORDS}
Metallica - Whiskey In The Jar {WORDS}
Modern Lovers - Government Center {WORDS}
Monkees - Daydream Believer {WORDS}
Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin {WORDS}
Morphine - Sharks {WORDS}
New Politics - Harlem {WORDS}
NIN - Hurt {WORDS}
Nirvana - Come As You Are {WORDS}
Nirvana - In Bloom {WORDS}
Nirvana - On A Plain {WORDS}
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit {WORDS}
Outfield - Your Love {WORDS}
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train {WORDS}
Paul Simon - 50 Ways {WORDS}
Paul Simon - Me & Julio {WORDS}
Paul Simon - Slip Sliding Away {WORDS}
Pearl Jam - Small Town {WORDS}
Pepper - Your Face {WORDS}
Perfect Circle - Judith {WORDS}
Peter Paul & Mary - 500 Miles {WORDS}
Peter Paul & Mary - Puff The Magic Dragon {WORDS}
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb {WORDS}
Pink Floyd - Embryo {WORDS}
Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam {WORDS}
Pink Floyd - Pigs On The Wing {WORDS}
Pink Floyd - See Emily Play {WORDS}
Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun {WORDS}
Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine {WORDS}
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here {WORDS}
Pinocchio - When You Wish Upon A Star {WORDS}
Pirates Of The Caribbean {WORDS}
Police - Invisible Sun {WORDS}
Police - Walking On The Moon {WORDS}
Police - When The World Is Running Down {WORDS}
Pretty Reckless - Islands/Love The Way You Lie {WORDS}
Primus - Southbound Pachyderm {WORDS}
Pure Prairie League - Amie {WORDS}
Radiohead - Creep {WORDS}
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees {WORDS}
Ramones - Beat On The Brat {WORDS}
Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated {WORDS}
Ratt - Round And Round {WORDS}
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge {WORDS}
Refreshments - King Of The Hill {WORDS}
REM - Can't Get There From Here {WORDS}
REM - It's The End Of The World {WORDS}
REM - Orange Crush {WORDS}
REM - Stand {WORDS}
REM - Superman {WORDS}
Revivalists - Wish I Knew You {WORDS}
Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl {WORDS}
Rocky - Gonna Fly Of The Tiger {WORDS}
Rocky Horror - Science Fiction Double Feature {WORDS}
Rolling Stones - Play With Fire {WORDS}
Romantics - What I Like About You {WORDS}
Santana - Black Magic Woman {WORDS}
Scooby Doo - Scooby Doo Theme {WORDS}
Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer {WORDS}
Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson {WORDS}
Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair {WORDS}
Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds Of Silence {WORDS}
Sisters Of Mercy - Black Planet {WORDS}
Sisters Of Mercy - Dominion {WORDS}
Sisters Of Mercy - Vision Thing {WORDS}
Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise {WORDS}
Smashing Pumpkins - Today {WORDS}
Social Distortion - Ball & Chain {WORDS}
Soggy Bottom Boys - Man Of Constant Sorrow {WORDS}
Soundgarden - Pretty Noose {WORDS}
Spiderman - Spiderman Theme {WORDS}
Staind- It's Been Awhile {WORDS}
Steely Dan - Reelin' In The Years {WORDS}
Steve Miller - Joker {WORDS}
Steve Miller - Rockin' Me {WORDS}
Steve Miller - Space Cowboy {WORDS}
Steve Miller - Take The Money And Run {WORDS}
Stray Cats - Rock This Town {WORDS}
Styx - Boat On The River {WORDS}
Styx - Come Sail Away {WORDS}
Styx - Crystal Ball {WORDS}
Sublime - Badfish {WORDS}
Sublime - What I Got {WORDS}
T Rex - Get It On {WORDS}
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer {WORDS}
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World {WORDS}
Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels {WORDS}
Tears For Fears - Shout {WORDS}
Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever {WORDS}
Temptations - My Girl {WORDS}
Ten Years After - I'd Love To Change The World {WORDS}
Tenacious D - Tribute {WORDS}
The The - Armageddon Days {WORDS}
The The - The Beaten Generation {WORDS}
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak {WORDS}
Tom Petty - Free Fallin' {WORDS}
Tom Petty - Mary Jane's Last Dance {WORDS}
Tom Petty - Running Down A Dream {WORDS}
Tom Petty - Yer So Bad {WORDS}
Tom Petty - You Don't Know How It Feels {WORDS}
Toto - Africa {WORDS}
Toto - Hold The Line {WORDS}
Tracy Byrd - Keeper Of The Stars {WORDS}
Traveling Wilburys - End Of The Line {WORDS}
Trey Parker - Shpadoinkle {WORDS}
Van Halen - Ice Cream Man {WORDS}
Velvet Underground - Candy Says {WORDS}
Vic Chesnutt - Guilty By Association {WORDS}
Violent Femmes - Add It Up {WORDS}
Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone {WORDS}
Violent Femmes - Kiss Off {WORDS}
Wall Of Voodoo - Far Side Of Crazy {WORDS}
Warren Zevon - Lawyers Guns & Money {WORDS}
Warren Zevon - Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner {WORDS}
Waylon Jennings - Dukes Of Hazazrd {WORDS}
Wham - Careless Whisper {WORDS}
Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go {WORDS}
Who - Behind Blue Eyes {WORDS}
Who - Won't Get Fooled Again {WORDS}
Wilbert Harrison - Kansas City {WORDS}
Willie Nelson - On The Road Again {WORDS}
Willy Wonka - Pure Imagination {WORDS}
Wire - Strange {WORDS}
Wizard Of Oz - Somewhere Over The Rainbow {WORDS}
WKRP In Cincinnati - WKRP In Cincinnati Theme {WORDS}
Wombats - Bee Sting {WORDS}
Young Frankenstein {WORDS}
Zach Bryan - Something In The Orange {WORDS}

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Q&A

Q: What is this "Major" chord and scale you speak of from which everything is built?

A: A major chord is the 1,3 and 5 of the major scale.  This chord sounds all profound and serious, like it really means business, no frills attached.  As for the major scale, luckily Julie Andrews offers us a snappy tune that's a good starter learning the basic major scale.Do(1)-Re(2)-Mi(3)-Fa(4)-So(5)-La(6)-Ti(7)-Do(8 and 1 of the next octave).  Check out Julie, she'll make it easier for you.

Q: What's all this about flats and sharps?

A: Using that major scale.  If you modify one of the notes down a half step, that's a Flat note annotated with a b as in Bb, or sometimes using the real text flat characters thusly: ﯀  or ط.  For Sharp, it's instead, up a half tone.  Sharp uses the #.  This leads to one of the trickiest things to understand in music annotation.  Different names for the same note.  An A# for example is the same as a Bb.  A D# is the same note as an Eb.

There is a tricky rule involving key signatures for whether in music a flat or a sharp scheme is supposed to be used.  Technically, it should be the same in the key signature - all sharps or flats.  But this rule is utterly ignored here and in almost all shorthand annotation one finds.  I think the reason being, after you learn a chord or note by name that's hard enough already, dangit.  Why make it harder learning another name for it too?

Anyway, for math reasons there are 2 sequences of notes in each octave that don't have in-between notes in a major scale.  Between the 3rd and 4th, and between the 7th and 8th.  This is why you don't have E#/Fb ever, or B#/Cb ever.  Why?  Physics . . . . just is.  This is what makes piano keyboards look like they do with 3 flat/sharp black keys then 2, then 3 then 2 on up the keyboard repeating at each octave.

Q: What is a minor?

A: 1) Keep away from kids if you can't tell what a minor is you pedo.  2) Flat 3rd of the major so 1,3b,5.  It's the sad, melancholy sounding one.  There is much more to the question involving what happens to the other notes in a "minor " scale.  There are several regionally named scale variations around the 2nd, 6th and 7ths.  For all though, to qualify as minor scale variation, just need that flat 3rd.

Q: What do the numbers after the letters on the chords represent?

A: These are called augmented chords as opposed to major or minor.  Chord naming is based on the major musical scale.  Each octave is 8 notes.  Numbers 1-7 are the notes to choose within that.  Numbers over 8 going into the next octave mean add note numbered in the scale.  To get to it subtract the octave's 8.  Why is this done?  This is done because 1- 3 are already used for hand position.

It breaks down like this in the annotation used here: Numbers 1-3 are used to reference hand position rather than notes on the major scale.  We switch to scale based numbers for the suspend "sus" 4th and the power chord 5th, where for both, the 3rd is not played.  6 is a straight add of the 6th in the scale to the 1st, 3rd and 5th major chord.  7 uses the flat 7th by default because blues is king.  Major 7ths (maj7) use the 7th of the major scale.  The add9 is where we have to subtract the octave 8 to include the 2nd of the scale.  This also then happens when you see add11 for the 4th or add13 for the 6th.

That probably sounds to non-mugicians like total gibberish.  Don't worry, knowing why a number translates to a specific hand position doesn't come up once a song is figured out.  As more songs are learned, commonalities start to emerge in the sequences and combinations.  This makes each new song easier than the last.  These "comfy chord changes" often seem uncannily made for the arrangement of the guitar specifically.  Possibly this is because a whole lot of songs originally were written on the guitar, even if the final presentation of them has no guitar at all.

Q: What's a bar chord?

A: It's where you use your flattened index finger to create a "Open" baseline by depressing all strings across the fretboard.  It hurts to do this, so this is usually not done to beginners, particularly those learning acoustic guitar where full bar chords can take time to build up to.  The most painful of all is the F, which seems appropriate.

Using this "bar" you can replicate the open E and open A based chords on up the fretboard.  This works the same way for minor chords and the numbered chords as well.  Once you master the bar most chords become easily available by simply moving your hand around leaving finger positions the same.  Note - Use of a capo is a the same basic function as the index finger bar, only instead it is mechanically holding the strings down.


Q: What model is that Martin Guitar you are playing?

A: Similar to the GPC 11-E, but I can't find any examples of this one sided fret board arrangement that I love in the current catalog.  Could be pretty rare I guess.

I can confirm, she was born in the fall of 2013 in Nazareth, PA.  Also, she's been modified with a different pick guard.  And the onboard tuner and bridge pickup were replaced with an Ernie Ball Bridge/Mic pickup.

Point of interest . . . the top side was purposely left with two largish open holes from the original tuner.  Since this side is what's facing me while playing, it pipes an extra bunch of sound straight at me.  I don't think I've ever heard an acoustic guitar that sounds as good to the player unplugged as this one, partially because of these "accidental" sound ports.

Q: Are the mp3's on the coverpile pages the same audio as on the videos?

A: Yes for Sentient Cement slideshow vids.  No for the JC and Timmy covers.  Sound on those vids is a combo of the original 16bit wav merged with a little (or sometimes a bunch) of the sound from the video itself.  This acts as the ultimate dry channel parallel, in theory.  In any case, each is a unique mix.  Coupled with the unique encoding on the platform hosting the vid, the end results can be quite divergent.  The mp3's however, are directly converted to mp3 from the wav, so are absent the room ambiance captured by the vid mics.

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