Right……
At the last meeting I tried to “stretch” people to playing “I don’t want to set the world on fire”.
I dont want to set the world on fire – click here for music.
First sticking point: The original Inkspots version is actually too slow for any sane person to attempt to play.
Listen
It’s horribly slow. So I try to play this a little faster – in order to not fall asleep between notes.
Second sticking point (s)
There’s a Ebdim and a Dm7.
Ebdim is enough to give you nightmares unless you think about it from a different angle.
Here’s the trick: Play the C chord, at the start of the song, with you little finger. Then at “on” you press down your first, middle and ring finger as if you are playing a G on the remaining three strings.
Ordinarily you’d be playing C with your ring finger, but to change from C to Ebdim – you need to play with your little finger.
Thinking of it this way – playing C with your little finger – make the Dm7 easy too. Simply keep the little finger on the C chord position and play Dm – this make Dm7
. . . and the final two “odd chords”
C9 – which is just a C7 and a middle/ ring finger onto the C string on second fret – not impossible.
The last “odd” chord is the G7+5
This is just a G& with that lovely little finger pressing down on the third fret of the C string.
Please try this. Once you’ve master the timing between C, Ebdim and Dm7 you’ll actually enjoy it.
Ta
John
Update:
“Inkspots Intro”.
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(possibly play twice)
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