In keeping with my experimental online teaching method, I like to direct a student's attention to the original video first-- since we now have access to almost anything ever produced. After watching and listening to the original, students can observe my rendition-- using a piano or piano and keyboard combination. This monkey-see monkey-do approach has been demonstrated to be scientifically valid. Google "Scientific American" + "monkey see monkey do" and you'll find that reference. The yellow link at the bottom will take students to a discussion area where I tear the song's chords down and how it's put together, along with a chord chart and other material needed to do the song. Here's Bread-- with David Gates.... If you're reading this in your email, click on the title above or the "posted by Rick to PianoLessonsEtc.com" line at the bottom to view the video.
Now, here's me on the Korg SP-280, a new model from Korg that is light and portable. The piano sound is accurate but I find the keys lighter than they should be. The SP-250 has less on it but the keys are actually a bit heavier-- and I'd now recommend the 250 to any students interested in an 88 key digital piano. The keyboard on the side is a YamahaE433 and was the best buy I could find-- with full automatic background rhythms. Anymore than this and you get into synthesizers that don't lend themselves to realtime performance. You can see me struggling during my song with some of the controls. I've been thinking about putting the keyboard in front of me on a rack but then that interferes with the music rack. So-- I'm unresolved. The keys on the side works ok once the chords are learned. I threw this up in the interests of getting it out there rather than perfecting it right now. If you're reading this in your email, click on the title above or the "posted by Rick to PianoLessonsEtc.com" line at the bottom to view the video.
So that's as good as I have it down so far-- which isn't bad but it's not ready for performing in front of people at a restaurant, cafe or bar yet. I think I need to slow it down. The bass doesn't come through on this either for some reason. In any case, as an online student, you should replay one of us-- either Bread or me, above and use the lyrics below to sing along to get to know the song before you learn the chords. You'll note that when I post the lyrics on this blog that I use the chord chart version of the lyrics. These chords are extremely instructive to the student--- of course-- but even more important are the Roman Numeral codes that go with those chords-- which you do NOT see below. This lesson, then, includes singing along first-- then copy and print the chord chard below and install the roman numbers. If you have trouble with it, post to the forum linked in yellow below. Posting requires no log in, and is free-- and I'll see your post since I check there daily. Here are the lyrics now...
Discussion and more videos, continued lesson on chords and other elements.
GUITAR MAN
If you're reading this in your email, click on the title above or the "posted by Rick to PianoLessonsEtc.com" line at the bottom to view the video.
Now, here's me on the Korg SP-280, a new model from Korg that is light and portable. The piano sound is accurate but I find the keys lighter than they should be. The SP-250 has less on it but the keys are actually a bit heavier-- and I'd now recommend the 250 to any students interested in an 88 key digital piano. The keyboard on the side is a YamahaE433 and was the best buy I could find-- with full automatic background rhythms. Anymore than this and you get into synthesizers that don't lend themselves to realtime performance. You can see me struggling during my song with some of the controls. I've been thinking about putting the keyboard in front of me on a rack but then that interferes with the music rack. So-- I'm unresolved. The keys on the side works ok once the chords are learned. I threw this up in the interests of getting it out there rather than perfecting it right now. If you're reading this in your email, click on the title above or the "posted by Rick to PianoLessonsEtc.com" line at the bottom to view the video.
So that's as good as I have it down so far-- which isn't bad but it's not ready for performing in front of people at a restaurant, cafe or bar yet. I think I need to slow it down. The bass doesn't come through on this either for some reason. In any case, as an online student, you should replay one of us-- either Bread or me, above and use the lyrics below to sing along to get to know the song before you learn the chords. You'll note that when I post the lyrics on this blog that I use the chord chart version of the lyrics. These chords are extremely instructive to the student--- of course-- but even more important are the Roman Numeral codes that go with those chords-- which you do NOT see below. This lesson, then, includes singing along first-- then copy and print the chord chard below and install the roman numbers. If you have trouble with it, post to the forum linked in yellow below. Posting requires no log in, and is free-- and I'll see your post since I check there daily. Here are the lyrics now...
Bread
Guitar man
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INTRO
G C D.........
CHORDS
G G 320033
Who draws the crowd C 032010
C D 000232
Who plays so loud Em 022000
D F# 244222
Baby its the guitar man. G# 466544
G C Bm7 004432
Who's going to steal the show Am7 or C6 002010
D Em 022100
You know baby its the guitar man
CHORUS
Em
He can make you love
C
He can make you cry
Em A
He will bring you down and he'll get you high
Cm7 Bm7
Something keeps him going miles and miles a day
Am7 D
to find another place to play..........
G
Night after night,
C
who treats you right
D
Baby its the guitar man
G C
Who's on the radio
D
You go to listen to the guitar man
CHORUS
Em C
When he comes to town and you see his face
Em
And you think you
A
might like to take his place
Cm7 Bm7
Something keeps him going miles and miles a day
Am7 D
to find another place to play........
Am G# C6 F#
Then you listen to the music and you like to sing along
G F# Em
You want to get the meaning out of each and
E Am G#
every song and you find yourself a message and some
C6 F# E
words to call your own and take them home...............
Cm7 Bm7 Am7
Something keeps him moving, but no one seems to know what it
D
is that makes him go......
Am G# C6 F#
Then the lights begin to flicker and the sound is getting dim.
G F# Em E
The voice begins to falter and the crowds are getting thin
Am G# C6
But he never seems to notice he's just got to find
F# E
another place to play...........
Discussion and more videos, continued lesson on chords and other elements.
GUITAR MAN
If you're reading this in your email, click on the title above or the "posted by Rick to PianoLessonsEtc.com" line at the bottom to view the video.
