Studying at BRAM has taken my appreciation of what those guys playing behind the guy playing the melody line are doing to a whole new level.
Here I'm amatuerly (at best) playing a bunch of chords that are well beyond my comfort zone of standard rock and roll chords while in the background is a previously recorded version of myself playing the melody line.
Now the only reason I've posted such horrendous playing is that a) hopefully 6 months from now I can come back and play again better and faster and see my progress and b) 4 months ago I didn't know such chords as A7#5b9 were real and much less how to play them. Not to mention this is the 3rd version of A7#5b9 that I've played trying to get this song down; I've played it with different formations and this is what I like best (today). So it's not like I'm working from a chord chart; I actually understand what notes make the chord.
As a note, a real challenge for me has been learning how to play 6th string tonic 7ths like this - in this case, for a G7, I'm use to the traditional barre chord based off the E7 and with the bad video you can really see (along with hear) how my pinky is still working up to speed.
The part that was fun was that I surprised myself by actually pulling off the Cmaj7 - Dm7 - G7b9 (no tonic) change at the end of the 8th bar. Not well, but I've been trying to at least get the fingers turned around fast enough for a number of times now and I finally happened to make it!
