tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78154085922262455992024-02-26T10:34:56.049-07:00Gospel-friendly Guitar TabsHymns and songs for Latter-Day Saints and other Christians, in guitar tablature.Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.comBlogger235125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-81734240548855541992022-06-19T07:21:00.001-06:002022-06-19T07:21:14.664-06:00Amazing Grace<p> After a nearly-fatal auto accident last July 5, I was unable to play the guitar for many months. I still cannot close my left hand into a fist all the way, but continue to improve slowly. Meanwhile, I discovered that I CAN play in Open D tuning. When I learned that this is the preferred tuning for slide guitar, I did some experimenting. The result is this beautiful arrangement of Amazing Grace. I learned to play with a slide, but I still prefer finger picking and finger-style guitar. My right hand was not damaged, so I invented a compromise style. Let me know what you think!</p>Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-36505615808270667212018-12-30T05:15:00.001-07:002018-12-30T05:15:20.999-07:00Redeemer of IsraelA very easy tune to play, for all that it sounds great. No hard techniques or chord transitions, but it does require a few easy barre chords (all barred E-shapes). It's hard to believe I waited this long to arrange such a popular hymn.Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-44768002398663037102018-12-07T04:30:00.000-07:002018-12-07T04:31:23.178-07:00Carol of the BellsI wanted to work out Carol of the Bells for you for Christmas, but I couldn’t figure out what key to play it in. There are a zillion guitar versions on YouTube, in every key imaginable. Nearly all suffer from one of the following faults:<br />
--Some are so simple that they don’t sound good.<br />
--Some sound fantastic, but are impossible for normal human beings to play.<br />
--Some, believe it or not, don’t sound good AND are impossible to play.<br />
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I had about given up, when I stumbled across this guitar lesson and tab <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-jq1LMAXnE">HERE</a> (at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-jq1LMAXnE.) It not only sounds awesome, but it’s so easy to learn, and the lesson and tab are so easy to follow, that several beginning guitarists have commented that it only took them a few days to learn. A printable version of the tab is available from Etsy.com for $1.49 <a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/566498817/">HERE</a>: (https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/566498817/)<br />
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I wish I knew the name of the guitarist, but he has not chosen to include it. Anyway, Merry Christmas!<br />
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Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-44247499780220134782018-10-12T09:06:00.001-06:002018-10-12T09:06:18.716-06:00Choose the RightWhen they sang this song in Sacrament Meeting, I suddenly realized that I had never arranged it for guitar, and it's a natural! It's even easy to play, as there are no barre chords, except for the very last chord, it's an easy one, and you can easily substitute a single note for it. Also, there are no hard techniques or difficult chord changes. In fact, there are only four or five chords, depending on whether or not you use the final barre chord. And the other chords are all easy ones: A, E, E7, and D.<br />
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But the best part is, this song sounds super when played on the guitar. So far, I've only played it on my classical guitar, but I'm sure it would sound just as good on steel strings, or even on an electric guitar, or even as a duet with a violin or flute. The possibilities are endless. Enjoy!Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-85921292387792749742018-08-23T20:43:00.002-06:002018-08-23T20:45:10.702-06:00Praise God from Whom All Blessings FlowDefinitely an easy hymn to play. Maybe not for rank beginners, but certainly easy enough for anyone else. There are no barre chords, no hard techniques or difficult chord changes, and only one verse. Not too bad for the world's most popular hymn.<br />
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This song is so easy, I anticipate that many actual beginners will choose to learn it, so I have included exhaustive, measure by measure instructions, all for free. Enjoy!</div>
Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-60352507758608335832018-07-12T15:57:00.001-06:002018-07-12T15:57:59.876-06:00Lord, I Would Follow TheeWent to a grand-daughter's baptism where this hymn was played. I couldn't believe I hadn't yet arranged it for guitar, as it's one of my favorites, and very different from all others, musically. I guess it was the right time. When I sat down to play it, an amazing thing happened. After a few attempts to play it in the key of D, I tried all other keys. None were possible to play on the guitar as written. Then I got the idea to play it in C, but starting with a <b>C</b><span style="font-size: x-small;">VIII</span> chord, which is a barred-E shape, and the whole song just fell into place. In a couple of hours, it was done. Fastest arrangement I've ever done, and I think, one of the best. I hope you agree.<br />
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I've listed this hymn as "Intermediate," because it's almost all barre chords, but they're very standard ones. If you don't mind barre chords, you will likely find this hymn easy to learn.Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-20607246353303525022018-07-08T19:15:00.000-06:002018-07-08T19:15:41.784-06:00True to the Faith (Shall the Youth of Zion Prosper)This has long been one of my favorites, and I can't imagine why I haven't arranged it for guitar previously. It always reminds me of July Fourth and Flag Day celebrations, perhaps because of the quick, march tempo, as well as the subject matter.<br />
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Anyway, it's fun to play, and not very hard. Classification: Easy. I hope you enjoy playing it as much as I've enjoyed arranging it.<br />
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I do apologize for not doing more hymns, now that I'm officially retired. "Retired" is a relative term. I'm camping out in a camping trailer while building a cabin for us to live in in the mountains of Utah. Mostly by myself. So even though I'm not working for wages, I'm working harder than ever. See my building blog, "The Gold Street Cabin in Mammoth, Utah" for details, pictures, etc.<br />
<br />Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-5327273621917206882018-05-27T16:29:00.001-06:002018-10-12T09:33:54.646-06:00Decoding Key SignaturesThere’s an old joke that goes, “How do you get your guitarist to turn down his amp? Answer: Put sheet music in front of him.” Too often, guitarists never become fluent in reading sheet music.<br />
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It’s confusing. You look at a piece of sheet music, thinking about maybe trying to play it, and the first thing you see is a bunch of sharps or flats, most of the time. If there aren’t any, you know it’s in the key of <b>C</b>. If there’s just one sharp, you know it’s in <b>G</b>. If there’s just one flat, you know it’s in <b>F</b>, which for most of us isn’t very helpful. That’s about as far as most guitarists get in learning to decode key signatures. You could memorize all twelve, but there’s a much easier way.<br />
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Look at the signature, the group of flats or sharps at the very beginning of the sheet music. Reading from left to right, you will see anywhere from zero to six of them, showing which notes are to be sharped or flatted. For example, suppose a piece has a signature of four sharps: E#, C#, F#, and D#. It doesn’t matter how many there are, or which notes they are on. Just look at the <i>last one,</i> (reading from left to right), and raise it a half tone. In this case, you get <b>E</b>. That’s your key. Simple!<br />
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The trick for flats is even simpler. Just look at the <i>next-to-the-last</i> flat. If there are four flats: B<i>b</i>, E<i>b</i>, A<i>b</i>, and D<i>b</i>, the key is <b>A<i>b</i></b>. All key signatures with flats in them are flatted keys: <b>A<i>b</i></b>, <b>B<i>b</i></b>, <b>D<i>b</i></b>, <b>E<i>b</i></b>, <b>G<i>b</i></b>. The only exception is <b>F</b>, which has one flat. But you already knew that. Few guitarists like to play in any of these keys without using a capo. So, determine the key shown by the next-to-last flat, drop it another half note (in this case to <b>G</b>), and play it with a capo in the first fret. Easy!<br />
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These rules are for MAJOR keys. MINOR keys are a bit more complex. Each minor key shares its signature with a major key, and is called its “relative minor.” <b>Am</b> shares its key signature (no sharps or flats) with <b>C</b>. <b>Em</b> is the relative minor of <b>G</b>; <b>Bm</b> is the relative minor of <b>D</b>, etc. As a guitar student, you learned four basic chords in each key: the Dominant, Sub-Dominant, Seventh, and the Relative Minor. Now you know why it’s called the Relative minor.<br />
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Here’s are the major keys with their relative minors:<br />
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<b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>C<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Am</b><br />
<b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>C#<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> B<i>b</i>m</b><br />
<b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>D<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Bm</b><br />
<b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>D#<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Cm</b><br />
<b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>E<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> C#m</b><br />
<b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>F<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Dm</b><br />
<b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>F#<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> E<i>b</i>m</b><br />
<b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>G<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Em</b><br />
<b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>G#<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Fm</b><br />
<b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> F#m</b><br />
<b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>B<i>b</i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Gm</b><br />
<b> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> B G#m</b><br />
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See the pattern? Each Relative Minor is exactly three half-notes (frets) below it’s major key. To find a minor key, just find the major key from the key signature, drop three frets, and you’re there!Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-26872463198751687112018-04-04T15:17:00.000-06:002018-04-08T09:19:14.039-06:00Tennis, Airplanes, and GuitarsIn the deciding set of the 1993 Wimbledon finals, Jana Novotna was ahead of Steffi Graff 4-1, when she choked. She served the ball straight into the net, twice. That double fault haunted her, and she choked. She played worse and worse, each fault making it even harder for her to just let go and play like the world champion she was. By the end of the match, she was playing like a rank beginner, and managed to lose what had looked like a certain victory.<br />
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Six years later, John F. Kennedy Jr. took off on a night flight to Martha’s Vinyard, that would be his last. Somewhere over the Rhode Island Sound, he lost sight of the horizon in the misty darkness. He flew around randomly, obviously searching for the lights of his destination. While his attention was thus occupied, his plane entered a one-g spiral dive. Such a “graveyard spiral” is easily corrected by any pilot who can see the horizon, or who is regularly monitoring his flight instruments. In the dark and haze, Kennedy panicked. His attention fixated on <i>finding those darned lights!</i> Most likely, his perceptions narrowed until he literally could not see his instruments. Panic does that. Still focused on his destination, Kennedy flew his plane into the water at over 150 miles per hour, killing all on board.<br />
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Both Novotna and Kennedy were responding inappropriately to the same kind of pressure felt by musicians performing before an audience. But their responses were poles apart. Novotna choked and lost all her instinctive expertise, reverting to playing from her head, like a beginner who has to think about every move. Naturally, her play got worse and worse.<br />
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Kennedy did just the opposite. In his panic, he trusted his trained instincts to fly the plane, while he super-focused on searching for his destination. In the foggy dark, his instincts told him NOTHING about what his airplane was doing, but his panic would not let him see anything but what he was searching for. Had he choked and reverted to “beginner” mode, as Novotna did, he would have seen his flight instruments, and could have corrected his descent at any time, right up to the moment of impact.<br />
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What does this have to do with guitars? Everything. We all make mistakes under pressure. Repeatedly. Good performers just go on with the program. They don’t choke and revert to beginners. When it hits the fan, they just relax, disengage their brain, and let muscle memory take over. It may not be their best performance ever, but the audience probably will never know.<br />
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Yet, things do happen. A string breaks in the middle of a song. A mic gets knocked over. My daughter and I were ready for a church performance last Christmas, when she discovered that her sheet music was missing. “Oh, Holy Night”. In French. She could have panicked and delayed the performance looking for it. (She wouldn’t have found it. We never did.) She could have choked and sung it in English, without the difficult obligato we’d rehearsed so hard and so long. Instead, she just <i>sang </i>it, relying on her vocal muscle memory for the French words, her lovely, trained voice, and on my guitar for the timing. It was BEAUTIFUL. The audience never knew.<br />
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What made it possible? LOTS AND LOTS of practice. Good musicians don’t just rehearse until they can do it right every time. Good musicians practice until they <i>cannot do it wrong.</i>Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-25017280813542011862018-03-06T07:39:00.001-07:002018-03-06T07:39:34.649-07:00O Ye Mountains HighPerhaps not sung as often as it used to be, this song is historically important, as well as beautiful, and not hard to play. This version can work well both as an instrumental piece and as a vocal accompaniment. I think it would go well with a country fiddle, but have never had the chance to try it. Maybe even with a harmonica. If you get the opportunity to do so, please send us a video! Or at least email me at d.fallick@hotmail.com and let me know how it went. Even if you decide not to play it, please read the history part of the commentary. This song may have helped prevent a war!Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-87429992891695805092018-02-04T18:58:00.001-07:002018-02-04T19:02:37.297-07:00The Lord Is My LightA good song for beginners. NO BARRE CHORDS! No hard chords, either. There are lots of hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides, and one tremolo, but no really difficult techniques. Enjoy! Some hymns take a long time and a lot of hard work to simplify for beginners, but this was not one of them. It almost wrote itself. I love it when that happens. I did the arrangement on one day, and tabbed it the next. Took a third day to write the instructions and look up the history. Everything went smoothly. I waited a couple of days, then played it through again. I found a couple of typos, but nothing that actually needed to be re-written, which is unusual for me. Just a really easy song.Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-56367965698780279912017-12-08T08:19:00.002-07:002017-12-08T08:19:58.131-07:00The Five-Minute Method for Learning the Guitar Cut your practice time in half--and learn faster!<br />
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Learning to play the guitar, like any physical skill, involves muscle learning, and that means lots of repetition. There are many methods for getting students to practice sufficiently, because lengthy practice sessions are <i>boring</i>.<br />
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Any sports coach can tell you that you’ll never develop your talents if you only practice once a week. Most insist on daily practice, and the best require practice sessions twice a day. Learning to play the guitar is more like a sport than like academic learning. Minimizing forgetting time between practices is the key to muscle learning. And muscle learning is vital to playing the guitar. You don’t have time to think about what you are doing while playing. It has to become automatic.<br />
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I have found that four or five very brief practice sessions per day is ideal for most students, even if the sessions only last five minutes. That makes twenty-five minutes of practice per day, less than half the traditional, hourlong, daily practices. By minimizing forgetting time, the five-times-a-day student learns much faster, <i>even though their total daily practice time is less than half.</i> The results are so obvious that anyone can see the difference.<br />
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Short, frequent practice sessions also encourage motivation. You don’t have time to become bored. You can practice longer than five minutes, <i>if you want to</i>. But five-minute sessions, spaced throughout the day, will work. You come to each brief practice fresh, enthusiastic, and eager to learn. You can see daily improvement, and you look forward to practicing. And motivation is the key to success. I guarantee my students that they will see obvious improvement in any week in which they practice four or five times every day, or the next lesson is free.<br />
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In twenty years, I have never had to give a free lesson.<br />
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I have been playing guitar for more than half a century, but you can learn everything I know in a single year, if you practice four or five times a day. I have taught students of all ages, from seven years old to seventy, using this method. Even my youngest students mastered skills in one year that took me a lifetime to learn.<br />
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It’s fun, fast, and free. Try it and see the difference for yourself.Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-36152747220027713122017-12-03T17:10:00.000-07:002017-12-03T17:10:20.523-07:00THREE Featured tabs this month!Two of them are NEW Christmas carols: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, and O Little Town of Bethlehem-- enjoy! The third is an "oldie but goodie": ¡Regocijad! which is Joy to the World in Spanish.Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-30114612159284291242017-12-02T00:15:00.003-07:002017-12-02T00:17:26.817-07:00I Heard the Bells on Christmas DayEvery year in early December, I try to post a “new” Christmas song, to give you enough time to learn it before Christmas. I usually have a hard time deciding which to post. Christmas carols are my favorite music to play, throughout the year. I first heard this one performed by Johnny Cash, and it stuck with me forever. Even though it doesn’t mention the Savior at all by name, the constant repetition of his message, “Peace on earth, good will to men” keeps him constantly in my mind as I play the song. I hope you’ll love it as much as I do. Consider it an Intermediate song, but you will find it on the Featured page too. <b>Merry Christmas!</b>Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-57137110403124181572017-08-27T15:03:00.003-06:002017-08-27T15:17:16.687-06:00Double Feature!In the days of my youth, movie theaters had only one auditorium, but people didn't want to see only one movie. The theaters' solution was to offer a "double feature"-- a main attraction that was a brand new film, plus an older, classic film. Satisfied everyone. We're doing something similar.<br />
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The "second feature" is <i>Beautiful Savior,</i> one of the prettiest hymns known. It's lovely, but contains seventeen chords and is hard to play. The "main attraction" is <i>With Humble Heart,</i> another really pretty tune that has only three chords, and qualifies as Easy. It comes with a story:<br />
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Since I joined the Mormon Church in 1980, I have occasionally seen the priests at the Sacrament table make a mad dash for bread from the kitchen freezer, and once or twice, Sacrament Meeting has been delayed while someone ran home for bread. But I have never seen the meeting proceed to the Sacrament, only to have the priests uncover the bread trays during the Sacrament hymn and discover, at the last moment, that there was no bread. Until last Sunday. While the quorum adviser ran home for bread, the song leader led us in hymn after hymn, and we all tried to maintain our reverence and keep from giggling. This hymn was the last one we sang before receiving the Sacrament. I have long been partial to it, but had never considered arranging it for guitar until now. Here it is, fresh from my computer. I've never played it for anyone but my wife.Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-14377417378893583182017-06-25T16:34:00.001-06:002017-06-25T16:34:41.183-06:00Lord, Accept Our True DevotionBeautiful song, and really rather easy. It's even already in the key of C, so I didn't even have to transpose it! It may be just a <i>little</i> advanced for a true beginner, as it does contain ONE barre chord. But it's an easy one, <b>G</b><span style="font-size: x-small;">III,</span> and is preceded by a four beat chord, leaving plenty of time to arrange your fingers. Hope you all enjoy it. Next month, when a different song is featured, you'll find it on the Easy page.Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-56138825260057235262017-06-08T00:33:00.001-06:002017-06-08T00:33:43.727-06:00Tab list now works rightThanks to our Webmaster, Joseph Gray, the interactive tab list now takes you directly to the tab you click on. It was always supposed to work that way, but I'm much better at arranging hymns than at publishing them online. Thank you, Joseph! So, now there are two ways to access any song on the blog: you can use the interactive tab list on this page, or, you can look up songs by difficulty level. Coming next: a table of contents by subject. But that's for the future. I haven't even started on that yet.Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-20455560442018493352017-05-22T08:20:00.000-06:002017-06-08T00:24:35.329-06:00They, the Builders of the NationMay's Featured Song is "They, the Builders of the Nation". My wife and I (both about 70 years old) have begun building a cabin on an old foundation in an old mining town in rural Utah. This makes us feel very much like pioneers, and fits perfectly with the building theme of this song. I like to play it before starting work in the morning. It helps me keep my daily building problems in perspective. Here it is in two versions: Easy and Intermediate, in plenty of time to learn it for Pioneer Day.Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-43859832905368245382017-04-11T20:01:00.001-06:002017-04-11T20:01:19.495-06:00The Morning BreaksThe featured song this month is Hymn #1, "The Morning Breaks". Every Conference, I try to pick out the hymn or song that strikes me the hardest and arrange it for the blog, if I haven't already done so. With a menu approaching 200 songs, it is getting harder and harder to find one I haven't already tabbed! Somehow, I've managed to miss this one, until now. It's listed on the Featured page, and also on the Intermediate page, though it is only its tempo that keeps it from being Easy. Barre chords are few and easy, and there are no hard transitions. Enjoy!Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-50652040149449751142017-04-04T14:41:00.003-06:002017-04-04T14:41:52.976-06:00Reformatting is DONE!Now maybe I can get back to living my life, maybe even arrange some new songs. Meanwhile, enjoy the change!Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-44070855682874603472017-03-26T14:45:00.002-06:002017-03-26T14:48:07.822-06:00Do What Is Right (The Daydawn is Breaking)When I went to reformat this song with its commentary included, I couldn’t find the commentary! After an hour of fruitless searching, I concluded that I never did write one for this wonderful piece, which is one of my absolute favorites. So I decided to write one, and in doing so, discovered several major errors in the tab. They have now been corrected. If you tried playing this piece, and didn’t like my arrangement, you were right. Please give it another chance! (Do what is right!) You'll find it on the Featured page, and the Intermediate page as well.<br />
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If you have tried to download a tab and had difficulty gaining access, please email me right away (see "Contact Information"). Hopefully, we've got all the bugs worked out.<br />
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I am continuing to reformat the existing tabs, including my comments and instructions at the end of every tab. This is not as simple as it may seem; not NEARLY as simple as I expected it to be. Seems to take around an hour, on average. Currently, I've finished all the Featured tabs, All the Absolute Beginners tabs, all the Easy tabs, and all the Spanish tabs, and have begun work on the Intermediate and Advanced tabs. Many thanks to Joseph Gray, our Webmaster, for all his help in setting up this new format. Also, many thanks to my son Soren, for selflessly hosting all the links for the old format for so many years.<br />
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<br />Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-72103428729386535142017-03-06T20:41:00.000-07:002017-03-06T20:41:56.674-07:00Three Featured tabsThis month we are featuring two songs:<br />
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<b>Brightly Beams Our Father's Mercy </b> (easy tabs)<br />
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<b>If the Way Be Full of Trial, Weary Not</b> (advanced tabs)<br />
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<b>Si la vía es penosa</b> is the Spanish title of "If the Way Be Full of Trial, Weary Not". This Spanish version is COMPLETELY in Spanish, including chord names, instructions, and history. I felt it important to translate it all, as the song appears <b>only</b> in the Spanish language version of the LDS Hymnal. If you speak Spanish and English, be sure to share it with a Spanish-speaking friend.<br />
<br />Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-73171959654035771392017-02-23T17:34:00.002-07:002017-02-25T14:29:49.587-07:00Where did all the tabs go?!!After years of procrastinating, I have finally arranged the tabs by level of difficulty: Beginner, Easy, Intermediate, or Advanced, and have put each group on it’s own page, where they are arranged alphabetically. Plus:<br />
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❏ Table of Contents on the Home Page. Easily find the song you want.<br />
❏ <i>Pagina de español</i> -- Spanish Language Page <br />
❏ Featured Tab page. The most recent tab (or tabs) will be posted here.<br />
❏ Tab Tips and Instructions page. Reading tablature, chord theory, and <br />
<b>How to Learn 60 Chords at Once</b> (Diminished Seventh Chord Theory).<br />
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Next up: additional pages for children’s songs, holiday songs, love songs, patriotic songs, and songs in other languages (Besides English and Spanish). Those should happen some time in the next month or so. Plus, I’ll continue combining existing tabs and commentaries. This requires about an hour per song. I don’t expect to finish soon, but all the songs on the Absolute Beginners page are finished.Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815408592226245599.post-17131658384043045812017-02-16T13:31:00.003-07:002017-02-16T13:31:53.835-07:00Weary NotSorry for the long hiatus. My wife developed cancer, necessitating five surgeries and an unexpected end to our mission in Chile. She's OK now, and I can once again get back to rebuilding this blog and arranging music for the guitar. I thought this song would be an appropriate one to start with. It's a great comfort, and has become one of my favorites.Don Fallickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144404063030016064noreply@blogger.com0