My Heart of Gold
I love having a blog that no one reads. It's like a tree falling in the woods where I'm the only one there to hear it. So I can post this recording I did recently of Neil Young's Heart of Gold without fear that someone I know will stumble upon it and judge.
TBH I am not a very good guitar player, but I like to fuck around at home and it's a good creative outlet. I've owned my guitar for nearly 20 years. I took lessons for a few, but I've only played on and off, practicing in spurts, which any musician will tell you isn't very effective. About a year and a half ago I really started to try to play again. I wanted to play songs I connected with - songs whose spirit I felt like I understood and resonated with. I was looking for easy stuff and settled on a few songs to try to get right. This was one of them.
It's a very easy song to play: Em D, Em D C G, standard tuning, no capo, nothing fancy. The lyrics are straight forward and aren't a book, like a lot of Dylan songs. But early on I found myself not remembering the opening lyrics. I could easily pick up after the first sentence, but I couldn't remember how to kick it off. Again, TBH, and again because this tree is falling and only I'm here to hear it, I sort of scared myself because it occurred to me that I wasn't connecting with the spirit of the song, because I didn't believe those first lyrics.
I've since dismissed that conclusion as steeped in depression, and this song has taken root in me. Enjoy, no one.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j8za6o8ead4phxi/Heart%20Of%20Gold.m4a
TBH I am not a very good guitar player, but I like to fuck around at home and it's a good creative outlet. I've owned my guitar for nearly 20 years. I took lessons for a few, but I've only played on and off, practicing in spurts, which any musician will tell you isn't very effective. About a year and a half ago I really started to try to play again. I wanted to play songs I connected with - songs whose spirit I felt like I understood and resonated with. I was looking for easy stuff and settled on a few songs to try to get right. This was one of them.
It's a very easy song to play: Em D, Em D C G, standard tuning, no capo, nothing fancy. The lyrics are straight forward and aren't a book, like a lot of Dylan songs. But early on I found myself not remembering the opening lyrics. I could easily pick up after the first sentence, but I couldn't remember how to kick it off. Again, TBH, and again because this tree is falling and only I'm here to hear it, I sort of scared myself because it occurred to me that I wasn't connecting with the spirit of the song, because I didn't believe those first lyrics.
I've since dismissed that conclusion as steeped in depression, and this song has taken root in me. Enjoy, no one.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j8za6o8ead4phxi/Heart%20Of%20Gold.m4a
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