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Taylor Guitars – Hug Your Haters, Original song
Taylor Guitars has a YouTube show called “Taylor Primetime” every Tuesday night at 9PM EST. In their first “season” they asked for song submissions for a segment called “Hug Your Haters” – the segment was where the hosts would take a hateful comment or email, and then address it w/ a “hug”.
Taylor asked the viewers to write a song for the segment, for a potential contest in 2020.
I just happened to be taking Fretboard Wizard at the time, and was learning about chord progressions in keys – w/ Tony P explaining when to use a major key or minor key.
I picked a minor key so that it would emote sadness. This song is inspired by the songwriting of Ruston Kelly. The song is about an angry and bitter man, who complains about everything. Then after a hug (the first chorus), his life is changed and he starts to see things in a new light.
The lyrics are in the description of the video, and poke fun at the shows hosts.
I composed to the guitar part to be very minimalistic, i feel like simple progressions are more beautiful and timeless.
I added an extra corny touch (which is my personality) at the end.
So although it’s a quick jingle, I actually did put a lot of thought into it, hope it “brings a smile to your face”!
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This discussion was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by
Dzuy N. Reason: Wanted to add details on lyrics
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16 Replies
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That was creative, fun and well performed! Lovely playing @Dzuy N ! 🙌
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thx 🙂 it was fun to write this silly song. 🙂
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Really nice work, Dzuyn! Enjoyed it.
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thx for watching!
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@Dzuy N, that was awesome! You have a great voice, and your playing and the recording quality were really nice. Way to go!
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Thanks you’re inspiring me to record more! 🙂
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wow! loved your fingerpicking there and nice song too. Well done!
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Thank you, i learned from TAC, steady 10 min a day, kinda crazy to think I couldn’t fingerpick 6 years ago
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Really nicely done! Enjoyed the creativity and the finger picking. Sweet looking and sounding guitar also. Thanks!
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Thank you, it was really fun to put together. The guitar is a custom Taylor Guitars Grand Concert 12 Fret Cedar over cocobolo. I have friends at Taylor, and I was able to hand pick the top and back/sides at the factory…A memorable experience for sure!
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Friends at Taylor? Definitely good friends to have 🙂. A Taylor is on my life list for sure. Great song by the way. Beautifully simple (less is more!) and wonderfully played. Love the hug at the end. 🤟😎🎸Darren [Moonhare]
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Dzuy, Love the creativity, and your fingerpicking and vocals were wonderful, and those lyrics were perfect. Great job @zeebow
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that’s super nice of you to say, thank you so much for watching and making my day!
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Fantastic music: vocals and guitar! Loved it. Beautiful looking and sounding Taylor too!!
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Nice job! Great work on this and I love the guitar hug at the ending.👍
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I’ve got two Taylors I hug each day. No hate with any guitar out there from me. Nice tune with fun lyrics. @Dzuy N, you are clearly having a successful ride on the TAC train! 🚂
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