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Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Posted by DavidScoggins on August 13, 2021 at 2:39 amA cover of Neil Young’s Only Love Can Break Your Heart from After the Goldrush, which I learned this week, with a special guest appearance by one of my dogs, Bailey.
Anywho, give it a listen and let me know what you think.
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A wonderful rendition @DavidScoggins 👏👏👏 All those chord changes😱 but you made it look effortless👍👍 Well done David😎
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That was great @DavidScoggins . It is both encouraging to read that you learned that in a week and discouraging that I can’t seem to play anything from memory. I shall strive to improve!
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Very nice! Smooth transitions between a lot of chord changes; and that moment with Bailey added a nice touch. Thanks for sharing this. I really enjoyed that Neil classic.
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Nice one Dave I’ve just lost myself for a couple of hours trying to play this.
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Great old song choice, and you do it well! Listened to most of it before
remembering it was Neil Young way back when. Thanks.
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Thanks everyone for your kind and encouraging comments, glad yous enjoyed it, but you’ve gotta love some Neil Young, right?
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First thing that really stands out is your strumming is so perfect. Mine is sort of free-style, when I try to keep it up/down, other things fall apart. Your chords are always so spot-on and transitions are effortless. Sounds great David!
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Wow, thank you so much Marisa, you are far too kind. Any way, glad you enjoyed it.
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Your video came out great. Good control over your strumming, very consistent. Love the puppy poking his head in for some encouragement too.
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Thanks @Cadgirl, glad you enjoyed it. Strumming is an area I’ve worked on a lot, but even more important is having a solid feel for timing. Playing regularly with a metronome really makes a difference with this.
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I have been looking at Metronomes myself. I have one on my IPhone and it’s ok. But, I think i would do better with one of the old fashion ones 🙂
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What ever works for you, do that. Something I would add is that one good way of using a metronome is to focus on strumming and smooth chord changes. For example, set your desired BPM and decide on a chord progression, you could the one from the Friday key chord changes for example, and play a bar of one chord with alternate 8th note strumming then a bar of the next chord and so on. For a i, iv, v progression in A minor that would be:
1 bar of Am
1 bar of Dm
1 bar of Em then repeat.
Focus on accuracy above speed, and if you need to go pretty slow to begin with, no problem. As an alternative to 8th note strumming, try just strumming on the beats, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 16th note strumming: 1e&a 2e&a 3e&a 4e&a.
For more of a challenge accent some of the beats in each bar while maintaining alternate 8th note strumming, e.g. beats 2 and 4. This gives the progression a driving rhythm and is used quite commonly, David Bowie’s Heroes is a good example. Here’s my effort at this track from a VOM earlier this year, not perfect by any means but it hopefully illustrates my point.
https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/heroes-saturday-night-vom-performance/#post-2089444
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David – this is fantastic. I love this song but always stayed clear because I could not figure out the chords. Thanks for posting. I will give it a try.
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Thanks Terry. There are good lessons from Justin Sandercoe on Heroes and Only Love Can Break Your Heart on his YouTube channel and website.
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