By Jeff Copperthite:
Assistant Editor’s note (that’s Jeff): I am in the process of re-embedding some Laptop Sessions videos that I still have. This post was originally from 2009, but for history’s sake I have not edited the post.
And continuing from last week’s post is the song that is followed by the one I covered last week.
Now, I know that i’ve covered a bunch of Coldplay songs, and quite a few from Viva La Vida, but there’s a good reason. Everybody loves this band. They write catchy songs, and enjoy performing and love their fans. How can I not want to cover this band?
This song is more of an instrumental than a lyrical song, but the lyrics are present and sung. I initially wanted to perform this with my electric guitar hooked up to my bass amp. However, I hit a few snags. 1) My electric strings are kind of old. 2) The bridge of the guitar sticks out of the base of the guitar a bit, making the strings a bit further from the fretboard, and therefore more difficult to play. 3) The amp is meant for bass, and I could not find a good combination of settings that made my guitar sound like a guitar.
However, practicing the song on the electric proved helpful, as it made it a lot easier to play on the acoustic. Funny how that works sometimes.
This video came out great. I’m very proud of this cover.
I have reached my first milestone post 100K views and hit 110K views. I’m nearing 500 views per day on my videos, and I can’t wait to tell you when I am averaging 1K views per day. It could happen before the year is out!
YES! I’m so happy that you decided to put your cover song music videos back online here for the music blog!
I am going to read, watch, and comment on every single video you repost- I can’t wait to relive all of the great content you submitted for the site. I also hope you can find some time to post a new video now and then!
Great job on this video- the singing and guitar playing are spot-on. It must’ve been difficult considering I don’t think there’s a standard chord in this whole song!
Welcome back, Jeff!
~Jim
This was a fun one to cover because the beat and progression are so catchy. The tuning is also an alternate one, and as you can tell, so are the fingerings. Sadly, if I ever want to play this song again I have to study this video to remind myself how to play it!