“Surfer Girl” (Beach Boys Cover)

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Welcome to another edition of the Laptop Sessions!

Tonight, I give you one of the Beach Boys’ greatest and most famous songs, “Surfer Girl”!

Of course, the Boys’ version has those great harmonies, but imagine this version as if Brian Wilson was the only one singing. Plus, it’s fun to sing the harmony parts while listening back to it.

I love the chords- those old-fashioned chords that rock music just doesn’t have anymore. It was fun to learn and Chris and I have been playing this for months.

Actually, I love playing this on Chris’ Fender electric, but I think it translates well on the nylon strings.

Hopefully I do this song justice because playing a huge hit like this always means there’s pretty big expectations.

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“One More Cup of Coffee” (Classic Dylan, New Cover!)

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By Chris Moore:

Here’s a simple but great 70’s Dylan song, off the “Desire” album. I’ve always loved the words to this one.

As a brief sidenote, my essay book was supposed to be released tomorrow, but I’m still trying to figure out how to convert it into an eBook without paying a big fee. I would release it next Tuesday, but I don’t want to overshadow the MoU release (lol…), so I’ll probably just wait until later this month. :-)

As always, thanks for listening. My New Year’s resolution was a new Laptop Session every day this year- thanks for following along!


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“I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better” (Byrds Cover)

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Here on the Laptop Sessions, I give you my favorite song of all time: “I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better” by the Byrds. Gene Clark, the writer of this song, wrote MANY great songs over his career, and you’ll be hearing a lot of them on the Laptop Sessions in the months to come. But, this song is just PERFECT to me, and here’s why:

It’s got everything I love in a song. It’s got a great guitar sound (courtesy of Roger (Jim) McGuinn), a cool riff, great words, chorus harmonies, and a killer jangly guitar solo. I love everything about this tune and hopefully I’ve done this song justice.

Of course, in order for me to give the song the respect it deserves, I recruited Chris Moore ( http://www.youtube.com/user/chrismooremusic ) to help me with harmonies and rhythm guitar.

So, I hope everyone enjoys this version.

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UPDATE! Video Blog for Old and New Music Lovers

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Hello all! I’m working on a Laptop Session right now (we’re using a new compression technique that takes longer, but also works on our iPhones), and you’ll understand why I’ll be posting it just after midnight!

Also, you should note the new https://guitarbucketlist.com permanent address. After hours of troubleshooting and stumping many overseas tech support agents, the address no longer forwards to the blog, but actually LIVES on guitarbucketlist.com! So, let the search engine crawls begin! 🙂

Well, make sure to catch our post, plus look out for new ones every day from Jim and me!

~Chris

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