Part 2 of this four part Laptop Sessions extravaganza comes to you with a song from the Traveling Wilburys, one of my favorite bands of all time.
I grew up listening to their music and find myself going back to their two albums over and over again.
This song is a great one to do acoustically, and like the last one, is sung by Bob Dylan. Watch for the cameo harmonica appearance by Chris Moore in this video!
I’ll be doing PLENTY more Wilburys songs on these sessions, so stay tuned! Now, onto part 3!
I’m proud to bring you another installment of The Laptop Sessions, and I also want to show my classic rock side as well.
Today’s installment is from George Harrison, who coincidentally Jim did a song from yesterday. This is one of his more known songs. The double meaning in this song is a terrific one that any Beatles fan will tell you about.
This song is tough to play on acoustic – let alone sing along to as well. Hopefully you will enjoy my effort.
Stay tuned for more Laptop Sessions, and thank you to all that have commented or watched our previous installments. There will be more no doubt!
Editor’s Note: Unfortunately, Jeff’s acoustic cover song music videos are no longer on YouTube, but we decided to keep his cover song blog posts up. We figured these music blog entries would be good for posterity’s sake and because Jeff always gave such insightful posts each Session. We hope to see Jeff’s impressive catalog of acoustic rock songs here on the Laptop Sessions cover songs and origianal music blog again in the future. But, for now, please make sure to check-out hundreds of other acoustic cover songs from all of your favorite bands here on the Laptop Sessions music blog!
Hello everyone- time for another episode of “The Laptop Sessions”. Boy, do I have a lot of these in the works for you. I have two more requests for Beach Boys cover songs, plus Chris and I still have to do our Moody Blues song and another Beatles cover song. Somewhere down the line I’d like to throw in one of my original songs, too. Oh, you didn’t know that I was a songwriter? 🙂 Well, that’s one of the reasons I do the Laptop Sessions acoustic cover songs music video blog. I’m hoping that the people who like the cover songs I play will take a chance and listen to my original music, as well! So far, it’s been a great success.
Tonight’s cover song video is the Beatles song, “Do You Want To Know A Secret”, originally sung by the great George Harrison. This is a fun song to play and sing, especially because it’s got those minor 7th chords that make it sound a bit “old fashioned”. People just don’t write songs like this anymore. It’s one of the earliest Beatles songs released, so it was written during their period of relative innocence (you know, before the drugs). John Lennon wrote this song and gave it to George to sing. His heavy British accent really comes through on this track. I sang, though, in my normal New England American accent, as I do with all my cover song videos. My goal here at the music blog is not to imitate the artists I cover, but to reimagine my favorite songs in a stripped-down acoustic solo performance.
I chose to go with my nylon-stringed acoustic guitar for this song. Why? Well, for one, it’s much easier to sing over than a steel-stringed guitar. For this cover video, I wanted to sing a bit softer and sweeter (just like George Harrison did!), so I thought this guitar was the right choice not to overpower my voice. Also, and I’ve gotten a lot of compliments about this, the strumming pattern I used works so much better on this guitar than steel-string acoustic guitar. Because I don’t have the solid drumming of Ringo Starr behind me, I had to come up with a way of playing that incorporated the unique beat of “Do You Want To Know a Secret” while playing by myself. The “hops” that are in the chord progression really move the sog along well and I found it to be an easy way of switching chords, as well. Plus, sliding down like that gave my version that cool retro sound I was talking about before. It sounds like a song from the 40s when played that way!
Of course, requests are welcome for any other Beatles or George Harrison song you’d like to hear! Everyone knows pretty much all of the Beatles songs, so my “to-do list” is pretty extensive at this point. I hope you enjoy tonight’s cover song video and stay tuned for more Laptop Sessions music videos in the coming days!
The next edition of The Laptop Sessions comes to you with a song from George Harrison. Man, do I love this song. It’s got George’s great lyrics that let you know it’s “him” and it’s also got such a catchy chorus. Even if you don’t know this tune, I’m sure you’ll love it once you hear it.
George is so underrated, and I plan on doing many of his songs in the future. Until then, please enjoy this one and stay tuned for more Laptop Sessions!
