Back at guitar class

I went back to the Community College guitar classes last night, for another short course. I haven’t done Intermediate 2, because it hasn’t come around on the right week night till now. I’m a little lapsed since Intermediate 1 and needed the motivation but wondered if I’d be class dunce. And the course notes said we were to learn Eric Clapton, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Powderfinger, for songs. All that really interested me in that list was Eric Clapton, and I was wondering whether I could turn the others into “folk”.

Then I got to the class and discovered I was the only girl, which is a bit disconcerting (this hasn’t been the case in previous classes) and they were all talking about their electric guitars at home. Excellent. However, after all the introductory things last night we did All I Want Is You by U2. I am loving this. I was never quite so big a fan of U2 as some, but I do like this song. We’re mainly doing this one to look at the strumming, but he’s given us that little lead guitar part. Fun.

I couldn’t find the original clip on youtube, and no matter what I try I can't get this Daily Motion clip to embed properly, but here it is, for old times’ sake. Apparently we can’t play along with U2 because they’ve tuned their guitars down a semi-tone (and if you tried to lower the chords it doesn’t work in standard tuning). Shame. I’ll just have to try to do Bono myself.