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[👾]🎤📖[🎸]🏹🤸🏼‍♂️🌈 Recently, while going through one of my old song books, I found a bunch of songs I haven’t played in quite awhile. When I was learning to play the guitar, there was no such thing as YouTube, and I was working a night shift job, which meant I couldn’t do a lot during the day. But on my days off, I had all night. So I got a few teach yourself books and maybe one or two DVDs and after learning a few basics, started looking up the chords to songs I wanted to learn. Thankfully, even though a lot of the tabs I found online weren’t all the accurate, they were still super helpful since kind souls had taken the trouble to write out the lyrics and their best guess at the chords being used in the song. It often provided a great template to start from and introduced me to a ton I never would have thought of otherwise. Anyway, for better or worse, that’s how I learned, and for a lot of years, I just played the same things over and over. Since I’ve mostly been focused on playing my own songs for the past several years, I don’t go back and play things written by other people as much. And when I do, I find myself up putting my own spin on it (sometimes because I have utterly forgotten how the original goes). But then over the past month spent in quarantine and forced school closure, I’ve broken out the old song book again since I wanted to have a bunch of songs on hand to play with my kids when we do the music segment of “daddy day care” (what I call my untrained, at times rather shabby attempt at home schooling). I’ve recorded one song from the 1988 movie, The Land Before Time, which my bro @blummer102 and I used to watch all time as kids, for this week’s podcast since it was co-written by James Horner, who did the music for The Rocketeer. Plus, it’s a calming, hopeful song, and goodness knows, we can all need as much of that as we can get these days. . #music #songsforcomfort #landbeforetime #1988 #jameshorner #dianaross #ifweholdontogether #guitar #acousticguitar #fingerstyle #musiciansofinstagram #guitaristsofinstagram #songsforkids #daddydaycare #notmeantforhomeschooling https://www.instagram.com/p/B_BjlD3FOB0/?igshid=x0zk3vjp6w6g