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Here's a link to my youtube cover of the Carole King classic 'You've Got A Friend'. It's a really fun fingerstyle song t...
03/05/2019

Here's a link to my youtube cover of the Carole King classic 'You've Got A Friend'. It's a really fun fingerstyle song to play and sing although there are a lot of embellishments in this version. See link below. Hope you enjoy!

A cover of Carole King’ You’ve Got A Friend’ performed by Todd Brewer

06/14/2018

BASIC TEMPO MARKINGS
Here is a list of Tempo Marking from slowest to fastest.

Larghissimo — very, very slow (20 bpm and below)
Grave — slow and solemn (20–40 bpm)
Lento — slowly (40–60 bpm)
Largo — broadly (40–60 bpm)
Larghetto — rather broadly (60–66 bpm)
Adagio — slow and stately (literally, "at ease") (66–76 bpm)
Adagietto — rather slow (70–80 bpm)
Andante moderato — a bit slower than andante
Andante — at a walking pace (76–108 bpm)
Andantino – slightly faster than andante
Moderato — moderately (108–120 bpm)
Allegretto — moderately fast (but less so than allegro)
Allegro moderato — moderately quick (112–124 bpm)
Allegro — fast, quickly and bright (120–168 bpm)
Vivace — lively and fast (≈140 bpm) (quicker than allegro)
Vivacissimo — very fast and lively
Allegrissimo — very fast
Presto — very fast (168–200 bpm)
Prestissimo — extremely fast (more than 200bpm)

10/21/2017

Footsteps In The Dark-Isley Bros.

*Ice Cube sampled this great Isley Brothers
tune in "It Was A Good Day."

Intro
G|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|*--------2-----------2------------4---------------------------------------------------------*|Repeat
A|*---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*|
E|---0----------0------------2--------------2--2---5h7---------—(5/7)-----------(5h7/)--|

Verse
G|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|*--------2-----------2------------4---------------------------------------------------------*|Repeat X3 with variations
A|*---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*|
E|---0----------0------------2--------------2--2---5h7---------—(5/7)-----------(5h7/)--|
(Variations)

G|-----------------------------------------------------||
D|*-------2---------2-----------4--------------------||
A|*----------------------------------------------------||
E|---0---------0----------2--------------2--2--3---||

Chorus
G|---5--5------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|*----------5--5----------------------------------------------7---------------7------|
A|*-------------------3-----------3--------------------7--7-----------5h7--------7--|
E|-------------------------0h3--------3------5--5------------------------------------|

1)
G|------------------------------------------------------------------4----|--------------||
D|--4--4-----------------------4--------------------------4-4----------|--------------||
A|----------4-4------------4------4--------------2--2-----------------|----------4---||
E|----------------------2--------------2--------------------------------|---------------||

2)
G|--------4-------------||
D|---4---------4--------||
A|-------------------2---||
E|-----------------------||

Re-Intro
1)
G|------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
D|*-----------------------------|-----------4----------------------------|
A|*-------5h7\---------5h7\--|------------------------------0-1-2----|
E|--0-------------0------------|---2---------------222----------------|

2) 3) 4)
G|-----------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
D|------------4---------------------------|-------------4-----------------------|-------------4-------------------------|
A|-------------------------------0-1-2---|--------------------------------------|------------------------------1h2----|
E|---2--2-----------222-----------------|--2-2--------------222----7\------|--2--2-------------222--------------|

09/30/2017

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