Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Difficulties of Love

This is a song I first recorded with the Wetband. I like playing this using a Rasgueado Flamenco guitar strumming technique. Rasgueado involves strumming the strings at some point using one finger after another. For this song I used a hard brush down with the full hand and often hitting the end of the fingerboard to add some percussion, then a Rasgueado strum up with each finger one after the other. Some Rasgueado uses all four fingers, but for this one I use the first three fingers one after another and leave out the pinky. This kind of strum works best on a nylon string or classical guitar. 

Here is a version with just nylon string guitar and vocal and no overdubbing: 

 

 And here are the chords and lyrics.  I use standard chords for this song, included barr chords F# and Bm:


 This song was first recorded with the Wetband and to keep things simple I left out the Rasgueado strum:

 Difficulties of Love with the Wetband

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Crazy Mixed Up World - Double Dropped D

Crazy Mixed-Up World is played using the Double Dropped D tuning where you lower both the 6th and 1st strings to D:   DADGBD. 

Here is the song played with just guitar and vocal and no overdubbing:

 

And here are the chords that are used:

And here are the lyrics and chords.  The intro to each verse is strummed:  Dm(x2) Dsus2 D5 with some bass added with the thumb pick on the 6th string.

 

The first recording of this song was done with the Wetband:

 Crazy Mixed-Up World with the Wetband

 

 

Difficulties of Love

This is a song I first recorded with the Wetband. I like playing this using a Rasgueado Flamenco guitar strumming technique. Rasgueado invo...