Songs

Last night I picked up the guitar, was messing around with some simple chords, and just started singing out a bit of a ’sorry’ prayer to God, for some of the things I had (and should have) done during the day. After a while, I realised that I was repeating some of the lines, and that they sounded familiar…

 I soon realised that I was paraphrasing one of my ‘most prayed’ Psalms, 51.

My first instinct is always to just write down the whole passage, and try to make that fit into the song, but I decided to keep it simple, repeating a few lines, and allowing the song to flow. 

I’m using a basic G chord, then moving into a C shape, 2 frets down, to make a D.

From there I slide back up to a normal C, hammering on/off the B string (1st fret).

Those are basically the chords for the whole song, except towards the end when I build it up, and for the C I slide a G shape up to the 8th fret, which gives the song a real lift.

have-mercy-on-me-psalm-51.doc

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