Accoustic Performances

So after our second open mic, we decided that our usual 50s and 60s high enerģy music became too lack luster when just accoustic, we had piano, but with no other backing I couldn't play the lead guitar part, and without bass and drums, it missed what made the music. That is the thing about that era, the vocal is just a small part of the songs, the lead guitar counted just as much, the bass following Paul McCartney and Jet Harris of the Shadows also played a massive part almost forming its own melody. So I always had my reservations.

There after we had to have a bit of a rethink. As described in one of our podcasts, when I was 14 years old I was in the York Showband, we played a mix of music from late 19th century to 1950s, including wartime songs from world war II.

I still have all the sheet music from this time and the melodies are so strong that this could work with vocal and rhythm guitar, maybe a little piano here and there. Another good point for this is Frankie has a perfect voice for it, so this is where we will go with the accoustic performances. However, this is not an easy alternative for rhythm guitar, many songs have chord changes each beat and many complex chords at that, intact I am currently wondering how on earth I used to play them, but practise makes perfect, I hope.