"Yesterday"

Finished learning the song. But timing and smoothness of playing need to be worked on. (A friend has a Gibson acoustic guitar and we may work out a deal for me to have it).

Piano

Still working on "Yesterday." I'm still liking it, though, of course, I've had thoughts of focusing back on guitar. Noticing that it might take me about a week or so ro learn this song. That's encouraging! Learning one tune per week can be quite cool; however, I realize it's not going to actually pan out that way. If tunes pile up in my repertoire, that would mean there has to be more and more time spent reviewing them and not confusing their parts.

Yesterday

Just a really good piano day. Takin' it slow, almost have the verse in Yesterday done. Memorizing a song may be difficult, but it really helps in maintaining a nice tempo. Actually tried a little improvising with two left hand chord notes and it sounded ok for where I'm at now!  Really have to take care of my health better.

Piano Wins

Well I went to guitar today and played "Yesterday," chord melody style. Here it is:

https://youtu.be/N7TfABfvUto

Then later on, I continued to work on it on piano, using the Sudnow Method. Well I didn't even finish the verse, it's very choppy, but.......I like it better than the guitar version.

Perhaps I just like the sound of the piano over the sound of the guitar; combine that with the great chord voicings in the Sudnow Method, and perhaps that it explains it.

But I'm glad I tried the guitar experiment. Can always revisit it. But for now, I'd like to stick to my song list, the Sudnow Method, and the piano.

On a side note, my favorite football team (the Philadelphia Eagles) beat the New York Giants with an unbelievable 61 yard field goal with one second left on the clock!

Piano wins

Was tempted to go to chord melody guitar, but the piano won. Continue to work on "Yesterday," Sudnow style, on the piano. Played at Church tonight.

Sudnow / Yesterday / Day 1

Decided to go back to what was fun. Back to The Sudnow Method. Started working on the song "Yesterday." I like it. Wouldn't it be cool to learn and memorize all the songs I listed in the post below?

Songs

Here's my current list of songs that would be cool to play on the piano:

When I Fall in Love / I've Got a Crush on You / Misty / Over the Rainbow / If / Yesterday / I Will / Blacckbird / Something / In My Life / Someone to Watch Over Me / And So it Goes / Georgia / My Funny Valentine / My Heart Will Go On / Godfather Theme / When You Wish Upon a Star; A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes; You Are the Sunshine of My Life / Unforgettable / Can You Feel the Love Tonight / All My Lovin / Just the Way You Are / The Long and Winding Road / Polla Dots and Moonbeams / Somewhere / Till There Was You / Unchained Melody / What a Wonderful World / I'll Be There / Never My Love / God Only Knows / My Cherie Amour / Goodnight / Blue Eyes / Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me / I've Loved These Days / She's Got a Way / New York State of Mind / If I Only Had the Words to Tell You / If I Fell / It Never Entered My Mind (George Shearing version) / Here, There, and Everywhere / I Loved You Porgy / Willow Weep For Me / Danny Boy / Witchita Lineman / Send in the Clowns / Moon River / As Time Goes By / Autumn Leaves / What Child is This / Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire / I'll Be Home For Christmas / Bridge Over Troubled Water / Music from the "Rocky" movie soundtrack / She's Leaving Home / White Christmas 

New Change

I think I'm also going back to learn chord melody on guitar using what looks like a pretty cool resource I have had. 

To learn lead guitar, I looking to go back to Robert Conti's material.

I have a list of songs that I'd like to learn how to play solo piano. I think I'm just going to learn how to play one at a time, using the Sudnow Method.

Piano

Continue to make some progress learning chords in the Caruso book. Had an insight about where an open chord begins on the right hand: 4 half steps above the root except for the minor chord which is 3 steps above the root.

Slow Start

Started getting into the section in chord voicing in the Caruso book. Slow start, but that's ok.

A New Change in Record Time

Trying to not make things more complicated than they need to. Major goal is to play songs and be able to improvise around the changes. I'm changing methods again. Got into this book awhile ago then stopped. I'm going to get into it again. It's called "Piano Improvisation: A Powerful Practical System," and its by by Frank Caruso and Karl Mollison.

I'm going to jump right to the chord voicings chapter.