Totally Guitars Weekly Update December 31, 2025
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December 31, 2025
It has been a fun year at TG, and I hope everybody is enjoying the Holiday Season. Today I started with a couple tunes you should recognize, and catch the connection. I also ended with a couple of my seasonal favorites. In between there were just a few thoughts about practicing and goals or plans. Somewhere in there Mr. Bojangles popped up too.
Catch you in 2026,
Neil
New stuff this week- Nirvana – Oh, Me
So dang good!
Three minute challenge!
We are on it!
I’ve built up a collection of songs over the years maybe 400 or so started with creating a page with the lyrics, added the chords, as I”ve got more I’ve added little fills double stop runs base runs where they fit.I guess the usual thing most of us do. Not every song I play well if there’s some slightly more obscure chords I add the frets for each string rather than have to go back
But your point about going over old songs is yeah a great one, not just for the fun and enjoyment but to not get rusty. I I mainly play 50’s through to 70’s stuff. So I have a folder for each although I tend to classify an artist or band to the decade they started or started to become popular. So maybe Bee Gees would all be in the 60’s even if some were recorded later
Either way that was the break down but I also have files for country, folk, soul west coast rock and what I call new which mainly isn’t new recent but different songs I like to play that came after the 70’s oh yeah and a separate one for Beatles and Stones as there are so many
The thing is I can pull out a file a day and play through some might take me through three days but I go through them all over the weeks and I don’t have to think about should I play this or that I just start at the first one and work my way through, not always the whole song but always at least a chorus verse and any bridge
You are right it’s important to enjoy playing not just working on the harder stuff and I find myself smiling every time but what also is interesting is that going over the parts of more familiar songs the bits that you struggle with early on actually start to come easier and easier-not always perfect but easier and that makes the newer stuff that you work on seem easier so a double win