Archive for January, 2009

Simple Guitar Songs

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

I enjoy playing tunes on the guitar. People around me probably don’t appreciate the out of time and out of tune nature of my playing as much as I do, but that is their loss.
There are a few chords on the guitar that are easy to play, and these include A, Am, D, G, C, E, Em. There are other common chords which are harder play, especially bar chords including F and Bm.
So the trick when looking for songs is to find songs which use the simple chords, and hold them for at least a few beats each. Some tunes change chords so quickly that it is hard to keep up!
Here is a jumbled list of some tunes that I sometimes play, and if I can play them they must be simple.

Christian Tunes

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Random Tunes

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  • Country Roads :  John Denver
  • The town I loved so well : Phil Coulter
  • The Fields of Athenry
  • Everything I do : Bryan Adams
  • Radio : Corrs

Victoria Sponge / Chocolate Sponge

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

I’m sure most grandma’s bake cakes, but my grandma makes a particularly good sponge cake so I asked her for the recipe. I have no idea if this is the same as is found in other recipe books. Taste and see…

For 1 Cake
4 oz Marg/Butter
4 oz Caster Sugar
2 eggs, beaten
4 oz S R flour
Vanilla Essence

For Chocolate cake add 1 heaped desert spoon of coca, sieved together with
flour.

Method
Cream butter and sugar; add beaten eggs slowly while beating butter & sugar.
Gently stir in flour
Cook in 8″ tin which has been greased for 40/50 minutes at 160