you've got to hide your love away

I have now been practicing guitar for two weeks. I missed one day of practice last week.

The Mighty Sam brought out the electric guitar and a little amp and told me to switch back and forth between it and the classical, so I've been doing that.

I noticed a tendency to play certain chords by putting down one finger at a time. I was particularly bad at that with C, especially if I played a C after a D. Sam told me to practice this by repeatedly tapping the chord on the strings, without using my right hand at all. This is very boring practice, but it does seem to help.

I am now able to play Fs pretty well most of the time - they sound like real chords instead of muffled messes, unless I've been practicing for a while so that my hand is getting tired.

I found some chords on the internet for "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away", which is one song I've been wanting to be able to play forever.

Here's something I've noticed about chords and tabs on the internet: A lot of them are the same. One person comes up with some chords or tabs and they post them, and then every other chord/tab web site copies them.

So I found "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" in several places, and it was all the exact same thing, word-for-word, chord-for-chord.

I played it, and it was all good, except the chorus. The chorus was G-C-Dsus-D-D6-D. I played that, but the D6 sounded all wrong! And because everyone copied the same tabs, I couldn't find an alternative.

So I messed around with the guitar for while and soon I found the right chord. I didn't know what the chord was but I could tell it was the right one. Sam had shown me a series of D chords that you can do with very little movement - D, D6, Dsus, and this one other one. It was the one other one that sounded right.

I was SO EXCITED when I got it. Sam was off playing golf so it was just me and the animals in the house. I yelled YES! at the top of my lungs and ran around the house laughing. It was great.