BLACKBIRD: The kids keep plugging away on guitar, and what they're plucking out these days is The Beatles' "Blackbird."
It's a big challenge.
The kids have been lucky enough to see Paul McCartney play that song live (twice!), and each time he has asked the audience how many of them tried to learn to play guitar so they could play that song.
Thousands of hands went up in response.
But no doubt many of those same hands failed to master the song. It's tough!
Here's Paul singing the song at Safeco Field in 2013 in one of the most amazing concerts I've ever seen. By the way, until that night, I'd never known Blackbird was a song about the Civil Right struggle in Americahttps://youtu.be/nbqyUWrHOzQ
Given all this, we've turned to YouTube for some help.
We've had luck with "Marty Music" lessons before. Interesting that he notes in his intro that he, too has seen Paul live recently, and that Paul has mentioned that most of the YouTube video tutorials get it wrong.
https://youtu.be/5TnySn2KqD4
Hopefully within a couple of weeks, they have a version ready for posting here. (Not only is it hard to play, the timing of singing it is also tricky.)
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