{"id":21,"date":"2006-12-15T14:27:16","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T19:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/2006\/12\/15\/the-toughest-song-i-can-play-and-sing\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T01:31:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T05:31:50","slug":"the-toughest-song-i-can-play-and-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/2006\/12\/15\/the-toughest-song-i-can-play-and-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"The toughest song I can play, and sing"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>Well as you already know, I enjoy the challenge that comes with playing some of John Mayer&#8217;s tunes. I love the chord progressions that he exposes us to. He also brings the high difficulty of playing guitar while making &#8220;Pop Music&#8221;. I honestly hope that other musicians, who make pop music, notice that the bar is raised VERY HIGH because of this man!<\/p>\n<div class=\"c354d1e329b235f1862b41000f5a4d18\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* Guitar_inpost_300x250 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3631424768\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Anyways, Neon is the song that I find that is the toughest song to sing and play at the same time while USING FINGERS ONLY. I actually am still in the process of fine tuning this song, if truth be told. I can play and sing the song to the level of any hack can but if it ain&#8217;t perfect &#8230; well, I refuse to play it live. Nothing worst then people listening to you live at a venue and knowing by the look in their eyes that you are just another guy playing guitar. I must admit that I am very hard on myself but that&#8217;s the way I&#8217;ve always been. When I do master and play it live, this will be such a natural high that I will find it hard to contain myself. <\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>The song that I&#8217;m trying to reproduce is a collage of many of his versions of this tune. I am working on the acoustic one first then playing the electric one will come easier, I hope! There are many little and subtle things that he does version to version that I want to incorporate into one version. In all honesty, I think that I am not that great at improvising solo&#8217;s at all. 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