John Mayer

[whygohome?]

just enjoy the movie its really good. JM isn't going to commission a documentary about his own life when he's not even 40 lol even he isn't that big of an egomaniac

[RAPUNZEL13]

What happened to the blues stuff? The lyrics in this make me cringe.
https://soundcloud.com/johnmayer/xo?...medium=twitter

[mja271]

That's a Beyoncé cover

[LadyMadonna68]

[RAPUNZEL13]

Welp thank god.

[whygohome?]

I really liked the song and I didn't even know it was a cover until after my first listen. Cool that he just recorded it and put it out like that

Also 'the blues stuff' has been gone since like 2010 man it looks like he's sticking with open chord acoustic songs and harmonica a little longer. I really liked born and raised but paradise valley was pretty bland and I really hope he just changes things up completely on his next one. Doesn't need to be blues, just anything else

[Speilmen230]

Fuckin cowboy chords...

[RAPUNZEL13]

Originally Posted by whygohome?

I really liked the song and I didn't even know it was a cover until after my first listen. Cool that he just recorded it and put it out like that

Also 'the blues stuff' has been gone since like 2010 man it looks like he's sticking with open chord acoustic songs and harmonica a little longer. I really liked born and raised but paradise valley was pretty bland and I really hope he just changes things up completely on his next one. Doesn't need to be blues, just anything else

Yea I know its been gone since 2010, but I thought he was bringing the trio back. Guess not.

[fonzz41]

Originally Posted by RAPUNZEL13

Yea I know its been gone since 2010, but I thought he was bringing the trio back. Guess not.

Just because he did one Beyonce cover doesn't mean Trio plans are off. Don't lose hope yet, my friend!

[whygohome?]

Originally Posted by Speilmen230

Fuckin cowboy chords...

I still don't understand this idiom..they're the same chords 90% of any artist that has touched a guitar since the 1950's has used, in every genre.

I guess I've just never heard that term before but it applies well enough to JM's music lately I guess

[RAPUNZEL13]

Originally Posted by fonzz41

Just because he did one Beyonce cover doesn't mean Trio plans are off. Don't lose hope yet, my friend!

Ya, I know. Just rather see him do another Hendrix cover or something. I'll just continue to be patient.

[fonzz41]

Whether I like what John's doing musically at any particular point (and it's always changing), I appreciate that he does what he wants to do. It's nice to know that I can "trust" him to do what he feels like he wants to do rather than what fans or record companies want.

I'd like more than anything for him to do nothing but JMT stuff for the next little while, but I also appreciate that he won't do it if he's not feeling it.

Something I've always liked about John.

[UrsadonDMB]

I have a feeling he has basically told his management/label to screw off a little bit.

[recentlyJTR41]

I hope Mayer covers that Surfbort song next

[Speilmen230]

Originally Posted by whygohome?

I still don't understand this idiom..they're the same chords 90% of any artist that has touched a guitar since the 1950's has used, in every genre.

I guess I've just never heard that term before but it applies well enough to JM's music lately I guess

I don't understand why therm ruffled so many feathers.

[whygohome?]

Just don't know what you mean by cowboy chords, like I said. I've never heard that term before, like I also said. Wasn't really all that ruffled.

[tcf213]

Originally Posted by whygohome?

Just don't know what you mean by cowboy chords, like I said. I've never heard that term before, like I also said. Wasn't really all that ruffled.

It's just a colloquial term for open (first-position) chords. Basically everything you learn when you first start playing the guitar.

[MOWJO8185]

I think John himself said that Born & Raised would feature "cowboy guitar sounds," so that could be where it came from.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...ounds-20120119

[CrashDMB237]

Whatever chords he used the last two albums are way worse than the ones he used to use. Hopefully the next album sees less of the bad ones and more of the good ones.

[whygohome?]

Hmm well if you ask me, the harmonica and melodies he's writing are more responsible for the 'cowboy' sounding songs than basic open chords that everyone uses so I guess that's where I'm confused.

To me, i wish the harmonica would go away more than I wish he'd stop playing 1st position major chords. He's always used them but he would throw in augmented or diminished chords in between to give his songs a more complicated and interesting sound.

[TheLastStop123]

That cover sounds pretty solid

[tcf213]

Originally Posted by whygohome?

Hmm well if you ask me, the harmonica and melodies he's writing are more responsible for the 'cowboy' sounding songs than basic open chords that everyone uses so I guess that's where I'm confused.

To me, i wish the harmonica would go away more than I wish he'd stop playing 1st position major chords. He's always used them but he would throw in augmented or diminished chords in between to give his songs a more complicated and interesting sound.

to all of this. I mean, look at SDIABR. It's nothing fancy, just C#min, Amaj, and Emaj. Of course, he throws in a few pentatonic embellishments here and there, but it just goes to show that he's capable of writing amazing songs without going all St. Patrick's Day on us.

Edit: I also really dislike the harmonica

[whygohome?]

Lol @ 'going all st Patricks day'. Unless you play guitar I just don't think you could understand how complicated that song is, cause it doesn't sound crazy to most ears but it has a ridiculous amount of chords in it. I don't think I've ever heard john himself play it live without completely screwing it up

[CrashDMB237]

Yea, there's no way anyone who plays guitar thinks St. Patrick's Day is an easy and simple song. I'm just gonna assume you don't play guitar.

[Keyz]

Originally Posted by whygohome?

Lol @ 'going all st Patricks day'. Unless you play guitar I just don't think you could understand how complicated that song is, cause it doesn't sound crazy to most ears but it has a ridiculous amount of chords in it. I don't think I've ever heard john himself play it live without completely screwing it up

Originally Posted by CrashDMB237

Yea, there's no way anyone who plays guitar thinks St. Patrick's Day is an easy and simple song. I'm just gonna assume you don't play guitar.

i'm pretty sure that was his argument. he was saying Slow Dancing is a really simple song on guitar, and it's still great. he doesn't need to go crazy on guitar (like St. Patrick's Day) to write a great song.

[fonzz41]

So true, guys. I remember way back when, getting the Room For Squares songbook, turning to St. Patrick's Day, and almost puking. You know how in most books like that there's like maybe two rows of chord diagrams at the beginning of the sheet music for a given song? Well, for St. Patrick's Day I think pretty much the whole first page of the sheet music is taken up by chord diagrams. And I think maybe like Asus2 is the most simple of them all.

[whygohome?]

Originally Posted by CrashDMB237

Yea, there's no way anyone who plays guitar thinks St. Patrick's Day is an easy and simple song. I'm just gonna assume you don't play guitar.

Oh cool you didn't read my post

Originally Posted by Keyz

i'm pretty sure that was his argument. he was saying Slow Dancing is a really simple song on guitar, and it's still great. he doesn't need to go crazy on guitar (like St. Patrick's Day) to write a great song.

Hey this guy got it

[CrashDMB237]

Originally Posted by whygohome?

Oh cool you didn't read my post

...yes I did. I was agreeing with you. Relax, we'll be ok.

I thought you were laughing at someone saying "going all St. Patrick's Day" because it's so hard, yet someone was making it out to be so simple.

[LadyMadonna68]

SPD is a fucking nightmare on guitar, it's all over the fretboard. Wish I had longer thumbs. Fantastic tune

[whygohome?]

Originally Posted by CrashDMB237

...yes I did. I was agreeing with you. Relax, we'll be ok.

I thought you were laughing at someone saying "going all St. Patrick's Day" because it's so hard, yet someone was making it out to be so simple.

Well you completely misunderstood what I and the guy that posted before me were saying then, I guess.