Yes, I made another cover!
This time one of my favorite tracks, John Lennon’s fantastic “Jealous Guy” (tip: also check out versions by Donny Hathaway and Gavin DeGraw) is up.
Although it’s again a snippet, since I was actually just fooling around a bit on the keys when I felt like singing this. Co-incidentally, the camera was already rolling to film something else, “accidentally” recording this, which gives it kind of a nice genuine feel I think, so that’s why -although I didn’t also “accidentally” film my face- I decided just to post it.
Also -and more importantly- it starts showing the “synergetic” look that I’m contemplating to explore more. Exploit. Whatever. I’ve done this earlier -animating a cover in a way that it embodies and serve both “love” and “learn” philosophies and actually I don’t know why I didn’t follow through on this format. Ok, well actually I do know. I’ve been through quite a rough time and didn’t feel like singing.
However, I’m starting to feel better, wanting to create and express more with music, next to the teaching, plus the positive responses I received on last weeks cover (just “love,” no “learn”-ing there) really played nicely on my confidence and motivation (thanks so much!).
So here you have it, another Cover / Tutorial.
Hope you like it and please let me know if this is something you’d like to see more of! (and can actually learn from?)
Cheers, Coen.
Brilliant cover ! I actually prefer your version to the original…
Not much of a tutorial though… 🙂
Below the general idea of what the chords look like, mostly in
slash notation to make it more clear of what inversions to play.
Nico
Jealous Gy
I was dreaming of the past
D/C D
and my heart was beating fast
Gadd2/E C#dim7
I began to lose control
Dsus D Gadd2/E
I began to lose control
D/Gadd2 Csus2 D/C G
I didn’t mean to hurt you
F/Dm Csus (Csus/E D/F#) G
and I’m sorry that I made you cry
G F/Dm Bb9
I didn’t want to hurt you
Gadd2 D/F# Gadd2/E
I’m just a jealous guy
D/Gadd2 C D/C Gadd9
Thanks so much for your comment and addition Nico! Seems pretty accurate 🙂
Note though that a slash chord, works this way: C over D (a C chord over a D bass) is written like C/D – You seem to write it the other way around 😉
Here’s how I’d say I played it (normally I’d write the chords above the lyric, so that’s what I did here too):
G Em7 D(sus4) D7
I was dreaming of the past
Em7add11 D5* C#dim7
and my heart was beating fast
D(sus4) Em7add11
I began to lose control
Gadd9/D Cadd9 Dsus
I began to lose control
G F69 Cadd9 Dsus
I didn’t mean to hurt you
G F69 Bbmaj9
and I’m sorry that I made you cry
Gadd9 D/F# Em7add11 G/D
I didn’t want to hurt you
Cadd9 Dsus Gadd9
I’m just a jealous guy
*(has a very strong Gsus2/D feel here)
Cheers, Coen
Greetings Coen, I must say bro your info is amazing. Truly blessed to learn from you. I played my first jam.session with guys who gave me respect. Wow that is progress.
Thanks so much Ronald! Lovely to hear that 🙂 Keep up the good work!