1980's

This week’s songs are This Charming Man by The Smiths and Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division.

The 80’s is my favorite decade EVER. If I could time travel back in time I would see these bands and stay, there. Joy Division was the most influential band for me I remember when I was about 12 and I heard Love Will Tear Us Apart it for the first time it was so unique and had so much raw emotion his vocal style was so different and was something that inspired me to become a singer.

Joy Division was a boundary breaker and didn’t follow the typical norm which I admired so much.

Unfortunately, this lesson only me and the guitarist turned up so we did it acoustic. It sounded good but this made us a week behind schedule.

This Charming Man is a very melancholy song it has happy music with sarcastic lyric’s. The guitarist found it hard to grasp the intro but after a few tries and printing out a chord chart for help he did it. The vocal style for this song is very nasally but I picked it after a lot of practice at home I wanted to keep the authentic style.

Love Will Tear Us Apart was too deep for me to sing so I practiced it an octave higher which sounded a lot better as I was straining a lot and it is bad for vocal health.

We will come back to this song at a later date, when we have the whole band together.