Band 101 is moving to Monday nights at the HUB of Innovation, 5233 Hohman Avenue in downtown Hammond. We're going to do Band 101 every Monday night starting July 10th. It's $5 to get in and the classes are open to all. Take one class and drop out, or (and really, this is what we're hoping for) you'll love it so much you'll want to stay with us for a thousand years.
But we'd better work hard to keep you! And this is what Rich came up with this Monday:
Jim Croce's Bad, Bad Leroy Brown and moveable chords.
A moveable chord takes one chord shape and moves it up and down the neck to give you brand new chords. Take the G chord on a ukulele, for example.
Keep that same shape with your fingers and move the shape up (towards the body of the ukulele) two frets. Now that G has become an A (if you don't play the G string). Take that same shape up two more frets-- now that A has become a B. Keep that same shape and move it up one more fret. Now that B has become a C. Four chords with only one shape! This same effect can be had on the guitar or banjo, too.
Here is the lyric sheet for Bad, Bad Leroy Brown. Enjoy, and we'll see you again on July 10th!
