I posted a scratch recording of this on my sound cloud site. Mostly for my daughter who I thought might like this. https://soundcloud.com/jets60/what-i-can-change-scratch
752 2013-09-18 02:28:11
Topic: Morning Call - All Because of You (0 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Just a little song that captured a morning call I had with my wife. Mostly her conversation with me listening then she got busy again at work and had to go. I think simple pleasures in life make great songs. The chords for this are pretty simple to play and you just keep it up throughout the song. Here is a link to the song if you want to have a listen to a scratch recording I made that will clear up how it should be played and sung: https://soundcloud.com/jets60/morning-call-all-because-of
Chordpro error: The song does not contain chords. Please include at least two chords in brackets within the text, like this: [C7].
753 2013-09-17 03:29:56
Re: Could use some prayers / positive vibes (41 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Prayers coming you way now. I have no info on meningitis, but I understand your wanting to help your brother. Hang in there.
754 2013-09-11 23:43:24
Re: Tab for Dip It Low, Christina Milian (1 replies, posted in Song requests)
You need to post the youtube link if you want someone to listen to the song.
755 2013-09-11 23:41:56
Re: Song Key (1 replies, posted in Song requests)
If you post the link to the youtube video maybe someone can listen to the song and help you out.
756 2013-09-11 00:40:24
Re: For those who don't visit the Electric forum (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I just heard it on the Electric forum. Wowzer, was that nice!
757 2013-09-11 00:38:41
Re: Some Blues with my new Guitar (42 replies, posted in Electric)
That made my night Russ. You Sir know Da' blues.
758 2013-09-08 18:39:53
Topic: F. Scott and Zelda Visit the Mountains (0 replies, posted in Songwriting)
I was reading about how F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda had an eventful visit to my home town of Asheville, NC from 1935-1936. Some accounts say he was trying to recover from tuberculous, while others say he had acquired a taste for gin and was trying to kick it by what was known at the time as the "beer cure". Unfortunately he drank about 50 ponies of beer (a pony is 12 ounces) and for some reason this cure didn't work for him. Meanwhile, Zelda had been diagnosed as having chronic schizophrenic. She was checked into a local mental institution, Highland Hospital, which treated the mental illness by using less medications and focused on a good diet, exercise, and the "mountain air". She would live there the rest of her life which ended in 1948. F. Scott left the mountains for Hollywood in 1937 and seemed to have recaptured his gift, but died in 1940 while he was writing The Last Tycoon. This story inspired me to write this song about their visit long ago. Here is a link if you want to have a listen: https://soundcloud.com/jets60/f-scott-and-zelda-visit-the
F. Scott and Zelda Visit the Mountains By Jeff Gilpin
September 8, 2013
[C]Looking out the window
[F]Thoughts are everywhere
[G]Seeing new arrivals
[C]Wondering if they would [G]care
To [C]meet the man of legend
[F]For he was pretty sure
They’d [G]know of an author of his renown
And they [C]just might [G]be his [C]cure
And [Em]Zelda sits across town
Where they’re [Am]frugal with their meds
They [F]believe that country living
Will get the [Bb]demons from her head
She [G]doesn’t know how she ended up here
[Am]After a life so grand
[Bb]While the voices [Em]chuckle
As [G]only demons [Am]can
[C]Scott, he was trying to kick
His [F]over fondness for gin
He’d [G]heard if he switched to beer
[C]That he could be[G]gin
To [C]finally rediscover
His [F]genus from before
But it’s [G]hard to solve a drinking problem
When you’re [C]only [G]drinking [C]more
And [Em]Zelda she’s across town
An [Am]emotional rollercoaster
Some [F]days she brightens every room
Like a [Bb]sunny day in the mountains
But [G]other days become so dark
Like she’s [Am]trapped within a cave
And [Bb]pulls the soil on [Em]top of her
[G]Digging her own [Am]grave
[C]One night Scott was injured
A[F]nother drunken night
[G]Stumbled, broke his shoulder
While re[C]learning how to [G]write
[C]Some folks said he tried and failed
To [F]end his broken life
But he [G]never would have done that
While feeling [C]guilty a[G]bout his [C]wife
[Em]Zelda outlived F. Scott
[Am]By almost a decade
Scott [F]left her in the mountains
To re[Bb]make his life unmade
He [G]died as he was remembering
The [Am]form that brought him fame
While [Bb]Zelda died all in a [Em]blaze
[G]Some folks said she was to [Am]blame
[C]Sometimes it makes me wonder
Why the [F]mighty often fall
[G]After reaching lofty heights
They [C]crash among the [G]tall
Their [C]lives may have turned out better
If [F]fame somehow was avoided
Like [G]so much else I’ll never know
That’s [C]just how some [G]lives [F]go
759 2013-09-07 21:43:36
Re: Maggie Coulter (3 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Hey Phill,
I think this was one of your best recordings, and of course a great song. I like some of the backing harmonies but some of it in different spots kind of drowns you out in parts of the song, from 2:42-2:52 then again from 3:11-3:25. I would maybe tone those down some so they don't step on your vocals as much. I also really enjoyed your solo there towards the end. Overall though I really enjoyed your updated version.
760 2013-09-03 18:22:48
Re: Ballad of Lewis and Pete (12 replies, posted in Songwriting)
My pleasure Vince. Glad you enjoyed it.
761 2013-09-03 16:58:25
Re: Ballad of Lewis and Pete (12 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Thanks Tom - I appreciate the feed back. I bet you would have liked both men. Both very talented and always filled with humor. Lewis was a big proponent of the "old Appalachian mountain values". He also taught me how to make johnny cakes (pancakes made mostly of cornmeal) on one camping trip...since then I've always associated camping and johnny cakes and vice versa. Lewis wrote a few books and was quite a story teller. One of his books was published in 2003 and is called "Of Human Interest". It is made up of pieces he wrote for the various papers he started and wrote for. Finding my father's writings is a little tougher. His most known is a short book he wrote in 1966 about Bascome Lamar Lundsford, who's most known for his mountain folk songs.
762 2013-09-03 16:02:42
Re: Ballad of Lewis and Pete (12 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Just finished a scratch recording of The Ballad of Lewis and Pete. Have a listen and let me know what you think. https://soundcloud.com/jets60/ballad-of-lewis-and-pete
763 2013-08-31 14:24:11
Re: Chordie SSLLLOOOOWWWWW slow (10 replies, posted in About Chordie)
Yep - a little slow for me too...not sure why because I have a pretty fast connect for everything else...just chordie that takes a while.
764 2013-08-31 03:27:21
Re: Life Moments (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Thanks Dino - I saw a thumb on other posts but it was just a picture attached....your words are as good as a picture. 
765 2013-08-30 02:42:52
Re: Traveling Thomas and Brandy - another Beamer/Jets60 song (15 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Thanks Dino - Yeah, we kind of work well together I think.
766 2013-08-29 22:36:39
Re: Traveling Thomas and Brandy - another Beamer/Jets60 song (15 replies, posted in Songwriting)
When I'm in the upper side of my vocal range I guess I get a little like Neil...not by choice but that's just how my voice goes. I guess there are worse things. Would be better if I could play more like him.Thanks.
767 2013-08-29 14:43:12
Re: Traveling Thomas and Brandy - another Beamer/Jets60 song (15 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Thanks Pete - I agree - good old themes that I've always been fond of.
768 2013-08-29 12:16:25
Topic: Traveling Thomas and Brandy - another Beamer/Jets60 song (15 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Hey Everyone,
Beamer wrote a really good song, and asked me to figure out some music to go with it. So I did and I also put a scratch recording to it that I like. I believe Beamer will give us his version as well and I am looking forward to it. If any of you would like to here it you can find my version at: https://soundcloud.com/jets60/traveling-thomas-and-brandy
Traveling Thomas and Brandy Written by Scott Sailer - Arrangement by Jeff Gilpin
8/23/2013
Intro
Finger picking F C F C
We [F]saw them show [G]up in [C]town
Another [Em]homeless man and his [Am]dog,
[G] He never bothered [F] anyone
He’s just [F]pushing his [G]cart a[C]round
[F]One day my [G]wife stopped [C]to say hello,
[F]Asked [G]who he was and [F]what did he know.
[Em]His eyes sparkled as he [G]said,
[Am7]My name is [G]Thomas and I’ve [F]been all a[C]round
[Am7]No one for a [G]friend ‘cept [F]God and this old hound,
[Em]His name is [Am]Brandy and [Em]he keeps me s[Am]afe
[F]Between him and [G]God I’ve no [F]fear of my fate. [C]
[F]So we [G]got to know old [C]Tom,
[Em]And learn the story of his [Am]life,
[G]Once he was a [F]sinning man
Who found [F]God, but [G]lost his [C]wife.
[F]Thomas and Brandy [G]stayed [C]in this town
[F]He was able to [G]find a house and [F]make some friends
He got to [Em]start to settle down,
And he just [G]said,
[Am7]My name is [G]Thomas and I’ve [F]been all a[C]round
[Am7]No one for a [G]friend ‘cept [F]God and this old hound,
[Em]His name is [Am]Brandy and [Em]he keeps me s[Am]afe
[F]Between him and [G]God I’ve no [F]fear of my fate. [C]
[F]We shared the [G]holidaysAnd [C]took him into our lives
[Em]We looked after himAnd we would [Am]make each other smile.
[G]Life went on and there came that day, We hadn’t [F]seen him in a while,
That’s [F]when we [G]Lost our [C]smile.
[F]He is no [G]longer [C]here ,
[F]I can see him [G]clutching his bible [F]tight
All the [Em]while he says with all his [G]might
[Am7]My name is [G]Thomas and I’ve [F]been all a[C]round
[Am7]No one for a [G]friend ‘cept [F]God and this old hound,
[Em]His name is [Am]Brandy and [Em]he keeps me s[Am]afe
[F]Between him and [G]God I’ve no [F]fear of my fate. [C]
769 2013-08-29 04:27:23
Topic: I Love the Internet (1 replies, posted in Poems)
I Love the Internet - By Jeff Gilpin - Aug 4, 2013
I could learn a foreign language
Which I’ll need when I meet
That girl who has the hots for
And lives 2.5 miles down the street.
I guess while I’m at it I should buy
Some of those super enlargement pills,
And learn those three words girls can’t resist,
And add to my night of thrills
I love the internet.
It’s a great innovation.
Connecting me to the rest of the world
That’s filled with deprivation.
I thought it’d bring peace to the world
Or feed all the starving children.
Instead it’s just a way for people to make money.
No miracle, just a little sad and funny.
770 2013-08-29 03:40:01
Re: My Nephew (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Hey Scott - I left him a comment on the soundcloud site. I enjoyed it, but it is more my music than yours that's for sure.
771 2013-08-28 00:39:23
Re: a lesson in idiocy (13 replies, posted in Electric)
I am sure there is a song in this story.
772 2013-08-27 06:19:12
Re: Blackbird guitars? (10 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
Hey Finnlander - Welcome.
I looked into Rainsong guitars a while back. Carbon fiber guitars have a pretty good up side. They hold their tune better since they're made out carbon fiber and not wood. I got this one second hand from someone who owns one, but it makes sense to me because the carbon fiber is not quite as sensitive to the elements like wood guitars. They really have a great sound which I think is because there is no bracing like you get in wood guitars, so they are much louder. They're also quite light. I picked up a full size dred and almost dropped it because I was not expecting the weight difference. The down side to me is the cost which runs around $2k and up. I also kind of like the look of wooden guitars so I would miss that. Not an issue for me because I will not be in the market for a while. If you are interested I recommend go try one out and see for yourself.
773 2013-08-26 22:59:40
Re: Life Moments (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Thanks Phill. No tears. I was just appreciating time I spend with that gal of mine. She was heading off to work at a local winery and I was envious of all those the patrons who would get to spend that day with her.
774 2013-08-23 15:18:43
Re: Johnny Maestro (7 replies, posted in Song requests)
THEAlexPKeaton wrote:
..., you can try posting the lyrics here, and I place the chords accordingly.
...
We can't post the lyrics here in the forum unfortunately, but I think the chords you provided answer the request from the original post. Thanks for figuring out the chords Alex.
775 2013-08-23 03:52:57
Re: Need help with Letter Wale John Mayer (just john mayers part) (1 replies, posted in Song requests)
Doesn't say A it says Ab then Dm Eb Ab G Cm Eb and so on....he's finger picking the chords the way I hear it...with a bass track on top of it as well if I'm hearing correctly. The bass track might throw you because they are not part of what chodify shows. Hope this helps.