From school kid guitar lessons and music/choral classes I knew about I - IV - V but I just never 'heard' it. Then one day decades ago I heard an oldie but goodie tune on the radio and immediately played it. It was Tommy Roe's, "Shiela". That "sweet little girl" still gives me some sweet memories of an aha-moment and a breakthrough in playing "thousands of basic songs."
I was slow to hear the progression and to put the theory to practice but not so My Lady. Fast forward 45+ years and I'm back to playing guitar and practicing chord changes and she perks up, "Hey...that sounds like "Bristol Stomp!"" Darn! It took me a loonnng time to 'hear' that progression, but not her.
"It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to. I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time."
-- Chet Atkins
-- Chet Atkins
