2024 came in with a bang! I have not been gigging as much, but I’ve been doing some pretty significant work anyway, and I just want to talk about it for a minute origin spiel herunterladen.

One of the things that I love about performing regularly is the challenge of learning new music. I try to keep it seasonal, so that means more winter-y and holiday songs in December downloaden wordpress. Love songs in February. Irish tunes (both of the pop and traditional variety) in March.

This year, however, I decided to do something a little different in February herunterladen. A dream of mine for a very long time has been to do an entire show of music by my favorite all-time artist, Ani Difranco. This probably sounds easy enough if you don’t actually know who Ani is bab formular herunterladen. But if you know, you know.

Ani Difranco isn’t just an emotion- and thought-provoking songwriter. Ani’s guitar tunings get a little…. complicated. Here’s a crash course in guitar tuning. Standard guitars are tuned EADGBE. Sometimes we get fancy and do DADGBE (this is called drop D tuning and my favorite example is “Everlong” by Foo Fighters). Sometimes we can experiment with open tunings like DADGAD – this means you don’t have to press any strings down with your left hand, you can just strum the strings with your right hand and it will sound pretty cool.

Most of Ani’s songs, on the other hand, are in quite a variety of radical tunings. I won’t even go into specifics but a very reliable website I have been using for years – anitabs.net – lists 33 different tunings, in addition to standard tuning. Some tunings are only used in just one song. Some she uses for just a handful. What this means from a performing standpoint is that if you want to do more than 3 of her songs at a gig, you’ve got to either be really, really good at changing the tuning of your guitar on the fly, or you’ve got to have multiple guitars ready to go and quite possibly – like Ani does – you’ve got someone else assisting you with tuning your other guitars for you.

I don’t have a guitar tech to come to shows with me – yet – but I did have a dream to fulfill. I learned the songs, I plotted out the tuning changes very, very carefully, and then on February 16 I did it. I played a 3-hour show featuring 26 Ani tunes and more music from some great female musicians – everyone from Janis Joplin to Amy Winehouse. I had a blast! And more importantly, I was pretty proud of the fact that I put in the effort and played a great show of a lot of new-to-me, challenging music.

I don’t know when or where I’ll do the next “All the Pretty Girls” show, but if you’re a venue that sounds interested in having this special show – let’s get in touch!