> "Next week I'll show you some Joan Jett and Johnette Napolitano..." I told
> him.

> ...to play guitar, that is.
> Godnose I'm no role model for anything else.
> The kid's hung on Metallica and that kind of scene. Can't use it, myself...
> I like more melody and rhythm.
> So, I'm teaching him elementary major, minor and 7th chords, and the simple
> I - IV - V blues progression.
> With these-- the simplest possible tools-- he can play about... eighty
> zillion songs.
>
> I'm picking random tunes from my hard drive that feature no more than 3 or 4
> chords, tops, so he doesn't have to labor too hard trying to make the
> changes. One of the ones I selected-- I'm trying to pick a variety of things
> that either outright rock or growl a little; SPIDER AND THE FLY and THE
> WORST from the Stones; KEY TO THE HIGHWAY and HOW LONG BLUES from Clapton's
> "From the  Cradle" album; I GOT LOADED from Los Lobos, etc., etc...-- was
> STEVE McQUEEN, by Sheryl Crow.
>
> "Sheryl Crow? Are you serious? Ewww!" he said.
> "Do you know the song?" I asked. ...

>So, rather than simply play the MP3 file, I cranked up YOUTUBE and found the
>video for it.
>He sat there with his mouth open and watched Sheryl rock out and slink
>around in her leather, lace-up pants, playing her red Telecaster and driving
>race cars and motorcycles and looking for all the world like she could kick
>your ass without even breaking a sweat.
>
>"Uh... O.K., Uncle Jef. So, um... that's in 'G' , is it?" he asked...
>
>The boy's catching on...

> On Jun 1, 2:10 pm, "Jef." wrote:

>> ...to play guitar, that is.
>> Godnose I'm no role model for anything else.
>> The kid's hung on Metallica and that kind of scene. Can't use it, myself...
>> I like more melody and rhythm.
>> So, I'm teaching him elementary major, minor and 7th chords, and the simple
>> I - IV - V blues progression.
>> With these-- the simplest possible tools-- he can play about... eighty
>> zillion songs.
>>
>> I'm picking random tunes from my hard drive that feature no more than 3 or 4
>> chords, tops, so he doesn't have to labor too hard trying to make the
>> changes. One of the ones I selected-- I'm trying to pick a variety of things
>> that either outright rock or growl a little; SPIDER AND THE FLY and THE
>> WORST from the Stones; KEY TO THE HIGHWAY and HOW LONG BLUES from Clapton's
>> "From the Cradle" album; I GOT LOADED from Los Lobos, etc., etc...-- was
>> STEVE McQUEEN, by Sheryl Crow.
>>
>> "Sheryl Crow? Are you serious? Ewww!" he said. ...

> ...to play guitar, that is.
> Godnose I'm no role model for anything else.
> The kid's hung on Metallica and that kind of scene. Can't use it, myself...
> I like more melody and rhythm.
> So, I'm teaching him elementary major, minor and 7th chords, and the simple
> I - IV - V blues progression.
> With these-- the simplest possible tools-- he can play about... eighty
> zillion songs.
>
> I'm picking random tunes from my hard drive that feature no more than 3 or 4
> chords, tops, so he doesn't have to labor too hard trying to make the
> changes. One of the ones I selected-- I'm trying to pick a variety of things
> that either outright rock or growl a little; SPIDER AND THE FLY and THE
> WORST from the Stones; KEY TO THE HIGHWAY and HOW LONG BLUES from Clapton's
> "From the  Cradle" album; I GOT LOADED from Los Lobos, etc., etc...-- was
> STEVE McQUEEN, by Sheryl Crow.
>
> "Sheryl Crow? Are you serious? Ewww!" he said.
> "Do you know the song?" I asked. ...