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Sitting on the porch, practicing as the sun goes down on a beautiful Winter day

This is the basic riff for the Iron & Wine version of Such Great Heights by The Postal Service. Except I’m playing it too fast, he’s playing F differently, and I need a lot more practice. Here’s the real thing. C G F C G sure is pretty.

Comments

  1. Chris on 2009-01-07 18:54:03 wrote: Nice! That’s one of my favorite songs ever. You are right, it was faster but it still sounded lovely to me. I cannot believe that you just started playing. Inspiring. Maybe with the new Garageband I’ll try something like that…

  2. John on 2009-01-09 09:39:57 wrote: Thanks, Chris.