I Don't Like Mondays by The Boomtown Rats – Acoustic Guitar Lesson from Totally Guitars
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Published 2018-07-30
I Don’t Like Mondays, is a song by Irish band The Boomtown Rats about the 1979 Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego/California. It was written by their lead singer and Band Aid co-founder Bob Geldof.
The title is based on the explanation that 16-year-old shooter Brenda Ann Spencer gave when being asked why she had done it. She responded: ‘I don’t like Mondays. This livens up the day.’
The song is heavily piano driven and this lesson teaches how to play a similar sounding arrangement on the guitar.
It’s done in standard tuning, but in order to match the original recording one would need to tune down all six strings a half step.
We take a look at the progression in the key of C, the signature intro and several little melodic piano fills, which appear throughout the song. This creates quite a few challenges for both the fretting and strumming hand.
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All Comments (12)
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Playing and singing are great! Nicely done!
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fantastic song; your guitar playing is awesome!
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great job mate. Congrats
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Super.........bravo.
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Another great lesson from Monica!
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Thats an awesome cover Vanessa I wasn't sure whether it would be possible to capture all the elements of the original recording into just one guitar but you nailed it!.... Your one of my favourite "you tube" cover artists and i say that in all sincerity and if you ever feel like another challenge there's "The Living Years" Mike and the Mechanics. 👍🎸🎶
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Excellent. :-)
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This is best version I have found online you sound awesome!
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Lovely version, especially the intro, great job !
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great
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I'll definitely have to check this out, one of my favourite songs, from 1979. I have tried to play this song, but in the key of A. You said that you were in the Nederlands, do you broadcast from there? I see that most of Europe and America, are experiencing a heat wave, yet where I am, we are experiencing our coldest and wettest winter.
