For the past few days ever since Richie’s death, I have been messing around with Richie’s “Freedom” song on the guitar and singing it too. I am using the song in an alternate tuning that he used it in and trying to make the chords similar to what he played. I’ll never be able to copy his rhythm style exactly but I can make it pretty similar. Close enough. The song isn’t really all that hard to perform as most people mistakenly think. Peace of cake really! Just a few chords, that’s it! If you can figure out his rhythm patterns and counts by carefully listening to what he’s doing, you can play his rhythm parts almost perfectly. Just learn the counts and use a metronome. When I record myself playing the song on video, I’ll play along with a metronome… just so that I can prove I can play and know what I’m doing. It’ll take me several more days of practice, but I’ll do it. I think I am going to cover this song for youtube.

I want to get my youtube account going again with cover songs and originals.

Kev