Hello

Natural Woman

Stand By Your Man

Torn

Rocket Man

I want it to be that way

I’ll Be There

I believe I can fly

Never gonna give you up

Ain’t no sunshine

Livin’ La Vita Loca

I hope it’s funny!

I love my Tele. Not wild about the butterscotch finish though, but the only other choice was black with gold fleck. I replaced the bridge pickup with a DiMarzio Chopper T because the original pickup didn’t have enough oomph to drive the amp into a good crunch; just too clean.

Chordbook.Com. This is a good, basic site that will show you the open versions of chords. It shows you the finger, fret, and string to use, and also has a “strum” button you can use to find out what the chord sounds like. Easy to use.

Brian’s huge chordlist collection. This site only displays the major, minor, 7th, and minor 7th chords, but it has a nice printable chart of them all on one page. Another nice feature of this site is that it also has chord charts for the most popular alternate tunings, if you’re into that.

ChordFind.Com. This site offers the greatest number of chords, which is nice in itself, but it also has a great feature: you can click the “variation” button and it will show you all the alternate fingerings of a given chord.

Music Theory For Songwriters. Even if it’s not the most fun thing to learn, music theory is still good to know. However, the thing I really like about this site isn’t the theory, it’s the chord maps (scroll down towards the bottom of the page to see “The Big Map” in each major key).  These maps are magic…they show what chord progressions sound good together. The instructions for using the map are here.

Money Chords. This site has it all…chord charts, guitar lessons, theory, the characteristics of certain styles of music, and more.

I did a lot of layering with this song. I’ve got tracks for drums, bass, 3 rhythm guitars, 2 solo guitars, four different vocal tracks, and the synthesizer at the end. It was a lot of fun.

If you like this, let me know and I will post some others.

• Go buy a 10 x 14″ lasagna pan. The size is important as you’ll see later. They sell them at your local supermarket. Go buy one.
• 1 pound of shredded romano cheese. Buy it pre-shredded; shredding cheese is for suckers and I’ll show you how to skip it.
• 1 pound of provolone cheese, aged if you can find it.
• 2 pounds of fresh ricotta cheese. Buy the whole milk kind. Real men don’t drink skim milk.
• 2 pounds of mozzarella cheese.
• 2 quarts of your favorite tomato sauce. I like “Mid’s Homestyle Pasta Sauce”, it’s as good as anything I can make from scratch and a lot faster.
• 2 boxes of no-boil lasagna noodles. The no-boil kind not only taste better, but they’re faster and easier to work with, and you don’t have to wait for water to boil.
• A handful of parsley.
• A tablespoon of cinnamon.
• 3 eggs.

You’ll thank me for this first step because you’ll avoid an hour of tedious cheese-shredding. Take your mozzarella, provolone, and a big knife over to your breadboard. Chop the cheese into cubes about a half-inch square. This should only take a few minutes if you’re big and strong and can cut thru a whole block of cheese at once. Toss the cheese into a bowl and mix it so the provolone is evenly incorporated into the mozzarella.

Now we’ll make the ricotta filling. Grab a mixing bowl and dump the ricotta cheese, romano cheese, parsley, cinnamon, and eggs into it. Stir until everything is evenly incorporated. Set aside for now.

Take your 10 x 14″ lasagna pan and spread 1/4″ of tomato sauce into an even layer in the bottom. Grab a box of no-boil lasagna noodle and start laying them in so the long side of the noodle goes along the long edge of the pan. You will find that two noodles end-to-end fit exactly into the pan. You’ll make two rows with four noodles, then take a fifth noodle and break it in half the long way. These pieces should fit more or less into the remaining space in the pan. It’s okay if the noodles aren’t perfect, you’ll be too busy heaving sighs of contentment later to notice.

Take the ricotta filling and make dollops more-or-less evenly across the noodles. Use about half the filling. You don’t have to spread it into an even layer; the lasagna takes care of evening everything out by itself while it cooks.

Put another layer of noodles on. This time start from the other edge of the pan so the gaps are staggered over the gaps in the first layer of noodles. Kind of like putting shingles on a roof. If you’re really uptight, now would be a good time to press gently down on the noodles to squoosh the ricotta filling below. Spread about a 1/4″ of tomato sauce over the noodles, and follow that with about half the cheese cubes.

Build another layer…noodles, sauce, then the rest of the ricotta filling.

Build the final layer…noodles, sauce, the the rest of the cubed cheese.

Cook in the oven at about 350 degrees for about an hour. Once the cheese on top starts to get bubbly and brown, it’s done. Take it out and let it cool off for about twenty minutes. You don’t want to burn your tongue.

Enjoy.

• Everclear–Santa Monica
• Tom Petty–Mary Jane
• The Black Crowes–Remedy
• Blind Melon–No Rain
• Blues Traveler–The Hook
• Weezer–Beverly Hills
• Wheatus–Teenage Dirtbag
• The White Stripes–Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
• CCR–Heard It Through The Grapevine
• Hole–Northern Star
• Jimi Hendrix–Manic Depression
• Social Distortion–Ring of Fire
• Presidents of the United States–Lump
• Portishead–Glory Box
• Gov’t Mule–Hempilation
• Zero 7–When It Falls
• AC/DC–Night Prowler
• Alanis Morissette–Not The Doctor
• Alice In Chains–Rooster
• Allman Brothers–One Way Out
• Ani DiFranco–Amazing Grace
• Pink Floyd–anything from Animals, Wish You Were Here, or The Wall
• B52s–Love Shack (you can’t not like this song!)
• Bad Company–Shooting Star
• Beck–Where It’s At
• Bonnie Raitt–Angel From Montgomery
• Bruce Springsteen–Rosalita
• Bush–Glycerine
• Cake–The Distance
• The Clash–Should I Stay or Should I Go
• Counting Crows–Mr. Jones
• CSN–Southern Cross
• DMB–Crash Into Me
• Dire Straits–Brothers In Arms
• The Donnas–Who Invited You
• The Eagles–Those Shoes
• The Edgar Winter Group–Frankenstein
• Elton John–Tiny Dancer
• George Thorogood–Bad To The Bone
• Green Day–Brain Stew
• Guns ‘n Roses–Mr. Brownstone
• Heart–Crazy On You
• Jackson Browne–My Opening Farewell
• The Committments–I Can’t Stand the Rain
• Jet–Are You Gonna Be My Girl
• Jethro Tull–Cross-eyed Mary
• Joe Walsh–The Confessor
• Kid Rock–Early Mornin’ Stoned Pimp
• Lenny Kravitz–American Woman
• Live–Lightning Crashes
• Living Colour–Cult of Personality
• Liz Phair–Divorce Song
• Local H–Bound for the Floor
• Macy Gray–Sex-o-Matic Venus Freak
• Maroon 5–Harder To Breath
• Meatloaf–Paradise by the Dashboard Lights :)
• Nirvana–All Apologies
• The Outlaws–Green Grass and High Tides Forever
• Papa Roach–Last Resort
• Poi Dog Pondering–Al Le Luia
• Red Hot Chili Peppers–Scar Tissue
• Rolling Stones–Brown Sugar
• Rush–Working Man
• Sarah McLachlan–Hold On
• Shaggy–Angel
• Sheryl Crow–Love is a Good Thing
• Soundgarden–Burden In My Hand
• The Staple Singers–I’ll Take You There
• The Steve Miller Band–Joker
• Stevie Ray Vaugh–Little Wing
• Stone Temple Pilots–Creep
• Talking Heads–Burning Down the House
• Temple of the Dog–Hunger Strike
• Toadies–Possum Kingdom
• Toshi Reagon–Just What I Needed (great Cars cover)
• Veruca Salt–Seether
• The Verve Pipe–Freshmen
• Violent Femmes–Blister
• The Wallflowers–Sixth Avenue Heartache
• War–Lowrider
• The Who–My Generation (heh)
• Willie Nelson–Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground