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Orange Chord Book
When will “Coming Soon” get here on the complete Orange chord book?
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10 Replies
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Can’t wait. I think I have figured out a couple, but it will be interesting to see how far off I am. I’m not good at it by any means.
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Jerry, I really need to print out all the pages to the “When We’re Together” chords and lyrics here. Such lovely photos attached to all of them, that they are truly a collector’s edition as well!!! I’ll print them out on card stock and put them all in a 3-ring binder.
I’ve had the chords and lyrics for 2 years from a website that Mona and Lisa directed me to, two years ago, but have never taken the time to sit down to play them on my piano or keyboard. That is one of the projects that I’ll make time for now that I have de-activated Facebook.
Team MLT continues to reward us fans time and time again, don’t they? They are so very generous and always please, please us, oh yeah!!! 🙂
Glad you asked this question Steve! I did not know the ORANGE chords were coming too. “Count On Me” my fave MLT song is the first one I will learn. What are you most looking forward to, buddy?
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Hi Michael,
I think I have figured out “In. It For Love” and although I don’t think I really have “Still a Friend of Mine” some of it sounds right.
No piano, though, I just play chords with some little runs. Never had the opportunity to take lessons.
Keep Rocking and, as the Twins would say: Stay Groovy ☺
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Michael, I’m looking forward to learning all of them. I did figure out Close to You, In It For Love, and Count on Me. But can I really learn how to play The Future? Well, ahh, ahh, I don’t know, really?
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Ha ha Steve; I would love to hear you play “The Future” on your guitar! Perhaps when all is said and done, it will prove to be the “#1 MLT Song of All-Time.”
Jacki and Jerry; it is never too late to learn more about music theory, reading music, and playing an instrument. You are both huge music fans and still so very young! The synapses and connections in our brains between music and math are so closely related. Practice in both keeps our minds sharp.
Here is my progressive steps in learning the piano: My older sister Anne and I took lessons for about 5 years in early grade school. Often times I did not see the point in it. When I got to be an older teen, they started to make sheet music books of The Moody Blues, The Bee Gees, and The Beatles. That is what really turned me on to playing the music I loved on the piano, and I would spend hours upon hours doing so.
When I was in high school I took some more lessons that taught me chords and the inter-relationships between then and all the key signatures. Learning the “Circle of Fifths” really opened up a new world for me and helped me look at the 88 keys of the keyboard in an entirely new way. Jerry, if your instrument is the guitar, it would help you there as well. Google it! By the way, I love the chord progressions that Mona and Lisa and Rudi write into their songs. They really understand music and know what they are doing!!!
When I got into college, as a junior in psychology, I took an intro Music Theory course with all the freshman music majors. It taught me a lot and I still have my books from it. Finally, when I was finished with school and a newlywed, I took a non-credit course in Piano Design and Mechanics at the university and learned all about the inner working and “guts” of the pianoforte, the instrument I most love. It touched on tuning, regulation, repair, etc. I actually did some repair and replaced the felt hammer heads and keys on my old upright piano. It was a very pleasurable experience, folks! To get back into playing my piano and electronic keyboard every day was a big motivation for me to get off Facebook. I truly miss playing, and getting back to it, and to play for my wife will increase my joy and happiness.
Jacki, that is a great story of you and the drums! Do what makes you happy and gives you joy! 🙂
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Well… Wishing I could read and play music but alas… Just able to sing and play by ear and/or feel/sense the music to pick up rhythm on tambourine… I have dabbled on keyboard and piano and ejectric organ (An aunt of mine is a church organist-pianist of the church she goes to) and I let loose kinda Animal Muppet style on a drumset my bro’s friend had our place for awhile as a bunch would jam down in the basement… My bro does guitar. The drum thing happened years ago and my bro was impressed by my efforts… Perhaps Mona could give me a lesson .. Lol????????????✌️????????????????????️????????????????☮️
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Funny, Steve!
Jacki, just get a basic set of drums and some headphones and play along with the MonaLisa-Twins music!
Michael, I am still learning. I am learning things now that I wish I could have learned years ago. But, I got married to my first wife when I was 19. We divorced when I was 26. Then I went back to school and got a BBA and MBA, so there just wasn’t any time for music.
I was / still am planning to make music my retirement hobby. I got sick in December of 2008 and retired in June 2009.
You would think I could have come a long way by now, but being sick has been a hurdle. Lisa and Mona have helped me so much with life and music. They have been a motivation and influence I can’t explain. I love them, Rudi and Michaela like family.
I also love the friends I have met through them!
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I’m waiting on it too. I’ve pretty much got most of them figured out, however, since my instrument of choice is usually a Strat XII or a Guild acoustic 12 I tend to make things slightly more complex than they might be. I can’t wait to see the official versions.
By the way – while learning to read and write music, and learning theory can be useful, it’s not needed, and it seems to me it can sometimes get in the way and make your playing seem a bit wooden if you’re too rigid with it. None of the Beatles could read or write music and neither can/could Eric Clapton, Jimmi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Michael Jackson, Elvis, Dave Grohl, or Eddie Van Halen. So learning technique and just playing will go a long way.
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Now that the Advent Calendar is done and the busy holidays are over we’ll have time to work on things like the chords booklet again. There are still a few other bits and pieces we want to get done in the weeks ahead but it’s definitely on the agenda for the not too distant future 🙂
Hope this will also result in some great covers from you guys!!
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Thank you Mona! That is so sweet of you and Lisa!!! You do so much for us, your fans, and that truly endears you to us more and more. I’m looking forward to learning all the WWT songs as well as the ORANGE songs. Don’t be too big of a hurry to make your 3rd original album; this old man cannot keep up with you young folks; lol!
And since we have turned the page to 2019, please tell your twin that my Q #3 is coming to her tomorrow night. Your Q #4 is coming on 1/18/19. Have a really groovy day, my friend! 🙂
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