¡Qué extraordinario! (How extraordinary!)
That was a top 40 of modern hits with just 4 chords.
My music collection doesn’t have anything from this millennium, so I was tempted to channel my father and rag on today’s music for having just 4 chords.
That wouldn’t be fair.
After all a lot of my favorite music doesn’t even have 4 chords. Hundreds of songs that I love have just 3 chords in a 12-bar pattern. For example;
Chuck Berry: Johnny B. Goode, Bye Bye Johnny (& many others)
Herbie Hancock: Watermelon Man
Beatles: You Can’t Do That
Elvis Presley: Hound Dog, Teddy Bear
Bob Dylan: Buckets of Rain: Rainy Day Women
The Doors: Riders on the Storm
Prince: Cream
Creative musicians can take a little and say a lot musically. They take 3 chords and write the soundtracks to our lives.
You can do the same with your Spanish. You can start with a little; in fact just a 3-step pattern is all you need to begin creating the score for your Spanish life.
And you don’t even have to be a creative person. All you need is a desire to get to know your amigos in their language and you’ll start expressing yourself in Spanish in record time.
Click here for a free Lesson: How to make your Spanish flow with a simple 3-step pattern
Hi Marcus
This has nothing to do with your blog, but I walk my dog every morning and listen/learn Spanish with your lesson ( by the the way I live in Spain) and think it is fantastic.
I am sat here with my iPad waiting for the next download so I can learn some more , I just noticed that the payment has gone through so who ever is responsible for pushing the button or what ever is required so I can get my next lesson please give them a gentle kick.
And I like to say you are a wonderful teacher well done
Regards
Alan
Not sure whether to have another glass of cava or go for a siesta while I wait
youtube is blocked in Pakistan and so I cannot access to stuff you upload there. Can you please upload at dailymotion.com as well? 🙂
hola Marcus, acabo de ver y escuchar el video , lo pasé muy bien
y me he divertido mucho ; gracias de nuevo , Poul.
I cannot for the life of me see what this video has to do with profanity? Although a couple of everyday swear words were dropped? As well as that I cannot stand this group!!!
Very interesting video. Well presented.
A lot to think about!
acomedyrockband??? Que Lastima
By the way, I’m able to converse with a visitor from Ecuador. He’s trying hard to learn English, so we just swop over from one language to the other! Thanks Marcus.
Thanks, Marcus, I’m always grateful to be able to brush up my Castellano. Stuart
I think the reason for 4 chord songs popularity is they are easy to sing for most of us who are not good singers. That is life! Otherwise they become classical style music with extreme complications.
Great video! I didn’t see but one profanity as I was enjoying the video too much!
Hi Marcus, I’ve been studying Spanish with your method for some time.Recently I was in my bank in Spain and I met the new bank manager.As we were alone ( I’m quite reserved by nature ) I asked her a number of questions in Spanish, which were understood, and like wise this fair lady responded in Spanish and I had no problem understanding her. It can only get better. I mean the spanish. Thank You for such a straight forward uncomplicated way of learning a new language.
Kindest Regards To you and your Family
Barry
Hola Barry,
Gracias por los comentarios. It’s always great to hear when the course is put to use in real world situations.
Saludos,
Marcus
Hi Sr. Santamaria,
I am very glad to get your mail even though I can’t read everything, bec of my vision problem.
I don’t know computer very well.. So I asked my friend in El Paso, who’s better than me, to order The Synergy Spanish, pay, and send them to me. That worked well. However…
Last year you’d put out a Cinco de Mayo at about $40. Right? So I asked my friend again, not realizing that was a downloading program. I was given a pin # which I never used bec. I didn’t know how to download it and until now, I didn’t know how to get in touch with you. Do you still have the program? May be son who lives in Canada, can download it for me. I’ m 63yrs old, living in Korea but will be moving to Africa in 10days and I’d very much like to have it. Thankyou.
Great video lots of fun