When learning a song, even if I’m going to be singing it to a backing track as in this case, I like to explore the song on guitar and occasionally on keyboard. Besides adding interest, I find that approaching the song from different perspectives helps with memorising the structure, lyrics and helps to cement a chosen performance style.

For The Monkees ‘I’m a Believer’ cover, that I working on for Sing Pop, I’m transposing from the key of G to F for my vocal so also practicing the accompaniment on guitar in F.

I started learning the song using Justin Sandercoe’s video, one of my regular go to resources.

This time though I am also using the excellent, local to me, Kirklees Guitar School‘s video / PDF which had recently been shared with somewhat spooky serendipity!