Simplicity

There's real beauty in simplicity in all kinds of music, but especially "light entertaining music", as a friend reminded me this week. Here's a great example of what I'm talking about. Earl Klugh has been coming up with simple, beautiful chords and melodies for a long time now. Here's a very young Klugh showing us that sometimes less is more.



Former New York Yankees great, centerfielder and probably future MLB Hall of Famer Bernie Williams is a pretty good guitar player. Listen to how he takes a simple, familiar melody and makes great music with it. Hear how he enhances it with the harmony he lays around it. And yes, that really is Bernie Williams playing. (I had to put a link to this one because the size of it didn't fit in my blog layout. It's a link to youtube:)


Bernie Williams' Take Me Out to the Ballgame