"Jill's Song" - Adam Rafferty - Solo Acoustic Guitar Original Composition

For Free Tabs visit http://www.adamrafferty.com Hi Gang, Here's the first original fingerstyle composition I wrote - the year was 2006. I had just gotten my first Taylor 314 (shown in my early videos) and I strummed an open D chord (Dropped D) with an open E string and my heart exploded with inspiration! What a great feeling it was...and is! I new a tune was being born - and a new adventure in life was underway. I felt "home" again playing a steel string guitar after years of playing electric. The inspiration for "Jill's Song " came with the D Major section first. I later "reverse engineered" the D minor "verse" which is pretty much an exact parallel of the D major section. This song is on the "Gratitude" CD but I never played it live after recording it. It went "hidden". Every time someone popped in the CD in the car, I felt there was a little piece on my soul in this song. Better said - the tune feels like one of my precious "babies". I figured it was time to dust it off and start putting it back into the mix. It was originally recorded with a flatpick...I love that metallic sound I originally had - but somehow fingers on the right hand feel better at this time. I still need to practice this one, big time - it looks easy, but it ain't! Making the melody sing and getting a strong tone out of the guitar are the challenge....well, are't they always? Enjoy! Adam PS - Tuning is Dropped D.