Fun fact: Autumn Leaves was the first jazz standard I learned on guitar back in high school, when I though learning to play jazz guitar would make me cool and get girlfriends. It’s a pretty basic song, and a good one to teach a 15-year-old me how to do a chord melody, which, on a guitar, is where you play a song’s chords and melody at the same time, and … hey, isn’t this supposed to be a DIY blog!?
Right. So, anyway (no, I didn’t get the girlfriends, sorry), the other day I was driving down a neighborhood street lit up with autumn leaves, and I thought, “Well, those are too pretty to just leave all over the pavement.” (Get it? Leave on the pavement?)
So Alicia and I grabbed up a bagful of them and brought them over to our studio, where I proceeded to stick them up on a big blank wall in all their leafy splendor. Here’s the how to:
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Get some obnoxiously beautiful fall leaves. If you live in a part of the country that doesn’t have fall colors … well … I feel bad for you.
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Put the leaves on the wall. I used removable Glue Dots, ’cause they’re awesome and super fast and won’t damage our paint.Â
That’s it!
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If you want to talk more about jazz guitar, you can come over and sit at this table with me and I’ll try to play Autumn Leaves for you on a guitar or whatever instrument we happen to have handy in the office.
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