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Don't Know Why
🕑 Added 2021-04-13 15:02:00 +0000 UTCDon't Know Why is a song originally composed and written by Jesse Harris, but most people associate it more with Norah Jones because she did such a great cover of the song in 2002 that which she won three Grammy Awards for it!
One of the better versions of this song, in my opinion, is by Pat Metheny. You can find his live performance on Jools Holland show on You Tube, it is worth seeing how masterfully he plays this song in non standard tuning.
In order to stay faithful to the original intro I found it very useful to put a capo on the 1st fret so that the original Bb key of the song becomes A major. This way we will have the major bass tones always on open strings, which is very handy for all parts of the song.
For the rest of the song I adapted voice lines for the fingerstyle lines and in several places added my own variations, consisting of double-stops and arpeggios, to keep the tension and make it a bit more exciting to play, and not to just play the same line over and over again.
