Play Mom a Song on Mother's Day!

One of the best gifts you can give your mom is the gift of your guitar music — a gift from your heart and your strings!

In this episode, Marlene describes how to play the heartfelt ballad Mother Like Mine by The Band Perry - have a box of Kleenex handy for your performance!

Plus, here's a few more Mother's Day themed song inspirations: The Best Day, Mom and Mother Mother, Thank You Mom and Wind Beneath My Wings

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Episode Transcript

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I'm Marlene Hutchinson and welcome to Tips for Guitar Plane Success.

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As many of you know, I've been sharing my guitar plane tips every Thursday for more than
10 years.
It's been my way to hopefully help you stay motivated, be inspired, and continue expanding
your guitar plane journey.
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Today's tip is play a Mother's Day song for your mom.
This episode is dedicated to the most amazing mother ever.
My mom, Evelyn.
I love you mom.
Mother's Day is a wonderful celebration.
A great day to let that special woman in your life know that you love and appreciate

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her.
Of course, there are all kinds of nice gifts you can give her, but the one that will likely
resonate with her the most is the gift of your music.
In today's episode, I'll describe a beautiful song for you to easily learn and play on Mother's
Day.
Spoiler alert, have some clean acts nearby.

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The song I think you might want to play for your mom is "Motherlike Mine" by the Country
Group, The Band Perry.
It was written by the band members and siblings Kimberly Reed and Neil Perry for their 2013
album Pioneer.

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Though it was not released as a single, it's one of the staple songs performed by this group
when touring.
This heartfelt ballad was inspired by the group's mother Marie.
Kimberly Perry talked to Billboard magazine about the evolution of this song saying, quote,
"We were relaxing and going through some ideas."

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Neil had this one line written on his phone.
If the world had a mother like mine, end quote.
She also said, quote, "That was the most honest song we wrote for Pioneer."
End quote.
They wrote this song to honor their mother.
To play this song, you'll use the chords E minor C, G, D and A minor 7.

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And if you'd like to add a little more flavor to the tune, you can also use the chords G/B,
D/F#, and A minor 7th flat 5th.
I like to play this song with a sweet picking pattern, but a tender strum can work well too.

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And if you'd like some other Mother's Day song inspirations, check out a couple of my
past Mother's Day themed episodes where I cover how to play songs like Taylor Swift's
The Best Day, Mother by Sugarland, and thank you, Mom, by Good Charlotte.

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The links for these episodes are in the show notes.
I hope you share the gift of your music with your mom.
Happy Mother's Day to all mothers everywhere.
I hope this episode's tip has helped you to continue expanding your guitar playing skills

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and knowledge.
If you'd like to learn more, please check out the many learning resources available at marlenesmusic.com.
Thank you for joining today's podcast, and as I like to say, play on.
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