Learn Guitar Songs - Perfect Day by Lou Reed
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Learn to Play Perfect Day by Lou Reed
Perfect Day by Lou Reed is a perfectly dreamy song! Can you play Perfect Day? Oh it's such a perfect day.... If I had a Perfect Day I'd like to spend it with you and teach you this wonderful song! I had to make this lens 100 - the song has been going through my head all day long in the Lou Reed version and Susan Boyle's video of Perfect Day gave me the tingles the other day.
Velvet Underground - what a great name to conjure with! However, Lou Reed made Perfect Day with David Bowie producing shortly after he left Velvet Underground. It features on the album Transformer. So... for my 100th lens I would like to do something really special and share what I know about this gorgeous song, maybe show you how to play the chords, perhaps encourage you to sing along with a video or two or simply just listen to some gorgeous music! So - let's play Perfect Day by Lou Reed.
Image, Creative Commons, courtesy of Danny Norton
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Contents at a Glance
Lou Reed Perfect Day Lyrics and Music
Lyrics to Perfect Day by Lou Reed
Enjoy Lou Reed's version and sing along with the lyrics provided....
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Click on the image to purchase the piano music of Perfect Day by Lou Reed. You can also click on the links to find out more about Lou Reed and his music.
- Lou Reed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Information about the songwrite Lou reed
- Lou Reed
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- Perfect Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- "Perfect Day"
Song by Lou Reed from the album Transformer
Released November, 1972
Glam rock
Length 3:46
Label RCA
Writer Lou Reed
Producer David Bowie
Learn Guitar Chords for Perfect Day
Learn these shapes to play Lou Reed's Perfect Day
Lou Reed's song is harmonically rich with smooth key changes throughout. This makes it a little complicated to play. I put this graphic together to give you the chords you need to play the song. One of the reasons for the dark emotional depth is that the song Perfect Day is actually played with a capo at fret 1. This means it starts basically in B flat minor - the five flats give the verse of Perfect Day a rich, dreamy, dark and warm quality. In the chorus in reverts to the major key and B flat is a strong, solid sounding key. This really lifts it. In the rock genre, Perfect Day is a Perfect Masterpiece!
The Lou Reed Songbook:
Six Strings and the Words
(Easy Guitar)
Guitar Tab for Lou Reed Perfect Day
Links to Lou Reed Perfect Day TABs
This is a list of links to TAB versions of Perfect Day by Lou Reed and Duran Duran
- Reed Lou - ( Perfect Day tab )
- Perfect Day tab by Reed Lou at GuitareTab.com
- Perfect Day Tab by Lou Reed @ 911Tabs - Tabs Search Engine
- Accurate Perfect Day guitar tab, bass tab, drum tab, piano tab, power tab, guitar pro tab, chords by Lou Reed @ 911Tabs.Com - tabs search engine
- Lou Reed - Perfect Day guitar pro @ TabCrawler.Com
- Lou Reed - Perfect Day guitar pro @ TabCrawler.Com Download for GuitarPro
It's Such a Perfect Day
I'd Like To Spend It With You
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Lou Reed Sings Perfect Day
Perfect Day by Lou Reed
Respect to the man himself! I am not sure why this song Perfect Day is classified as Glam Rock, but I don't really care. Lou Reed has reinvented himself many, many times!
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Perfect Day - A poem
Perfect Day - A Poem Influenced by Lou Reed
Written at a time of deep personal trouble, this poem was a testament to faith and gratitude....
Perfect Day
It's such a perfect day....
Rain showers my windshield,
Mud flies in abandon.
I drive slowly,
Paying attention
To each sly bend in the river
Of glistening tarmac -
I'd like to spend it with you....
Oh! It's such a perfect day....
Bashful children guiltily smile,
Red faced, but eager,
Practice a legend,
Music forgotten,
Yet obediently play
Bright Yuletide songs.
They just keep me hanging on.....
And you keep me hanging on
Through the bliss of inner sunshine;
Snatched free time walking
Through rain-scoured streets
Gilt framed with fiery golden charm
Of Autumn hedgerows
And vibrant living conifer green.
Cold wind bids me
Turn my collar
Yet promises the snug warmth
Of my Spartan workroom.
Timid rays creep smiling,
Bashful as clumsy children,
Between drizzling clouds;
Foretaste of a bold parade
Through golden guard of honour
On winding, tree-lined lanes.
Fresh air! Fresh joy! Fresh puddles
To skim in silent laughter
On this,
My journey into blithe instruction.....
You just keep me hanging on
In Faith, in Love, in Gratitude -
Such a Perfect Day!
© Lisa Gabriel, 6th December 2005
http//www.photahsiamirabel.co.uk
Perfect Day for Tweeting
Whats the Buzz on Twitter about Perfect Day?
The writer does not support and negative comments as they arise here. Perfect Day is one of my favourite songs and I 100% endorse Lou Reed's decision to let Susan Boyle cover this song. Her voice is amazing! So there!
It's Such A Perfect Day
I hope you enjoyed this page.
I was so glad to share some of it with my friends. I hope you enjoyed my Lens Number 100....
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joehawking
Dec 14, 2011 @ 6:26 pm | delete
- Ah, one of my favourite songs. Reminds me of a great holiday I took with a bunch of school friends down in Cornwall. Those were the days alright!
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guitarcasesonline_com
Sep 6, 2011 @ 9:22 pm | delete
- A really great song that not many guitarists play. Good job.
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_Joan_
Nov 14, 2010 @ 10:25 am | delete
- Congratulations on #100!
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jptanabe
Nov 14, 2010 @ 6:55 am | delete
- Great job and congrats on your 100th lens!
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Photahsiamirabel Nov 14, 2010 @ 7:33 am | delete
- Thank you - I spent quite a long time trying to get this one right :D
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