I found out this week that I’m likely to lose my job. So as a proactive middle-aged go-getter, I took the only sensible course of action in this situation and stayed up until 3am the night before my redundancy meeting, trying to figure out how to play ‘Leeds Leeds Leeds (Marching On Together)’ on guitar. Here are my findings.

My previous abortive attempts to learn MOT have always underestimated the harmonic richness and little nuances that elevate the composition above a by-the-numbers pop song. I’d match basic chords to melody, and they’d fit, but they weren’t right. It always lacked that bit of swazz that gives the actual song its own special feel.

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