JJ Heller’s “Your Hands” is running through our heads all day long…
…because the 9-year-old has chosen it to sing in her school talent show (they’re using it to raise money to send for Haiti relief). (LYRICS)
I’d spent a few days hunting around the ‘net, looking for the backtrack recording. Failed.
I’m a keyboardist myself — but I’ve tried to pluck it out on a little guitar we have laying around. It’s a beautiful, but simple song… so if there was any chance in (hot place) for me to pick it up in time for her audition on Monday, I’d handle it. But the woman who promised to love, honor, and not hold back the positive criticism has not (yet) been impressed — so she’s trying to track down a friend of the family who might have a couple of hours to spare.
Now, after a week of struggling (my fingers just don’t bend around a fretboard yet), I just found (and bought) the backtrack and legit chord sheet from JJ Heller’s site — unfortunately it looks like they ship a CD, rather than sending it electronically: http://www.jjheller.com/store.asp …so it likely won’t be here by Monday.
I’m hoping Miss Twinkle Toes can audition with JJ’s original recording in a couple of days, if her school is understanding enough (I doubt it). But just in case, I’ll keep trying to get more comfortable with those cord changes on my own…
Below is my favorite version of it — with JJ playing the harmonica. The Wife likes the studio recording with occasional smatterings of piano (no harmonica); but she’s not always right, you see.
