Aug 11, 2026 · 35 min · 12 segments
### Show Notes There is a version of the music career that gets written about, and there is the version that gets played. Frankie Raye lives in the second one. She performs six or seven nights a week…
Frankie RayeGuestSean MartinHostAnd the reason I'm trying to learn guitar is if I go to a party or hanging out with people and music is being played, I want to be able to sit down and play.
A new song, you hadn't heard of it, or you've heard of it and not played it before, you can pick it up and actually do it.
How do you do that, I guess, is the question I have, because it's not an easy thing to do to kind of, I guess, maybe, I don't know, are there ways to simplify the chords and figure out the strumming? I guess, tell me how you do it, because I find it challenging myself.
My guitar playing is just kind of a vessel to kind of support, you know, my voice so I can accompany myself.
I'll transpose it on my phone and I'll say, okay, well those chords I know how to do.
Tanya Hertzman- play it in whatever key I want, if I want to skip the bridge, because the the chords look too challenging that I could just skip it and then do the chorus again and.
Tanya Hertzman- No one really in the the restaurant notices you know they're just singing along to the chorus anyway so that's kind of how I do it, I keep it as simple as possible, I have been trying to challenge myself with you know learning.
But for me, because I play so much, six, seven gigs a week, That's kind of like my practice.
I look at videos of me from years ago, and I'm like, man, I've actually come a long way with that.
So I'm just kind of learning as I go, and I try not to put too much pressure on myself.
And the reason I'm trying to learn guitar is if I go to a party or hanging out with people and music is being played, I want to be able to sit down and play.
A new song, you hadn't heard of it, or you've heard of it and not played it before, you can pick it up and actually do it.
How do you do that, I guess, is the question I have, because it's not an easy thing to do to kind of, I guess, maybe, I don't know, are there ways to simplify the chords and figure out the strumming? I guess, tell me how you do it, because I find it challenging myself.
My guitar playing is just kind of a vessel to kind of support, you know, my voice so I can accompany myself.
I'll transpose it on my phone and I'll say, okay, well those chords I know how to do.
Tanya Hertzman- play it in whatever key I want, if I want to skip the bridge, because the the chords look too challenging that I could just skip it and then do the chorus again and.
Tanya Hertzman- No one really in the the restaurant notices you know they're just singing along to the chorus anyway so that's kind of how I do it, I keep it as simple as possible, I have been trying to challenge myself with you know learning.
But for me, because I play so much, six, seven gigs a week, That's kind of like my practice.
I look at videos of me from years ago, and I'm like, man, I've actually come a long way with that.
So I'm just kind of learning as I go, and I try not to put too much pressure on myself.
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