Hey Everyone!

I hope everyone has seen TP&H performing "Learning to Fly" at the 30th anniversary concert.

I have a question. What is the 4th chord that Tom plays in this song? The song is F C Am G, but he does some sort of hammer-on thing with the G. It must be on the B string, but I'm not sure what it is.

Can anyone help?

He does do a hammer on through the whole thing.
He maintains the first fret on the B string and the 3rd fret on the E string through the F C Am chord. Until he gets to the G to the first fret of the B is removed and put back on.
He does the G hammer on a lot. And almost all of the F chords are played like that (F9). Look at square one.

My wife and I just saw Tom and the band last weekend and LOVED their concert version of Learning to fly. Any one know if their is any chance of a new live album on the horizon?

I would love a new concert cd. I'm surprised they didn't put one out for the 30th anniversary.

The stripped down version of "Learning to Fly" is nice, but personally I prefer the studio version. It just sounds alot better.

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Originally posted by free fallin 45:
The stripped down version of "Learning to Fly" is nice, but personally I prefer the studio version. It just sounds alot better.

The acoustic "Learning to Fly" was very nice, when they first brought it out as a regular on the 2002 tour and expanded it with the audience participation part.

However it has gotten very stale over the last 6+ years and, IMO, desperately needs to be given a breather or reverted back to the full band version.

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I would love a new concert cd. I'm surprised they didn't put one out for the 30th anniversary.

It seems that the trend has been to release live DVDs mostly as a replacement, rather than companion, to live albums. Live albums might be a thing of the past pretty soon.

And I echo HighGrassDog on "Learnin' To Fly" -- I was knocked out by it in 2002, but that he keeps doing it (as if it's the first time every time) through '08 makes it pretty stale now.

I wonder how he might do something similar with "Free Fallin'", kill 3 birds with one stone: keep "Free Fallin'" in the setlist without boring concert vets, get the crowd participating in yet another ultra-classic, and neutralize the whole back-track scandal.