Learn Guitar Chords For Perfect Day by Lou Reed

Perfect Day by Lou Reed is a perfectly dreamy song! Can you play it at all? 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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Enjoy Lou Reed's version and sing along with the lyrics provided....

This is an amazing album, featuring Perfect day and many other great songs.

It is hard to purchase the piano music of Perfect Day by Lou Reed although I found a version by Susan Boyle in an easier key. You can also click on the links to find out more about Lou Reed and his music.

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!

This is a list of links to TAB versions of Perfect Day by Lou Reed and Duran Duran

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!

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

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I was so glad to share some of it with my friends. I hope you enjoyed my Lens Number 100....