Cherry Glazerr's Clementine Creevy Talks New Album and Teaches a New Song

With their third studio album, Stuffed & Ready dropping in early February, Cherry Glazerr wanted to let fans in on the action.

The band invited fans to learn how play one of their newest songs, the guitar-driven "That's Not My Real Life."

All you have to do is download the guitar tablature and backing track and film yourself playing along. Either follow the tab below or just showcase your best licks, but once you're finished, upload it to your Instagram profile (with the tag #cherryglazed) and submit here, and all favorites will be compiled into a best-of video.

What's more, the best submission will win a Player Series Stratocaster with a gig bag.

This commitment to learning something new is something close to Cherry Glazerr leader Clementine Creevy's heart.

The New York-born, Los Angeles-bred artist began playing guitar when she was 10 years old and never strayed far from the instrument. To this day, she still takes lessons when she's not touring.

"I decided a few years ago that I wanted guitar to be the craft that I focus on and surround my life around," Creevy said. "I feel better when I have one goal as opposed to a ton of goals. A few years ago, I was thinking about picking up another instrument, to start playing keyboards and saxophone. But I thought, 'Wait, I don't even know how to play guitar that well, for my standards.'

"So I decided that I didn't want to be one of those people who is just proficient at a lot of instruments. I wanted to be great at this one instrument."

Creevy's evolution as a guitarist and songwriter is evident throughout her career, from the low-fi solo demos she uploaded to Soundcloud in 2012 (at 16 years old) under the name Clembutt, to her three albums with Cherry Glazerr.

The band debuted with the garage-rock-leaning Haxel Princess in 2014 and followed that with the stomping punk of Apocalipstick in 2017. Now, Creevy has taken another step forward with the polished and anthemic Stuffed & Ready.

"I'm so excited for Stuffed & Ready to come out because it's the record I've been wanting to make for a long time," she said. "I feel like it has this confidence behind it that I've wanted to achieve. It took time because I hadn't developed the ear for it yet, but I knew that was what I wanted to do. The guitar, like all of my other records, is the main focus of the album."

Instead of commenting on the world around her as she'd done on earlier albums, Creevy turned inward when writing the 30 songs (that she eventually whittled down to 10) for Stuffed & Ready.

"I am telling my story of how I feel and where I am in life," she said. ""I've felt the need to explain my feelings … not just state them, but search for why I feel the way I do honestly. With Apocalipstick, I was an over-confident teenager trying to solve the world's problems. With Stuffed & Ready, I'm a much more weary and perhaps a more cynical woman who believes you need to figure your own self out first."

And she wants fans to interact with the music, hence this opportunity to create your own performance video for "That's Not My Real Life."

The track, which features multi-instrumentalist Steve Marion (a.k.a. Delicate Steve), started with an interesting chord she learned from friend Chris Schlarb of Psychic Temple.

"The main guitar part is the first thing you hear," Creevy said. "Chris taught me this chord about three weeks beforehand. We called it the Psychic Temple chord. It's like a minor sus chord with a high E drone over the first two chords. I loved it.

"Then, I move up two whole steps using the same chord. I love how they sound together. It's something I've never done before. I thought, 'OK, these are two Psychic Temple chords. Now, let's throw in a Clem chord.' That's the D power chord. And then, for the fourth chord, it's an open E. For some reason, it was this kooky, crazy melody that sounded good."

Creevy said she's psyched to see fans' interpretations of "That's Not My Real Life" pour in. She even offered a bit of advice ...

"It's one of my favorite songs to play in our set, which is why I wanted to teach people how to play it themselves," she said. "Just don't worry about messing up and have fun with it!"

Upload your cover of "That's Not My Real Life" here and keep up with all things Cherry Glazerr here.