Is anyone else a Steely Dan fan? I have been listening to the music of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen since the seventies. If I had to pick a desert island band, it would be Steely Dan. There is so much to learn from the work of this pair. That being said, I have a love-hate relationship when it comes to learning their music. The harmonic complexity found in their songs leads to difficult to fret chord shapes. The difficulty arises from the fact that the chords are composed on a piano and then mapped to the guitar. I usually spend a few hours working on a song only to give up out of frustration of not being able to fret the more complex chords cleanly. Does anyone else struggle with the music from this band? I am beginning to wonder if my time is better spent working out easier to fret versions of the intervals.