Wim VD1
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Henk @Oldjock won the May Recording Challenge and could pick the subject for this month.
He suggested to keep the format of Open Mic the same for June. So any song which you know or are practicing can be submitted.
Looking forward to your renditions,
Wim.
1. Wim playing "House of the rising sun":
2. @Nairon playing "Morning has broken":
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For this month's challenge, I went through the Travis Picking Bootcamp lessons that Steve did some months back and learned the old tune "Freight Train". I am posting this quite late in the month, because it took me longer than expected to get it under my fingers and play it at a decent speed
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Well played, @Strings. You have a nice flow in your fingerpicking.
Wim.
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9 hours ago, Strings said:
I have now reviewed Session 1 through 9 and am currently enjoying Session 10 on fingerstyle. I plan on uploading some of the songs. Reviewing theses sessions has been quite helpful. Sessions 1 through 9 were fairly easy for me. I suspect Session 10 and beyond will be much slower 😉. Even still, I am not in a rush. I want to enjoy the journey and learn all I can.
Strings,
Let me invite you to the monthly recording challenge, where you can share your recordings with us 👍.
I agree, beyond session 10 you will tackle the "intermediate+" materials and these lessons will take a bit longer. But it is also a real joy to discover all the styles and techniques explained there.
Wim.
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Well played! The notes ring out loud and clean, and your timing is really good.
Congrats on your progress. You're doing great.
Wim.
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@Oldjock Henk, thank you for your submission and for helping us keep the monthly challenge alive!
Nice melody playing on this beatiful classic song.
So you fell into the Reaper rabbit hole... I assume you are familiar with Keny Gioia's instructional videos by now 😀
Wim.
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This month's challenge topic is chosen by myself and is "Open Mic".
So you can record any song you like and post it here.
The winner of the month is chosen by the "Random Picker" and gets to choose the next topic.
Wim.
1. @Oldjock playing "Yesterday"
2. @Nairon playing "Für Elise":
3. @Strings playing a fingerstyle exercise from Session 10:
4. @Wim VD1 playing "Freight Train":
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I appreciate everything already written here and can only share some of my own experiences.
I am a married father of 2 teenagers and work full-time.
My L&M journey started after I decided to stop training for marathons (and running them). For many years, I was used to fit my training sessions into my daily/weekly professional and family schedule, which required quite a bit of flexibility and discipline (spending less time watching TV was a good starting point 😀)When I started the L&M course, I replaced most of my running activities with guitar practice, still having to fit these into a busy life schedule.
The L&M course took me 2.5 years to complete from start to finish. I realised early on that I wanted to learn more songs so I did the L&M Songbook in parallel. I also used additional materials on some other course topics, such as Jazz and Soloing.
I don't recall everything in detail, but I remember that after 12 months, I had finished 12 sessions. The final 8 sessions took longer, about 1.5 years.
Counting in hours of practice probably gives a better insight into what it took. In those years, I must have been practicing guitar about 7 to 10 hours per week. So in total, it must have taken anything between 1000 and 1200 hours of practice to complete the L&M course
Hope this helps.
Wim.
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Elexir 80/20 Bronze Polyweb 11-52.
I change them every 2 to 3 months.
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@Nairon As Henk said, this is a great start recording with a DAW. Both chords and melody were played and recorded very well.
I am sure you will learn a lot if you continue to record more songs.
Wim.
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On 4/20/2021 at 9:25 PM, gotto said:
Awesome. Wim! Nostalgia captured so well .Great Listen
Greg
Thanks Greg. I had this song on my "to learn" list for quite a while. This monthly challenge triggered me to finally put in the work.
Wim.
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4 hours ago, Randy120 said:
Very nice Wim.
Thanks, Randy!
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On 4/17/2021 at 1:05 PM, Plantsman13 said:
Great job. My wife loves this song and her The Body Acoustic album had a great acoustic version. Thanks for posting. I might have to queue it up on this weekend's playlist. 😎
Bryan
Thanks Bryan,
I didn't know "The Body Acoustic" album and I am listening to it right now. Sounds great.
Wim
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I was a teenager in the Eighties, when Cyndi Lauper scored a hit with this pop song which is pure nostalgia to me.
It was originally played on keyboards. Eva Cassidy recorded a great guitar version.
This is my short rendition. Chords and melody were played fingerstyle and recorded on separate tracks.
Wim.
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April's challenge comes from @Nairon, who won the March edition.
The topic is "Nostalgia: Hits from a simpler time".
As usual, the "winner" is selected randomly and the prize is that he or she gets to choose the topic for the next challenge.
So let's grab our guitars and make some music.
Wim.
Wim playing True Colors:
@Nairon playing "All I Have To Do Is Dream":
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Marty, thanks for your great rendition of this beautiful Willie Nelson song!
I really enjoyed your singing and playing.
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4 hours ago, MGood1 said:
This is a first posting for me. It's for the 89 challenge . It's a song I heard by Willie Nelson called It's not for you to understand.
Hello @MGood1,
Unfortunately, I cannot open your file to listen to your song. The link you posted is not working.
Could you post a Youtube, Soundcloud or DropBox link please.
Wim.
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I'm with Neil and Doug. I think you did very well on this Waltz and your timing is indeed really good.
Hope to hear more from you in the future.
Wim.
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Hey Hey,
3 Chord song challenge? Well, that calls for a blues in E if you ask me 😀
This is my laid back version of the Big Bill Broonzy song that was made famous by Eric Clapton.
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16 hours ago, Eracer_Team-DougH said:
Here is a LMG Song Hits song from Session 4
All I Have to do Is Dream, written by Felice & Boudleaux Bryant
I ended up using 3 guitars and 1 bass.
I didn't want just another strumming rhythm so I did a fingerstyle rhythm on the Epiphone Sheraton semi-hollow body guitar in the middle pickup position running through a rented Fender Pricneton FSR65 with Cannabis Rex speaker. had the Reverb and Tremo on to try and give it a bit of a dreamy state.
the lead was on my Gibson Les Paul, in the treble/lead pickup with even more tremo added.
the 'super lead' was done on my Fender Strat on the bridge pickup (I backed down the reverb and tremo for this spotlight)
to fill in the bottom end I used my Dean Bass again.
the rhythm track was done in the open position with open chords (except for the Bm)
the lead melody was played in the 4th position
the super lead at the end was played at the 12th position
That's a nice piece of work, Doug! Thanks for sharing.
Wim.
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On 3/23/2021 at 2:03 AM, NeilES335 said:
To get things started, here's my recording of "Moon River" from "The Song Hits" .
I hope you enjoy it!
"Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song.[1] The song also won the 1962 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.[2]
Moon River.mp3 2.65 MB · 10 downloads
Nice rendition, Neil.
Moon river was also for me one of the first songs recorded.
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15 hours ago, NeilES335 said:
To get things started, here's my recording of "Moon River" from "The Song Hits" .
I hope you enjoy it!
"Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song.[1] The song also won the 1962 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.[2]
Moon River.mp3 2.65 MB · 6 downloads
Hi Neil,
I have difficulties to play your song on both my iPad and iPhone. Could you post a SoundCloud link?
Wim.
🎼 June Recording Challenge 92 - OPEN MIC 🎙️ 🎼
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This one is based on a Tommy Emmanual Travis picking lesson on TrueFire. I brought back in a bit of The Animals for the intro and tried to make my guitar sound like a mandolin in the end
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It"s the first recording with my new Fender Paramount PM-2 Parlor Mahogany. It"s a nice small short scale fingerpicker with the neck joint at the 12th fret. Great guitar for fingerstyle blues.
Wim.