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On 7/6/2020 at 6:25 AM, NeilES335 said:
I happened to be working on a song that contains octaves, slides, Maj 7th,, Sus chords and Dom7th ... So to kick things off I offer my version of Stevie Wonder's very popular hit, "My Cherie Amour" I hope you enjoy it. 🙂 I uploaded the Lead Sheet in the Downloads section if you'd like to have a go at it!
My Cherie Amour is an album by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder released on the Tamla (Motown) label on August 29, 1969, his eleventh studio album. The album yielded a couple of major hits, including the title track and "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday", as well as Wonder's takes on the 1967 hit "Light My Fire" by The Doors and "Hello, Young Lovers" from The King and I.
Neil, now this is exactly what I was hoping for! When Mandy asked if I would come up with a theme for this month, I wanted to choose a challenge that would suit a jazz tune (hoping you would have one ready), but also the fingerstyle song I am currently working on. And it worked out well 😁.
Your rendition is very enjoyable and well played with good timing.
Thanks for sharing,
Wim.
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7 hours ago, Randy Breeding said:
@Eracer_Team-DougH thank you for the reply. I am someone who’s strictly playing for myself and my enjoyment. Won’t be playing any gigs or performing for anyone. I’m all for as much musical knowledge and experience as I can get, and will certainly put forth the effort to acquire it. I’m just at a real crossroads here with this sight reading, at this point in the course. Learning the guitar has to be at least part fun, and if I take all the time necessary to become a proficient sight reader... kiss that goodbye in a hurry. For what I’m after I feel tab will more than suffice while also practicing sight reading. It’s the “master” part that’s hanging me up.
Randy,
In my opinion you don't need to master sight reading to the extend that you can sight read and play simultaneously at performance tempo. This for sure has its benefits, but I don't see it as a necessity.
Tab only tells you where to put your fingers. There is more to learning and understanding music however.
So I would encourage you to learn music notation well enough in order to know what notes to play, their duration, the rhythmic characteristics of a song, the pauses, etc. You can use the info provided by the sheet music in combination with the additional info from the tab (where on the fretboard to play the note) to decipher and learn a song bit by bit.
After "decoding" a song, I learn the all parts by heart anyhow. In a performance (or recording) setting, I want to focus on putting emotion and feeling into my music and not on reading the notation.
I do recommend to build a good knowledge of music theory as provided by the course. Understanding how music works with keys, scales, chords, harmony etc. is part of the fun and will be essential to continue to make progress as a musician in the long run.
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This is an old thread containing a lot of interesting info relevant to me just now.
Over the past months, I got frustrated with the poor sound quality of my acoustic guitar recordings using the iRig Acoustic clip-on microphone and interface into Garageband. I never really got it to sound natural.
So I decided to join @Nutty 1 and @NeilES335 and ordered a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Studio bundle (and a Gravity microphone stand) just yesterday. The shipment should arrive later this week.
The Scarlett should work with my iPad and Garageband using the Apple Lightning to USB Adapter that I ordered as well.
I do consider changing platform and the use of a Windows laptop instead of iPad. Learning from Neil's adventures, I will try out the Reaper DAW and stay away from Pro Tools for now.
Hopefully there will still be some time left to practice guitar when I start digging deeper into the world of DAW 😏
Wim.
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17 hours ago, gotto said:
Power chords.....the heart of rock and roll. I thought this would be an easy assignment this month, but then found how challenging my "easy song choice" was going to be. First there is no drum to follow in the song, then the bass doesn't begin until the second verse, after the brief chorus, then syncing a second guitar part to a very distorted muted chunky rhythm was very hard to match the parts. I am a rhythm player but this one kicked me a bit to put down.
I used a karaoke bass line again and copped the intro "noise" and outro dissonant cello piece from a karaoke track but the other keyboard violin and cello pieces I learned and performed in the song. Only 3 guitars (one is a clean solo ) but the distorted tracks are doubled to beef up the heaviness. I don't have the powerful baritone voice of Gavin but I gave it my best try.
I was exposed to grunge music of the 90's through my teenaged children's musical tastes ( I live in the Pacific Northwest) and this was a British group that was labeled as mimicking the Seattle grunge movement. The song is Glycerine by Bush.
Greg
Fantastic, Greg.
Another very well elaborated recording from your side!
I know the song, but it's been a long time since I heard it on the radio.
It's great that you do all those parts and the singing yourself. That must have been many hours of fun. And the result is beautiful.
Do you let your children listen to your recordings?
Thanks for sharing,
Wim.
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On 6/12/2020 at 7:07 PM, Nutty 1 said:
Here is my entry. This was quite a challenge for me as this video has a few things that I have not done in a one take song before. The first is the power chords themselves and the second is playing while standing up. I find I have a tendency to bend my wrist too much when sitting down playing power chords so I did it standing to hopefully protect my arthritic wrist. The other challenge was the palm muting. Any tips to help me improve my technique would be great.
My apologies Mr Addams or Mr Scott for murdering their song "Summer of 69".
I would so love to be able to ROCK!
p.s. my wrist still looks very bent in the video
Well done, Mandy.
You could play the song in the key of D and play the D5 and A5 power chords in the open position. The other 2 chords are Bm and G then.
This is the link to the song lesson on Justinguitar. The muting is also explained there.
Let there be rock 😎.
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3 hours ago, NeilES335 said:
@gotto Thank you very much for the complments Greg. Ive been working on both the playing and recording aspects; both different skillsets.
As for playing, the biggest difference I believe, is learning through playing songs. I worked on skills for years ( through the LMG course) which obviously helped tremendously. If I could offer 1 bit of advice to anyone ; learn and practice songs too that suit your skill level or a bit harder. The practical application of those skills in songs will accelerate your learning. And its more fun too!
Great advice. I couldn't agree more, Neil.
Wim.
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On 6/6/2020 at 5:34 AM, NeilES335 said:
Hello Friends;
Well, Mandy's Recording Challenge theme this month is " songs with Power Chords" , and my latest recording definately doesn't have those.. So this seemed like a more appropriate forum.
Continuing with my recent theme, my 2nd Bossa Nova tune, the very well known "Wave", by Antono Carlos Jobim.
Those of you who have studied Steve Krenz's Fretboard Workout "Jazz Chords" will recognize this as the 'graduation tune' in the course. This course definately got me started on the jazz path.
I recorded this using my trusty ES-137 Gibson, which is a bit jazzier in tone (what Neil? not your ES335?) direct through a Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 interface to Reaper DAW, with a bit of reverb.
I hope you enjoy it.
I surely enjoyed it, Neil, and listened to it several times.
It's a great tune and you did an excellent job on both chords and melody.
Wim.
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17 hours ago, gotto said:
Rockin' Wim!! I am convinced there is no genre outside of your brilliance. Neil said it best..."Awesome" . Power chords...the heart of rock and roll. Well played. What electric guitar did you use? Is it a PRS S2? Sounds great.
Greg
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Thanks Greg. There are so many nice guitar genres to learn.
The guitar is a PRS S2 Standard indeed. It's a very versatile instrument.
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2 hours ago, NeilES335 said:
Dont forget the 'Dude" part and the " Mullet" haircut😂 Plaid shorts optional!
Thanks, my friend.
I will start practicing the duck walk as well.
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It was hard to find a fingerstyle song with powerchords, so I had to pick up my electric 🎸again after playing only acoustic for the past 6 months 😎.
The challenge of this month gave me a good reason to finalize a little project of last year. Back then, I learned and recorded a solo "in the style of" Angus Young when doing the Classic Rock Guitar Unleashed course. Now was the right time to work out the intro and the rhythm part.
I recorded in stereo, so it sounds better using headphones or monitors.
I got the album Back In Black when I was 12 years old and have always loved the bluesy rock of AC/DC.
Thanks for listening.
Wim.
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3 hours ago, NeilES335 said:
@Nutty 1 So, Mandy...whats the 'Theme" for June? (I have one 🎵ready to be "released",😉) Regards; N
By the way... who picks the " winner" and is there a prize of of sort?
The prize 🏅is instant fame 🎸👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 😉.
So Neil, I hope it will be a theme that fits your song!
Wim.
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On 5/24/2020 at 9:48 PM, Amy Greenblatt said:
This is from Session 10 (the finger style session) of L&M that Steve wrote. What a lovely melody and such a joy to hear these chords and lines! It took me a while and many tries of stopping and working on something else, then circling back to it - because the piece is so beautiful - to get it to this point and I'm so grateful!
Session 10 Intro audio - 5_24_20, 3.54 PM.m4a 2.31 MB · 22 downloads
Thanks for sharing this, Amy. You played it well.
I forgot about this intro to lesson 10 but now I feel like revisiting it 😀.
Wim.
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12 hours ago, rockinrickard said:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wAgdKldoZoXoEIXuigymdfd-OTRTubwy/view?usp=sharing Hopefully this works. I was trying to upload this file two days ago, but ran into quite some technical difficulties. May 28th would have been my dad's 89th birthday if he was still alive. I originally wrote this song for my mom, but it works just as well for my dad also.
That's a nice original, @rockinrickard.
Both your playing and singing are great.
Wim.
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On 5/28/2020 at 12:53 PM, gotto said:
A little late, but this song took me about 2 weeks to record and mix. Again another song by a lady but I love Sheryl Crow and again another song that is not good for me to sing in the lower range. I thought this was a nice song for the month's theme. The bass and drums are a karoake track but the rest is all me, including keyboard , background vocals , and several layers of guitar work. The mix sounds best with headphones or through a sound system, but also again, not my strength.
Greg
Hey Greg, it makes me happy to listen to your recording 😀.
Great rendition. A lot of work must have gone into creating all the parts.
I must say you have a good taste in music. I love Cheryl Crow and especially this song.
Wim.
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Working from home, I save lots of commuting time. I have been working intensively on the classical guitar session 5 from the fingerstyle course and could finalize it in 2 months where I thought I would need at least 3. More practice time is one of the few benefits of this whole lockdown situation.
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It's time to move on again!
Session 5 offered a nice introduction to the world of classical guitar and I enjoyed learning some great songs from F. Tarrega, J. Pachelbel and especially J.S Bach, on a borrowed nylon string.
To finalize this session, I recorded "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring". Reading a bit about him, I learned that Bach is the master of counterpoint which is a setting of different melodic lines (or voices) against each other. Also in this song, there are 2 voices played together, the melody and the bass lines. This makes the song interesting, but also challenging.
https://soundcloud.com/wim-van-damme-401299565/joy
Thanks for listening,
Wim.
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You did a great job on the comping and the melody, Neil! The tone you get out of your ES-137 is very sweet.
It's a beautiful song full of melancholy.
Wim.
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On 5/20/2020 at 6:58 AM, ak0693 said:
I have made this with my guitar plugged into GarageBand. The solo is not good at all but im still learning.
The song is called “Autumn rain”Nice playing.
Did you create all parts or did you play it over a backing track?
Wim.
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On 5/17/2020 at 8:42 AM, Nutty 1 said:
My submission is "Out of Reach" from the movie "Bridget Jones's Diary" by Gabrielle and Peter Shorten
Hey Mandy,
That's a sad song. Singing and playing at the same time, I envy you for that 🎤🎸. Well done,
Wim.
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On 5/15/2020 at 2:55 PM, Ron Service said:
Thanks Wim - much appreciated and thanks for your submissions too. Do you use any recording software?
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Ron,
My recording setup is very basic using Garageband on my iPad and a clip on microphone. I do plan to upgrade the microphone to a Shure, because I am not satisfied with the current clip on one.
Wim.
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Thanks, @matonanjin, @Dave White, @Simira, @K9kaos, @NeilES335 and @Eracer_Team-DougH!
@K9kaos, I did not really master Canon in D after finishing Session 10 of the main course and realized that Session 10 was just a first introduction to fingerstyle.
I decided to "drop the pick" in December last year and have played only fingerstyle in the past 6 months.
Steve's fingerstyle course is great and I would recommend it to anyone wanting to learn this style.
@NeilES335, I agree on the string noise. I borrowed a not-so-good nylon string for this Session on classical guitar and recorded Canon in D with it. So the string noise is coming from the 3 wound strings. It's due to my very dry hands and calluses, playing technique, and the clip on microphone. Avoiding string noise remains a real challenge to me.
The tempo should be fine. I played it at the suggested 105 bpm.
@Eracer_Team-DougH, I appreciate your comments, there is no reason to doubt that. You are the one playing guitar for a big audience in church and I have nothing but respect for that 👍.
Wim.
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I remember well how I struggled with Canon in D when I was in Session 10 of the main LMG course some years ago.
Now I came across the same song in Session 5 of the fingerstyle course and finally enjoyed relearning and recording it.
https://soundcloud.com/wim-van-damme-401299565/canon-in-d
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I surely enjoyed your playing. It's perfect!
I also love your rendition of Misty that I found on your YouTube channel.
That ES-150 is a stunning guitar with great tone.
Wim.
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That's a beautiful song and you played and recorded it very well.
Thanks for sharing,
Wim.
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Recording Challenge 82 -🤩 "A little special"☘️
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Hi Mandy, you made your rendition a little special indeed. Wow, you can multitask! I was already impressed by how you could combine singing and playing, and now you add some nice percussion as well 👍.
As always, I enjoyed your song. Thanks for sharing,
Wim.