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Thanks Greg! I agree, I’m very lucky mark🎶

Great call Mandy! Ian has already set a high bar. This is this seasons most requested Brides entrance. Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect”. I recorded it on my phone into GB and there is a lot of background noise. There are also two bass notes that are way more forceful then intended, but it is just the guitar played acoustically. I did double the track to increase the volume a bit. The photo was taken at a recent wedding I played in Marbella, “I love my office!” Mark

Fantastic! Great writing and performance. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎶🎶

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎶🎶 great job Mandy! The mic problem didn’t effect the recording so not to worry. Great choice of song too. 👍👍👍

Thanks for keeping things Mandy! I didn’t want to do anything too obvious so it’s a little obscure,; the title track from “Wave” by Antonio Carlos Jobim. This is one of the most difficult pieces for me to play, my timing is never right and I almost always stumble, but I play it anyway, every chance I get. One of these days I’ll get it right. (Or maybe not.) 🤗 Mark

Great job @Wim VD1 👍👍👍👏🏽👏🏽!

Great cover Ian! You have the perfect voice for Beatles numbers. 🎶🎶👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Thanks for the challenge @watson43 . This is one I learned for a recent wedding. It’s under 2 mins and was a lovely piece to arrange and play around with. It definitely stays in the repertoire. Beatles tunes are always more difficult then I expect, this took a while to get under the fingers. It’s recorded live to my iPhone and was played through a Roland mobile ac. The little Roland is a fab piece of kit. I use it for my indoor Restaurant gigs and it’s plenty loud enough. enjoy.

Great job Randy. Nice to hear someone else using a nylon string. 🎶🎶👍👍

Sounds fantastic Danny, I hope you feel well enough to add the vocals soon. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🎶

I’m a huge Taylor fan too. Wonderful cover!. Fantastic playing and the background harmonies are superb. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🎶

Thanks so much Mandy, you are very supportive and kind. It’s great to hear you back playing. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🎶

Super cover Wim! That’s some serious playing, well done. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Thank you to you and you wife for the kind words. The GR20 is a guitar synthesizer. It Connects to the Godin with a 13 pin lead and converts the signal so that you can reproduce any instrument or group of instruments either on their own or with the guitar sound also coming through. On this track I played the guitar and as well as the guitar sound, you can also hear a string section in the background playing the same notes. It’s just one take, but it sounds as if multiple instruments were overdubbed. I just connected the GR20 to my iPad and recorded it straight into GarageBand. if you look up the ROLAND GR20 you will see all the sounds it can reproduce. i hope this explanation is clear. Mark

Hi all, I hope you are well and feeling some spring in the air. Nothing posted for a while as it seemed some people were feeling the standard of the submissions was a bit intimidating and they wouldn’t give it a go. However, last months submissions were awesome, so now I’m feeling left out. 😭 this is a loose arrangement of a beautiful Mexican love song originally titled “Sabor a mi”, it was recorded in English by Doris Day retitled “True to me”. It’s played on a nylon string Godin Multiac into a Roland GR20 to add some strings. I just can’t get this guitar to sound the way it should so this is the last recording with it. It’s now on eBay. The clicks and buzzes are the guitars fault, the clipping is entirely mine. “You can always make a recording louder, but if it clips you’re screwed “. Enjoy!,

Sounds really good Randy @Randy120 you just keep getting better. ??

Well done @Wim VD1 as Neil says, you’re hitting all the right notes at the right time and your legato playing is excellent. A theme and a little less playing is the next step. Thinking about call and response while you play can help focus on phrasing. ??????????? Mark

wow, fantastic job Kevin @WATSON43 , you should be really proud of that! Great playing, singing and harmony. ??????????

The remix is so good Mandy! Great job. I’m glad that your hands are feeling a bit better, hopefully they continue to improve. Loving the harmonica. ??

Lovely work Randy. That setup sounds great. ??? Mark

Thanks Ron, I recommend the course to everyone who asks about my playing, so in a way he does. ? Mark

Thanks Tom, you are very kind. It sounds like you did a great job and got some on the job training too. I tend to work the same venues each season and have learned how long the Brides walk is in each one, all my arrangements have to end within a few seconds of the bride arriving at the front. So I know exactly what you mean. ? Mark

Wow, this is great, Kevin! Lovely job on the harmony. ??? Mark

Hi Neil, My unit is a lot like that one, but it’s the older version of this one: https://www.amazon.com/LD-Systems-LDMAUI28G2W-MAUI-Bluetooth/dp/B071R7HCPC/ref=sr_1_1?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1533886550&sr=1-1&keywords=maui+28+white&dpID=31suhbgi9OL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch they don’t do the Bose in white and LD has more speakers. The downside is the weight. I need a trolley for the base unit. When it’s time to replace it I’ll go for the new LD Maui 5 go, it puts out nearly the same db in a much lighter, battery powered unit. I’ve used my unit for weddings with 200 people outdoors, in 110 degree heat and it performs perfectly. I think it being white is both appropriate, and helps keep it cooler. thanks for asking, Mark

Thanks Neil, those are really important questions. It took me a while to figure out what gear was best for these type of situations. my main rig is a white Maui 28 line array system, you can see it in the photo above. Line arrays use multiple speakers in a column and a subwoofer, to project sound over distance with very little volume loss. This means that even though it can be heard 100 feet away, when you stand in front of it the volume is bearable. I use it with a beringer xenyx 1204 usb mixer, which gives a lot of input possibilities and onboard FX. My other system is a battery powered Ibiza portable PA with 12inch speaker, also in white. I use a Boss RC3 looper, a passive volume pedal and a Boss FSU 6 AB switch pedal. When I started out it was important to me that everything I played was live on one guitar. Then I grew up, ? the only thing that counts is that the couple get the day they planned so I added the RC3 for two reasons. I have an allergy to wasp stings and blow up within 5 mins, I am constantly working outdoors and it is inevitable that at some point I would be stung just before a wedding, so I prerecord the main ceremony songs on the RC3 in case I can’t play. I also wanted to be able to play both rythmn and lead on some tunes so the RC3 allows me to lay down the rhythm part live and play over it. I use it for things like “Shape of my heart”, “still got the blues”, “Stormy Monday” and “phearon”. The volume pedal is a must, as it kills the guitar as soon as I stop playing. There is nothing worse than banging the guitar strings by accident during a church ceremony! the FSU 6 gives greater control over the RC3. When I am playing over one of my rhythm tracks I need to be able to kill it with one tap and continue the rhythm myself to end. if you still have any questions let me know. PS I use a €200 nylon string with a fishman system in it. It was 104F in the shade when I was playing the cocktail reception in the video. It’s hard on guitars so I don’t use an expensive one. Mark