Lefty Guy
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Here's my son and I doing this great old Charlie Rich song (he didn't write it though) I'm playing my newest guitar a Gibson Super Dove...we just learned this song yesterday and recorded it about an hour later
Great! Very nice guitar/piano combo, the latter adds depth.
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hey Guy what kind of a capo are you using there?
Jimi, its an Elliott "Elite".
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Here's me murdering a Merle Haggard classic :)
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My take on Catherine MacLellan's "Sparrows"
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Nice job. Love the song & your J45 sounds great.
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Nice work Lefty! I think youre doing just fine and that J-45 sounds great for bluegrass.
Im just getting into bluegreass patterns myself and I know what you mean, but the key is to getting it rights is definitely starting slower and clean and then pickup the pace once you have the confidence.
I found bluegrass to be fantastic training to getting a steady, right rhythm going, in addition to all the cool bass runs which also is really good practice. I foudn this training really helped me with playing more 'modern' tunes that we play out.
thanks for sharing !
Aussie, you are so right - Bluegrass is wonderful training for many styles of guitar playing. My annual visit to Kaufman Kamp is worth 6 months of solo learning.
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Here's my 1st effort at recording a Bluegrass fiddle tune. I know I need to learn to play a lot faster, but that takes time.
I used my loop machine to lay down the backing rhythm & had trouble maintaining the same pace as you will hear when the loop starts again!
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Last week my brother and I were invited in a local german TV music show called Backstage.
It was an Interview and we played two songs with our Gibsons (J-45 Legend and J-45 TV).
It was a nice event and it was funny but I was a bit nervous…;-)
Please take a look if you are interested.
Cheers
Markus
Beautiful pair of J-45s & nice songs guys. Pity I couldn't understand the interview - I last learnt German at school over 30 years ago!
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I rememberd this one today.
And since the basic track is me singing and playing my beloved j-45, i thought i post it here. This was meant as a joke at the time (posted under comedy on youtube). Gibsons call for the Dark Fire Contest "inspired" the song. It was written in about 10 minutes and recorded the same day. All other instruments were overdubbed with real instruments (the e-guitar is a 1968 Gibson Melody Maker that i sold recently, lap steel is Gibson br-9).
I got a lot of hateful comments on youtube at the time. Most of the folks did not get the joke. besides the stupid lyrics, I kind of like the music.
By the way, whats the trick to embed the video here?
Loved the song! Nice playing & those J-45s just sound great don't they?
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Here's a little CCR to follow......vocals start flattish but I think get better as it goes on.
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I would suggest practicing scales, like a C major scale from a piano or guitar, lots on youtube referances. Record yourself as you do the scale as see if you are flat or high, then correct it.
Secondly just re-record the song but try singing it generaly a half note or note higher, staying concsious that you need to be higher than the previous effort. When you hit the right note you'll know it as you will feel the harmony with the instrument.
you can also transpose the song to fit your vocal range through different key /chords or capo.
I have same problem, often sing flat but it is about that confidence, warming up your vocal chords and also very important to use your diaphram with singing, activating that will by default give you a bit more oompf and also let you go a bit higher.
thx for the tips. I'm still trying to fathom out which key is best for my voice.....
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Fine effort Lefty, and congrats for having the guts to make your first recording. The J-45 sounds great and just how it should. Vocals just a little flat but that can easily be worked on.
Thanks for sharing, and also, I love your fireplace !
Thanks Aussie, yup I know vocals are flat, finally nailing a recording certainly highlights what I most need to work on. But, how best to improve that flatness? Any tips?
Fireplace is great, but not used very often as its in our front hall, where we have piano & guitars etc.
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OK, here goes.......gulp.......I recorded this today - my 1st effort since starting to learn guitar 6 years ago.
I know the vocals suck but hope you'll forgive me that as I'm playing my beautiful J-45!
Edited - 2nd take trying different key (Bb vs A)
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