Dear Friend of Mine

Mazzy
Great to see ya putting your songs here, Welcome.
We should rename Chordie  `Wellington Songwriters`
there are 6 of us now.I`m trying to get some of these chordians writing now.
good to have ya onboard.

I had the good fortune to hear you play this live last Sunday. Love they way you use the chords. The Key suits you voice really well. Good to see you on chordae.

I am very happy to see such talent brought forth on our site. I don't know of any other place on the net that has the "one on one" help and advice we have here.

If I may, is there a reason you chose "you'll never part" instead of "we'll never part" in that first verse?

I understand the friend is going away, but he/she is going away from someone, right? The singer lets us know that by using "we" in other parts of the song.

Maybe it's a cultural thing, you being from New Zealand, but here it means he or she is splitting up the middle. It isn't incorrect per se, just a bit awkward, in my opinion.

I know. It's a nit-pick isn't it? Hope you won't hold it against me that I'm a bit obsessive compulsive and welcome to our little musical family, mazzy!

Bill

Thanks for not taking offense, mazzy.

Do you perform live? If so, I thought the "you'll.....part" and what I said about that sounding like the person is splitting up the middle may make for some humorous "patter" between you and your audience. Just a suggestion. Keep writing them like that, mazzy. Those are some beautiful words.

Bill

EDITED TO ADD: The penny finally dropped (again). When I inserted the words "you both will...." into that phrase, it made sense. Sometimes one has to lead me around by the nose to make me the sense of things. This time I did it on my own, and that, for me is a small victory of sorts.

Heh-Heh. No, mazzy - nothing on soundcloud. One of my first rock groups from 1965 - yeah I'm that old. (with me on drums can be heard on YT by entering "Watchmen 1965" (no quotes) and there's one other "something" which I won't link you to, which has me doing a single and "trying" to play all the parts by overdubbing. It's so unremarkable people won't speak to me after they hear it, so I'll let you write and play 'em, okay?

All the best

Bill

Well, "thank yew, thang yew ver'mush".

BIll

Hi  Mazzy   to repeat   what  Pete  has  said nice  lyrics .I  liked the  song but  I found  the  echo    a  bit strong ,I  think  it detracts from your natural  singing  voice ,I get  the  impression that  you  recorded in a  room with  a  natural  reverb, maybe  its  a  conservatory   with  a  lot  of  glass I  dont  know but that combined  with  the  uke seems  to  create  a  problem  ,Perhaps  a  change  of  room where  you record  will provide  a more  mellow  sound .I look  forward  to  hearing  your next  song   well done Mazzy

bensonp - I really like your cover of Abraham, Martin and John.

Forgot to tell you, mazzy, that from an intermediate player's view, that song looks really hard to play. You're changing chords in mid-word at one place. Soo.... that leads to the question: How long have you been playing?

Thanks

Bill

Mazzy is a very good player. We have a few ukulele groups here and at one ( Cafe Ukulele) we purposefully tend to throw in some harder songs to push people. We then laugh at our mistakes while we try to nail the song.  The general attitude is "if you aren't struggling, your not learning". We all tend to do our own thing and no one leads the group. There is nothing more satisfying than realizing you just played through a song that used to give you trouble and didn't even think about it.

Most ukulele groups stick to the easy songs and that's fine but keeping the mix between easy and hard right is a bit more challenging.