451 Reply by neophytte

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Phill Williams wrote:

here is my entry for FSOM it's called Caribbean Dream it's reggae and I've just finished recording it, it's a full recording not stripped down. It has fruit and a mode of transport in it. Hope you (the members) like it. ta.

https://soundcloud.com/iphillfine/carib … al_sharing

Wow, that was terrific, some of the stand outs were the bass line and the horns - everything was mixed really nicely and had a good all round feel to the end product. Are you doing all this in the box, or with other musicians?

Grah1 wrote:

This one is a cover of a Greek song I did with The Cretan band Everdie it's called asimina sfika which means silver wasp .I hope this counts as an animal I'm on guitar ,the vids a bit dark but it was filmed in the rehearsal room and we'd had a few drinks  at this point. Enjoy https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XpP_DGa3oLY

The song sounded good, but, as with all rehearsal videos, the sound kinda drifts in and out. I tried looking the words up on Google, but could only find another (live?) video of a different band playing the same song, which was unfortunately around the same quality.

Jandle wrote:

That was a very appropriate song for this month neo, had lots of animals in it, so good choice of song.  Hey nice bit of reverb on this one by the sounds.  Looks like you perform at that place quite a lot.

Thanks for the compliment; yes, perform there monthly and I'm on the committee, so quite involved with them.

Jandle wrote:

https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan/stray-cats   
and
https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan/yellow-bird

These are my entries both about animals and one has banana tree in it.  Rushed both to try and get an entry in this month as I didn't get time to enter the last 2 months in December or January.  To be honest, Yellow Bird, I should have changed the chords as a bit high for me.

Stray cats: I liked that shaker in the background, are you getting people to join you, or using a multi-tracker in some form to get some other instruments in there? When I was first listening to it, I thought I hadn't heard it, but as I got further in, it felt familiar, so maybe I have heard it before, but just didn't give it a lot of attention ... anyway, it was a nice rendition!!

Yellow bird: You are correct with the key being a bit high for your voice, you sounded a bit strained, but (mostly) covered that over effectively. This song sounded a bit more rushed than the stray cats one, but a good effort nonetheless!!

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Richard     

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452 Reply by neophytte

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Hope you and your loved ones are keeping safe!!

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453 Reply by neophytte

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In the PunBB site, under the extensions, there is a module for stopping bots from registering: https://punbb.informer.com/extensions/#1.4

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454 Reply by neophytte

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roberleac wrote:

Hi Jim.  Your song is original, but appears to be written in Chordie

Songs written in the forums won't appear in Chordie; it is a search engine for songs on other sites. Chordie is to songs, what Goggle is to websites.

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455 Reply by neophytte

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Jandle wrote:

I played it fairly fast to make it a bit different as I couldn't match Neils guitar skills or even try to copy him.     
https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan/captain-kennedy

That sounds pretty good, was very impressed with the way it sounded!

All sorts of animals in this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhtA7e34wBY - yes, I used it in another FSoTM (just trying to get this thread more active!)

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456 Reply by neophytte

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Jandle wrote:

However now I have used up all the free uploading on it and from now on will have to pay.

Second account? jan1 and  jan2?

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457 Reply by neophytte

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Grah1 wrote:

Aardvark

Ethyl the Aardvark? The quantity surveyor?

How about "Lucky" ...

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Richard

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458 Reply by neophytte

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A song about ships: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0rgou0OTiM

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459 Reply by neophytte

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Tiny dancer (word 'She sings the songs'): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghsBM8OOadE
Promises (word 'la la laaa la la la laaaaa'): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlbYg68-6iw

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460 Reply by neophytte

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Strawberry Fields forever ...     

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461 Reply by neophytte

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Chordie is to songs, what Google is to web pages; neither hold the information, they are an indexing system, if you know of a repository which is not indexed then you can mention it here and one of the admins will verify the site and add it to the indexer, or you can add songs to somewhere like Ultimate Guitar and they will show up here.

Hope that helps.

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462 Reply by neophytte

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Here's a couple:

Cheap Wine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLBY4BgA9yg

Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWc_94-4_cg

Enjoy!

Richard

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463 Reply by neophytte

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Cheap wine by Cold Chisel     

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464 Reply by neophytte

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I did this one earlier this month: https://youtu.be/haxVAKXtdng

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Grah1 wrote:

Cheers Richard you did a great job

Jandle wrote:

Richard, that was well done, really good cover of Grah`s song.  I couldn't hear any fluffed-up bits, you did it proud.

Thank you both for having a listen and your kind words!!!

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466 Reply by neophytte

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Jandle wrote:
neophytte wrote:

https://youtu.be/Daf-iyOSoMA

Nice cover of a good old song.  On a side note, the balance was good with vocals and guitar on this one, you got it just right.

Thank you for that; seems to be a pretty popular song too!!

Jandle wrote:

neophytte, great to see you performing with a fellow musician.  Great to hear an original song, Driving Rain too and you performed well together.  I liked the backup vocals you added to his song.   

Also, your other song, swinging on a star an oldie but a goodie, I haven't heard that in a very long time.

Thanks, Alan and I have worked together off and on since we were in a band together in the 90's - here is a playlist of some of our songs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P … 7-npbcI-74

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467 Reply by neophytte

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Whoa, any more relaxed and you'd be asleep!!

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468 Reply by neophytte

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Here is my version of Grah1's Xmas carol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm6c9tsDFuY

It was quickly recorded between dropping off wife at shops and making kids lunch, so I fluffed up the mid8 that goes back to the verse turn around ... I probably had enough time to re-record it in hindsight, but this is first take, warts 'n' all ...

Enjoy!

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469 Reply by neophytte

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easybeat wrote:

cricky Neo those chords are far too flash for me

LOL - it uses the same shape up and down the fingerboard ... you'll get the hang after a few tries ...

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470 Reply by neophytte

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I might put this one out there too, see if anyone wants to cover this:

Storm Richard Mortimer


Pick Amaj7 (x x 14 13 14 x) at 12th fret and slide into normal position




[Amaj7]Rivers flowing into the [Cmaj7]sea, [Dmaj7@5]somewhere to [Amaj7]end, [Dmaj7@5]somewhere to [Amaj7]be


[Amaj7]It washes in it's [Cmaj7]content, [Dmaj7@5]somewhere to [Amaj7]end, [Dmaj7@5]somewhere to [Amaj7]be


[Em]and if the rain falls [G]down, it joins[D] them as [Am]one


[Em]suddenly it seems all [G]three, [D]can be united as a [Am]family




[Amaj7]you there playing on the [Cmaj7]beach, [Dmaj7@5]your long sweet [Amaj7]hair, [Dmaj7@5]is blowing in the [Amaj7]wind


[Amaj7]and there's laughter on your [Cmaj7]face, [Dmaj7@5]the clouds may [Amaj7]come, [Dmaj7@5]but the clouds will [Amaj7]go


[Em]perhaps they shall bring [G]a storm, [D]even though the sun is[Am] gone


[Em]we know that it shines[G] on, [D]somewhere, [Am]somehow



[Fmaj7]and when the storm [Gmaj7@3]passes, [Fmaj7]we'll still be [Gmaj7@3]together, [Fmaj7]we can smile [Gmaj7@3]again


[Fmaj7]but there's always more [Gmaj7@3]than one storm in life (ascending run)


[Amaj7@5][Bmaj7@7] [Cmaj7@8] [Dmaj7@10] [Emaj7@12]


[Amaj7]sands of time play with [Cmaj7]me, [Dmaj7@5]both are [Amaj7]young, [Dmaj7@5]both are [Amaj7]free


[Amaj7]will they not take my [Cmaj7]life, [Dmaj7@5]but to[Amaj7]day, [Dmaj7@5]I can [Amaj7]play


Instrumental free-form


[G]The sand of t[Em]ime, [G]They take my [Em]life


[G]The sand of t[Em]ime, [G]They take my [Em]life away, but that's OK


[G]I can't play today[Em], [G]Sands of t[Em]ime



Has both sun and beach in the lyrics.

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Richard

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471 Reply by neophytte

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Grah1 wrote:

Am                                       G                           Am~
Carol lived in a box  .     Down near the market square

What is the tilde (~) representing? Is it a double length chord?

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Jandle wrote:

neophytte, nice vocals from Lesley and nice guitar work from you.   Thanks for the comment on my song and yes as I mentioned under my reply to Jets60, I had recorded this song b4 on garage band which I had totally forgotten about.

Thank you; we did perform that around town quite a bit, that song was quite a few poeople's favourite ...

Oops, sorry I missed that bit, but that sounds a lot more polished ... isn't it amazing that Apple gives away Garage Band for free? My kids use it quite a bit and enjoy it immensely ...

Phill Williams wrote:

: RAIN
I didn't like my first few tries with just voice and guitar so I did it this way' https://soundcloud.com/iphillfine/rain?

What a great song! Really enjoyed listening to that .... I really like the bass line going with it's fat sound, I think you win FSOTM this month!!!

Peatle Jville wrote:

Good one Richard preforming live for the people. It was also good that your video catches the crowd applause which shows your skills are coming across good.

Thanks Peatle, I had to pick up the organizer of our little get togethers that night, and had been running around and was sweating hard when I did that, missed out on a couple of words (fumbled over them) but concentrated harder on looking less at my iPad and more at the audience. I've also got this one from the same performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhtA7e34wBY - Swinging on a star, which has the words A fish don't do anything, but swim in a brook; the recording sounds a bit 'boomy' so I may fix that later.

Also did this one a year and a half ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO9VUoP … p;index=18 - Driving Rain was written by the keyboard player, Alan Burke, who I'm playing with in that video (in his back room). He writes a lot of good songs and we've worked together a fair bit both in bands and acousticly.

Hope you enjoy them!

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473 Reply by neophytte

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https://youtu.be/Daf-iyOSoMA

Girl from Ipanema which uses the sentence "she walks to the sea" ...

Enjoy!

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474 Reply by neophytte

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easybeat wrote:

Another mth another song
https://soundcloud.com/rough-as-gut/boy … last-night

That was a nice tune, I liked the way you stuck on the one chord in the middle 8 - that was actually a good break in the tune ...

Peatle Jville wrote:

Here is my short contribution for this month song as my arthritic fingers struggle to move when I play guitar nowadays. Just poorly recorded on my cellphone but hopefully it entertains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWr-E3-1rxQ

Peatle, you might want to go down a guage on your strings, some of the guys at the acoustic club I go to are doing that, and finding it a bit better. YMMV ...

It was short, but a good tune ... ! Your videos are always a joy to watch - one day I'll get you to do one for me smile

jets60 wrote:

Here's one that fits I call What It's All About - I wrote it a while ago - mid 2020 - but it fits the theme for this month.
https://soundcloud.com/jets60/what-its-all-about-1

Ha - that was a good tune ...

jets60 wrote:

Thanks, Jan and Sorry about that - you can hear it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPy_iuxuVLY

But I liked this version better!!

Jandle wrote:

Here`s my very quick attempt tonight to cover a song for the month.   Finding it a bit difficult to record anything let alone play/sing anything at the moment as we are renovating and the room I play in and record in is fill of furniture.  A bit of a mission to set up the recording gear.  Very rusty as haven't been playing or singing much lately.

https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan/have- … n-the-rain

Did you do this one before? It's a good version, but can hear that rusty element. It's pretty good considering those facts ....

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475 Reply by neophytte

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I uploaded one of my old songs to SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/neophytte1/storm

Opening words are "Rivers flow into the sea ..." smile

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