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Hi,
A song my wife recorded while I was jamming with myself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0CNQku0O7s
"live by the edge of the sea" ...
Will have a listen to the others soon - just found out my new work computer doesn't have speakers ... !!!
Cheers
Richard
Pretty sweet, huh?
Cool!! Congrats!!
Richard
How to Make Gravy by Paul Kelly
neophytte, Drivers Seat, I hadn't heard of that song before so can't compare it, but it sounded good when you performed it
Thanks for listening ... the original can be heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCzVEUlqqA
Cheers
Richard
neophytte, I had to listen hard to that song to hear the word `remember`, then finally towards the end lol. Well done
Oh yes, I should have mentioned that; it's the last verse ... 
And thanks for listening ..
thats sounds good Neo,just managed to get in before the end of the mth.
I think it was one day after, but I won't tell if you don't 
Good one Richard and also a good round of applause from the crowd. It's good when the punters stop talking and take time to have a listen.
Thank you, I'm trying to fit my Chordie challenge in with my live performance once or twice a month ...
Cheers
Richard
Sorry, only got to edit this video: The word is remember in the line I'll never remember my time with you, which I managed to fumble through in this video of "Drivers Seat" (originally by Sniif 'n' the tears): https://youtu.be/0LsLUSMF1PU
Enjoy!
Richard
Nice one Richard.
That is super acoustic guitar playing - seems like a few different strum patterns were involved. I almost thought there was another guitarist playing with you off camera. Also liked the pauses of the guitar to emphasis the important section of the lyrics. Well done. Jim
Thanks - this one is a bit of an old favourite of mine; especially with the capo on 2, it goes with my gritty vocals.
Nice one Richard.
Thank you, kind sir!!
neophytte, thanks for the comments on my poem, lol I was smiling to myself as it came together
Nice acoustic guitar on your song and agree with Tigljk about it being interesting and sounding great with the different strum strokes. I liked the intro to it. I could hear someone in the audience occasionally tapping along in time to your performance, it made me think how much this particular song would be next level with a drumbeat. Good to hear the audience joining in too with their singing. The only thing I would say otherwise, is maybe the vocals could have been a bit louder as the guitar was quite loud and at times overtook your vocals.
I was thinking of taking your poem and doing a Noel Coward styled tune out of it, but time was against me again this month. I still have some videos to edit, but other priorities have take a higher precedence ...
Thanks for the comments on the song, this was a totally acoustic gig (which scared the hell out of me, as I have a soft voice and a loud guitar, and also tend to strum too hard), so no mics or amps anywhere (one lady had an amp for her uke-bass which was frowned upon, but accepted) and I'm not used to playing like that. My "totally pro" setup is having an iPhone SE on a tripod where I was sat, so you can often hear audience participation better than the guitar (as the mic is sat amongst the people), and it also surprised me when I heard it back that they were singing along. You can hear in my other song above where the guy behind was coughing close to the start of the song, which was probably louder than the song itself ....
That's a nice song, I commented on the other thread as well ....
Cheers
Richard
This is the recording of the song I wrote for the SOTM for October. https://soundcloud.com/tigljk/last-night
Jim,
An excellent little ditty!! Every month I think I'll write a song for the FSOTM, and occasionally I get to it, but wish I could be more consistent with it. Glad you found the word a bit of a challenge, I got it from a random word generator and I must admit I found that word hard to find in any song ... !!!
Cheers
Richard
Any more entries for this month?
I've got "Two out of three ain't bad" with the line I remember how she left me on a stormy night: https://youtu.be/2IGVbo34E7E
Enjoy!
Richard
Neo and Grah1, yes look forward to hearing them in November, not too far away now is it. Year has gone so fast!
I've still got some entries to the Oct one to post up ... from another gig I did a couple of weeks ago. Gosh, end the year is creeping up fast!!!
Cheers
Richard
I was reading through this and had thunder sound effects going through my head ... looking forward to hearing it ....
Cheers
Richard
Happy birthday to Chordie!!!
I might rope my 8 yo into doing "Smoke on the water" ...
Cheers
Richard
Well, I struggled with the word ELECTRONIC for this month's FSOTM, so I wrote this instead.
ELECTRONIC Poem
I been thinking about songs
Using the word ~electronic~
It had me bamboozled
Something chronic.
I tried to make it harmonic
Something iconic
But nothing came to me
My ideas very embryonic.
So, I sat down and visualised it
It had to be symphonic
Pictured it all lit up
All ~electronic~
Then the word faded
As I sipped my gin and tonic
Oh well, I will go watch my Panasonic.
Ha! Very witty .. I also struggled to find anything with the word electronic in; I had about 3 songs from artists I knew, but didn't know the actual song, so went with the word remember in this song I performed live. It has the line "Remember me I used to live for music, remember me, I brought you groceries in", which is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzNis_m-rVE
Cheers
Richard
Ok here we go again,i will kick it off for Oct.
I looked at the words for oct and thought, these dont talk to me
then i picked up my guitar and bang i had this.a warning! its very rough
come on you lot can top this!!!
https://soundcloud.com/rough-as-gut/dreaming
Was a good tune, toe tapper ...
Cheers
Richard
An excellent bit of research there Richard. I wonder if there is any more info on the start date of chordie or is it a trade secret???
First record I could find was 8th Dec, 2002, and this is what it looked like: https://web.archive.org/web/20021208055 … ordie.com/
Looks like it became popular around 2005 as per this graph of usage:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000 … ordie.com/
Cheers
Richard
You'll need to add a pre-amp to the piezo as they have a different impedence (if you're comparing like for like), something like this diagram should be sufficient:
Cheers
Richard
I migrated over here when some "Lawyer Types" forced OLGA (On Line Guitar Archive) to fold their tents around 2002-2004? (I forget... old age I suppose).
2006 according to the Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-line_Guitar_Archive - I think the 'take down' stuff started around 2003, a friend wrote a script to archive it, and you can still find remnants of it on the web today ...
Cheers
Richard
neophytte, Dancing in the dark, you covered it really well, it suited you vocally and your style. I agree with the above comments that the guitar could be quieter or increase the loudness of your voice recording. Otherwise, a good cover and suited you.
neophytte, your Crowded House cover was good as well. I could definitely hear the phaser sound to this recording. Nicely performed.And with all that said, better late than never, here is my very quick recording tonight for FSOTM with the word SEA.
https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan/sea-of-love
Thanks for the feedback, I had a listen to your song and it sounded quite good!!
Even later mainly due to the awful Covid which has struck me down again .I had to call in some help from the late Woody Guthrie with this cover of the Doors Road house blues .(its not really Woody just a nice badge my wife bought me )
https://youtu.be/6AFIsmPgW4A
Nice tune, liked your badge and hope you're feeling better!!!
Cheers
Richard
Also added this one from Crowded House - https://youtu.be/Dv9RVOJ-YQY unfortunately was trying out a new mic, which gave a phaser style sound to the clip, which doesn't sound too good.
Has the word road in it.
Cheers
Richard
nice one neo
Thanks for taking the time to listen!!
neophytte wrote:Dancing in the dark: https://youtu.be/9aox2lsj7F0 has the word 'help' in it ... (not home like I said in the video).
Cheers
Richard
Good one Richard your guitar has an upright piano sound coming through which I like on this one. It's one of those songs in a pub singalong setting if people had a lyric sheet, I could imagine them singing along with you and it would sound great with your lead vocals and guitar as done on this video.
Thanks - I'll be doing one of those this coming Tuesday, but the song will be "Lion sleeps tonight" ...
Richard
Very well done - I think there were a few times when you " let go" and sang like the boss! Great guitar playing !I think if you could have somehow increased the vocal and decreased the guitar it would have enhanced it.
In any case it was a superb rendition o Bruce's song.
Jim
Thank you for the feedback; I'm slack and am using a single mic ... I should set up a mic for vocals, DI the guitar and record it on the Zoom, then mix it back later, but (as you can see at the end of the video where my son pops his arm out) my time boxes are limited. One day I'll get it sorted, I did do it previously a couple of times ...
Just had a listen to Richard on you tube nice version of a Brucie classic just a little too loud on the guitar in places but still a good cover .Well done .
Thank you for taking the time to listen and for the feedback, please see above for the explanation of volumes ...
Cheers
Richard
Dancing in the dark: https://youtu.be/9aox2lsj7F0 has the word 'help' in it ... (not home like I said in the video).
Cheers
Richard
neophytte, nice performance by you both. Your son is doing so well joining you. Is this one you have posted before as it looked familiar? The only thing in this recording I would change slightly is maybe to have the piano a bit louder or maybe the guitar a bit quieter, just so the full effect of the piano could come through as parts of it was hard to hear the piano. Otherwise nicely done and suits your vocals.
Thanks for the feedback; my son tends to hit those keys quite hard, so I asked him to turn it down abit, it might have been a bit too much as he also commented when he heard it that the piano was not loud enough. We used a single microphone so the balance is pretty much 'live' ... next time I might try with a recorder so I can balance out the instruments and voice.
Yes, I've posted this one before, but it relevant/on topic so I thought it would be a good (and easy!) first entry.
I did this at on open mic a couple days ago so I thought Id use it for this months song. The daylight coming in the windows washes me out but you don't need to see me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09-cBKm … ChordiePa.
Ah, I haven't heard this song for years!! Probably the last time I lived with my mum and she put on her old Glen Campbell albums, and it's been a long time since I lived with her. I love open mic nights, and sounded like you had a small but appreciative crowd there for your performance.
Richard and Uncle Joesband great to see your videos on here. I have had to more of less stop playing guitar a health thing. So I will put up a song I wrote three years back, "Mountains To Sea." I hope it makes sense as it's about the weird way songs come to me sometimes.
I always love your videos, this one doesn't disappoint! And I hope your health is getting better!
Cheers
Richard
ok i`ll kick it off.i recently had a coffee with Jan,she encouraged me to try and ``sing``
instead of my usual kinda talk sing.Im no singer but i
bumble along to get my writings recorded.
this is my ``attempt`` at singing.
https://soundcloud.com/rough-as-gut/flowers-and-whisky
I did leave a reply on soundcloud, but this sounds pretty good!!
This my entry for August is called When Flowers Bloom. It is winter here and my garden has taken a bit of hiding mostly due to strong cold winds though there are some flowers in my garden that the petals haven't been destroyed. . . It was a bit hard going on my fingers but I managed to squeeze out a tune on the guitar for this one in a style I don't normally play but my Maree likes to listen to. It was just recorded on my cell phone no fancy mikes or anything. I tried to write some simple but easy to remember lyrics.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-qTfk4v_4o
I like the laid back, swing feel of this song ...
Whiskey in the jar on a Banjitar . Clean family version . If you want the smutty version come to one of my live shows after 9pm LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI4HxSoo_Cg
Always hard to get a good balance between voice and banjo (or banjitar), and even though I was listening on headphones, was hard to make out the lyrics ... but what I could make ou sounded like a fun little song!!
Here is my version. I can only imagine how much better you will make it ! Can't wait for that !
This is quite a good song, I'm curious what you recorded it on ... ?
This is "Walking Cane," a (I think) public domain song I first heard by Robert Earl Keen. Proper recording would have permitted me to get rid of the screeches and put some God Mode into my voice.
I know what you mean about 'not practicing slide' - I think I've finally given up on that ... but the song sounded quite good, I'fd never heard this one before ...
Ain't No Use In Trying by Trampled By Turtles.
I appreciate you setting your phone back a bit ... Personally I think it's better when you can see the guitar as well as hear it - I always look at the guys who do videos 'professionally', and they always sit or stand with their waist upwards visible; so those young-un's still got something to teach us
The song was quite good and suited you vocally, I don't think it was 'all wrong', it wasn't perfect, but making mistakes is better than faking perfection ...
neophytte, thanks for the great feedback on my cover
I really liked your cover of Vincent, you performed it really well, especially if you have just gotten over a cold. You managed the high notes and just the right amount of reverb on this one. Great to hear you chatting a little bit before hand as well. Big Thumbs up from me.
Thanks for the great feedback (and also from @easybeat, @Peatle @TIGLJK), sorry for the delay in replying, I'll have to start working on some September songs and catch up!
Cheers
Richard
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