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You're referring to your phrasing dragging a bit? I think that sounds cool man. You are hitting the melodies correctly, you are just a bit behind the beat. That's hip.

Thanks man!

hilarious!

I started by ripping off the chord changes of songs I liked.

I'm surprised that no one has addressed the importance of arpeggios and vertical thinking to develop theory knowledge. So....do that too.

I have never heard that song before. Nice!

@ Zurf soundcloud also has some free options. Second your comment number 1. Ability to zone on a key and stay there without screwing up is huge.

Big Jim: For my part, I sincerely apologize for taking so long to reply. I've been getting a lot of good feedback from the forum and I should've reciprocated more promptly. FWIW I don't normally give folks suggestions unless they explicitly ask for 'em, so here we go:

Listen to your song from :18 to :21 and then again from 2:04 to 2:06. Tempo changed, right? You accelerated a bit throughout the tune. This isn't something that most listeners would notice, but hey you asked areas for correction so I'll give you one.

I think what happened is this: Your strumming pattern was kind of swing feel...your upstrokes were on the "uh" of the beat instead of the "and" of the beat. That sounds very cool and relaxed (kind of "Moon River," which BTW is a sound I love) but lots of times players will anticipate the next down beat (your bass notes) and that pulls the song forward in tempo.  The other possibility is that you are concentrating on the vocal phrasing, which is throwing your strumming pattern for a loop. (This is happening to me right now on a song and it's driving me frickin' crazy.)

Like I said above, this is pretty nitpicky. Very few listeners will be aware of an accelerando in a piece, so long as it's gradual (which yours was).

Solution is to plug in ye old metronome and work the song through with that. 

I hope you found this useful - keep up the good work!

-Joe

its probably in the punbb code

Not quite ready for prime time yet, but here's what I'm going for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdFXEsozdsE

yeah I just right click.

Thanks Dino I'll do that!

Zurf the arrangement we do is pretty cool. I play the synth lead on my electric through a POG and sing lead. The solo acoustic thing is coming together nicely too... I'll upload something as soon as I'm happy enough with it that I don't mind it being on youtube forever.