Re: learning a song -- benefit of recording




"Stephen Calder" <calder9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:47df04dd$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Okay, here's what I'm working on now. You'll notice it still needs some work, mainly in the timing area -- a drum track might help, although I do like to speed up and slow down for effect.

The recording tells me that certain passages lack confidence, that the brief foray up to the fifth fret needs a bass line, that a full melody line an octave higher might sound good (although in this key it takes you up to the 12th fret). That will also be quite a lot of extra work. I'm going to be working on the idea of adding a mandolin instead.

The recording was made with a high-end sound card, but you don't need one to make decent home recordings that tell you more or less what you actually sound like rather than what you think you sound like when you're playing.

This recording was made with two mics, one for the guitar and one for the room.


http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6370453




--
Stephen
Ballina, Australia

Nice recording and picking. What picking style was that? I also checked out "Song of the Wave." Great tune. I like the mouth harp and mandolin with the guitar.

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