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Let’s go dude!

I dig it.

Good cover! I invit you discovering my acoustic guitar/voice arrangement and my channel...

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Splended and mellow

This was very good. I love the old kinks songs. Thanks for posting this video.

This was SO fun! Great song. Well done.

man, get someone who can really sing, your voice is horrible, but great video

no manches este tipo que esta haciendo deberia estudiar un poco

Nice lesson there, Mike. Thank you. I play it this way sometimes, and other times I play it with a capo on fret two. Doesn't hurt my vocal cords as much! Cheers, mate! :)

can I suggest you tune your guitar to 432 hz instead of 440 hz . You should be able to sing in key better.

And you're still learning? That was pretty good!!!!

How do you change your guitars so fast?

yea sub 100 GG

can you do a tutorial or have the chords written down?? love your vids by the way

Well I do enjoy watching your playing and singing evolve - I am on the path too. But watching your guitar collection and studio grow is almost as much fun. Love the new (?) Gretsch and Casino ! I think you should do videos of your guitars/amps and also how you do your studio work and parts and pieces to that. There are plenty of pros out there doing reviews and songs and what not, but getting the "amateur's" view on learning guitar is something unique you provide. Thanks !

Route 66 is one of my favorite early Rolling Stones songs. Originally a jazz piece by Bobby Troup the Rolling Stones rock it up a few notches at 175bpm. That speed made it pretty difficult for me to play, in fact. Even doing a shuffle at that speed was difficult and the solo was too tough-- something to work on (and I've worked on it for a while!). This is my first attempt at a walking bass line. I played the 1/4 notes rather than the 1/8th notes (again, tempo). It was pretty doable and worked out pretty nicely. I did completely cheat on the rhythm guitar-- I tried and I can hold it together for a verse or so before clamming it up. I finally gave up and used a little Logic Pro cut-and-paste to put it together so I'd have something to play over. I have to say I'm surprised how well that turned out-- it's pretty seamless. For the lead I skipped some of the tough bits and just put in some stuff that sounded right in a few places. I had to put the Chuck Barry bends in there after all. Anyway, it sounds decent to me and I'll probably still work on the solo -- I can play it at about half-speed but not at tempo. Well, I can't sing or move like Jagger!

Get Back starts in A7 at 5th fret. then G to D. You don't quite the right beat, watch the movie of the Beatles playing on the roof.

This was good Mike! I really liked the strumming - I am beginning to believe that solid strumming is 90% of the game and I am working on it myself. And as usual, love hearing another one of your fine guitars.

I first heard of Gold Motel playing "Rocksmith 2014" ("Brand New Kind of Blue") and I checked out this song and kind of liked it. A while later I needed to pick a song to transcribe as part of my guitar lessons and thought this would be good since it wasn't a straight I-IV-V and had a few interesting chords. Eventually I did the transcription and figured I might as well do a video of it. I cheated a little for this video in that I later (after I transcribed it!) found an acoustic version of "These Sore Eyes" that showed a few chords that I suspect are different than the album version-- I kind of liked them so I used them (the add13 chords).

Four years later: ruclips.net/video/MXG7Kh_kSX8/видео.html There is hope. Maybe not for my singing though.

Another classical piece from Fredrick Noad's book. -- still not super difficult but a little bit tougher with independent movement on the melody and the bass. The rhythms are somewhat independent as well with some dotted notes thrown in as well.

"Things To Do" - (1) Learn how to play this song correctly. (2) Take this down from RUclips because I've butchered it so badly. (3) Apologize publicly for allowing this to be posted ... Come on, man. This is terrible. Why would you want anyone to see it?

loved it! also; does it sound good contributing at internet mashups in Bandhub ;) I for the most part can do percussion. We could jam at the website! That could be excellent!

Very nice ! Well done !

So this was sort of a minor song for David Bowie, but obviously Nirvana made it fairly popular with the MTV Unplugged In New York concert. In fact, I think Nirvana did a much better job with the song. My version is mostly based on the Nirvana acoustic version although I used David Bowie’s lyrics and sort of went for more of his vocal sound. This has a lot of guitar in it (well, technically just one guitar but I played lots of parts with it). I kept going back and thinking- you know, I should add that part in and eventually ended up with a cut and paste version. One thing I learned is why studio engineers write down the settings they used when they record. I went back and had to fiddle quite a bit to match up some of the parts. I think it turned out okay. Oh, the guitar is tuned down a half step (Eb). As for the playing- the hard part of this song is the strumming pattern. It has both mute/ghost notes and open playing. I think I got it pretty well here on the rhythm guitar part. For the solo, I never noticed how “sanded” your fingers get on acoustic when you slide up-and-down 8-9 frets over and over. My fingers got a little abused toward the end and sadly it shows a little bit. For the acoustic runs in the chorus they turned out to be easier than I thought so I added them in. I tried to find a good bass part for this but alas, the internet didn’t really have anything and I don’t think it really needed it. Some drums would have been nice, though. Vocal processing was pretty involved. I EQ’ed down the low end (it didn’t do much), add Compression, Tape Delay (cheap version of ADT), Flanger, Reverb, and Stereo Spreader. I have no idea what David Bowie did, but it seems in the ballpark. I’m currently still working on learning to read standard notation (more classical but starting to get into independent bass and melody notes). Also, just started “Johnny B. Goode” which seems like it is going to be a real tough one.

For what it's worth, I think you're learning in the right order. I can show you some stuff about reading music that may help - maybe on a hangout sometime. We're out of town the next couple of days, but maybe next weekend?

The Zombies are a favorite band of mine and a recent episode of Mad Men reminded me how great this song is. This was a difficult piece for me mainly because it is a piano piece originally so I had to try to figure out how to make it sound decent on guitar. I tried to stay close to the piano chords and rhythm but I think it turned out a little sparse and had to up the revert to fill in the space that the piano has with its sustain has. This is one of the first songs I’ve really had to listen to and figure out how to play it. It’s sort of “old school” learning like before RUclips and a plethora of Hal Leonard books when you had to figure it out on your own if you wanted to try to play it. I don’t think I have a very good ear for this yet and I did cheat a little bit watching a piano video (C#m! D’oh!). I’m especially happy with the bass part on this. It’s completely figured out from listening to the song and then trying to figure out where to play it. The guitar part, once I had the chords, was actually pretty easy. I even played a bit of drum (snare) on this one since I thought it needed it but the triplets for the hit-hat were a little beyond me so I just did a MIDI loop for that. My singing was pretty good (for me) so I can’t complain to much. All-in-all a success except for the rhythm of the guitar. For a good piano lesson, you might check out: The Zombies - This Will Be Our Year Piano Lesson Part 1 To hear how it’s supposed to sound (by The Zombies with piano): The Zombies - This Will Be Our Year. By the way, the whole album is brilliant and I highly recommend it.

Well I had no plans to learn classical - but if this is an easy piece, it's worth a try. Sounds beautiful, which I guess makes sense since you are playing a quality guitar and a nicely composed piece of music. Great job - with the recording too.

you sort of look like ben franklin with that hair.

I'm working on learning to read standard notation (not TAB) for guitar and my guitar teacher recommended a classical guitar book: Frederick Noad's "Solo Guitar Playing 1". This is the first real song in it and I thought I'd give it a shot. Nothing really fancy other than the change from eighth note to triplets (which I hosed up). I don't have it memorized so I'm playing pretty slowly and reading the sheet music. I'm playing about 60BPM and using a metronome to keep me honest.

Thanks!

good effort Mike

Thanks for checking it out. It is so painful to watch these early ones. I just want to say "dude, you should learn what strumming is!" but of course, when you're first learning you don't know what you should be learning first.

The backing tracks are GuitarPro files that I found. This one I found from Googling "Guitar Pro Satisfaction". I then downloaded it into Guitar Pro and exported it as MIDI and imported that into Logic Pro. This gives all the instruments their own tracks which is handy for muting out the parts that I'm playing. I'd highly recommend Guitar Pro-- for the price it is a great tool.

Thanks-- I realize now that I actually played the main riff incorrectly--d'oh! I might have to try that one again once I learn the fills.

Thanks. I had no idea what sort of progression I could expect when I started and I looked for other people doing this so I could get an idea and found nothing. That's when I figured I might as well do it myself.

Where did you get the backing tracks from?

This one sounds very nice. Congrats!

Congrats for creating a guitar learning diary! Nice idea!

yeah dude! but apparently the way mjsokes does it is wrong? hard to say I have to show you a video! and you are right because there is only 1 tribute band I see on youtube who plays it the way mjsokes does it. thats how tricky it is!

I don't think I have yet. Mjsokes does a really good job of showing how John's part works if you haven't seen that. It looks a bit tricky for my present abilities but who knows.

yeah have you also tried "I'm happy just to dance with you"?

I was definitely hoping for a campfire version (without the campers using my guitar for kindling). This was before I knew any barre chords so everything was open position. This was 6 weeks after I started playing so everything was new. I was just starting to get how to strum the guitar at this point. Turns out I did another version a few years later (in 5th position) -- search for "Learning Guitar 92 (I Saw Her Standing There)".

exactly but are you trying to play the campfire version of this sing? cause I believe John is playing this in the 5th fret and so on, not using first position chords

Thanks for checking this out. I've managed to get a B7 down pretty well now. Turns out practice eventually works despite my lack of natural talent.

right. I just learned how to play B7 last week. just play an E7 and switch to a B7 keep practising on that

Okay, some satisfaction. I heard this being taught to another student right before my lesson and was trying to figure out the chords. I figured it was in E pretty quickly but never quite figured out the D in it before my lesson so I started asking about it in my lesson. Now, I'm supposed to be working on scales and sight reading standard notation but I really wanted to give this a shot. After getting the basic Keith Richard's riff down (which is tricky at first but once you get the slides right, it isn't too hard) the next trick was getting the barely audible acoustic guitar part. It's only 4 chords (and mostly 3) but is has some quick chord changes on the off-beats. I got that down finally and then found out I had to play it at 135bpm which was faster than I thought! I'm pretty happy with the guitar playing in this. My singing, well… it wasn't my worst. One thing that is missing in this is Brian Jone's guitar accent which do turn out to be fairly important in getting the feel of the song down. I might give that a shot or finally do my scales and sight reading.

Glad to help!

oh. but yes, better to start late then never! but thanks for subscribing:)