1st AVOYP: Mad World

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Contrary to my certain expectations, I did not die in the creation of this, my very first outing. Thus I embed the the link to AVOYmeP along with Gary Jules and his crew in the background

Got some timing issues, botched notes, and let us not go into the vocals.

However, there must be a first, and this was a good, though lengthy process, for me.
Lot’s learned, too much time invested, and now time to move on.

[ AV recording is kinda fussy, isn’t it? ]

Thanks for your time.
Bruce

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Nice Bruce. Thats a big accomplishment and I am glad to see you achieve it. Great song too. I like your printed picture on the music stand with the description. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

They come easier after the first. Congratulations on getting a good solid and well done AVOYP done playing with added vocals posted. Not an easy thing to do.

:victory_hand:t2::love_you_gesture:t2::sign_of_the_horns:t2:

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Hi Bruce, nicely done and a big accomplishment. I remember that I was so nervous in my first AVOYP that my fretting hand was shaking :slight_smile: It is even harder when you sing while you play, so that will get a lot easier with more recordings. I enjoyed the playing. Thanks for posting.

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Nice work Bruce, and well done man, its not easy but it gets easier my friend cheers HEC

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Nice one Bruce.m!
You did well mate. Good rhythm, clear chords; and your voice was fine.
It feels good doesnt it…to get that first one done.
And as you’ve mentioned, you learned alot from the process.
Looking forward to your next one. All the best.

Cheers, Shane

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Good one Bruce. You’ve overcome the hurdle now, it gets easier from here :wink: A great AVOYP.

Was that a second voice in duet I heard, and some piano as well?

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Very nicely done, Bruce! It seems you broke the ice…
My favorite song, from one of my favorite movie! :star_struck:

I liked the way you played, very gently, as your voice. It seems the original song was playing in background, right?
Anyway… thank you for posting.

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Hi Bruce, congratulations on your first AVOYP. Big milestone. :slightly_smiling_face: You did great!

I love this song, one of my very first that I could play, great memories. Like others noted, there is a bit of a clash between you and the original, especially vocals. You can use apps like Moises to remove certain elements from the original, i.e. vocals and create a nice backing track for you to sing and play.

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Congrats on your first AVOYP. You’ve taken a big step ahead and you did very well! Picking and singing at the same time isn’t easy at all. Great starting point for more! :blush:

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Hi Bruce,
Congratulations on this first one :partying_face: :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: :clap:, that’s a big step and never to be underestimated…and it was quite a good one, I enjoyed watching and listening to it :grinning_face_with_big_eyes: :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: :clap:…keep it up,
Greetings

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I haven’t tried to dive into the fingerpicking for that song yet. It suits the song better than basic strums, for sure. Nice work.

And yes, AV recording is fussy.

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its not an easy song for a first AVOYP , congrats ! :smiley:

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Thanks Deb –
Oh! Did I (do I) struggle with timing on this song – he changes tempo all over the place. I had my foot going, and was playing to that (reasonably steady) tempo, and then would listen to the recording and it sounded like [ well, you know what it could have sounded like ]: I was mostly on beat, sometimes way off – I had to

  • begin to recognize the sources of the synchronization errors
    • song changes tempo
    • a bit of latency thrown in
    • me not paying attention
    • late to a chord change/string pluck
    • ??? to be discovered
  • change how I listened to the song while playing along
  • memorize where the tempo changed (hopefully a time may come where this is not necessary)
  • delude myself into thinking I’d done it – until I listened to the recording and heard the folly of my ways.
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Yes, there were professional musicians involved, unbeknownst to them:
I shall update the comments on the video to say that–thank you for mentioning it, that was a kind way!

I used 5 tracks

  1. The recording by Gary Jules (from a CD), that I played along to
  2. Right channel: line from the pickup on my guitar (via Scarlett Solo)
  3. Left channel: line from mic (that also picked up wee bits of lines 1&2) (via Scarlett Solo)
  4. iPhone video
  5. iPhone video soundtrack.

To synchronize all I

  1. Played a note on the guitar, that was picked up by all tracks
  2. Played the song
  3. Assembled in my video editing software Camtasia, using the starter note to align all tracks
  4. Silenced the audio track of the video (used it just for synchronizing the video)
  5. Played with the relative volume of Gary, the mic, and my guitar
  6. Saved to .mp4
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Hi Bruce

I think we all apreciate how hard that is to do. Congradulations!

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Congrats BC, on your first AVOYP. When a performer’s whole body is getting involved in the music, even if in a laid back way, it draws me in. Loved it.

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Wow, a bit of tech co-ordination going on there! TBH the piano and second voice were so low I thought it was perhaps someone in the background singing and playing along with you.

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Congrats Bruce on posting your first AVOYP! It sounds really good to me and I much enjoyed listening :blush:

This brought a smile…well a good-hearted laugh to be honest, as I am a bit like that too :laughing:

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I have tried to play along with the original recording on this and it just doesn’t work for a consistent tempo. He definitely varies his tempo/timing. Even though I love playing to original recordings, this one is negatory in that category. I play it either solo or with my wife.

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Thanks for chiming in Nate – it’s not so much that misery loves company, but that I am not alone in struggling with something.

It was interesting to me that I didn’t hear that the tempo changed until I listened to a recording of myself playing along—I cringed and was pretty hard on myself until I did some analysis of differences. Then, voila! I was only somewhat hard on myself…