Greetings community! I haven’t been as diligent about my guitar learning in the last few months but I did have the goal of working more on barre chord songs and trying to get the feel of the reggae style strumming. So here is my attempt at that. I can’t quite get it to feel and sound natural but it’s come a long way lol. I’ve loved the band Sublime since I was a teenager - having done some growing up in Southern California this music was the soundtrack of just about every barbecue and beach hang for my high school and college years.
Oh and I’ve also been playing a little bit with a new (to me) guitar. My wife’s uncle gifted to me this Ovation guitar that’s been sitting in a case in his garage for about 30 years - he bought it and never learned how to play. I haven’t tried plugging it in yet but I did spend some time fixing the tuner buttons and cleaning it up with new strings etc.
Well played: your rhythm was consistent throughout the main part of the song. When you changed back to more open strumming @ c. 2.18 the tempo changes: I don’t know the song and am unsure if it does slow down at that point. The picked lead / melody that closes the piece will benefit from more focussed practice. Look forward to hearing more.
Thank you for the detailed feedback. Good pick up that the rhythm slows on the open strumming break. In the recorded version the song starts with the open strumming and background sounds of a house party and then cuts out to the reggae strumming. It then cuts back to that open strumming with the house party again before the solo. I was just going off the feel of that part so it maybe that I was off the rhythm. The lead lines are definitely something I struggle with the most and I’m out of time on that and needs some smoothing out. It’s a great song you should check out the original !Thanks again for your time.
Good one, Andy. I enjoyed the raggae style and transferring from and back to the regular strumming; and even using some pick-strumming…and also the solo towards the end. Oh! You have nice vocals too!
Fantastic song and great play through. Its super wild and amazingly cool coming back later in life and learning guitar and playing all of these amazing songs of the 90s that were so part of my life back in my Norcal beaches and high Seirra Mountain years. Each and every song has such meaningful context in multiple ways.
Thanks for posting this song. It really put some good memories in my head. I will need to put that in my “to learn list”.
That was really great! Totally captured the feel of the song. Vocals were great and right on time. On the rhythm, you are definitely in the groove, but it falls apart a little on the solo. On the solo, try tapping your foot to help stay in time - it will be really hard a first, but after several tries, you will start to feel where each note falls in relation to the beat - it will helo you keep that groove which will sound better and will be more fun for you to play.
Also - I had to laugh at the parenthetical addition to your post title! But after listening to your performance, I would say that you actually capture the essence of Sublime really well, sublime even.
Thank you @pkboo3 I appreciate you stopping to listen.
@Ontime I feel like we grew up listening to a lot of the same music! We’d probably have fun hanging and jamming records!
@Rider2040 thank you. I will definitely work on my lead playing some more - I will try the foot tapping - for me I have trouble hitting the right notes cleanly at any kind of speed so I’m basically immediately behind! I could probably start with a simplified version and work on keeping that in time.
