30Nov2024 - I am finishing up the recordings for my grade 2 consolidation ten songs just in time to end the month. I actually recorded this next song last because I was having trouble with the push rhythm while singing. I did OK with this song, but later I may try to record on my DAW and include backing track and play and sing separarely for recording purposes.
Here is an example of the strumming practice that I did before recording the song:
Dock of the Bay strumming pattern muted string practice example
Justin highly recommends this type of practice and now I do too.
Here is song number 9:
Sittin’ On the Dock of the Bay
The last song, number 10, is Free Fallin’. I decided to play electric guitar with a bridge hum bucker, following Tom Petty’s example in all the videos I have watched. This rhythm was also a little tricky but the chord changes where more compact since there are all in the same fret position.
Here is song number 10:
Free Fallin
I think that this is the first time that I have tried to sing while playing an electric guitar, so perhaps this is a good capstone or final recording for the ten grade 2 consolidation songs. What do you think?
Actually, I think that this is the first full song I have playing on this guitar. I would have to look back at all my recordings to check. I had to pull this guitar from the back of the closet, with case behind 2 other guitar cases. I obviously don’t play it much, as I haven’t even bought a shoulder strap for the guitar. This is the guitar that I want to replace, since it doesn’t inspire me to play it much.
BTW, I had a simple setup for recording the final song. I just played into my little Positive Grid Spark mini amp set next to my phone. Also this is the only song played with the orange 0.60 Tortex Jim Dunlop pick. All other songs played with a 0.60 mm Nylon Jim Dunlop pick.
I said at first that I would record better recording with my DAW before the end of the year. Based on my experience recording these 10 songs with just my phone, I know that this will take a lot for time for me. So I will work on this during my grade 3 sonsolidation in 2025 as I start learning grad 4 lessons. I need to spend more time learning Garagebad and how to synch audio in iMovie using GarageBand recordings.