How realistic is the guitar playing in Sound of Music

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Silva @Silvia80
Very nice, didn’t understand a word but I obviously knew the song.
Michael
PS I see what you mean about your pinky

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Here you go. Just work on this.

:innocent:

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I humbly request that one of the moderators retitle this post to
ALL TOGETHER PASSIONATELY WASTING TIME
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Why??
@mfeeney0110

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No offense meant. It just started meandering and we should have all been playing out guitars.

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“All work and no play . . .”. Relax.

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Michael @mfeeney0110
None taken.
It’s one of those films that seems to come round ever Christmas and thought it might be interesting topic as it related to guitars. I learnt something, the Italian name for the film, very odd.
Michael
PS managed to fit a little guitar practice despite family commitments.

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Thus my play on the name. I can’t remember which movie I watched more often with my children, The Sound of Music or The Wizard of Oz, but both were over one hundred. Happy Strumming Year.

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:joy::joy::joy:

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Honestly, I wouldn’t worry about it too much unless it was a biopic kind of thing where the hands and the upper body of the actor playing an instrument are shown in the same shot and the whole thing was marketed as “the true story of XY” or something along those lines. In other cases, I’d just treat it as fiction where such things are only part of the production. E.g. in Sweet and Lowdown, Sean Penn did a commendable job of trying to use his fretting hand realistically, but there are still instances (before the end credits roll) where you can clearly tell that it’s not his own playing we hear on the soundtrack. I haven’t seen this one film in particular, but if you feel the soundtrack and the images on the screen don’t mesh really well, it might be due to dubbing in post-production (it was quite rare to record live sound for films in the 1960s). Also, it’s not uncommon to use a different person, often a pro singer, to provide a “singing voice” for actors in musical films.

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Nuns, leather shorts, Nazis.
This movie should be X rated. :joy:

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Josef @Jozsef
It was just meant to a bit of a holiday fun, not meant to be taken too seriously.
Obviously the guitar playing and singing in the film were added in. In terms of the singing I read somewhere that Christopher Plummer who played Von Trapp did sing and was trained for it but for film his singing was substituted by a professional singer, Bill Lee. But surprisingly for one of recent versions of the soundtrack albums they also included his rendition of the songs.
Michael

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