My first (recorded) physical OM

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I’ve found a great little venue near me in Aylesbury that puts on a monthly open mic night. I went to my first last month, but didn’t get any recordings - which might be a good thing as I was pretty nervous.
This month I felt a lot more comfortable (thanks @LievenDV for the tips!) and just found out that someone recorded it … so here you go, mistakes and all.

I have to say I actually find a physical audience a bit easier than a virtual one :slight_smile:

The outdoor Type (The Lemonheads) - You only get one verse as I just got a copyright strike!

St Swinin’s Day (Billy Bragg)

Kathy’s Song (Simon and Garfunkel)

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You sounded great Paul. Great guitar work.

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Paul

Very good performances of all three songs, with a well handled variety of accompaniments. Particularly like ‘Kathy’s Song’: you conveyed the sadness of the piece. Well played!

Brian

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Agree, it was wonderful.
Well done Paul, great open mic. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Three cracking performances there Paul, you’re a natural!

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Sounded very confident Paul, all the JGC OM groundwork has served you well !
:+1:

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Very nice and very confidently performed Paul. You looked very comfortable in front of the audience.

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All songs performed very well Paul. Well done!

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Sounded good, Paul. You lit up the stage with a confident performance.

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Bravo Paul. Enjoyed your Kathy’s Song. Sounded so smooth and relaxed

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Thanks Mark, appreciate it!

Cheers Brian, bit more pressure to play fingerstyle, not done much recently, but luckily it came back to me pretty quickly :slight_smile:

Thanks Boris, it’s good fun to play to a physical audience at last!

Cheers Phil, although I certainly didn’t feel like a natural at the time … it’s getting easier though.

100% Toby - Very good proving ground for a physical OM. As I said, I actually find a physical audience a bit easier for some reason.

Thanks Eddie - probably looked calmer than I felt :slight_smile:

Cheers John - appreciate the kind words

Thanks James … I think it was the fairy lights though :slight_smile:

Thanks David - it’s probably my favourite too.

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I 100% agree with this.

Edit, great videos.

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great songs and performance!
You’re so right about the real audience being easier too
Cheers
Ruaridh

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Wonderful, Paul! Very well played and sung also! :clap:
You should do plenty more! :slight_smile:
When I work on saturdays on a market, there are always buskers close to my gazebo.
I know I’ll play there one day (just one or two songs would be great) and my favourite busker already told me: “sure - come and play my guitar when you want to” :slight_smile:

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That was lovely. Especially St Swithuns day. I’ve always loved that song and I imagine it’s very hard to sing and play it at the same time. In the Billy Bragg recording he also really changes how hard and soft he plays at particular moments which really gives a nice emphasis to certain parts of the song.

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Just enjoying your performance Paul, nice one. Do not know the first two but have always liked S & G well done. OMs do get easier but the nerves never leave, at least for me. Well done, you did good. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

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Thanks Jason!

Cheers Ruaridh :slight_smile:

Go for it!

Glad you liked it Ian. I’ve been a Billy Bragg fan forever - love his song writing, lyrics are just exceptional, I should learn more of his material.

Cheers Mal - yep, I expect there will always be nerves and that’s ok - this time they were closer to ‘excited’ than ‘scared’ which was really nice :slight_smile:

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Hey Paul :clap::clap::clap:

Well, Aylesbury, what a lovely place and what a great performance mate :ok_hand: You jogged my memory on Billy Bragg :+1: and well done on it loved it. Kathy’s Song is such a ripper too well done Paul great work and really nice vocal​:musical_notes:

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Oh, wow, Paul! Great confident performances :clap: :clap: :clap: You crushed it!

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Great job Paul. All three sounded great. I particularly enjoyed your finger style on Kathy’s Song.

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