Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out

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Great playing and singing John. There’s some hours invested here, clearly. The indivudal “licks” are quite clearly articulated and it’s clear that you’ve got this song under your fingers. Feel free to put it down. When you come back to it, I think you’ll find that the syncopation you want vocally will come much more naturally. Our brains need time to assimilate things. I almost always find that taking a break from a piece allows my brain some space and when I come back to it, the song flows more freely than when I was practicing it daily for chunks of time. . .

Well done. Enjoy the next adventure in sound!!

J

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John, as good as this is, I can’t imagine where you want to be with it. Great relaxed performance with good tone, play and vocal. Totally enjoyed it.

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[quote="wiredforsound, post:2, topic:358626”]
You have my permission to move on
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@wiredforsound Kevin, thanks for your encouraging comments.

[quote="MollyT, post:3, topic:358626”]
That was really good
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@MollyT I haven’t quite got the vocal placement as I want it but I’m glad you found it ok.

[quote="Eddie_09, post:4, topic:358626”]
That was excellent John.
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@Eddie_09 Thanks Eddie, appreciate your remarks.

[quote="Elixir1253, post:5, topic:358626”]
the law of diminishing returns
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@Elixir1253 Thanks, I’m happy you enjoyed the performance. I’m finding with this one I’m beginning to make new mistakes because I’ve done it too often recently.

[quote="sairfingers, post:6, topic:358626”]
Great bluesy feel to that one
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@sairfingers Thanks Gordon, you saying it had a bluesy feel is very encouraging!

[quote="beejay56, post:7, topic:358626”]
with a real groove
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@beejay56 Thanks Brian, similar to Gordon’s comment, you saying it had a real groove is very encouraging.

[quote="Socio, post:8, topic:358626”]
or a spirit orb
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@Socio Thanks James, for your great comments. I’m feeling very disturbed at the thought of spirit orbs floating around me and I can’t hear them. Maybe they just like blues!

[quote="Avalon426, post:9, topic:358626”]
Very enjoyable John
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@Avalon426 Thanks Jasmine, happy to hear you found it enjoyable.

[quote="sclay, post:10, topic:358626”]
a great performance across every department
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@sclay Thanks Shane, great to hear you thought it good all round.

[quote="batwoman, post:11, topic:358626”]
What a lovely, smoky, evocative piece of music
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@batwoman Thanks Maggie, you have a way with words and you’ve made me sound very good!

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[quote="CD02, post:12, topic:358626”]
Nicely done, I thought
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@CD02 Thanks Craig, appreciate your comments.

[quote="mathsjunky, post:13, topic:358626”]
Really enjoyed that John
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@mathsjunky Thanks Paul, for the encouraging comments.

[quote="roger_holland, post:14, topic:358626”]
Please take a deep bow
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@roger_holland Thanks Rogier, since the audio version I put time into enjoying playing the piece and slowly trying to add the vocal.

[quote="DavidP, post:15, topic:358626”]
and it’s seriously next level
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@DavidP Thanks David, that’s very generous of you to say it’s next level. Not sure I deserve that but thanks for your continuing encouragement.

[quote="LBro, post:16, topic:358626”]
struck by how effortlessly you seem to be in play and vox
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@LBro Thanks Lbro, for your great comments. I have to admit that it is not quite so effortless as it seems. Internally the cogs are spinning furiously.

[quote="brianlarsen, post:17, topic:358626”]
a song that I’d really like to hear you play
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Now I wonder what that might be :joy:
Thanks for your comments.

[quote="Lisa_S, post:18, topic:358626”]
Thanks for sharing!
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@Lisa_S Thanks Lisa, for your comments and I loved sharing the song!

[quote="BigLuc, post:19, topic:358626”]
That was great John
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@BigLuc Thanks Luc, for your comment…and your blessing!

[quote="TheMadman_tobyjenner, post:20, topic:358626”]
Have you changed your moniker again or is the other one just for BLIM ?
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@TheMadman_tobyjenner Thanks Toby for the nice comments.
I’ve changed the moniker back as some forumites were getting confused. It was Inappropriate as well, given I’m so far behind with BLIM, I’m not someone who should be flaunting my participation in it! I do love it though. Even with being as far behind the material as I am, I’m learning stacks of stuff that I would never have thought of doing. Do you find that?

[quote="jgottwals, post:21, topic:358626”]
the syncopation you want vocally will come much more naturally
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@jgottwals Thanks Jeremy, what you say is very true. And thanks for your encouraging first sentence.

[quote="oldhead49, post:22, topic:358626”]
I can’t imagine where you want to be with it
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@oldhead49 Thanks Dave, for your nice comments. All I want from it now is I manage to place the vocals in a couple of places a little more precisely.

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I am playing stuff I only dreamed of playing even last year. The whole process seems to have accelerated my learning abilities and I seem to be picking things up more quickly and remembering things that would normally evaporate a few days after learning.

Its a course for life John, so you can catch up in your own time. We all learn in different ways and also can only apply what free time we have to learning. As we always say just enjoy the ride.

:sunglasses:

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Based on the comments, I suspect perhaps the only person doubting may be your good self, John :rofl:

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Well done John, great rendition of the song, great fingerpicking there, your fingers moved seamlessly over the fretboard.
Not sure many of us would have noticed the throat clearing, my tip from my former teacher was, never tell your audience you have a problem whilst your playing or singing a song, if you tell them they will lookout for it , don’t tell them they’ll probably never notice it.

Again, well done, thanks for posting it, Peter.

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Bravo, John. That was very well done and the vocals were very complementary to the syncopated fingerpicking. It is way beyond my playing so I can only marvel and dream of playing like that in the future.

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That was great! The only one that ever hears me sing is me. Trust me, there’s good reason for that. I often find that I need to take some time away from a song because I get frustrated with it. I don’t know why, but two things generally happen. One, I instantly play it better than I did before and two, I improve on it more quickly.

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Hi John. I missed this completely in Oct.
You were absolutely brilliant! Good rhythm and picking, even added those little melody lines between changes. Great voice as well. It is very difficult to pull all of this together, you should be proud!

Is that one of your guitars maybe? :grin:

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John excellent, I say this is really good performance. Keep it up

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I’m a bit late replying , but thank you for listening and your comments.

[quote="SteveL_G99, post:28, topic:358626”]
That was very well done
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Thank you Steve!

[quote="GDPiper169, post:29, topic:358626”]
That was great!
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And so are you for taking the time to listen.

[quote="Boris1565, post:30, topic:358626”]
Is that one of your guitars maybe?
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Thanks for your words, Boris.
No, I bought the Faith long before I started making guitars.

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Thanks Jeff, I really appreciate your comment.

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Puh this is so well done - love your licks embedded. Your signing is absolutely great - you made this song your own - a lot of work and passion went into this I guess! Pure joy to listen to this!

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Thank you Andreas.

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