Thanks @LunaRocket, glad you enjoyed it.
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Iâll take that, thanks 
. I figured finding the intersection of a song thatâs well known and one I can do well was important, so: Hurt. Especially when nobody would know the other one 
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Great show tonight! Maybe someday Iâll be ready and brave enough to do this!
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Very inspiring! I really was glad I was able to listen in. Thanks to everyone who played and Justin and Richard for setting it up. I think it went off well with a few minor blips that were probably expected with participants around the world. Pretty amazing it can be done at all!
âTouch-a-touch meâ made me laugh like cra-zy!
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Thank you so much @JustinGuitar. You have brought me so much the last few years by teaching me guitar, and thank you to the support of this community. All of your rocked!
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A good smartphone will suffice to be fair, I did my first few Open Mics in here with just my phone and tripod and it worked a charm! All depends how much fancy stuff you want to have on
What a show, couldnt make the live but well worth watching an listening, amazing job everyone
Jenndye429 thougth that second one was very PJ harvey, you need to add a bassist !
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I watched the recording as I was away today. Great show everyone ! Congrats for having the guts to play on a show live on youtube. Itâs a huge step in your guitar learning journey, you can be proud of yourselves.
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Okay Blues Lesson: I had to restrain myself because of time, but here are the two things I wanted to say.
Regarding altered tuning, even though we think of it now based on chords (Open E, G, C etc.), the old heads did not think of it this way. To them Open D and E were the same because they had the same intervals between strings with roots on the 6, 4, and 1 string. They often called this Vetapol tuning because there was a popular song called Vetapol played with it. Apparently, it was originally popular among women in the late 1800s playing small guitars in their parlor Here is Elizabeth Cotten playing it. Open G and Open A where the root is on the 5th and 3d string were called Spanish tuning (donât know why). Cross-note tuning was where you tuned your guitar to a minor chord or sometimes minor seventh with roots on the 6 and 4 and the 7th or root again on string 1. Robert Johnson did this some, and Skip James was famous for this.
I need to give credit to Stefan Grossmanâs material for teaching me this. It really helps make Open tuning not so daunting when you just think of it as three main types and really two main types (Vestapol and Spanish), regardless of the key. Also, most licks and chords that work in Open D work in Open G as well and vice versa. You just have to move them either up a string or down a string depending upon the root. This was mind-blowing to me when I made this connection.
As a side note, yâall know I am an apologist for Lonnie Johnson and how important he was to the history of blues, jazz, and pop guitar. I made a thread on it a while back. His pre-WW2 hits when he played his most complicated pieces were in a tuning kind of like open G (D-G-B-G-B-E) but instead of the root being on the first string like youâd expect (i.e., a D) he left the bottom two strings in standard making it basically an open add 9 tuning. Weird, but his chops were developed in the streets of New Orleans and playing river boats in Saint Louis way before anything became standardized. I just donât know if anyone else did this. Is it a Lonnie thing or a jazz thing or just a mystery?
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I agree! Weâre working on it
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Regarding Shake Your Money Maker. As @DavidP mentioned, it became quite popular when recorded by Peter Green on Fleetwoodâs first album in 1967, but itâs not original to him. Itâs an Elmore James song, first recorded in New Orleans in Cosimo Matassaâs studio in 1961. Side note: I just got back from a trip to New Orleans and definitely visited it as well as took in a Jazz guitar show, played by Steve Masakowski. Second Side note: Peter Green had some awesome blues stuff in early Fleetwood. âAlbatross,â âBlack Magic Woman,â and the whole album of âThey Play Onâ. My fav on that album is Showbiz Blue, which is in Open D, but âOh Wellâ is probably the best song on the album.
My favorite version, however, was done in 1965 by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. i like this live performance because it has a better guitar solo by Mike Bloomfield and Paul shows off his harmonica chops, which he doesnât do on the LP. They were one of the only bands of the 60s to play at Newport, Monterey, and Woodstock. Racially integrated and more Chicago blues than the Stones ever thought they were. Wish they got more recognition.
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Uuh⌠Canât believe, I missed this. Thunderstormy weather here, I had such a headache. So, I thought⌠Iâll just close my eyes for half an hour. Well, I will have to watch the recording it seems 
Too bad I couldnât see everyone perform live. Iâll make sure to watch the stream asap.
But nevertheless I already wanted to congratulate all the performer for stepping up. Well done 
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Thank you Justin for putting this together, it was a great evening, tech issues notwithstanding.
An idea, in a future show, perhaps everyone might be able to play one song together, a little like âPlaying For Changeâ on YouTube. I know the logistics of such an endeavour must be horrendous, but if at all possible, it could be wonderful.
Thanks again.
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Added in post #1 and in the Youtube video description.
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It is impossible Iâm afraid Mal due to out-of-sync sound.
Ah, that is a pity. So how do âPlaying For Changeâ do it. Recorded individually and then edited?
I donât know what Playing For Change is but if it is videos of many people across the world, it must be pre-recorded.
I just went to go watch my own performance to see how it was and hey, turns out it replays the youtube comments too while watching! Which was pretty cool to see. Thanks for all the kudos on my original song, super cool to read those comments especially from youtube people (rather than community ones).
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Thanks a lot for this fantastic event @JustinGuitar!
And thanks a lot to all performers!! Youâve done a wonderful job 
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Simply amazing 
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