Hi Rachel.
If we exclude people from my BLIM study group who posted only in that closed subforum, I met my first community member in real life (pub, of course) last week. He is one of the oldest members here. One of the topics we discussed is how much traffic there is currently, but still little constructive feedback in the current state of the forum. I saw your post, and partially driven by that conversation, I decided to give you my completely honest opinion.
I agree with you, I never said you should upload only polished pieces. There is a huge benefit in recording yourself at any stage and getting feedback. I asked the question below simply to get your answer.
Question:
Answer:
I got the answer (and the new upload) which confirmed my thinking - you think there is a “slight exaggeration on some of the bends”. I believe you don’t hear properly the necessary pitch, but also that you don’t have this tune completely in your mind. We all went through the same process with bending. The solution is to listen a lot and practice the basics. That was my honest feedback.
My original message above might have sounded harsh, but I genuinely wanted to help you with my suggestions, not to put you down as you seem to imply with the above.
Apart from few teachers and few experienced players, we are all students here and our feedback might be more or less valuable. Having said this, I spent numerous hours listening (GM studio version, GM live versions, covers), analysing, reading about and playing this song. That is why I felt confident to offer you advice. It is up to you to figure our what to filter and what to accept.
Few resources you might want to check/listen:
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Kasper’s comment is definitely worth reading
Solo 1 - Still Got The Blues -
Great reading in the introduction on how he approaches fast licks
Test-driving my new LP with Still Got The Blues (video) -
Great live cover - notice how both this guy and Kasper don’t put any vibrato at the top of the bends. To me, this resembles GM album original version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ZVsrv82A -
Incredible player - another cover (full lesson). Notice how he plays wide vibrato at the top of bends! Different flavour of the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZp6chNS0MI -
The legend himself live - he adds vibrato at the top of some bends. He doesn’t play it exactly the same each time live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O_YMLDvvnw&t=253s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m7NVFhbx1I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtmV2I4Fl7Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoYfTTFA-0k