Saturno - August 2023 - The Times They Are A-Changing & Feel My Love - Bob Dylan covers

Feels like it’s been a while since you shared a song with us, Claudia, delightful to find this treat this morning.

I think you nailed the vibe and groove of the song, played and sung with good feel for the accents and dynamics.

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Sounded great Claudia! Excellent strumming and dynamics! :grin:

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Hi Claudia,
Really enjoyed listening. Agree with what’s already been said, thought you did a great job.
Also checked out your version of Blackbird - very nice.
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Best wishes,
Alan

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Well played and sung Claudia. A very confident and competent performance of a Dylan classic.
You just need to learn the harmonica part now. :smiley:

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Very very nice Claudia.

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Hello Claudia, your rendition is most enjoyable to my ears! You’re very much gifted with your beautiful voice and the way you accompany yourself with the guitar is delightful. Well done!

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A great listen, very played played and sung with expression.

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I don’t post anything for ages and then I come on here with two, one after the other. Hope it’s not overkill! Another Dylan song, this time influenced by Adele’s cover. It was the first song I ever heard her sing on the radio and I thought, wow, this woman’s a great singer and a great songwriter. Then, I found out it was one of his. It made sense because (no disrespect to her) the song jumped out at me as something really special.

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Beautifully sung and played Claudia. Feeling and sensitivity oozed from that performance.
Well done. Must be your best one yet. You’re clearly on a Dylan roll at the moment.
Yes the Adele version is good . Bryan Ferry has a great version too.

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A little quiet on the recording, but really lovely. :slight_smile: :clap:

R.

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A wonderful rendition, Claudia, played and sung with feeling.

I especially liked the accented bass runs at various points.

From a recording perspective, I’d have liked the guitar a little louder to improve the vocal-guitar balance. That’s an entirely subjective opinion. From memory I think you normally have it spot on when strumming, which drives more sound from the guitar. Maybe for finger-picked song it could work to adjust the mic position. It appears to be recorded through a single condensor mic. If so I’d try inverting the mic, so the top is pointing to the floor, dropping it do be more in line with the guitar, and angling slightly towards the mouth (cable end tilted away from you). But maybe it was recorded simply by the phone in which case not much can be done.

That said, I must reiterate, that is subjective and not an issue that is stopping me from a second listen as I reply :grin:

Such a beautiful song, released by Dylan on Time Out of Mind in '97. The first in a run of three great albums, being followed by Love and Theft and Modern Times. I was first introduced to it by @batwoman, I can’t recall the details, it may have been inspired by one of the legion of artists who’ve covered this modern classic.

Thanks for sharing the song and bringing it back to me.

Ah, I had no idea Bryan Ferry did a version of this. I’ll have to check that out. Thank you :slight_smile:

I agree David re the sound. My fingerpicking recordings do tend to have the guitar sound too faint. I’ll have a go with your mic placement suggestions and see if that makes a difference. Thank you.

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Thanks Ruaridh, that’s a very valid observation. My wrist angles look bloody weird in this video! I need to pay some attention to this.

Thank you Silvia

Hi @saturno, that was great for me. It’s a beautiful song and I loved your soft picking (albeit could have been a bit louder as previously mentioned). I thought it sounded great and what a great vocal too :+1:

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Such a classic song and you played it very well!

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Two very nice renditions, Claudia! :clap: :clap:

Personally, I liked Feel my Love better from the two, what a lovely performance, playing and singing wise! Beautiful and emotional, I felt it. :slight_smile:

Regards sound others already mentioned, so I don’t need to repeat it. But overall, your picking and voice go together hand in hand quite nicely. You have a really pleasing singing voice and know how to use it. :smiley:

Thanks for these shares! :slight_smile:

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Two lovely covers Claudia. There was so much feeling in both songs and your playing and singing were wonderful.

Only thing to pick up on for me was, in Feel my love, it was quite hard to hear your guitar at times.

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You have a lovely voice, Claudia. Both songs were played beautifully. I especially enjoyed watching your Fingerstyle on FEEL MY LOVE.

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