OK as promised I managed to get another acoustic blues recording done today. Been a busy weekend in the studio, as I have also been recording tracks for the BLIM preparation.
This one is from @JustinGuitar Solo Blues Course which is a great investment for anyone wanting to learn acoustic blues.
This track is called Steady Thumb Blues.
For some reason I did not get audio in OBS so had to match things up in Reaper, so its a tad out of sync.
Was not happy with the overall tone of the Takamine DIed into the UMC 1820 but was trying to keep a clear desk and simple set up. So it needed a little tweak in Reaper before I hit Render, For those interested the guitar track was mixed a follows
Waves CLA Guitars - Electric Power Chorus preset
Waves Scheps Omni Channel - Clean Up My Acoustic Gtr preset yep needed that !
ReaLimit to eliminate clipping and boost volume for YouTube.
That’s it for now.
I’ve dropped Tears From Above and In Hale (from Chapter 2 and rerecorded on Friday HERE due to the original dodgy bends and @Mari63 comments down below somewhere ) into the BLIM Record Yourself prep module but want to do a pukka impro, rather than a learned piece.
So that maybe next on the schedule but hey there are a couple of acoustics to come.
Hoping it rains this afternoon, so I can get more done !
Thanks Mari, too kind as that B7 section trips me up every time ! But its getting there slowly but surely. Walking Easy is on the cards for this week but needs some work and maybe another Hamburger toon. Be good to see you getting stuck into these again. I baulked at the Gospel Slides but that was a combination of technique and set up. Time to have another go, while I keep my hand in alongside the BLIM course. Thx for listening.
Your impressed ! Tell you what I friggin am as well. I couldn’t remember what I had to eat 2 days ago but these “exercises” seem to stick in my head. Its not only weird but scary at the same time. Like “What’s your name ?” “Dunno ! Can I play you a solo, all the same”
Don’t under estimate your Blues acoustics James, you are doing fine young man !
So its twenty take Tuesday and I managed to get another cranked out today. This is another from Justin’s Solo Blues Course called Walking Easy Blues and in my case its
The Tripin Stumblin 'arder Than It Looks Blues.
Used the Fender T-Bucket for this one but left the Reaper FX set up the same as above. Its a bit untidy in places and certainly tripped here and there and missed the odd note
But after a number of unsuccessful recording days earlier in the year, its finally captured, warts and all.
I will try and get my final Acoustic Blues piece recorded tomorrow but for now its back to the BLIM preparations tasks and tinker with another improv.
Hopefully all these tracks won’t get buried but hey ho such is life.
Hi Toby,
No idea why I missed this because I worked from bottom to top of the list of topics and everything was marked as seen and I don’t often miss such a video in the thread??
Well, I think that’s a wonderful blues and it reminds me that when I bought this series I ended up with this one…half way through…
That second one is also well played , but I don’t like it that much, that’s not your fault, because when Justin plays it I find the same , I sometimes play it myself for technical reasons, but never when the wife is at home because she thinks also it is constant bottom strings is way too much
What a treat… another ‘arder’ than than the madman make it look blues. Sounded really good to me Toby, the only thing that was missing was the cowboy hat, for some reason I get a country vibe.
you made it your own
I’ve been thinking recently whether it’s time for the rules to be relaxed as the tsunami of AVoYPs has passed. Worth including a link to your topic in the challenge topic for Justin’s solo blues.
Ooo ! Had not realised there was one. Yeah maybe but its more a mid year review thing.
Thanks for the comment. Like Roger, not my favourite so your Country feeling may be a cause of that. But its another to learn for establishing certain skill sets, so worth doing.
Maybe another Hamburger to more if I can solve one chord landing that tripping me up.
Thx for listening.
Roger you are spot on I have missed so many recordings by folk since the one per month limit came in so good that you came back to find this one. Glad you liked the Steady Thumb, its similar to the David Hamburger pieces I’ve been doing. The 2nd ? As I said to James I am a bit like you but as you say its good for technical development, with those skills being transferable. So ay the end of the day worth investing some time in. Again thanks for listening.
We all have enough of those days. Better that than letting it get to 712 take Wednesday though …
So you and @roger_holland aren’t too fond of the Walking Easy Blues, as a piece, eh? I actually find it to be a super fun one to play! And definitely easier than STB with that one particularly fiddly bit. Although there are a couple of songs out there with that walking bass kind of thing that I always think ‘too much’. I can’t think of one of them right now unfortunately. Anyway, my ‘take’ would be that you’re doing fine with this one, it just sounds to me like you’re ready to be done with it so you’ll just play it to get it over with. And nothing wrong with that IMHO!!
Looking forward to the next one, acoustic or electric.
Hi Mari, @Mari63
I’m glad you called me because I now absolutely have to make a nuance after trying it again a few times this afternoon, because (phew, that took some time to start up again) I remembered the video a bit, which I haven’t seen for years. and I remembered Justin’s words about a Stevie Ray Vaughan style by smothering the bottom 2 strings every time ( I will need to try that with a lot of distortion later ), this is still quite difficult for me now, but I can certainly hear the beauty of it now … I see new opportunities for me with this number …
Greetings ,
And ps: Toby
What a ridiculously long title for this topic ,but no one overlooks it now ouch my back
@TheMadman_tobyjenner@roger_holland@Mari63 look what a guy named Stevie did with the Walking Easy Blue. We all have to start some where, it’s where you take it from here that counts.
Haha, I need to drop this into the BLIM Record Yourself thread in the morning first, before Justin checks in. My weekend post got buried under a shed load of posts and he never back tracked to those two recordings. Ironic as 60% of those post were my comments on other Blimmer’s recordings. So you’ll get to see it twice Paul, as I will drop it in here, as part of my Blues Saga(Chapters) and try and get another acoustic session done in the morning.
The upside is I am finally getting over my severe RBS stumbles, so all is good at MMS at the moment.
yep needed that !
) into the BLIM Record Yourself prep module but want to do a pukka impro, rather than a learned piece.
and it reminds me that when I bought this series I ended up with this one…half way through… 
, I sometimes play it myself for technical reasons, but never when the wife is at home because she thinks also it is constant bottom strings is way too much 
