I’ve been working on adding to my repertoire as well as trying to get better at playing and singing at the same time (and to just get better at being able to sing in tune!).
I’ve loved Tonight Tonight by the Smashing Pumpkins since I first heard it, and used to cover it in a wee duo I played in way back in the 90s when I was a student (I didn’t do the singing back then). So here’s me singing it while trying to play…
I’ve also been listening to a Scottish guy called Andrew O’Donnell who goes by the name of Beluga Lagoon. He sometimes plays solo and sometimes with a band. Here’s a song he wrote called Margo & Barry (about an old couple who still ‘enjoy each other’s company’!). I hope it’s not too rude.
Loved ‘Margo and Barry’ - very true to life and very touching. Your singing was more confident in that song. Your guitar playing across both pieces, with subtle changes between picking and strumming and the confidence to vary the speed gave the songs good dynamics. Very well played. (You reminded me of King Creosote: I’m a fellow Scot and I loved the Scottishness of your renditions.)
Yea, I really enjoyed Margo & Barry. I’ve never heard it but really enjoyed your playing style with string isolation. I thought your vocal sounded good in this too, well done.
Does that Takamine have the dual pickups. I recently played one that a friend had bought and the dual pickups sounded mint
Anyway, great work and look forward to hearing some more.
Thanks for listening @CD02. My Takamine is about 28 years old - it’s at EG-10C which is no longer made (Takamine Guitars :: product-details). It only has the saddle pickup (although I just recorded it straight into the mic for those videos).
Two great performances Colin! Good variation in the guitar playing and your singing is well in tune! Maybe try and “project” a bit more - imagine that you are playing for someone standing on the other side of the room / road - which does not mean to play louder just try and direct your music further out. Try and grab that person’s attention by sending your music out of the half-meter radius around yourself where it sits at the moment.
