RE: On The Turning Away.
Very nice. I always have to watch Pink Floyd avoyp. Good song too. 
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RE: On The Turning Away.
Nice my friend 
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RE: On The Turning Away.
Very nice Travis! It’s one of my favourite post-Roger PF songs - one to really stir the emotions.
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RE: On The Turning Away.
Very nice! Your voice suits the song well. Thanks!
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Thank you!
The Devil Wears A Suit And Tie—Colter Wall The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie - YouTube
Many of you probably haven’t heard of Colter Wall, but he is one of my favorite artists right now. I play a lot of his songs. I aspire to play better without a pick partially because of the way he plays without one.
Original track: Original 16 Brewery Sessions - Colter Wall - "The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie" - YouTube
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RE: The Devil Wears A Suit And Tie—Colter Wall
Bravo, Travis. You are right, never heard of Colter Wall. Enjoyed your rendition and the original, appreciate the sharing.
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Thank you! He is part of the modern underground outlaw country brand that I seem to be spiraling towards.
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The Old Apartment—Barenaked Ladies The Old Apartment - YouTube
Please let me know what you think! I’m always open to all feedback.
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RE: The Old Apartment—Barenaked Ladies
Love the energy and dynamics in this performance, Travis, the gusto and growl in the vocal.
I see you’ve been enthusiastic in posting up recordings in AVOYP. The Community is now so active that you may get more people watching and commenting if you spread the posting out a bit. And perhaps strike more balance in sharing your own recordings with the offering of feedback or just encouragement to other posters.
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RE: The Old Apartment—Barenaked Ladies
Hats off to you for sharing your tracks publicly. Well done!
I come here for the guitar, so I will begin my comments there. Your strumming and chording is steady and true. Not knowing where you are in your guitar journey, consider adding some dynamics to your playing. As a dyed in the wool open cowboy chord strummer, I know what a challenge that can be. Some ideas to ponder:
- We don’t have to strum every string on every chord. Doing so will drone on and cause ear fatigue in the listener over time. Accent the bass and/or treble strings at certain times. Single note picking and bass runs are always welcome to the ear.
- Build up to the chorus. Play your verses with conviction as you have done, and then open it up and let 'er rip in the choruses. Justin has some lessons on this concept.
Your vocals really popped! Nice growl from those pipes. Consider doing a cover of this song: Temple Of The Dog - Hunger Strike - YouTube
Easy chords and with your vocal range (which I don’t have) you would slay it. Being a fatty makes me uncomfortable singing, “I’m going hungry” as well. LOL
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I love that song! I have muddled around with it some but I will concentrate on Hunger Strike more the next couple weeks!
Thank you for your detailed, thoughtful post. A few months ago I was struggling with strumming, and I’m starting to get there, and I’m practicing changing patterns between bars, but what I’m really noticing now is the difference between strumming when I’m singing versus not singing.
Awesome feedback. Thanks again!
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RE: The Old Apartment—Barenaked Ladies
Wow Travis, what an energetic performance. Really good playing and singing. Enjoyed listening a lot 
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Thank you! That song really reminds me of my youth.
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Hey man some nice collection you have here going! Really like how your voice sounds, I think you would do great singing Rag n Bone Man songs. I only knew Bare Naked Ladies song and I think you did it justice, well done!
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Thank you very much! I’m just trying to get better every day! I’m developing a pretty eclectic repertoire 
This is one of my first recordings, from about 6 months ago, but I want to record this again soon after learning what I have since that time.
I have another thread with past recordings in it, but I haven’t figured out how to add links to the existing template. Please bear with me as I learn to navigate the site.
I kind of do my own thing with this song, but it’s one of my favorites to play!
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I was hoping to find other recordings that people have of this song, but I didn’t see any.
Hi Travis,
It’s good to see that you are so enthusiastic about posting videos, Justin also calls for that in his newsletter,…but you post so much in a row that it’s getting a bit too much to keep up with and that’s why many of your videos have already been bundled in their own topic,… it’s a good idea that you post all your older work in that thread for the time being ,…
If you stands on your own avatar and then clicks on topic’s you can find the collection thread there …
Wish you lots of fun,
Greetings,Rogier
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