Using Again - Benjamin Tod (Cover)

Thanks Kevin!! checked him out on spotify. His music is mezmerazing!
Thanks a lot :+1:

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As I recall you have the gear, Kevin, an AI and mic which you used to make the multi-track with your friends. Just feed that audio into OBS rather than a DAW, OBS Ninja to continue to record the video with your phone and you’ll be into exploring that next level. I described it here Producing a video with phone cam and an audio interface

As for the background, I’d not worry about that. As viewers we generally focus on the player, mostly the hands. And when not, there’s nothing wrong with the Pulp Fiction poster :grin:

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There’s a fluidity in your playing that says it all Kevin. Really good job here.

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@DavidP Well that belongs to one of my friends,I could borrow it but wanted something for myself for the long term. Guess it’s time to stop talking about it and getting it! (and learn how to use it :sweat_smile: )

And thank you for that, I had no idea you could record it that way at the same time, worth checking out.

@batwoman thanks Maggie, that’s the goal, working on something until you interiorize ir and can just “let it out” naturally. I’m very pleased about how it ended.

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Hi Kevin,
Beautiful song :sunglasses:
Greetings ,Rogier

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I think it sounds pretty great, considering only 2 weeks of practice it is quite amazing. As for the quality, I’m guessing you used phone microphone, they tend to be very quiet. The remedy would be a proper microphone and some editing, even with the microphone raw sound can be too quiet. But I’m sure you already know this :slight_smile:.

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@roger_holland thanks Roger, and that’s a beautiful guitar on your profile pic!

@RadekSiechowicz thanks radek, yep it was 2 weeks but I dedicated a considerable amount of time to it over that time :sweat_smile:

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Brilliant Kevin. I can’t believe you’ve only been at that for two weeks. I really enjoyed it.

For me, your phone gave it an oldie worldie feel which went really well with the song.

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Super stuff Kevin. Dripping with feeling and emotion. Well done.

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Well, that was cheerful! :rofl:
No, seriously- well done. I’ve know the song and you did it justice.
Bravo!

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@SgtColon Much appreciated Stefan, the thing I think helped the most with this one is listening to it a lot, and I mean a lot.
Glad you enjoyed the phone mic, but my proper microphone is on the way, look out world, I’m coming.

@sairfingers thanks Gordon, I tried my best to express that.

@brianlarsen Thank you Brian, the life of the party I know :sweat_smile:

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I don’t know if any of you guys will read this, but I wanted to share it here.
I went to an open mic today, to see how it works and what it’s about…and I ended up coming up to the stage and playing this song. And with the guitar provided by the bar.
It was probably not great, and not as relaxed and good voice as this video, but it felt really good. It felt like a safe and comfortable place to try it and I’m really pumped to go back with my guitar and maybe play an original.

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That is soooo cool :sunglasses:
Deserving of old school vibes of the highest order!
Enjoy the step into the unknown.
Enjoy the sharing.
Enjoy.

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That’s awesome, Kevin. Delighted that you have found a local Open Mic that is safe and comfortable. Playing live is such a great feeling and helps one to grow as a musician. Hope you get to record some video of you performing in future.

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@brianlarsen @DavidP thank you fellas, really appreciate it. I’m very excited right now about music, even wrote a song today that I really liked.
I hope to be part of a community OM in the future and see you all live.

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Have you signed up to be either performer or audience member in the upcoming OM, Kevin?

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Thanks for calling me out David, good points raised above. To read some more about further benefits of adjusting right hand’s action I will send a link to what I posted in some other post: Lego House Chorus - #6 by adi_mrok

I think cover was great overall, a bit awkward right hand action didn’t stop you from nailing the song :slight_smile: so as long as it sounds good… you know the rest! :slight_smile:

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@DavidP not yet, but I definitely will. I’m waiting til next week to know for sure if I’m available that day, but shouldn’t be a problem. And if I can’t go, it’s still a really cool idea for this specific OM.

@adi_mrok thanks for stepping by Adrian, I will check it out. It’s great how you learn a song, practice it and are able to play it and usually you move on, bit sharing it brings up things to improve.

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Amazing performance @KevinKevan, really enjoyed your playing and the song.

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… then there’ll be the next one, and another after that, and so on and on and on :grin:

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