Wish you were here - Pink Floyd, Little Drummer Boy - for King & Country

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Edit: Added “Little drummer boy” in the Christmas avoyp chat

For the WYWH challenge I made the effort to play and sing the whole song, so I thought I’d post it here too as my avoyp for this month.

I tuned the guitar in D so I could sing in the right octave, and it still is a stretch for me. I wish I had Gilmore’s vocal range.

Constructive feedback is greatly appreciated.

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Great challenge :slight_smile: your vocals sound very good!

Mike

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sounds great! awesome work.

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Well done mate, best of luck cheers HEC

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Beautiful work! Thanks for sharing!

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Great stuff as always Erion!

I also loved the visual of your video - not sure if that was intended, but the yellow wall in the top right corner of the video, the yellow-ish guitar in the bottem left corner pointing at it made it look deliberate and cool.

As for feedback on the playing you have asked for: I think you can play with less attack on all the accentuated strums - they come across really hard and loud and with that you loose some of the melancholy that should be there in the song (for me). I find that for creating accents you don’t always have to hit the strings harder - just a “strum through all strings” already makes the beats stand out.

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I really enjoyed your video. Great job.

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Very good performance Erion, guitar and vocal are strong.

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I much enjoyed it Erion, you play and sing so confidently!

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Hey Erion!
I wish you were here so we could have a jam session together!!! :rofl:
Nicely played & sung!!! I enjoyed your performance of this classic Floyd song!!! :musical_notes:
Good job!!!

Tod

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Best one yet I reckon!! Very nice.

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Thanks all for the kind words.

@MollyT thanks for this. I completely agree with you. I found that I have less control over the dynamics when I play standing. As usual, it’s a matter of practice.
About the combination of yellow colours on the video, it’s completely accidental. I’m in my kitchen, you can partly see my fridge in the left :grin:. The walls are papaya orange and my guitar is just a good old Ibanez V70 that hasn’t had much love since I moved to electric 2 years ago. Yellow is my favourite colour though.

@Ontime I’ll answer your question on YouTube here. I just used the front camera of my phone and the phone mic. I need to get myself a proper condenser mic.

I might record the opening solo on top of this at some point.

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Great job Erion, very enjoyable. Your vocals are really good too :clap:
Also thought the video was cool :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

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Love it! Your vocal delivery definitely has a touch of the Gilmour about it, and the guitar is spot on.

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This is a awesome video of wish you were here. I don’t here any buzzing. I just want to compliment you on this.

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