MarkM Friend of the Devil - Total work in progress

MarkM
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Thu Dec 17, 2009 2:55 pm

OK both feet in vacation mode now. Maybe I should start my Christmas shopping :huh: . I'm hooked. Have to keep posting videos. So I started this song earlier today and figured I'll do a work in progress thread. You'll see there is much more work ahead with little progress so far. :woohoo: I find that, for me, it seems to be easier or rather just as hard when I slow the tempo down as Neil had done. I have the song stuck in my head at this pace and I can't help it. With that said I know I'm hitting several bad notes, usuall the A string by mistake when I'm going through the progression. The Chorus and the Bridge need to be cleaned up a bit as I'm not consistantly getting all the down/ups all the time. However I do think I'm keeping the beat with the correct notes. Oh well I've got something to work on with this one for sure. As always thanks for your support and feedback.....



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Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:18 pm

Very nice, Mark. I don't know the song, but I like it already, and want to hear more. You're right at the beginning of learning it, but you've made a lot of progress in a short time.

- Dennis


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Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:30 pm

very good and a great sounding guitar


suziko
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Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:30 pm

Mark,

This is a song I've been playing around with for a few months, too. A fun song, with all the hammer-ons and that cool little bass run in the begining. I know it's hard, and you may not think it helps, but in my opinion you should really try to force yourself to slow it way down until you've got a better command of the song. You could try playing with the metronome (use metronomeonline.com if you don' own a metronome) to try to maintain a steady rhythm throughout the song. Just a suggestion.

And congrats on posting another video! Suzi


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Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:32 pm

Hello MarkM.

And that in one day,you make a lot of progres.
Yes i see the same as Dennis.
Big hand fore you my friend.
Thanks fore share this video.

Greet Anton


MarkM
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Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:48 pm

Thanks all. Much appreciated.

Suzi you are correct that I need to slow it down a bit. For the most part my biggest problem is hitting that A string way too many times. I'll slow it down and send out an updated video on this one next week.



MarkM


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Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:58 pm

Mark if that's the standard you can reach after just a few days you should go on vacation a little more often mate! :)

It's coming along beautifully. Agree with Suzi, force yourself to slow down a bit and try to get more feel into the tune, that in turn will help with the A string I think.

Not a number I am familiar with either but very nice. You are a video posting machine!!

(Oh forgot....LOVE the Taylor as well) :)


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Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:16 pm

I think I saw Gerry and Bob in that video... Sure sounded a lot like them.


MarkM
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Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:23 pm

AndyT wrote:
I think I saw Gerry and Bob in that video... Sure sounded a lot like them.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Thanks but I must say if you saw them in My video it must have been during one of their "off nights". Longgggggg ways to go for me on this one.

MarkM


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Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:39 pm

Another nice job Mark. Looking forward to the followup vid.

With your lighting arranged differently, I noticed your video is one of the highest quality I've seen. What kind of camera and sound equipment did you use?

wrench


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