So the Holidays are over and it's a another cold snowy day in NH and I'm dreaming of warm blue waters, umbrella drink and lounging by the water.......So I torture myself more by puting on some Bob Marley in my office and Redemption Song comes on. Always loved this song. As I'm listening I'm starting to pick up the strum pattern, tempo, chord changes, etc.... I say "this isn't so tough". I noticed some of the same techiques and patterns/runs in some of the stuff I was doing. Norwegian Wood and Friend of the Devil. That was first. Me picking up stuff just by listening to it. Neil's lessons are paying off!!! So I go and grab the chords on the internet, strum through it for about an hour and this is what I came up with. It's still a work in progress and I'm not that clean with it but I wanted to post this explaining that what I learned from Neil's lessons on the songs above I was able to play this with relatively little practice time because of that I LEARNED doing other things. Thank you Neil!!! Progress is slow but it's still moving forward. You'll see I got a visitor at the end of the song that got me a little distracted.
MarkM
Just checked the video and it's "still Processing". I hope the quality gets better over time but I'm still having issues with choppyness. I'll reformat my SD and hard drive on my camera and hopefully that will make the next upload look better.
Bob Marley Redemption Song - MarkM
Thanks all!!
Suzi - Yes it was a good feeling to feel confident in a song that I thought I could grasp just by listening to it. Yeah my dog Cooper decided to let me know that he really needed to be let outside. He always finds the most oportune moments to do that.
Haoli25 - I'm lucky the dog didn't start to howl....Thanks for the compliments. Still need some work on it. The more I listen to it the worse it sounds. Probably need to soften it up a bit.
Tovo - Always like to see you comments. Thanks!!! Ire Ire......
Still dissapointed in video quality. All this money on the camera and I can't get a good upload. I'll reformat the drive and hopefully that will work. It's distracting to look at the video.
MarkM
Suzi - Yes it was a good feeling to feel confident in a song that I thought I could grasp just by listening to it. Yeah my dog Cooper decided to let me know that he really needed to be let outside. He always finds the most oportune moments to do that.
Haoli25 - I'm lucky the dog didn't start to howl....Thanks for the compliments. Still need some work on it. The more I listen to it the worse it sounds. Probably need to soften it up a bit.
Tovo - Always like to see you comments. Thanks!!! Ire Ire......
Still dissapointed in video quality. All this money on the camera and I can't get a good upload. I'll reformat the drive and hopefully that will work. It's distracting to look at the video.
MarkM
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Hey Mark, great going! What's your guitar? Nice sound. YOu just need to tell us how the heck did you get your dog to work the camera like that?!
Mark Great song.I am a big Bob Marley fan.IN fact 90 of my family went to Jamaica this summer for my niece's wedding,Took my boy on the first scuba dive,and then there second.Great time great music and alot of sun.Thanks for posting.ONE LOVE Mark,ONE LOVE.
Kevin
Kevin
That was great Mark. Way to apply what you've learned to something new - good on you. I thought you were very professional when the dog came in. You acknowledged her/him and just kept right on playing - from memory you didn't miss a beat. Very smooth too - especially for something you've been playing for such a short time. Great job.