Thanks again for all the input from everyone.
I tried some different things to improve audio recording, and I tried to sing into the microphone straight on and not off axis.
I went back to Neil's lesson. It helped with the timing on the fills, and the fingering (though I'm not comfortable yet with the pinky going to the low C on the descending fill run). And I tried the palm muting on the first two beats.
I think the fills/runs are getting better, but I need to study how Neil does the E suspended ("Baby I love you"). And the measure that leads into the chorus.
Also trying to unlearn 40 years of singing the lyric wrong --- "It's hard to get by JUST upon a smile."
Thanks for the help.
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webostick Wild World (version 5) guitar lesson review upload
Wally,
Great job!! You can certainly hear the improvement. Well done. I think your fills are really strong and clear. I just spent an hour on this song and have a long ways to go. Good job on the singing as well. One quick suggestion. when doing the G run at the end of the verse try catching all the strings (3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th) on beats 3 through 4. Keep doing what you are doing on beats one and two (hitting the 3rd and 4th strings) but add the full strum on 3 and 4 if that makes sense. I believe Neil has that in the lesson. Anyways great job on this!!! Hopefully I can get up a version of this later in the week when I have more time.
MarkM
Great job!! You can certainly hear the improvement. Well done. I think your fills are really strong and clear. I just spent an hour on this song and have a long ways to go. Good job on the singing as well. One quick suggestion. when doing the G run at the end of the verse try catching all the strings (3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th) on beats 3 through 4. Keep doing what you are doing on beats one and two (hitting the 3rd and 4th strings) but add the full strum on 3 and 4 if that makes sense. I believe Neil has that in the lesson. Anyways great job on this!!! Hopefully I can get up a version of this later in the week when I have more time.
MarkM
Wally -
You're doing a great job with this song - the effort you're putting in is clearly bearing fruit. This song has always been special to me - I sang it to my daughter before she went away to college a couple of years ago, and we both still get a little misty every time we hear it.
Keep up the good work, looking forward to seeing more posts.
Jeff
You're doing a great job with this song - the effort you're putting in is clearly bearing fruit. This song has always been special to me - I sang it to my daughter before she went away to college a couple of years ago, and we both still get a little misty every time we hear it.
Keep up the good work, looking forward to seeing more posts.
Jeff
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Wally,
This song is really coming along. Your fills seem very clean and there's no delay between them and your next chord. That's something I'm having a problem with right now.
I agree with Andy on the capo.
Also, I'd try even more palm muting on the bass notes if you're doing another upload.
This song is really coming along. Your fills seem very clean and there's no delay between them and your next chord. That's something I'm having a problem with right now.
I agree with Andy on the capo.
Also, I'd try even more palm muting on the bass notes if you're doing another upload.