Make You Feel My Love - Bob Dylan/Adele
Hi Craig! Good job (but you still need to work on it). I saw your hands shaking at times near the end (that damn camera!).
Do you have a DAW program that you like? Audacity? Reaper? Something else? If so, import your video (or audio portion) into it and then change the playback speed to something like 85% or 90%. Work at that speed and see if you can get a little emotion in the melody. This is a really heartfelt song and the melody needs to show that. Also, make sure the melody notes don't get cut short (playing at a slower speed should help). But all in all, you did a really good job. Keep it up and keep posting!
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Hello Craig,
All of your hard work is paying off! This song is sounding really good under your fingers.
I can tell that you are singing the song in your head. I actually think that in most cases, playing an instrumental like this is much harder than playing a song and singing along with it. Simply because there is only 1 instrument to listen to, and not the voice to fill in the gaps. Keep up the great work!
Bart
All of your hard work is paying off! This song is sounding really good under your fingers.
I can tell that you are singing the song in your head. I actually think that in most cases, playing an instrumental like this is much harder than playing a song and singing along with it. Simply because there is only 1 instrument to listen to, and not the voice to fill in the gaps. Keep up the great work!
Bart
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What a beautiful job Craig!!
You got all the chords, picking and so on down, and are even able to play it all the way through as well. That's a great accomplishment!
The next step would be to follow up on Dean's suggestions. Make sure to sustain the melody notes and play around with dynamics. It would indeed add to the emotion of the song.
This is not neccessarily easy. Try to pay attention to every note you're playing (this is not easy as well) and listen to how it comes out and how you want it to come out. Bassnotes have a purpose, so do melodynotes, and of course fillernotes. They all need to be treated differently, according to their place and purpose in the song.
All in all, very well done my friend and many thanks for sharing your work!
Ness
You got all the chords, picking and so on down, and are even able to play it all the way through as well. That's a great accomplishment!
The next step would be to follow up on Dean's suggestions. Make sure to sustain the melody notes and play around with dynamics. It would indeed add to the emotion of the song.
This is not neccessarily easy. Try to pay attention to every note you're playing (this is not easy as well) and listen to how it comes out and how you want it to come out. Bassnotes have a purpose, so do melodynotes, and of course fillernotes. They all need to be treated differently, according to their place and purpose in the song.
All in all, very well done my friend and many thanks for sharing your work!
Ness
Vanessa,
Thank you for watching and the feedback. I also appreciate the suggestions. I knew I killed some of the melody notes (especially in the chorus) and played some filler notes too loudly when they should be more background notes. Playing the notes with more variations in volume and emotion as you, Dean, and Daryl suggest is something I'm conscience of and trying to work on. Of course the first step is playing the correct notes which I feel I'm at on this song... so on to the next step!
Thanks again,
Craig
Thank you for watching and the feedback. I also appreciate the suggestions. I knew I killed some of the melody notes (especially in the chorus) and played some filler notes too loudly when they should be more background notes. Playing the notes with more variations in volume and emotion as you, Dean, and Daryl suggest is something I'm conscience of and trying to work on. Of course the first step is playing the correct notes which I feel I'm at on this song... so on to the next step!
Thanks again,
Craig