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An update to my guitar playing (new video)

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  1. doubledave22 doubledave22 is offline

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    Aug 16th, 2011 (8/16/2011 7:38pm)

    Here's a song some of you may have heard that I decided to do a pure acoustic interpretation of (aka no singing), and it is based off the song "Her Morning Elegance" by Oren Lavie. The original song can be found here (the video is awesome too btw):



    Another reason I'm posting this is just how long it took me to finish, so it feels good to finally be done and to be able to share it.

    A little run through of the process it took to get this done:
    1) figure out a tuning on the guitar that makes every part of the song playable. This part was tricky but the initial 3 notes that start 10 seconds into my video helped me determine the 3 high strings. The 3 lower strings took some experimenting, but ended up getting lucky and found something that worked. (the tuninng is Eb Gb Eb F C eb)
    2) had to figure out the swingy bass line and then tab it out. I use a program called guitar pro which lets you tab out whatever you want and it will play it back for you. I recommend this to any serious guitar player its about 50$ or free if u illegally download.
    3) After the bass line is established i had to figure out the melody which includes the singing melody. This took alot of sitting down with the guitar and just finding the notes Oren was singing by singing them myself and waiting til the guitar and my voice matched up.
    4) Once the melody and the bass line were established, I had to lay them on top of eachother on the tab making sure no notes lied on the same string making it unplayable. Then i just had to figure out which notes were played by themselves and which were played together to make it work. As you can see in the video this took alot of right hand tapping on the fretboard to actually make this playable.
    5) I just repeated this process for the rest of the song included the chorus (which took forever) and eventually had a final product.
    6) Lastly i had to actually learn what i wrote and then be able to play it all the way through on video without too many major mistakes. Again this took a while too so I hope you guys enjoy.

    I wouldnt be posting this but getting alot of comments lately so figured it might actually be pretty good and worthwhile to share.

    Let me know thoughts

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  2. AmSlim22 AmSlim22 is offline

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    Aug 16th, 2011 (8/16/2011 8:14pm) in reply to doubledave22

    wish i could do that.
     
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    Aug 16th, 2011 (8/16/2011 8:36pm) in reply to AmSlim22

     
    Originally Posted by AmSlim22 View Post

    wish i could do that.

    This.
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    Aug 16th, 2011 (8/16/2011 8:52pm) in reply to z0n@Crew

    great job
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    Nov 16th, 2011 (11/16/2011 8:53am) in reply to dannydunks

    Hey Dave,

    It's good to see someone here with a talent aside from poker. You can "genuinely " fingerpick well...very nice work.
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    Nov 16th, 2011 (11/16/2011 10:28am) in reply to Primer

    pretty awesome dude. just started playing myself. nothing beats the sound of an acoustic guitar imo. keep up the good work
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    Nov 16th, 2011 (11/16/2011 10:42am) in reply to LSUfan

    Very impressive
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    Nov 16th, 2011 (11/16/2011 11:19am) in reply to Hodge05

    Christ dude....that above is unreal cool...I watched some more of your vids up, and this one is super BADASS! I'm confused too as to how there aren't thousands of more views on these...you play reallllly well!!
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    Nov 16th, 2011 (11/16/2011 11:26am) in reply to nw25th

    and sexy too!
     
  10. whoMikeB whoMikeB is offline

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    Nov 16th, 2011 (11/16/2011 12:01pm) in reply to Deoxyribo

    This def didn't get enough love when you first posted it. I don't even want to know how much time that took you. Very impressive.

    Also that is one of the coolest music videos I've ever seen.
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    Nov 16th, 2011 (11/16/2011 12:05pm) in reply to doubledave22

    reminds me of andy mckee which says a lot.. well done.. can you play drifting?

    double edit* Guess so =o)
    Edited By: linds3236 Nov 16th, 2011 at 12:29 PM
    Reason: thanks for the good wake up tune whoever bumped
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    Nov 16th, 2011 (11/16/2011 3:14pm) in reply to linds3236

    awesome
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    Nov 16th, 2011 (11/16/2011 3:38pm) in reply to gutbirdxx

    Nice work man. Very impressive.
     
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    Nov 16th, 2011 (11/16/2011 4:08pm) in reply to B_O_K_E

    nicely done Dave, enjoyed it!
     
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    Nov 16th, 2011 (11/16/2011 4:44pm) in reply to bigblacktruck

    well, here's a clear 'C' choice from the desert island scenario. very well played sir
  16. midmoguy midmoguy is offline

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    Nov 16th, 2011 (11/16/2011 4:59pm) in reply to Reech

    My mind is blown. That's really awesome. I've played guitar for years, and can't imagine ever being able to play that. Your guitar tone is incredible too.
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    Nov 16th, 2011 (11/16/2011 5:49pm) in reply to midmoguy

    Wow bro you're really good. Keep it up.
     
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    Nov 16th, 2011 (11/16/2011 6:00pm) in reply to supra1988t

    holy shit thats awesome man
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    Nov 17th, 2011 (11/17/2011 12:44pm) in reply to smokerock247

    Nice job. Wish I could finger pick like that.
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    Nov 17th, 2011 (11/17/2011 2:27pm) in reply to Resindog

    Sheeeiiiitttt... I could do that.

    (if I got a brain and finger transplant from doubledave22)

    Nice work. Very impressive.
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    Nov 17th, 2011 (11/17/2011 2:47pm) in reply to midmoguy

     
    Originally Posted by midmoguy View Post

    My mind is blown. That's really awesome.

    yep
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