so i cap off the weekend by picking up the guitar and playin’ a bit…
i’ve been meaning to record some random stuff i play just for posterity i guess… and to listen to it later and say, “damn.. that was terrible”
so i basically just had the laptop right next to me, recording on the built-in mic (yep — it’s super high production), then used adobe audition to take out the weird hisssssss in the background — for some odd reason, the recording would skip a half a second sometimes… i probably shouldn’t be running memory hogs (photoshop, firefox) in the background while i do it next time
so we start with some covers, as i’m wont to do:
sparks (coldplay) – fairly easy/fun to play (capo – 6th, drop d for the high e string) [ tab ]
sparks (coldplay)you are the best thing (ray lamontagne) – i heard an acoustic version on xm the other day and it was awesome… i don’t play it the same way he does, which kinda irks me — he definitely plays it drop-d. now if only i had a old-black-dood-smokey voice like him [ tab ]
and here’s the cool little jam i’m messin’ with:
jam – i need to loop this and then put a cool electric solo on top of it… make it all sexy
for the newbies, what does “drop the d”mean?
deuce. drop the deuce.
its when you play the guitar in the bathroom…
kinda like a blumpkin, but for guitar players.
actually…
it’s when you tune down the high-e (1st string) to d
it’s so it doesn’t sound so high pitched when strumming
Ihate any song that requires me to have a roadie