Posts Tagged ‘guitar’

friends, check. money, check…

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

more fun with mac recording… this time, trying out logic express 9 — it’s waaaaay more intense than garageband

i need to play around with it more, but i found a drum loop — it’s suuuper sloppy, but i gotta post it as an exercise. i can’t be a perfectionist right off the bat…

john mayer – something’s missing*

* this is another funky-tuned song… i think it’d be more fun to play on an electric, which i’ll try out next time

this one was recorded on garageband, while logic was installing (it’s a ridiculously gigantic program)

john mayer – love soon

i’m a sloppy guitarist

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messin’ with garageband

Sunday, December 12th, 2010

did a suuuper quick test with garageband ’09, which was pre-installed on my mac mini.

i gotta bug greg again about getting the brodie mics back… i’m sure they’ll sound a lot better than what i was using… yer gonna love this actually — it was rock band usb mic. yup. apparently, computers know that it’s a proper mic and it worked fine (enough)

basically had the mic on the stand pointed at my guitar. simple.

i didn’t do any real mixing or post-production on this so it’s pretty raw…

so here we go — “in your atmosphere,” which is actually a fun song to play — the tuning on it is odd tho: E-B-E-F#-B-e

go easy on me — i JUST learned how to play it yesterday… i need to clean up the harmonics and the hammer-ons a lot

john mayer – in your atmosphere

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guitar goal: neon – john mayer

Monday, December 6th, 2010

this song is crazy tough… not only is it an odd tuning (drop-C), but the finger positions and picking is crazy. if it was a rockband song, the guitar difficulty would be “devil”

i can half-ass this song, but i wanna get good at it…

here’s the guitar tab. maybe i’ll post my progress along the way… maybe.

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songs stuck in my head

Monday, August 30th, 2010

last weekend, i played a bonfire-at-the-beach set for friends… it was probably the longest i’ve played the guitar at one time in a loooong while… my fingertips were hatin’ me the next day

the playlist was pretty diverse — from weezer to dave matthews to roy orbison (yea… random)

anyways, these three songs stuck out from the night — they’re stuck in my head still… i gotta say, they’re pretty fun to play and they bring me back almost 10 years when i was first startin’ out on the guitar…

gonna try soundcloud for this — we’ll see how it works

Richard Marx – Now and Forever by gorirrajoe

Extreme – More Than Words by gorirrajoe

Mr. Big – To Be With You by gorirrajoe

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guitar: stay or leave

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

i love listening to dave matthews and tim reynolds — something about the purity of an acoustic duet that just makes me wanna pick up my guitar and play along

aptly named

aptly named

i used to know the whole ‘luther college’ set from start to end (ridiculous)… well they have a “new” album: live at radio city music hall (damn flash sites)… all i gotta say is tim’s amazing (not dorsey)

here’s my first attempt at playing “stay or leave” — yes, there are MANY mistakes… recorded this in bed slightly lying down… i just learned it today:

*recorded straight to laptop mic, cleaned up background hisses with adobe audition

i need to do this more often

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