February 2018 - Embraceable You

**ragman1** · 02-09-2018, 01:30 PM

I'm going to cut a big hole in my guitar and see what happens :-)

**kris** · 02-09-2018, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by ragman1

I'm going to cut a big hole in my guitar and see what happens :-)

I hope you will be play like Tim on guitar with a big hole...:-)
bigger hole-better playing

**Gramps** · 02-09-2018, 02:11 PM

Originally Posted by kris

I hope you will be play like Tim on guitar with a big hole...:-)
bigger hole-better playing

Yes, that's all it takes. I'm getting out my pocket knife now.

**pkirk** · 02-10-2018, 12:05 PM

great tune. Here's my take. It's bit sloppy, but maybe you can hear what I'm trying for. I kept it short.

**joe2758** · 02-10-2018, 12:16 PM

Great Pkirk! any “sloppyness” can be excused for all that energy and spontaneity. Loved it

**Vladan** · 02-10-2018, 04:26 PM

I played a bit with this, goes nicely over Donna Lee kind of progression ...

G E A A
Am D G Dm G
C Cm G (Bm) E
A A Am D ...

... add extensions at will ...

**lawson-stone** · 02-10-2018, 05:11 PM

Here's my effort just at the tune itself.

**Hatim** · 02-11-2018, 11:19 AM

That is really great Lawson-stone!
Thanks.

Hans

**Hatim** · 02-11-2018, 04:44 PM

This is my take.
First time without a backing track.
First time on a classical guitar.
That is a heck of a neck to put my thump around, like I am used to.

Hans

**ragman1** · 02-12-2018, 01:59 PM

I think there's an idea there but the problem is that it's a session rather than a performance. I'm not keen on the fairly wide delay effect, personally, although it could be ironed out. I'd prefer to see some sort of a finished article before passing sentence :-)

**Vladan** · 02-12-2018, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by pkirk

A different approach. This one is really long, and not for the squeamish or purist, but scroll to 12:30 if you just want to hear the final theme.

I find the whole take really refreshing, especially in context of "improvise by numbers" approach, so usual for Jazz wannabes. I mean, it's not like something similar was never done before, it's almost a genre, but still, although improvised all the way, thanking to being aware of what the other guy and machinery are playing, it sounded like very serious statement. 17 minutes went by like this ...

**kris** · 02-13-2018, 07:23 AM

sorry...
I have not time to hear any of new takes.
I am working on new Cd till 10 of march and I have to concentrate on my new things.
All The Best
Kris

**ragman1** · 02-13-2018, 01:47 PM

Anyone heard this one? Quality's (original) not that great unfortunately.

**gggomez** · 02-13-2018, 05:32 PM

ragman thank you for your explanation, have just been so busy the last week have not been able to get to it. I really appreciate the time you put in and will go through it in detail.

**ragman1** · 02-14-2018, 01:12 AM

Originally Posted by gggomez

ragman thank you for your explanation, have just been so busy the last week have not been able to get to it. I really appreciate the time you put in and will go through it in detail.

I wouldn't make too much of it, there's a danger in over-simplification. It might help a bit when organising a solo, that's all. Beware explanations as a substitute for experience.

Knowing that there are only two kinds of letters, vowels and consonants, won't help anyone write their novel :-)

**wizard3739** · 02-15-2018, 06:05 PM

This is my submittal for now, I hope I have time to do another one sometime later. This came from an old version of Colleen (my wife) and I getting ready for a gig in a local club. I apologize for the poor quality of the sound, my home studio needed some serious help at that time.

wiz (Howie)

https://app.box.com/shared/8z4zn2dmv5

**ragman1** · 02-15-2018, 06:32 PM

Your wife can sing, can't she? Excellent :-)

**matt.guitarteacher** · 02-16-2018, 11:11 AM

So many great takes. What a great tune. Thanks all.

**pkirk** · 02-17-2018, 12:42 AM

Originally Posted by wizard3739

This is my submittal for now, I hope I have time to do another one sometime later. This came from an old version of Colleen (my wife) and I getting ready for a gig in a local club. I apologize for the poor quality of the sound, my home studio needed some serious help at that time.

wiz (Howie)

https://app.box.com/shared/8z4zn2dmv5

Nice Howie

**lawson-stone** · 02-17-2018, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by ragman1

Thank you, lawson. It's only cos I spared you a video :-)

Naw, I'd love to see a video. Your playing is worth hearing on its own, but a video helps hacks like me see how you are doing some of these things. But the playing is very fine, I enjoy it.

**ragman1** · 02-17-2018, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by lawson-stone

Naw, I'd love to see a video. Your playing is worth hearing on its own, but a video helps hacks like me see how you are doing some of these things. But the playing is very fine, I enjoy it.

Oh, I've done one and got rid of it. Do I have to? It's honestly not that difficult. But I don't know if I could repeat it, that's the main difficulty. I can't remember what I did!

**lawson-stone** · 02-17-2018, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by ragman1

Oh, I've done one and got rid of it. Do I have to? It's honestly not that difficult. But I don't know if I could repeat it, that's the main difficulty. I can't remember what I did!

No problem, really. You put the playing up there for us to hear, that's enough. On this forum there are players and there are talkers. You're definitely one of the players, if I may say so, and that counts a lot.

**lawson-stone** · 02-19-2018, 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by ragman1

Well, do want this then? It's not chord melody but I like it, there are some nice sounds in there. Lousy quality, nice sounds. And it keeps me off the street

The strangest thing just happened. It's early afternoon here, a bright sunny day. While your clip was playing, suddenly, all the lights in my very large (400 sq. ft.) office dimmed almost to darkness. Then out of nowhere, came the sound of.... glasses, lightly clinking together, and ... silverware softly tapping on plates, the low murmur of conversation... then

.. then it was over. I looked up, the lights were normal, my desk was its usual clutter... and it was all a dream...