What songs/pieces/ techniques are you all working on this week?

bloodandtears

Green Tinted Sixties Mind by Mr Big... first band airing this weekend..

Jimbro66

bloodandtears said:

Green Tinted Sixties Mind by Mr Big... first band airing this weekend..

That's a great number to cover. I love the vocal harmonies.

jasonbone75

Jimbro66 said:

bloodandtears said:

Green Tinted Sixties Mind by Mr Big... first band airing this weekend..

That's a great number to cover. I love the vocal harmonies.

Agreed! We've been doing this live for some years. Four out of the five of us sing so the harmonies sound great. We do a 4 part a cappella bit after the solo too.

stickyfiddle

Currently working out the (a?) Beat It solo without a whammy and probably no tapping. I have no plans to get it note for note but nailing the vibe with enough appropriately flashing-sounding twiddly bits. I have 7 weeks till the gig... 

digitalkettle

Petepassion said:

Only just written this tonight, so a bit ropey...cliché love song.
https://youtu.be/V1qk8bUkqqo?si=5qkNFWT4S8BRR9gC
Maybe the band will give it a bit of a Raconteurs vibe, or they may just say piss off with yer soppy love songs...they normally do

Well, I think that deserves a wow @Petepassion ;

Jimbro66

jasonbone75 said:

Jimbro66 said:

bloodandtears said:

Green Tinted Sixties Mind by Mr Big... first band airing this weekend..

That's a great number to cover. I love the vocal harmonies.

Agreed! We've been doing this live for some years. Four out of the five of us sing so the harmonies sound great. We do a 4 part a cappella bit after the solo too.

Ah, that's brilliant!

Supportact

Leo Brouwer Etude no. 5 - just started it, I'm working through them all in order. Enjoying it but no. 3's a bit of a nightmare. 

Also learning some original songs on acoustic for recording later on in the year. Mostly fairly straightforward but just trying to get them all up to a good level.

axisus

Jimbro66 said:

@axisus you do yourself an injustice. You've set the bar fairly high so anyone who was rubbish wouldn't get anywhere at all with those songs. It seems like you just need to persevere with them. For getting the fast runs in your head, slowdowner software is your friend.

As mentioned, I've been struggling with them for years!

bloodandtears

Jimbro66 said:

bloodandtears said:

Green Tinted Sixties Mind by Mr Big... first band airing this weekend..

That's a great number to cover. I love the vocal harmonies.

Yeah, I think we'll come unstuck at the vocal harmonies, only 3 of us in the band, and only one can truly sing.. but we'll have a go..

Jimbro66

Supportact said:

Leo Brouwer Etude no. 5 - just started it, I'm working through them all in order. Enjoying it but no. 3's a bit of a nightmare. 

Also learning some original songs on acoustic for recording later on in the year. Mostly fairly straightforward but just trying to get them all up to a good level.

I just listened to 1 - 20. Hats off to any player who can make it all the way through and play to performance standard. Yes, No 3 clearly does keep both hands very busy   

digitalkettle

Jimbro66 said:

Supportact said:

Leo Brouwer Etude no. 5 - just started it, I'm working through them all in order. Enjoying it but no. 3's a bit of a nightmare. 
...

I just listened to 1 - 20. Hats off to any player who can make it all the way through and play to performance standard. Yes, No 3 clearly does keep both hands very busy   

Hats off to anyone who can listen all the way through!

Although #6 gets a pass:

Supportact

Jimbro66 said:

Supportact said:

Leo Brouwer Etude no. 5 - just started it, I'm working through them all in order. Enjoying it but no. 3's a bit of a nightmare. 

Also learning some original songs on acoustic for recording later on in the year. Mostly fairly straightforward but just trying to get them all up to a good level.

I just listened to 1 - 20. Hats off to any player who can make it all the way through and play to performance standard. Yes, No 3 clearly does keep both hands very busy   

Yes I think part of the problem with 3 is it just sounds wrong when played slowly. I've got it to the stage where I can get through it, but still not as fast as it should be. I really like nos. 2 and 4, they are quite enjoyable to play. 

Supportact

digitalkettle said:

Jimbro66 said:

Supportact said:

Leo Brouwer Etude no. 5 - just started it, I'm working through them all in order. Enjoying it but no. 3's a bit of a nightmare. 
...

I just listened to 1 - 20. Hats off to any player who can make it all the way through and play to performance standard. Yes, No 3 clearly does keep both hands very busy   

Hats off to anyone who can listen all the way through!

Although #6 gets a pass:

I had no idea about this at all! How bizarre. Every day's a school day... 

Bit of a spoiler though, I've not got to that one yet! 

JonnyBgoode

digitalkettle said:Hats off to anyone who can listen all the way through!

Although #6 gets a pass:

6 was the only one of that collection that grabbed me.  Not played like that (Ozzy) though!

As for the OP question, I started looking at Tommy Emmanuel's Angelina.  Not sure I have the patience/time these days  to work it all out though.

Petepassion

@ Digitalkettle and Jimbro66
Thanks, very kind

digitalkettle

Supportact said:

digitalkettle said:

Jimbro66 said:

Supportact said:

Leo Brouwer Etude no. 5 - just started it, I'm working through them all in order. Enjoying it but no. 3's a bit of a nightmare. 
...

I just listened to 1 - 20. Hats off to any player who can make it all the way through and play to performance standard. Yes, No 3 clearly does keep both hands very busy   

Hats off to anyone who can listen all the way through!

Although #6 gets a pass:
...

I had no idea about this at all! How bizarre. Every day's a school day... 

Bit of a spoiler though, I've not got to that one yet! 

Oh no...I feel bad now...#6 is about as nice as an etude can be!

I recently dusted off my classical and started working on Antonio Lauro pieces...currently 'Works for Guitar Vol. 7' (so that's Nelly, Ana Florencia, and Petronila).

Tannin

I'm mostly working on two things. One is a long-standing theme in F# dominant Phrygian, morphing into B mixolydian and back. I've been playing that for perhaps a couple of years but it's really come on lately and I'm finding interesting new things to do with it. 

The other is a new departure for me, a piece in Dm. Now I have always hated playing in F major (= D minor - same thing) and never seen any reason why I should employ that awkward key when there are plenty of other perfectly good keys to use. But this new thing in D minor, only a couple of months old so far, is really starting to take wing and I'm getting a bit excited about it. Little by little I'm discovering little tricks that work in that key and my life-long dislike for it is morphing into a newfound liking. Love? Much too early to say that. But there is a spark there.

Supportact

digitalkettle said:

Supportact said:

digitalkettle said:

Jimbro66 said:

Supportact said:

Leo Brouwer Etude no. 5 - just started it, I'm working through them all in order. Enjoying it but no. 3's a bit of a nightmare. 
...

I just listened to 1 - 20. Hats off to any player who can make it all the way through and play to performance standard. Yes, No 3 clearly does keep both hands very busy   

Hats off to anyone who can listen all the way through!

Although #6 gets a pass:
...

I had no idea about this at all! How bizarre. Every day's a school day... 

Bit of a spoiler though, I've not got to that one yet! 

Oh no...I feel bad now...#6 is about as nice as an etude can be!

I recently dusted off my classical and started working on Antonio Lauro pieces...currently 'Works for Guitar Vol. 7' (so that's Nelly, Ana Florencia, and Petronila).

That's ok I was just joking. I had to look up Antonio Lauro but those are some nice pieces, I will listen to some more on YouTube. 

digitalkettle

Supportact said:

digitalkettle said:

Supportact said:

digitalkettle said:

Jimbro66 said:

Supportact said:

Leo Brouwer Etude no. 5 - just started it, I'm working through them all in order. Enjoying it but no. 3's a bit of a nightmare. 
...

I just listened to 1 - 20. Hats off to any player who can make it all the way through and play to performance standard. Yes, No 3 clearly does keep both hands very busy   

Hats off to anyone who can listen all the way through!

Although #6 gets a pass:
...

I had no idea about this at all! How bizarre. Every day's a school day... 

Bit of a spoiler though, I've not got to that one yet! 

Oh no...I feel bad now...#6 is about as nice as an etude can be!

I recently dusted off my classical and started working on Antonio Lauro pieces...currently 'Works for Guitar Vol. 7' (so that's Nelly, Ana Florencia, and Petronila).

That's ok I was just joking. I had to look up Antonio Lauro but those are some nice pieces, I will listen to some more on YouTube. 

Cool...here are a couple of highlights:

Vals Venezolano No. 3 'Natalia'


Suite Venezolana...which is just an incredible thing:

axisus

As it happens I have also been learning an Etude - that one by the Beatles:

Etude, don't make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better ...