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The uke is now fully decorated. With red spay paint and black and silver acrylic markers and a thin layer of varnish. I hope it won’t dampen the sound.
I ordered a wooden fretboard and am still waiting for the postman to bring me a wooden bridge, this one is plastic. So was the fretboard included in the kit. Don’t know if it makes a world of difference in sound but it just looks better.P.s. most often, but not always, the top note is the melody note.
If it doesn’t sound too empty, just leave the b out.
I see in you vids that you got good ears, so you can also just use the ears to find a nice second voice note that could fit, rather then dig into harmony books.
That might go faster and is more creative.Rickey, maybe if you give us a bit more info of in what context the two notes g and b are so we might be able to help you.
If the harmonic situation is Em you could play e-note,
but it could just as well be G major, so the d-note is missing,
or B aug so d#-note is missing,
or C#07 so the c# and b-flat are missing,
or C#ø7 so the c# and b-notes are missing
etc etc. but which of all of this is hard to tell without the rest.
Give us more info. 🙂
If you want the song to be a surprise to us all feel free to p.m. me.
I understand a bit if harmony because I play the piano.
Friendly regards, J.J.Olé! Already having fun with la Gitanita.
What finger is on the downbeat? Middle or index?
Or are the no rules for that?
Is this the same like how el. bass players play?
How do you spell this technique, piccato piccado?
And the strumming, rasgiado or rasgado?
Looking forward to the strumming book b.t.w. 🙂Nice! Thank you for inspiration! I started half way, now I will continue. Well played and very emotional.
Lots of Artists have made there own version of the song like Alicia Keys, so any arrangement if done well to me is welcome.
Great! I suddenly hear a connection between die Winterreise by Schubert and Rammstein! Nice playing and singing Robin.
Nice sound your guitalele! And nice playing, very melancholic.
Doesn’t sound cheap at all!
Looking forward to your Blackbird version.
That was a nice sneak peek. 🙂Hey Rickeydearmike,
They are both in G. But he is singing very soft, intimate and whispery in the studio and with more strenght and louder voice on the huge stage.
Looks like Paul is a bit older in the live video. The sound of his voice might have changed. Also the general equalization of the live version has more highs so it feels a bit in a different key.Anyway must be scary to be just you and your guitar all alone in front of such a large audience full of expectations, even after decades of experience.
So far I will stick to my orange couch, just me and my uke.Maybe Paul asked another guitarist to play the guitar in studio :).
Or he did the guitar and vocal part in two separate takes because it might be too hard to do simultaneously like we learned in ‘Getting Together’. 🙂
In the last case If you are planning to sing along I would go for the second version.
Are you going to play it in in the original key? Or a 4th up?
I personally would choose to rewrite it so it gets at least close to the original key.
I understood the lowest string of a guitalele is an A. So you could play the song a tone higher so the ‘drone’ will be an A (your lowest string) and rewrite the arrangement. Or tune your guitalele a tone down (or only the A string to G) so you have the humming G bass pedal note.
Cool that you practice guitalele. I am planning on getting one maybe in about two years after I reached a satisfying level on the ukulele.
Which brand do you have?
Please share a vid when you mastered Blackbird. 🙂