My first Rocktober song! Blackbird by The Beatles

Songs
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I still consider myself a beginner on guitar. And I have a bit of a stuffy nose tonight. Thank you for the chance to pick up my guitar after a couple months away. :heart: I love this idea! I have a bunch of songs I like to sing and play guitar to, so this will be a fun outlet.

https://1drv.ms/u/c/7970ddd64e3846f9/EffJW4PgaIJGueFH_K6ty0QBD0kCpOlkDCjTxWaVBYw50A

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Great Beatles song…and you have done very well given your stuffy nose. You have made the song your own and the guitar work is just fine…and the singing is very warm and controlled…well done!

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Thank you!!! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: My first reply. :heart:

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Lovely cover! This a beautiful song and you did great justice to it!

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Your voice is lovely! I like how your strumming allows me to hear the chord progression - I learned a fingerpicked version over 40 years ago and never got around to learning the chords.

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I really like your version - the slower tempo, gentle guitar and lovely vocals works very well.

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Voice sounds good - and I like that you dug down into the chords behind Paul’s showy picking line :slight_smile: Nice work!

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Great song, well done.

As far as where you are on guitar - some of the best renditions are quarter note, on beat, rung out (sustained) strums where the vocals carry it and the chords and melody note of that chord back/fill it in. I like to think that’s why the acoustic and human voice, arguably are in the same Hz range (mix).

So, often what one finds concerning “levels” of “guitar” is - they wind up circling back to a beginning point. I never had to many good mentors, but I did have a few. In my to young to legally be working period, but did anyway - in old dive-bars in the kitchen, the old jazz musicians would put a guitar in my hands and say “don’t worry about the music, just play the guitar”, play the instrument, not the music if makes sense.

So, maybe I comment to far here, but, a good track is a good track and to find your own “style” is far better (imo) than taking on someone else.

You’re doing fine.

  • People will “want” to hear you, - confidence and presence is as well part of any of this. Some sell it as “stage craft” lol!, it’s just accurately placed confidence which provides the presence. These phone recordings are a great place to be - you can’t make a common mistake of burying your voice in to much reverb and gimmicks, which does not help, and your’s does not need it (none do lol!).
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Strumming the chords really brings something new out in the song for me. As does your awesome vocal interpretation (stuffy noses be damned). This is a genuinely lovely version of a beautiful song. (Ps. Have been meaning to put up a version of this too at some stage, hope that’s ok :pray:). Well done!

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Great vocal. The guitar is fine. I enjoyed listening to this version.

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Beautifully unhurried. I like your humming through the whistled parts in the original. You have turned this into a lovely lulllaby!

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Thank you so much for all the encouragement