Always get excited when I see a @Barney cover pop up.
This looks really hard! And you did great.
My feedback is that the chorus runs sound a bit robotic vs the original, I think he played them not as “straight” as you did. There’s a bit of a groove missing.
Hope this makes sense.
Don’t get me wrong though, you did great. I don’t do these super fast tunes at all.
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Yeah @John_E / @howard I’m pretty much at the edge of my current ability with this song. I definitely have no extra bandwidth to do anything except try and stay in time and hit the notes. But we do improve by stretching ourselves a little bit I feel.
It’ll be interesting to revisit this in a few years time and see how it feels. I now know from working my way through this album that John McVie is a kick ass bassist.
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Hey thanks @John_E ! Thank God those riffs are quite short - the verse sections are a real relief 
I’m not sure what I’m actually messing up on but I think its the eighth notes at the end of the first measure -
1 2 (3 & 4 &) : 1 2 (3 & 4)
it’s hard to practise them on the metronome because they’re so fast… Still, something to work on
Thanks @Ant ! That’s the spirit 
Hey @mediaklan the song demands a pick. Anyway picks rule fingers drool. 
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PREACH
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fair enough
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I commend you on always pushing yourself further. It reminds the rest of us to keep doing the same!
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Nice to see you back at it @Ed! That sounded so fun I had to try to play along, nicely done. This song reminds me of The Walking Dead.
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Once again, I’m behind in the Post your Covers thread, so all I can say is kudos to all that made the effort. I’ll try to go through and listen to each of them when I get a chance.
- Pam
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Thanks It’s worth persevering with - great fun to play !
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Today I bring some love to the cover thread with Barry White’s Love’s Theme 
. Actually I originally intended to record a short fragment for the missis for Valentine’s Day, but thought I might try the while song and put it on youtube. I may be able to get her to try the flute part …
The bass part is pretty minimal, not surprising really, considering it’s part of the 40-piece Love Unlimited Orchestra . No effects needed, although with hindsight, I may be tempted to cut some of the bass with an EQ.
The keen-eyed among you will probably notice that the T-bird is strung as ADGC. I originally did this to try some Bach pieces but it actually works really well with Manowar, and I suppose any track where you don’t need the bottom 5 frets. It’s actually really friendly to play - the strings feel a lot lighter. The only problem was that I had to buy a 6-string pack and I’ve got 2 spares (E and B)
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Very nice as always @Barney 
that is some pro level production!
How do you capture videos by the way? You have a couple of clips of Fleetwood mac in there?
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Hot damn @Ed that was beautifully perfect!
Wowowowowow!
Pure gold!
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I cannot keep up with all these covers. Hopefully I’ll get caught up on listening this weekend.
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@ed excellent job and selection.
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My first recorded cover!
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You by Muse
Bass: Yamaha TRBX604
DAI: Behringer UMC202HD
DAW: Ardour
Bass removal: Deezer’s Spleeter
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17WljhmDxhw9ZOjRKbjaPpkmlOeYstBCF/view?usp=sharing
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You are going to need to take off the “request access” but so we can get to it please.
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Sorry about that. Should be fixed now.
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Great job @Ed ! Man, that song brought back some old memories! Thanks for that!
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Great job @eccentric_professor ! I’m not familiar with that rendition of the song, but it sounds great!
Hey @Ed I liked that a lot. Barry White is on my job site playlist numerous times. Really nice tone/mix.
How do I make videos? I put my Iphone on a little tripod on my desk, I record the video on that, I also record me playing in GarageBand at the same time (my DAW).
I create a separate folder for each cover and pull the various files I need into that. So I drag in my Iphone video file, my GarageBand finished mix track, plus any video or still images I want to use.
To grab video I want to use from YouTube I use this:
Copy and paste the appropriate URL of the video you want and choose MP4 to get the video file. If you choose MP3 you get a copy of the audio of the video.
I drag this MP4 file into my covers folder. I now have all the parts I need to make the video. I use Imovie for this. I drag into the timeline my audio track and original video and sync the two up manually. It’s a pain but I’m getting quicker.
Once I’ve done that I drag the other video into the timeline above my video. I then splice that video up into short parts that I think are interesting. I delete most of this video ending up with fragments of the stuff I want. Then drag them around to the point in the song i want.
Once I’m happy I export the movie from Imovie and upload to youTube.
For the Blinding Lights cover I used a lot more of the video I’d downloaded because there’s really not much going on bass playing wise plus I really thought it fitted the song really well. I guess there are no rules. Just have fun.
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