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Nice @Barney ,
i thought you were going to fall asleep standing up,
Thanks for the bird show i really enjoyed the lesson,
Cheers Brian
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Ya, I get it, but what I like about the 50s100c is that all the info you need (until now) is there in a handy folder. If I have to go hunting for the track and the score I will go do my own cover instead. I am doing these songs (not ones I would normally do or want to do) because of the great organization and setup. But, if it gets more time consuming I think I will be just doing my own thing.
Might be a little thing, but is meaningful to me, and may put off others too.
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I transcribe the song on sound slice. Here it is. I probably do more and post them. I have many slices but not posted in my account. Hope this helps.
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I don’t know if this helps in any way @John_E but what I do is go into noteflight for the song I want to learn. Click on the maximize screen button
Then reduce the zoom function (top right) to about 110-120% until the whole songsheet fits on one screen without scrolling. Then grab a screen shot.
This allows me to get a feel for the whole song whilst I’m listening to it.
If @JT wants, I’m more than happy to do this for the remaining 43 songs and send it to him to include at the start of the thread.
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Well, this is a very easy song after all, and to other’s points, easy to memorize.
So I decided to make it a bit harder by trying out a pick.
The tone was just so much better for the song IMO.
First time I have ever used a pick on a cover, and struggle with muting and consistency of pluck.
Any advise would be helpful
Also first time I started & finished a song in one day.
Gretsch G5123B, tone rolled all the way up
Neck p’up 100%
Bridge p’up ~30%
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@John_E that is friggin’ awesome! You make that hollow body bass just sing the blues.
Standing, swaying, playing with a pick, looking at the camera. You’re a rockstar! (it says so on your shirt).
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I know you are trying to help and didn’t realize this, but the reason we haven’t put the PDFs in the start of each thread is because they are only supposed to be viewable to those on the course. You can’t access the Noteflight section of the site unless you have paid for the course, but anyone can access the forum. This is why we used Discord/Drive as it is less in your face. Similar reason we only put the backing tracks on Discord/Drive as they are copyrighted songs that we don’t have the right to distribute. Personally, I’d love it if we could put the PDFs and backing tracks on the threads for everyone to see and use regardless if they are taking the B2B course or not. I suspect 90% of the active people on this forum are taking the course anyway. I think for this sort of exercise the more the merrier. It would also make it easier to have everything in one place. It would be great to get @JoshFossgreen 's take on this. If he’s cool with it, I’m happy to do it. In the meantime, I’d leave your tab in your post until we get direction from Josh. I don’t think we need to hit a panic button or anything. Just be good to know how he wants to play this going forward. I also don’t know if it is possible as an alternative option to restrict this section of the forum to course purchasers only, or if that would be a good idea or not. I can see it being good pre-sales for people to see things like this exist.
Even if Josh wants to keep them relatively tucked away, then I’d take you up on your offer to do the others and we could put them in the Discord/Drive folder where the others are if @gcancella gives me editing rights or is happy to put them on there.
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Well done on this @BigAl @Barney and @John_E . It’s good to see everyone enjoying what seems to be the easiest song of the challenge so far. 
House of the Rising Sun was harder than I anticipated, so I’m giving that an extra week or so for me to do. I’m sure I can fit this one in relatively quickly after that.
Nice job John @John_E ,
The Gretsch fits really well with the song, nice tone and great mix,
And I forgot to mention the fine pick work😎
Cheers Brian
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For the non-course thing, if you announce where all the info is on discord how are you keeping them out? Seems to me all they have to do is read and click.
All I was suggesting above is to make the materials all organized and easy to get to to keep people motivated to continue the challenge. If I’ve got to figure out where to find the track (or pay for the track even), for figure out how not to pay for the track, split out the bass, find a tab outside of the Noteflight box (I often use my iPad with page turner on covers which needs a pdf) etc I may be apt to skip the song if I’m not really into playing it. Others may do the same.
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Completely agree with you. I’d love to have it how you suggest. Josh was comfortable with having the extra step to get the info as opposed to having it on the official forum. Happy to do whatever @JoshFossgreen is cool with.
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I posted the info in the folder for this song. I did my best to follow the lead set by @gcancella - any questions or problems, let me know.
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Hey @JT , thanks for the check in. For the sake of not giving away the course goods too easily, and to avoid copyright issues (of which there can be many), I think y’all should keep doing things how you have been - keep all the sneaky links a little more behind the scenes.
Normally I like to make things as frictionless as possible! But we have some limitations here that are outside my control, so trying to find a sweet spot where people can collaborate on resources for the challenge, but not create any bigger issues.
FWIW - I wish I could offer downloadable/PDF versions of the charts in the 50 Songs Pack! Not currently officially possible with the way the songs are licensed through Noteflight though.
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Here’s my recording of the song. Took about 30 minutes to record it and almost fell asleep playing it, but it was nice to have a simpler song to play. Also, it gave me time to work on audio/video syncing which I researched. I think this one should be closer on that front though I think it’s slightly off still, but at least that’s consistent through the entirety. I could have fixed it, but I’m swamped right now so just wanted to get this done.
BTW, the trick I learned is to merge the audio with the video without any cropping, then export the video, reimport the combined video and crop it, then re-export. Before I was having issues with the front and back of the song being different syncs, but I think this was because of cropping before combining. Anyway, this way works better for me now so doing this going forward.
Just recorded straight in without any effects or anything. Tone knob turned all the way down. Both pickups on max. I didn’t realize my right hand was off-screen, but didn’t want to re-record just for that.
I put on my best lonesome face…
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Sounding and looking good @JT
I’ve found the same issue when cropping video off my phone then importing into Resolve so now I just do it in resolve.
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You guys are moe better and dedicated than me. I just can’t do this song.
Zzzzzzz
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The only good thing about that song, it makes me think of the movie Zombieland. After hearing @JT play it, I popped my DVD of Zombieland into the player and watched it again. It’s the only way I could rinse that dreadfully boring song out of my head.
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Great movie! They came out with Zombieland 2, but the 1st one is much better in my opinion.
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