Here’s My take on Hank Williams, I’m so lonesome I could Cry.
3/4 time signature. Happy Flag Day:us_outlying_islands:. I like to record myself with bass Audio high so I can hear it and hear my mistakes 
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Great job @BigAl .
Having just listened to this song on youtube, the bass is so low that I don’t think it really needs to be removed. Literally, I can hardly hear it as is. If I hadn’t listened to @BigAl 's version first, I wouldn’t have any idea what the bass line is for this song…
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Thanks, I record with my bass backing track high so I can hear it.
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I’m with ya. It’s a bass cover. Let’s hear the bass.
I posted an attempt at a “bassless” version on the discord (I can’t directly add it to the gdrive). But like I said, I think you could just record over the original (especially if your bass is up a little in the mix) without any problem…
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and where is the PDF?
Sorry to be a pest, but is there a way to make the noteflight into a PDF?
Happy to do it if there is a way but I don’t see it.
I think these need to be packaged up nicely for folks otherwise some will drop off if too many steps in the way.
Understand @gcancella is swamped, is there another way to package these like they were for the first 7?
Again, afraid we will lose steam (and people) if we make this harder.
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The opening line is “ Hear that lonesome whippoorwill, He sounds too blue to fly.”
What is a whippoorwill? I didn’t know until I got on the googler. Don’t know either? Well watch the video to find out.
Nice to have a simple one to do.
Cheers Amigos
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yRJfzFbSu58
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HA! I thought it was a tree!
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Great playing both @Barney @BigAl !
I think this tune has a lot of room to hear the bass regardless.
Funny its not prominent on the original.
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Nice job @BigAl ,
It’s that type of song that could put one to sleep
I even think your dog got bored and left the room,
Cheers Brian
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There are 5 notes in it E B F# G# A,
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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