I've been jamming on Facebook every Sunday for the last few weeks, so here are some highlights. I'll be continuing with friends over live links if I can get it working properly over the coming weeks.
The facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/lockdownjams/ if you'd like to join over there to be told when I'm going live. I'll probably try a live on YouTube too, but for now my friends are on Facebook mostly so that's where it is right now.
Apologies for the freezes in the video, there was a problem with live frame rates on my initial tests as the CPU couldn't encode quick enough and/or the available bandwidth was intermittent. This was fixed by the electric guitar sessions by reducing encoding quality and setting up a better wired internet connection.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv9iSNolaB8
I recently got this 12 string guitar, so what better than a classic Beatles track to test it with?
Gigsand Busking noted in my previous version that I was playing the wrong chord in the chorus, so here's the new version.
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Latest video: "The River - Bruce Springsteen (Guitar Hammond Cover)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHWh7d4Oq4s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsSq5Cpo0w
I haven't done a French song so far, so here's an Englishman in Paris singing a French one for you. This is a classic track from Francis Cabrel whose title translates as "I love her to death" or "I'll love her forever" depending on how literal your translation is.
Something happened to the guitar track near the start, like dropouts... sorry about that.
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Latest video: "The River - Bruce Springsteen (Guitar Hammond Cover)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHWh7d4Oq4s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWJN50iYzCs
Came back from a trip to England with a Roland A-88 and an M-Audio Axiom 61 thanks to Dad's upgrade to a Hammond style MIDI controller. Here's a test run with a great early Billy Joel number, using sounds from Native Instruments (The Grandeur piano and their basic Factory Selection for the synth).
Summer, Highland Falls is a track Billy Joel often played live, especially in the late 70s and early 80s. It was taken from his album "Turnstiles" released in 1976. It also appears, perhaps more notably, in the collection "Songs in the Attic" from 1981 which is a compilation of the best of Billy's early material played live.
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Latest video: "The River - Bruce Springsteen (Guitar Hammond Cover)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHWh7d4Oq4s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVCd9wtQXq8
The last big hit for Elvis Presley in 1972 - not counting posthumous charts - Burning Love is a great early 70s rock 'n roll number. Kevin (the singer here) used to do this number when we did karaoke back in the early 90s. It was fantastic to get a band together from worldjam.vip to perform this live streamed to YouTube, Twitch and Facebook in World Jam 33.
Audio has been lightly reprocessed but this is otherwise the performance as-was live.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcRSL1_Ak_8
Another of the tracks from my formative years, from the talented Neil Finn and his band Crowded House. Audio post-processed with EQ, reverb, a little guitar effect and some mastering gloss. Video post-processed with iMovie.
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Latest video: "The River - Bruce Springsteen (Guitar Hammond Cover)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHWh7d4Oq4s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VDnYfkoIM0
I heard this tune done recently on @alisontrelfa 's channel, or perhaps on her Facebook page. Anyway... I had the 7" single of this back in the day, having enjoyed the soundtrack of the Dudley Moore film "Arthur" very much. Arthur's Theme (The Best that You Can Do) was a hit for Christopher Cross in the wake of the film.
So here's my piano solo version as played on Native Instruments' The Grandeur, on my Roland A-88 keyboard. Hope you this cover version.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unRclcbPXHc
This is the track that followed Linger on side B of the début album "Everyone Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". RIP Dolores O'Riordan.
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Latest video: "The River - Bruce Springsteen (Guitar Hammond Cover)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHWh7d4Oq4s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUbXitPmUYA
Classic track from back in 1991 by James, their first big hit and possibly the best early 90s single to not make number one. Amazingly this used to play in clubs and people would sit down on the dance floor.
Thanks to Tip for the suggestion. Each part recorded live (instrument plus vocal) in two or three takes, to keep some spontaneity. Video synced and edited with Adobe Premiere Elements 11.
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Latest video: "The River - Bruce Springsteen (Guitar Hammond Cover)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHWh7d4Oq4s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezk_PhhNKz4