Again, more context... This was right after that last one, minus 6 minutes of me butchering Beck's "New Pollution." The point is, Chris got me started on the new musical path where everything should first be stripped down to the most open and basic forms. In his words: "This creates a vaccuum" This vaccuum or open space can then slowly be explored and built upon. This allows you a less cluttered environment to create from and allows ideas (notes/rythyms) to flow more freely as well. The end result is as always, yet to be determined... but the journey has begun, and much more to this adventure lies ahead.
Trying to make one cohesive jam out of some the ideas from part 1. Next video will probably be back on ukulele, or maybe a different random instrument jam. i have a fairly diverse collection of instruments which I barely know how to play, so this might end up going on for quite a while.
About 2 minutes after the initial warm up jam ended, we seem to have all been sucked back into a continuation of the breakdown/face melting guitar solo part of the song we had just played. So we just kinda explored that part for another 5 minutes or so. Cue the additional face melting guitar solo, and sloppy guy on bass trying to figure out how to play bass guitar again after having not played since February. As always, thanks for watching and all of the various ways that you all help to support this channel. Enjoy!
Hopefully this is the 1st of many such backyard jam sessions. I got a rare chance to jam with a very good friend on Thursday evening. This is just the opening jam from that session. There will be many more videos to follow. I also, got to jam with a different friend last night, so I have lots of footage already for episode #2 as well. Anyway... Chris is a very multitalented musician who has taught me that less is more. All the notes are telling their own story. We need to try and remember to "give them space" and let them each tell their own part of the story. Less is More!
I received this from my Grandma's estate after she passed. In her honor, the very first song I tried to play (after putting on some much needed new strings and tuning it AC#EAC#E) was "Amazing Grace". It somehow just felt right and was not really planned. Perhaps it was her way of saying "You're welcome, and thanks for taking good care of my guitar" Who knows? Anyway, as you have probably figured out by now, this is just a teaser video. I will make a video of an attempt to actually play that song soon, after I get a little bit of practice. Enjoy, and thank you as always for watching and for all of support! ❤??
P.S. It is actually an Epiphone Electar Century. Not Electra.
I stumbled onto this randomly, as per usual. Tuned down on the 2nd string to A. This accounted for the lower notes in the song, as well as made an easier 1 fret bar chord for the various chords in the song. As with every other upload here; this is very much a work in progress. I hope that there is enough here for all of you to find some enjoyment in listening. Thank you as always for watching/listening to my practice sessions.
This infamous tune was made even more so when a giant Samoan dude made an epic version of it on ukulele. Now the song has become the ukulele equivalent of being a skateboarder when random people yell "Do a kickflip!"
Somewhere over the rainbow, the kickflip of ukulele songs.
As a skateboarder myself, I refused to do kickflips when people would yell that... because there are so many other, cooler tricks, like heelflips. However, in the case of this song, it was really fun to explore the possibilities hidden within this relatively simple progression. I didn't practice any of this prior to recording it btw. Just hit record and let it flow. It may not be "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"... but it's certainly Something.