[Cloodie]

I've seen the tab posted on here for an acoustic version of Hey Joe (think it may have been Dadfad) but I can't play anything unless I've heard it first. Does anyone have a link to a soundfile or mp3 version of it?

[dadfad]

I can make you one and put it on SoundClick. It might not be perfectly note for note to my tab (I play everything improv and it's rarely exactly identical), but it would be very similar using similar figures and riffs, etc. Would that help?

[KaZu]

I can make you one and put it on SoundClick. It might not be note for note to my tab (I play everything improv and it's rarely exactly identical), but it would be very similar using similar figures and riffs, etc. Would that help?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes, I would appreciate it.

[dadfad]

No problem. I'll do it in a few hours (I'm at work, I don't want to set a bad example for my employees by being a fuk-off! ). Actually it'll be about three hours and forty-five minutes (plus playing and transfer time)! Had I seen this earlier I would've done it during lunch. I was just sitting here playing anyway.

(That'll be without vocals. I'm having very little luck getting anything approaching human-vocals using Audacity with a mic. A Taylor I keep on the wall here in my office has on-board electronics which work with the program fairly well.)

[dadfad]

Okay, here it is. It was quick, it was unrehearsed and not my guitar-of-choice for fingerstyle (my list of excuses for mediocrity! ), but hopefully that'll give you an idea what I was going for in the tab.

[Cloodie]

No problem. I'll do it in a few hours (I'm at work, I don't want to set a bad example for my employees by being a fuk-off! ). Actually it'll be about three hours and forty-five minutes (plus playing and transfer time)! Had I seen this earlier I would've done it during lunch. I was just sitting here playing anyway.

(That'll be without vocals. I'm having very little luck getting anything approaching human-vocals using Audacity with a mic. A Taylor I keep on the wall here in my office has on-board electronics which work with the program fairly well.)

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Excellent. Thanks for that.

[dadfad]

No problem. I hope it helps.

[halfmoonbay]

Just given it a quick listen myself , very good.

[flamingIbenez]

Wow, thats some mighty fine picking and strumming there DADFAD . thanx for the lesson

[dadfad]

Thanks guys!

And FlamingIbanez, welcome to GTU.

[halfmoonbay]

I'll have a play with that tab of yours later. I'm working on my fingerpicking quite a bit at the momet.

[dadfad]

I didn't play it exactly to my own tab, but I used the same techniques, etc. It's really not that difficult and those simple hammers, etc really go a long way to give the tune a nice old-timey feel and "texture." It can be fingerstyled, frailed or even flat-picked with very similar results.


And though a very different genre and style, they're use is related to several old country-blues tunes, like Rev. Gary Davis' "Sally Where'd You Get Your Liquor" and "Deliah," Tommy Johnson's "Canned Heat Blues," etc, etc.

[grzegorz_panek]

That's very nice. Good to see your soundclick is growing, John!

[dadfad]

Thanks, Grzeg. That Audacity program is nice and simple for a computer-illiterate like me, but it has its draw-backs. Using a mic sounds pretty bad (kind of Darth Vader-ish or something!) and so vocals (my vocals are bad anyway!) or mic'ing guitars that I normally prefer for fingerstyle don't work well. Another thing I noticed is that it seems to "clip" the sound of the guitar sort of. For example, I've recorded an arrangement of Blind Blake's "Police Dog Blues" that I want to also tab, etc into sort of a tab+sound lesson. It sounds okay I guess, but it doesn't quite "roll" (for lack of a better word) like it should. The little sound-nuances that sort of flow from one note or chord into another when played "live" are sort of "clipped" someway. For example some nice rolling slid chords or double-stops, etc come out as two distinct sounds, omitting the "flow" between the two. Things like that which make it seem slightly "choppy." Still, it's a nice easy program to work with (and you can't beat the price!).

[grzegorz_panek]

Thanks, Grzeg. That Audacity program is nice and simple for a computer-illiterate like me, but it has its draw-backs. Using a mic sounds pretty bad (kind of Darth Vader-ish or something!) and so vocals (my vocals are bad anyway!) or mic'ing guitars that I normally prefer for fingerstyle don't work well. Another thing I noticed is that it seems to "clip" the sound of the guitar sort of. For example, I've recorded an arrangement of Blind Blake's "Police Dog Blues" that I want to also tab, etc into sort of a tab+sound lesson. It sounds okay I guess, but it doesn't quite "roll" (for lack of a better word) like it should. The little sound-nuances that sort of flow from one note or chord into another when played "live" are sort of "clipped" someway. For example some nice rolling slid chords or double-stops, etc come out as two distinct sounds, omitting the "flow" between the two. Things like that which make it seem slightly "choppy." Still, it's a nice easy program to work with (and you can't beat the price!).

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Audacity is a nice little free program. But if you have a chance to get cool edit pro, it's better. I use it again. I mean I will when I get more time. The big advantage of cool edit are different filters that can eliminate all mic hissing and unwanted sounds. It has also very interesting delay, reverb, flanger, echo effects. All these things are quite useful for acoustic players.

Audacity does different things to the timing. Once I made a test, I made a drum loop with a little drum program and tried to record it. Originally it had to be even, because it was a precise machine. When I recorded it I could hear that it's not even, it was a matter of small fractions of a second, but it was out at places.

When running audacity, it's better to shut all the other programs runing.

[dadfad]

Thanks, Grzeg. That Audacity program is nice and simple for a computer-illiterate like me, but it has its draw-backs. Using a mic sounds pretty bad (kind of Darth Vader-ish or something!) and so vocals (my vocals are bad anyway!) or mic'ing guitars that I normally prefer for fingerstyle don't work well. Another thing I noticed is that it seems to "clip" the sound of the guitar sort of. For example, I've recorded an arrangement of Blind Blake's "Police Dog Blues" that I want to also tab, etc into sort of a tab+sound lesson. It sounds okay I guess, but it doesn't quite "roll" (for lack of a better word) like it should. The little sound-nuances that sort of flow from one note or chord into another when played "live" are sort of "clipped" someway. For example some nice rolling slid chords or double-stops, etc come out as two distinct sounds, omitting the "flow" between the two. Things like that which make it seem slightly "choppy." Still, it's a nice easy program to work with (and you can't beat the price!).

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Audacity is a nice little free program. But if you have a chance to get cool edit pro, it's better. I use it again. I mean I will when I get more time. The big advantage of cool edit are different filters that can eliminate all mic hissing and unwanted sounds. It has also very interesting delay, reverb, flanger, echo effects. All these things are quite useful for acoustic players.

Audacity does different things to the timing. Once I made a test, I made a drum loop with a little drum program and tried to record it. Originally it had to be even, because it was a precise machine. When I recorded it I could hear that it's not even, it was a matter of small fractions of a second, but it was out at places.

When running audacity, it's better to shut all the other programs runing.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks for that tip, Grzeg. And perhaps that is what adds to the "choppy-ness" I mentioned above too. I had Cool Edit Pro once (sent to me by someone). It did record pretty well (that one recording of mine I think in Dropped-Db was a Cool Edit Pro recording). I had some problems with it because it was more complex and had so many nice features but I was just starting to get the hang of it a bit, until I lost the program in a hard-drive crash I had a while back. Anyway, thanks for the tip.

[grzegorz_panek]

I could upload it to you if you had soulseek. http://www.slsknet.org/download.html
I don't know about any other ways I can send it over. I don't know if you can use file sharing program in your office comp. It's generally spyware free, and much less commercial than kazaa.

Soulseek is the best file sharing proigram I know. It has thematic rooms. For some reason there aren't many fans of acoustic blues on the blues room, but you can find everything if you try.


I got it from soulseek too. First I wanted to download the free trial version off the cool edit site, and then get the pluggin. But when I got what was supposed to be the pluggin, it turned out to be a pandora's box full of spyware and viruses. Every time I turned on the comp, I was invited to "the best porn sites on the net".

I managed to get rid of the spoyware and downloaded the real good full version of cool edit from soulseek.

[dadfad]

Thanks for the offer, Grzeg, but our system here now has a pretty hard fire-wall to get through because we sometimes work with classified government documents and such. Eventually I'll get around to spending the money for the program that I can install with the disc. Meanwhile, I'll make do with the Audacity program. A little choppy-ness (with Darth Vader on vocals!) won't hurt! After all, as they say, "It's close enough for blues."

[grzegorz_panek]

Thanks for the offer, Grzeg, but our system here now has a pretty hard fire-wall to get through because we sometimes work with classified government documents and such. Eventually I'll get around to spending the money for the program that I can install with the disc. Meanwhile, I'll make do with the Audacity program. A little choppy-ness (with Darth Vader on vocals!) won't hurt! After all, as they say, "It's close enough for blues."

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The quality of your tracks seems good, very good to my standards. I'm not a recording perfectionist who thinks everything should be ubercorrected by computers, so that nothing is off by 1/100000 of a second. Honestly I generally appreciate imperfect live records of artists I like to ubercorrect studio work. I like artists who approach the studio like a concert. I think this way it has less soulless than the meticulous job of recording instruments separately taking 10 takes.

Sometimes I even think all records should be live and studios should be shut down.

[KaZu]

Wow.
I didnt know yuou had a soundclick.
Very Nice.