Love this! You sound great and the Homespun-style camera work is awesome. I love that you've taken time to really study the rhythm guitar. My only advice would be to just slow it down a bit and just sit in the resonance of the song just a touch more. But overall, this is a wonderful tribute.
I know you said you weren't really a trained singer but your pitch is spot on here. I find this tune expessicaly hard because all the major 3rd in the melody, I tend to fall sligthly flat on them. Does it just take time and persisance to get that pitch or are there things you listen for?
Hey Jono, singing in tune can be confusing for sure. It has amazed me over the years to know how something felt and sounded resonating in my head as I sang it, and then to hear it played back and have it sound different - usually flatter than my perception when it was going down. I think that some of that just takes practice. A few tips:
-You can play a melody on the guitar slowly in unison with your voice. It's often easy to hear if you're right in with a unison or not, whereas sometime that's harder with chords. But once you get better at knowing where the actual pitch is and what it feels like you might...
-Sing slowly and deliberately comparing the pitch of your voice to the pitches of the chords. If you take your time with this and imagine your voice being a note in the chord - like it's an extra note on the guitar - where you are paying attention to *all* of the pitches and not just your own voice, you can develop a better intuitive sense in real time of how you are doing relative to the chord. It can become a bit more second nature.
-There is an app on my iphone and ipad that I use sometimes called Vocal Pitch Monitor. Basically it shows you in real time how your pitch is relative to the actual note. It's different than a guitar tuner because it draws a line through time where you can see an entire phrase. It can be useful for identifying tendencies. I've found it to be super useful when I really just FELT like i was singing in tune but then would hear it back and would be way off. Sometimes you can feel crazy when that's happening. This app (and there may be others that do the same thing but better - I've just been using this particular one for years) has been *really* useful at times because it can give you real-time objective feedback so that you can *learn what it feels like* to sing that problem note in tune.
It probably goes without saying, but, of course, pitch is not nearly as important as communication. I can lose sight of that sometimes, but real, honest communication ALWAYS wins. But hey, why not have our cake and eat it too!
This is a tribute to the man himself, enjoy the 80's video editing lol. Chris I know you were close to him so I hope this makes you smile.
Love this! You sound great and the Homespun-style camera work is awesome. I love that you've taken time to really study the rhythm guitar. My only advice would be to just slow it down a bit and just sit in the resonance of the song just a touch more. But overall, this is a wonderful tribute.
Hey Chris, any tips on singing melodies?
I know you said you weren't really a trained singer but your pitch is spot on here. I find this tune expessicaly hard because all the major 3rd in the melody, I tend to fall sligthly flat on them. Does it just take time and persisance to get that pitch or are there things you listen for?
Hey Jono, singing in tune can be confusing for sure. It has amazed me over the years to know how something felt and sounded resonating in my head as I sang it, and then to hear it played back and have it sound different - usually flatter than my perception when it was going down. I think that some of that just takes practice. A few tips:
-You can play a melody on the guitar slowly in unison with your voice. It's often easy to hear if you're right in with a unison or not, whereas sometime that's harder with chords. But once you get better at knowing where the actual pitch is and what it feels like you might...
-Sing slowly and deliberately comparing the pitch of your voice to the pitches of the chords. If you take your time with this and imagine your voice being a note in the chord - like it's an extra note on the guitar - where you are paying attention to *all* of the pitches and not just your own voice, you can develop a better intuitive sense in real time of how you are doing relative to the chord. It can become a bit more second nature.
-There is an app on my iphone and ipad that I use sometimes called Vocal Pitch Monitor. Basically it shows you in real time how your pitch is relative to the actual note. It's different than a guitar tuner because it draws a line through time where you can see an entire phrase. It can be useful for identifying tendencies. I've found it to be super useful when I really just FELT like i was singing in tune but then would hear it back and would be way off. Sometimes you can feel crazy when that's happening. This app (and there may be others that do the same thing but better - I've just been using this particular one for years) has been *really* useful at times because it can give you real-time objective feedback so that you can *learn what it feels like* to sing that problem note in tune.
It probably goes without saying, but, of course, pitch is not nearly as important as communication. I can lose sight of that sometimes, but real, honest communication ALWAYS wins. But hey, why not have our cake and eat it too!
Don't mind the tiny video, it was an instragram story. Having some trouble playin' this one up to speed but then again I'm not Tony Rice haha.
Once again, nice playing Jono! You have great hands on the instrument. Just a clarification on the timing of that lick:
Hey Chris,
This is my first upload!
Love your teaching methods,