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Thank you Pippin! How very nice to hear from you! I hope you are well!
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Thanks! life is good Down Under! Just bracing ourselves for a scorching Christmas & NY ~40C at times... BTW I was recently learning Tony McManus' arrangement of the "Sleeping Tune" by Gordon Duncan in altered C tuning CGCGCD...and it appears that the melody of "Right Here Waiting" falls neatly into this tuning ! (and retaining Richard M's original key of C at the same time). I hope I can learn a fingerstyle arrangement for this lovely song soon (although it will never be close to as good as your rendition)! Pp |
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Glad you are well and have some really interesting musical challenges that you can take on. That tuning sounds like a fun challenge! - Glenn
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Wonderful Glenn!
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Good job Glenn, I made my wife listen.
She's my my most honest critic. She loved your guitar playing, gave you a ten. On the vocals she thought they were recorded a little too upfront. She won't critique vocals on their merit because she knows how difficult they are. She did say you have a pleasant voice. I thought your vocals were very good...that song is not easy to sing.
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Awesome, that is one of my favourite songs, being a beginner I can only hope someday I can get to that level and play and sing such a beautiful piece.
Great playing, great vocals Alvaro |
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Thank you Orfeas! I appreciate your comments! Glad you liked this!
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Thanks so much for your insightful comments and thank your wife for me. Very generous of her to listen and offer her thoughts. You are right that this is not an easy song to sing. It is highly stylized and the truth is, it tends to take a younger voice to really be good at the methods used by Richard Marx. The notes are often ended up with upward movements, going up another 3rd or so. This kind of vocal gymnastics takes a really flexible set of vocal chords, which really can work well with a younger voice. And Richard Marx really had a great upper range -- still does, actually. As we get older, we tend to lose that agility in our vocal chords. I sure wish I had my voice back from when I was 30 years old or so... Also, regarding the vocals being too "up front," actually, I tend to agree with your wife's comment in that regard, also. So your wife is a very astute listener. I brought the vocal up front more on this piece compared to usual because I felt that with the guitar playing the melody line, it was competing too much with the voice. If I had just been playing some finger picking pattern to accompany the voice, I would have had the vocal at a somewhat lower level. I struggled with this decision a little bit, so I think it's really interesting that your wife was attuned to this. Good for her! Thanks so much for your thoughts, Jamie. - Glenn
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Hi Jeremy!
Thanks so much for your thoughts on this! With your experience of singing, playing and recording, you know quite well what a challenge a song like this is. Thanks so much -- I'm very gratified that you liked this. - Glenn
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Wonderful, Glenn! Now that you're back on the S&T, all is right with the world again.
Great tune... I remember that. He turned out several hits in a short period of time and that was a very nice one. Well done. |
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It's always great to know you are listening! And, I, too, am glad to be back making music! Thanks so much! - Glenn
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Fingerstyle arrangement in Csus
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Thanks for the inspiration! This is my humble and mundane arrangement of the same tune in Csus tuning CGCGCD; played on a Macassar Ebony Pono Dread. Hope you like it! Pp |
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Wow, that sounded really good! Excellent job! Lovely playing!! Thanks for sharing this recording!! Very well done!! - Glenn
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