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Default May 2014 AGF Showcase of Talent: Songs from movies and television

Hello everyone! For this month, lets focus on songs from movies and television shows. It doesn't have to be a theme song, as long as it was in a movie or TV show. This covers a LOT of ground!

I will be donating a $50 gift card from Strings and Beyond this month. This is NOT a competition. Anyone that enters a song or video will be entered into the drawing. This must be a version of YOU playing the song, either as an instrumental or you can sing. You may also have accompaniment. The song should focus on the acoustic guitar, though other instruments are allowed as backup or for a break here or there. The song can be in any style, from finger picking to strumming, from classical to blues, from rock to bluegrass, and anything in-between. Any movie, old or new, any television show, old or new, but you should at least tell us what show/movie it was in.

You may start uploading your songs anytime from now to May 31.

This is strictly for fun . Lets hear some music!

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OK, here's the first song. This is from the movie "Bonnie and Clyde" and is by Early Scruggs. This is a slowed down, mostly guitar version.

BTW, this is just for fun. I will not be part of the drawing other than providing the gift card and picking the winner from a hat.

https://soundcloud.com/mcmakin-1/fog...tain-breakdown

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Here's one entry, three songs with me on guitar, singing by my daughter (and in the third song my wife too), my daughter playing ukulele on the second piece, and my wife on recorder or tambourine...

First, The Water is Wide.

This one feels like a stretch, since I had to search Wikipedia to find whether it has been used in movies.... apparently it has, in, among other things, Renaldo and Clara, The River Wild, The Bounty (none of which have I seen!), and a variety of other films:




And two more recordings that are a little rougher around the edges (among other things, my daughter was coming down sick and her voice was giving out the day we did these recordings), but I enjoy them anyway....


This one was sung by Elvis in Blue Hawaii...




And this was in, well, the movie Georgy Girl, of course:

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OK, here's the first song. This is from the movie "Bonnie and Clyde" and is by Early Scruggs. This is a slowed down, mostly guitar version.

BTW, this is just for fun. I will not be part of the drawing other than providing the gift card and picking the winner from a hat.

https://soundcloud.com/mcmakin-1/fog...tain-breakdown

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As a banjo player (and also as a guitar player) I enjoyed this. This makes a very pleasant slower piece.
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Very nice WCAP! I enjoyed all three. Your daughter has a wonderful voice and the playing is excellent! Thanks for sharing.

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Todd, you're right about the topic covering quite a few songs.

Like WCAP, if you do a search on a song, half the time it's been in some movie.

So I will post different songs here as I find them.

Here is my instrumental version of Pink Floyd's Goodbye Blue Sky. It was in the 1982 British live-action/ animated film titled "Pink Floyd - The Wall". Like the album, I use special effects to heighten the mood.

http://soundcloud.com/undefined-peop...odbye-blue-sky

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My version of Coldplay's "Fix You" played in a number of TV shows: Fix You
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Fun thread. I'm enjoying everyone's recordings here!
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OK, here's the first song. This is from the movie "Bonnie and Clyde" and is by Early Scruggs. This is a slowed down, mostly guitar version.

BTW, this is just for fun. I will not be part of the drawing other than providing the gift card and picking the winner from a hat.

https://soundcloud.com/mcmakin-1/fog...tain-breakdown

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Todd, I don't understand. You played the guitar part, then part of the banjo part. Combine the two and let's have a hoedown!

I can see how that can be an intricate piece. If I'm crazy enough, I may give that one a go later.

Thanks for that great tune!

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Todd, I don't understand. You played the guitar part, then part of the banjo part. Combine the two and let's have a hoedown!

I can see how that can be an intricate piece. If I'm crazy enough, I may give that one a go later.

Thanks for that great tune!

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Actually if you listen closely enough, at about the halfway point, I add some banjo to the backing. It's not much, granted, but a little.

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Actually if you listen closely enough, at about the halfway point, I add some banjo to the backing. It's not much, granted, but a little.

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Exactly! I heard that. That's why there is so much more potential there.

I know it's not easy to bring the speed up to Flatt and Scruggs, but that's something that I would just practice and let simmer on the side.

Every song has an identity. The duet will put this over the top. I love the sound of banjo. I've been thinking of buying a banjitar lately.

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Exactly! I heard that. That's why there is so much more potential there.

I know it's not easy to bring the speed up to Flatt and Scruggs, but that's something that I would just practice and let simmer on the side.

Every song has an identity. The duet will put this over the top. I love the sound of banjo. I've been thinking of buying a banjitar lately.

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Actually, I can play it up to speed and may do so at some point. Since there are thousands of up to speed versions of this out there I wanted to try something different. Basically make it into a slow ballad. I am thinking of actually adding words to it and call it Foggy Mountain Memories. It's ripe for the pickin!

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Actually, I can play it up to speed and may do so at some point. Since there are thousands of up to speed versions of this out there I wanted to try something different. Basically make it into a slow ballad. I am thinking of actually adding words to it and call it Foggy Mountain Memories. It's ripe for the pickin!

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That's cool! You're making the song your own. I can appreciate that. I wasn't aware that there were so many up-to-speed versions. I always thought that it would be a very challenging song. If I did it on my own, I would probably create a MIDI backing track for the guitar, record the banjo, then remove the MIDI guitar and record the real guitar. I'm sort of isolated, so I'm use to doing everything on my own.

And you're also adding words to it? Go for it! I've done many interpretations of songs, so I know how it feels.

Todd, I also want to thank you for starting these threads. When I play guitar, it is always for fun. I'm not a Pro at all, but a hobbyist.

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Here is a fun one from Brother where art though.

https://soundcloud.com/budster/soggy-bottom-boys-man-of
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Here's my entry! The good ol' "My Heart Will Go On"

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