The GuitarTalk Folk Music Challenge!

V8 · 2019-03-12T15:08:31+00:00

Thanks to @Yeti, we've our second challenge of 2019...someone win one so he doesn't have to do the next one too! ? The Guitar Talk Folk Music Challenge!...

The GuitarTalk Folk Music Challenge!

wern101

V8 peace or the good ol days

Erm....no. Ok maybe....

RCVN Mumford and Sons

Right. No pressure then.

RCVN Acoustic Instruments

That much I can do ?

wern101

Yeti Very much more about sitting around a pub/fire/worksite and making music to pass the time and entertain yourselves than giving an out and out performance.

See now this makes sense. I have a few songs I have been meaning to polish up and record. And I think I have just the one for this....

But Its a flippen tough month with work. I really really hope I get time.

guidothepimmp

Two words

Bob Dylan ?

V8

guidothepimmp Bob Dylan ?

Couldn't resist...

RCVN

How's the progress going?

Ps. How does singing work? I think I might be out of tune, but can't find a tuner..

V8

RCVN How does singing work? I think I might be out of tune, but can't find a tuner..

I should be the last person trying to answer this...

I can only really sing in unison with whatever I'm playing on guitar (E.g. playing a G and then singing in pitch with that note). Harmony, (or harmonizing) would be singing a 3rd or 5th (note) relative to that root note you'd be playing.

I'd heartily recommend learning a song that you know well - I started with nursery rhymes (come to think of it, that's about as far as I got). Row yer boat is useful, because it uses most of the major scale.

Yeti

RCVN so you joke about the tuner but I've given vocal coaching doing just that. I got the lady to play a note on her guitar then match it with her voice using the tuner to ahem fine tune. After a few weeks she could hear when she was off the note and correct it herself... Which frankly is half of singing.

wern101

RCVN How's the progress going?

What progress? (facepalm)

Have a song. Needs to be refined. Looking for inspiration.

RCVN

Yeti Haha damn, I've joked around with a tuner in that way, but never thought it might actually help in any way

nick_D01

if anyone is thinking of doing an entry featuring some traditional 'folk' instruments: banjo, mandolin, harp, bouzouki, oud. that would be really interesting ?

wern101

Ok.... erm.... more difficult than I thought. Thinking of doing a cover. Would that be allowed?

Seperate Note - I just found this:

V8

wern101 Thinking of doing a cover. Would that be allowed?

Sure, go for it. I've got no objections to covers for this challenge.

RCVN

Shit, I need to write a song

Yeti

Looks like I'll be missing this one. Between losing my voice and my audio interface giving up the ghost I've been out of action for the last couple of weeks and now I have house guests who will be around for the rest of the weekend. :/

V8

No worries gents. I've a verse and a chorus and both suck - very doubtful I'll record anything for this. Folk is definitely not me thing.

Anyone wanting a extension - Thinking Tuesday 16th.? Not sure that helps with Easter next weekend though?

Yeti

Well I think I've managed to scrape something together. It isn't what I was originally planning but I think it will work. Hoping to get a couple of hours tomorrow night to do some refining before I post. :-)

studmissile

Extend this till Sunday, and I'll join you

V8

Let's just say enter whenever - there's no time limit on this one - whatever you got, whenever ya got it!

We'll change the voting phase to an appreciation phase?

Yeti

So I just had a listen to what I did last night and the vocals are... Ummm... Let's avoid the expletives and say 'not great'. I could do with a couple extra days too.

Yeti

Finally got my track finished.

My original plan was to do a hard rock/metalish version of Rantin Rovin Robin (Robert Burns) but after spending a couple of days with it I couldn't really get it going so fell back on another track I've been toying with. Although the song itself isn't particularly folky, Simon and Garfunkel are solid folk rock so I'm claiming it. ?
The vocals took three attempts to get them to a point that I'm happy with, which is why it is so late.
This is also my first attempt to record something a little higher gain... I'm broadly happy with the result but it didn't turn out quite how I had invisage, still got some learning to do.

studmissile

Yeti Thanks, yeti. Great track, loved the heavy metal execution. Effectively arranged.

V8

Yeti This is also my first attempt to record something a little higher gain... I'm broadly happy with the result but it didn't turn out quite how I had invisage, still got some learning to do.

Great execution! Not much crit's to add (aside that disturbed did it first ?), really nicely done ?

Yeti articularly enjoy the subtle variations that keep it interesting

Hear, hear - me too - has a certain polish to it. The vocals did become clearer as the track progressed - Stud has a vocal style that almost hides behind the song...but it's developing nicely over the years :double thumbsup: I'm favouring the smoothness of the acoustic guitars in @studmissile's track out of the two.

Well done to ya both - folk kicked my ass ?