Yo you music lovers, Amazing Grace...with groove!

Soilarch · 01-08-2007, 10:43 PM

Apparently I'm a music kick lately.

Here's a clip of Victor Wooten's version of Amazing Grace. Takes a little while for him to get into the melody but its worth waiting.
http://video.download.com/3800-11171_53-5258.html?tag=vdl_prefs_watch_tmp

Enjoy!

Edit: You also have to sit through a ten secon commercial for those blackberry things, sorry.

Chuck7 · 01-09-2007, 12:28 PM

Sorry brother,
Said I had to be a member to access.
c7

I am presently working on an acoustic,,,
Angels We Have Heard on High.

key of A magor

From a book by Steve Kaufman

Soilarch · 01-09-2007, 01:30 PM

My bad. I'm not a member of that "downloads"....maybe it just likes my computer.

Here's another URL with the same vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYlNlz4MagA

If you're using small speakers you need to have the volume up a fair amount to hear some of the details in what this guy plays. Enjoy.

burniegoeasily · 01-09-2007, 02:04 PM

cool. Amazing Grace is one of my all time favorite songs. I love to blow the harp while some one else is playing it on a guitar. Chuck, we need to get to gether and play some good old songs.

Chuck7 · 01-09-2007, 02:10 PM

Amen Burnie...
Hey Soilarch...Rev needs to check that out.He's a bass player. The man gots some talent.

Question Burnie...
At times I play the harmonicawhen I play my guitar . Question. Is there a different harmonica for playing the blues?. The blues scale is different from the magor / minor scales. Or...are you supposed to play blues scale on a magor scale harp?
Thanks .
C7

burniegoeasily · 01-09-2007, 02:13 PM

Blues is all played in E. When I play with friends, I simply pull out my E harp and play. Im just using a set of Horner blues harps in all keys.

Soilarch · 01-09-2007, 02:48 PM

What kills me is that he does it seemingly without effort. I know that when you're THAT GOOD the entire instrument is just an extension of what's in your head....but its just uncanny to watch him.

(I'm gonna start playing my old Peavey Cirrus again....just like Wooten. [8D]

Bwaahahaahahaha)

Chuck7 · 01-09-2007, 04:07 PM

I know that when you're THAT GOOD the entire instrument is just an extension of what's in your head....but its just uncanny to watch him.
Soilarch

A very true statement...like a pro baseball player. I practice about 1 1/2 hours a night. ..my fingerpicking church music is like that. I close my eyes and can just worship God with out any effort figuring out what to play..

Lately I've been flatpicking ..and sadly enough that is an effort. If I get sidetrascked in the middle of a song I have to start over. Unlike finger picking I have to memorize the music. I bought these 2 books which will keep me busy all year.Flatpicking the gospels and Smokey Mountain Christmas.

Burnie..I play most of my blues scales in E too. On the guitar you just learn a blues scale form so I can play any scale down the neck. There are 5 forms and you just hook all 5 together to play the entire fretboard.

Chuck7 · 01-09-2007, 04:15 PM

This flatpicking instrumental took me 3 weeks to memorize. I play it as an exercise about 3 times a day to build speed.

it's called Blackberry Blossum. I must confess ...I'm not quite as fast as this guy.

Guitar

If any of you guitar players want the tablature to that song I can post all 6 pages. It's really a very fun tune to play.

Soilarch · 01-09-2007, 05:30 PM

Hey chuck, I mess around on the acoustic guitar. I'm now where near good enough to play that right now, but if you'd post the tabs or email 'em to me I'd love to see what I could do with it. May take me more than 3 weeks though...took me about that long just to get the first part of Extreme's "More than Words" to sound half decent.

It's not christian, but it's a very Clapton-sounding classic and is also fun to play.