I JUST READ ABOUT SAYING USER NAME AND HAD JUST RECORDED THIS MORNING BEFORE THE NEW RULE POST. I SWEAR THIS IS ME, TONYPAPA!!! I WILL OBEY FROM NOW ON, JUST READ IT LATE AS I FINALLY PLANNED TO ENTER EARLY HAHA. OF COURSE...
ON WITH THE MUSIC:
This is my first cover for Steemit Open Mic and could not think of a better place to debut. YOU LISTEN. I love that.
I played guitar for many years before I tried singing. I felt lyrics were wasted space between solos. That's what happens when you learn guitar in the 1980's.
As a teen, I devoured all of Led Zeppelin's catalogue and realized after 2 years mouthing meaningless lyrics to their songs, they actually wrote (or stole) fairly nuanced lyrics. Before the internet, I would go to music stores and peruse their musicbooks to discover my favorite band's lyrics. And Guitar Player Magazine. Crossroads w Steve Vai...etc.
Many of Zep's lyrics were recycled American Blues written by the likes of Robert Johnson, Bukka White, Muddy Waters and many others.
I would gasp at the brazenness of these old folk/blues lyrics: domestic abuse being a common theme.
Hats Off To Roy Harper is a blend of blues verses within an homage of country-blues slide guitar. Jimmy Page named the song after one of his English folk musician friends, Roy Harper.
I was drawn to learn this song because I cannot find any solo performance of this and for the challenge of singing and playing lap style at the same time.
Guitar tuning: OPEN C (version)
Tech Nerdgasm Quickie:
2 track setup in StudioOne
The lower half shows the track set up, the effects on each track, and what bus they are assigned (Insert or Send). I wanted to mimic the dirty, tremolo effect on the vocal of the original track w/out losing the body of the original vocal signal. Thus, the Ampire effect in the SEND. I also wanted the guitar signal clean. I had some bleed from the git on the U47 vox mic due to the placement. Lap style guitar keeps my head down to make sure I'm on the correct fret so the vocal mic got some guitar. Overall it was not too bad to mix being only 2 tracks live performance.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME! Let me know what you think and if you'd like to see some guitar/music lessons presented on these styles or others.