THE GLOBAL WINGS THREAD
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we were talking bout music theory... I've been watching the Montserrat concert... you know Elton and Paul play piano on Hey Jude then. On rehearsals they just didn't remember the chords... so Elton and Paul searched around for the Beatle record (fortunately Beatle records are everywhere :lol, to pick up the chords by ear. Can you imagine that...? "Do you have a Beatle record in your car?, well, Paul McCartney and Elton John need it to play Hey Jude" Today they would use youtube How great they are
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I've posted new recordings, but I don't know if they belong here, so they are on the Supernova thread... They are a different version of Rock and Roll with Audi, Cryin' with Adam Lambert, and American Trilogy with Elvis (in the pure Olivelvis tradition...)
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Brian May has produced an album for a singer called Kerry Ellis
and the greatest thing is he has played guitar He kills me always with his guitar... Steve Vai said recently he can easily mimick every guitar player in the world... but Brian May, "who's in a higher ground". Steve even tried to do it with Brian's home-made guitar... "but it sounded like Steve Vai not like Brian May..." -
Happy Easter everyone!!! Here's a better headless version of my first S&G tune.
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I've been away from this thread for quite a while, And I see it is the intention to post videos of yourself. Well, this one is from last December. It is live. We play 'Brown Eyed Girl' by Van Morrison. Who is 'we'? The people who take guitar lessons with me. I am on leadvocals. (White blouse, far right)
People tell me the vocals are not very good hearable, but I think it's quite good hearable. (In the beginning, the one who is next to me sings along. But he quits doing that after a little while ) Here is one better. This is me solo. I play 'Behind the Moon' by Matt Costa. This one is from January 2010. -
Ever-Present-Paul:
I've been away from this thread for quite a while, And I see it is the intention to post videos of yourself. Well, this one is from last December. It is live. We play 'Brown Eyed Girl' by Van Morrison. Who is 'we'? The people who take guitar lessons with me. I am on leadvocals. (White blouse, far right)
People tell me the vocals are not very good hearable, but I think it's quite good hearable. (In the beginning, the one who is next to me sings along. But he quits doing that after a little while ) Here is one better. This is me solo. I play 'Behind the Moon' by Matt Costa. This one is from January 2010.vocals are not very heardable at the beginning but they are quite hearable after the first minute, people makes a lot of noise you know
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vlivantje:
Happy Easter everyone!!! Here's a better headless version of my first S&G tune.
Happy Easter everyone! I'm realizing Paul Simon's songs got a lot of chords, changing constantly from one chords to another, sometimes I just don't understand how can you learn to play it... I would get mad... I can do it with the piano but I think it's a lot easier...
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I'm recalling now the duet of Evie and me.
Still no-one has "attacked" my piano playing on youtube notes should have had more "length time", and big reverb (sort of what I did with Mad World), now it sounds like Lady Madonna... -
21st Century Paul:
vlivantje:
Happy Easter everyone!!! Here's a better headless version of my first S&G tune.
Happy Easter everyone! I'm realizing Paul Simon's songs got a lot of chords, changing constantly from one chords to another, sometimes I just don't understand how can you learn to play it... I would get mad... I can do it with the piano but I think it's a lot easier...
Do you know Paul Simon's son? Harper Simon. I believe he released his first album last year. 3 Of his songs are on his MySpace. He sounds a lot like his father. I think you'd like it. http://www.myspace.com/harpersimon <<
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21st Century Paul:
vlivantje:
Happy Easter everyone!!! Here's a better headless version of my first S&G tune.
Happy Easter everyone! I'm realizing Paul Simon's songs got a lot of chords, changing constantly from one chords to another, sometimes I just don't understand how can you learn to play it... I would get mad... I can do it with the piano but I think it's a lot easier...
They may have a lot of chords, but Paul Simon does have a knack for creating absolutely fantastic songs with some of the "easier" chords...so there's less problem for me to learn them, haha. That's not to say I will ever be able to learn how to play songs like "Anji" or "Overs" :...Because I probably won't be able to. Those chords are probably simple (maybe, in come cases), but they seem crazy!! Anji may not be the best example because it's not a Paul Simon tune. As for the Beatles' an Paul McCartney songs...wow, a lot harder to learn (IMO)...I don't know why...they just feel more difficult!
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21st Century Paul:
I'm recalling now the duet of Evie and me.
Still no-one has "attacked" my piano playing on youtube notes should have had more "length time", and big reverb (sort of what I did with Mad World), now it sounds like Lady Madonna...No 'attacking' necessary....your playing was great!! Sure, there's always something that could be better but I always think that with my guitar playing as well.
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vlivantje:
21st Century Paul:
vlivantje:
Happy Easter everyone!!! Here's a better headless version of my first S&G tune.
Happy Easter everyone! I'm realizing Paul Simon's songs got a lot of chords, changing constantly from one chords to another, sometimes I just don't understand how can you learn to play it... I would get mad... I can do it with the piano but I think it's a lot easier...
They may have a lot of chords, but Paul Simon does have a knack for creating absolutely fantastic songs with some of the "easier" chords...so there's less problem for me to learn them, haha. That's not to say I will ever be able to learn how to play songs like "Anji" or "Overs" :...Because I probably won't be able to. Those chords are probably simple (maybe, in come cases), but they seem crazy!! Anji may not be the best example because it's not a Paul Simon tune. As for the Beatles' an Paul McCartney songs...wow, a lot harder to learn (IMO)...I don't know why...they just feel more difficult!
"Anji", do you mean Rolling Stones' "Angie"? I don't know which one is "Overs" Well, many Beatle songs are composed with piano, as they didn't come naturally with guitar to the composer they can be harder to play with it... I didn't know Paul Simon has a musician son.
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21st Century Paul:
"Anji", do you mean Rolling Stones' "Angie"? I don't know which one is "Overs" Well, many Beatle songs are composed with piano, as they didn't come naturally with guitar to the composer they can be harder to play with it... I didn't know Paul Simon has a musician son.
Noooooo, not Rolling Stones' Angie. I mean Anji! It's a guitar tune by Davey Graham originally but Paul Simon arranged it and played it on the "Sound of Silence" album.
Here Paul Simon plays it with his brother Ed (they look almost like twins :shock. And "Overs" is the one : I loooooooooooove this song! -
vlivantje:
21st Century Paul:
"Anji", do you mean Rolling Stones' "Angie"? I don't know which one is "Overs" Well, many Beatle songs are composed with piano, as they didn't come naturally with guitar to the composer they can be harder to play with it... I didn't know Paul Simon has a musician son.
Noooooo, not Rolling Stones' Angie. I mean Anji! It's a guitar tune by Davey Graham originally but Paul Simon arranged it and played it on the "Sound of Silence" album.
Excuse me then.
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vlivantje:
21st Century Paul:
I'm recalling now the duet of Evie and me.
Still no-one has "attacked" my piano playing on youtube notes should have had more "length time", and big reverb (sort of what I did with Mad World), now it sounds like Lady Madonna...No 'attacking' necessary....your playing was great!! Sure, there's always something that could be better but I always think that with my guitar playing as well.
I just think it doesn't match the "spirit" of the song, it's sometimes rude... and the song is anything but rude. It's nothing about notes, just about the feeling. I just found out Elton did a cover of it... or I should say a copy
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I just read in Freddie's bio a similar thing than what Paul and Elton explained about playing Hey Jude in the Montserrat concert. Freddie said that if you asked him to play on the piano, for instance, "Love Of My Life", he would not be able to play it. Even though they sang the song every night, only with Brian May at guitar. He wouldn't play any song composed by him (or others...) without lots of time for searching for the chords or so... Now, there's something I don't get here So Elton, Paul McCartney and Freddie Mercury couldn't play any song on the piano by ear... not even their own most famous songs, but they needed quite a long time of searching for the chords, even if they're not strange (Hey Jude doesn't have strange chords, I think...). And well, and I think I can play any song just simply starting to play it. (well, it if has some not very usual chords, I need to play it for some minutes to find them... but not for a song like Love of My Life or Hey Jude...) now there is something wrong here anyway... the "divine" Freddie with the "divine" Montserrat Caballe, it didn't sell a thing, but what does it matter really? Guide Me Home
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by the way, the original request of writing the anthem for the Barcelona 1992 Olympics was for Paul McCartney, he was choosen for writing a song. But Freddie came with this one and it was so obvious that the McCartney project was stopped.
And then, well, Freddie died and then they called Lloyd Webber and he wrote "Friends Forever". Anyway this is the unofficial anthem of Barcelona. -
well, Global Wings, this week's American Idol has been about Lennon/McCartney, I've posted the videos on that thread (with Paul in person appearing). As you have covered all the songs, you're the best judges for this... and Bjorn, I like your "Say it to me now" above any performance of 2 weeks ago in American Idol
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21st Century Paul:
well, Global Wings, this week's American Idol has been about Lennon/McCartney, I've posted the videos on that thread (with Paul in person appearing). As you have covered all the songs, you're the best judges for this... and Bjorn, I like your "Say it to me now" above any performance of 2 weeks ago in American Idol
Well, I saw that episode yesterday, I must say I really liked some of the contestants, especially the version of Lennon's Jealous Guy. AND, who am I to judge, I am like you or anyone, or anyone appearing in Idol, it's Paul and the rest of the guys who did the job...I am just so humble to be able to sing the best songs in the world!! Could be worse, right! Thanks for the raving review though!
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Here is a new remix of a song posted here long time ago. [Can't Buy Me Love(2010 remix)[/size">](http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_3762222]<span style=) (click to listen) It's me on lead guitar and lead vocal, Gary on the backings, and bass, drums etc.