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At the beginning of the summer my roommate, Hari, brought home a guitar and we've both started playing a little since then. We both stole acoustic guitars from our sisters too, so we've got quite a few instruments for a couple of beginners. This week and this week only, I'm going to try recording myself playing some of the songs I've somewhat learned. It's a little tricky, though, and the sound quality is very poor as a tradeoff for smaller files. I don't know much about the formats, hopefully aifc is universal enough to be useful.
| Date | Song | |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday October 31, 1999 | Glockenspiel | This is a song from my "Alfred's Basic Guitar Method" book. It says below the title: "From Mozart's 'Magic Flute'". I was expecting this to be easy to play, but whenever you try and record something without making any mistakes, it seems that it suddenly becomes very difficult. So you can count on lots of mistakes and hesitation, but the recording is so bad you may not even notice it. |
| Monday November 1, 1999 | Study (2MB) Study (zipped - 750kB) |
This is a song from my big red Russ Shimpton guitar book. It doesn't really have a name, but I think it sounds neat. -or at least it has the potential to sound neat if played correctly. See if you can count the mistakes. I put it in "wav" format this time so if you have windoze and no decent audio decoder you can still listen to it - it's huger, though. |
| Tuesday November 2, 1999 | Postponed | Today I was playing on Hari's sister's guitar and I broke a string. The G string to be precise. I'm not one of those talented people who can play without a G string, so I'm postponing today's song 'till later. If this lasts too long, perhaps I'll extend this feature into next week. It would be to the advantage of all of you who like amateurish buzzy-sounding silly songs recorded on a little computer microphone, and to the detriment of my disk quota on the CS web server, but goodness, there's a lot of songs I could play. Send requests. Hopefully I'll buy new strings tomorrow. |
| Wednesday November 3, 1999 | Over the Hills and Far Away
(2 MB) zipped (750 kB) |
Boy, some things I just seem to get done right away. I went to the string store today and got a new set of strings. Hari and I put the new G string on and ... well, you be the judge. It sounds ok. Well, the sad fact is that I've got a Led Zeppelin songbook and I've learned a couple songs from it. One of them is today's feature. It's from the record "Houses of the Holy" and I'm only playing the beginning. These sound files get really big really quick. I need to figure out MP3's. |
| Thursday November 4, 1999 | Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
(2 MB) zipped (600 kB) |
Ok, ok, so it's another Led Zeppelin song. What can I say? I have the songbook. This one sounds cool anyhow. Tomorrow I'll have something somewhat different. |
| Sunday November 7, 1999 | Never Going Back Again (?) (1.5 MB) zipped (360 kB) |
By "tomorrow", of course, I mean Sunday. Here is a song from Fleetwood Mac. It's pretty easy to play, as evidenced by the fact that even I can hack out something resembling it. There's basically three different repeating parts to it and I do do about 1.5 of them. I don't know if this is the last song or not. Check back tomorrow and see. |