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[Jinyo]

You’re making my day. Thank you

You’re a song writer. If you can come up with some lyrics to go with it I’d love to hear them.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

Hi Tairin,

I really loved that track too. Have written some lyrics for the music if you'd feel ok with me posting.

Short intro - can't call myself a musician as self taught and after years still very basic on acoustic guitar. I love writing lyrics - don't really enjoy playing covers so the guitar is just an anchor for
lyric writing. I'd like to do more collaboration - that's when the lyrics really come to life - have done this from time to time with musicians who are accomplished and its really satisfying but most times
I'm like a moody (68 years old!) teenager writing in my bedroom - which is fine 'cos I like that too!

Its great to see/hear what everyone's involved in musically.



Jinyo

Sat today

[Tairin]

Hi Tairin,

I really loved that track too. Have written some lyrics for the music if you'd feel ok with me posting.

Short intro - can't call myself a musician as self taught and after years still very basic on acoustic guitar. I love writing lyrics - don't really enjoy playing covers so the guitar is just an anchor for
lyric writing. I'd like to do more collaboration - that's when the lyrics really come to life - have done this from time to time with musicians who are accomplished and its really satisfying but most times
I'm like a moody (68 years old!) teenager writing in my bedroom - which is fine 'cos I like that too!

Its great to see/hear what everyone's involved in musically.



Jinyo

Sat today

Hi Jinyo

Yes please do post your lyrics. I’d love to see them and hear them if you want to try singing over the tune.

I am so glad you enjoyed the song and found it inspiring.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Jinyo]

Hi Jinyo

Yes please do post your lyrics. I’d love to see them and hear them if you want to try singing over the tune.

I am so glad you enjoyed the song and found it inspiring.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

Hi,
Atmospherically the acoustics suggested a dreamlike state to me, particularly the first four bars that repeated in a way our thoughts do when waking up in that half-dream state.

Not sure I can devise a recording of my singing over music but will try. Any chance of the chords for acoustic version? I've been playing with it all day and has kinda morphed as I'm rubbish
beyond a few chords I can play.

Lyrics often read a bit limp without the music but here they are - they do fit with the music as have been singing them all day but tricky in places

Intro – four bars- no lyrics

Morning
First light
You are here
In my mind

Maybe I’m just dreaming
Maybe I’m just scheming
My way back home to you

My way back home
Been lost and alone
I’m finding my way
Back home to you

Morning
First light
You are here
In my heart

Maybe I’m just dreaming
Maybe I’m just scheming
My way back home to you

My way back home
Never really gone
In my heart all along
I’m no longer alone

But maybe I’m just dreaming
just dreaming ... all alone



Jinyo

Sat Today

[Bion]

Hi,
Atmospherically the acoustics suggested a dreamlike state to me, particularly the first four bars that repeated in a way our thoughts do when waking up in that half-dream state.

Not sure I can devise a recording of my singing over music but will try. Any chance of the chords for acoustic version? I've been playing with it all day and has kinda morphed as I'm rubbish
beyond a few chords I can play.

Lyrics often read a bit limp without the music but here they are - they do fit with the music as have been singing them all day but tricky in places

Intro – four bars- no lyrics

Morning
First light
You are here
In my mind

Maybe I’m just dreaming
Maybe I’m just scheming
My way back home to you

My way back home
Been lost and alone
I’m finding my way
Back home to you

Morning
First light
You are here
In my heart

Maybe I’m just dreaming
Maybe I’m just scheming
My way back home to you

My way back home
Never really gone
In my heart all along
I’m no longer alone

But maybe I’m just dreaming
just dreaming ... all alone



Jinyo

Sat Today

Very nice! SUPER interesting how we both sort of had the same vibe when it came to the topic of the lyrics. I wrote some last week for it and we have a basic version recorded already. It literally uses the HOME theme and all I can say is : GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE!! [emoji847] WONDERFUL!

(Sorry for the extra line there!!!)

[emoji1374] SatToday

[Jinyo]

Very nice! SUPER interesting how we both sort of had the same vibe when it came to the topic of the lyrics. I wrote some last week for it and we have a basic version recorded already. It literally uses the HOME theme and all I can say is : GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE!! [emoji847] WONDERFUL!

(Sorry for the extra line there!!!)

[emoji1374] SatToday

Would love to hear the recording when its done !

Sat Today

[Bion]

Would love to hear the recording when its done !

Sat Today

I am all for sharing it when it’s finished. I have to re-record it cause we’ve made some changes. If Tairin is up for it, I’d love to share it when it’s finished.

[emoji1374] SatToday

[Jinyo]

I am all for sharing it when it’s finished. I have to re-record it cause we’ve made some changes. If Tairin is up for it, I’d love to share it when it’s finished.

[emoji1374] SatToday

That's great - thank you

[Tairin]

I am all for sharing it when it’s finished. I have to re-record it cause we’ve made some changes. If Tairin is up for it, I’d love to share it when it’s finished.

[emoji1374] SatToday

Absolutely! I’d love to share our collaboration with the Sangha.

Jinyo, your lyrics are lovely. Do you feel up to recording yourself singing them to my guitar? It doesn’t need to be anything professional, using your phone’s mic would be fine. You can send to just me if you don’t want to share more widely. I can PM you a place to drop the music.

Thank you both Bion and Jinyo. It really does mean a lot to me that you both found my track inspiring enough to write lyrics for. Deep bows to you both.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Seishin]

Tairin/Jinyo

Been playing catch on some of the tracks folks have posted and just listened to Tairin exquisite playing, which is tell me I need to do some work on triads and finger picking but it really suited a damp Saturday, working on what I need to practice tonight and my next project. It was so mellow and soothing, it may not be traditional zen but its still zen !
And Jinyo I think your word suit it perfectly and would love to here them sung over this progression.

This is really wonderful stuff folks, so deep bows all round.

Sat

[Tairin]

Tairin/Jinyo

Been playing catch on some of the tracks folks have posted and just listened to Tairin exquisite playing, which is tell me I need to do some work on triads and finger picking but it really suited a damp Saturday, working on what I need to practice tonight and my next project. It was so mellow and soothing, it may not be traditional zen but its still zen !
And Jinyo I think your word suit it perfectly and would love to here them sung over this progression.

This is really wonderful stuff folks, so deep bows all round.

Sat

Thank you Seishin.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Jinyo]

Well folks I guess as I was the one to offer some advice and point Jundo in the direction of his online Beginners Guitar course and all points beyond, reckon I should confess to my sins.

I have owned a guitar since my 40th birthday and then due to work commitments and a very heavy martial arts schedule including my own school for a good few years, I started a stop start journey of trying to play songs, riffs and solos and pretty much got nowhere fast. When early retirement was looming I vowed I would finally learn how to play the guitar and not just bits and pieces. So when I jacked in work at 55 in 2011 I started again but as we offed and left the UK for France and spent 6 months house hunting then some time doing up our new home, it was again spasmodic. So at the end of 2012 I knuckled down again going over old stuff but tumbled on Justin Sandercoe in early 2013 and haven't looked back. The forum related to his online lessons is similar to Treeleaf in that its warm, friendly, encouraging and supportive. And all levels are encourage to record and share their progress, from out and out beginners to some gigging semi pros. Like Treeleaf allows us all to connect, modern technology allows for global collaborations with takes and stems winging it across the web to eventually be mixed, produced and put out for feedback.

I still consider myself just an advanced beginner but I have recorded a host of covers and written a few originals. Spending most of my life thinking I was tone deaf and with limited range, I steered clear of singing until I was press ganged into a collaboration on an early 1970s prepunk project, as my Russian amateur (but excellent) mixer/producer wanted a London(UK) accent and I finally wilted under the pressure. And it came out ok. So with a little confidence I have since sung on a few of my own multi track projects and been invited to sing and play on more collaborations.

Around about last November having stumbled at all previous attempts, I finally got the courage to start singing and playing and to make it work. In the last 4 months I have recorded 4 "live" performances but still consider it work in progress. Live projects are recorded via webcam and OBS for video recording with an Audio Interface plugged into the PC. Multi Track projects cobbled together with Reaper, my go to DAW and a host of FX products for mixing and mastering, of which I am a rank amateur !

Wishing to improve my singing as well as my playing I am 4 weeks into a 12 week singing course and happy with the progress with a huge expansion of range. As a result of that I have some other projects in the pipe line that I will share with my guitar forum friends and potentially the wider public via soundcloud or youtube. I try and put out at least one recording a month if circumstances permit.

I try to practice each day and have currently restarted a Blues Rhythm course and a Blues Lead course. I've lacked focus for a couple of years due to worries over Brexit and my wife's health issue last year but so far so good in 2021.

Should anyone be interested in my recordings they can be found here

https://soundcloud.com/tobyjenner/tracks

There's the odd bit of noodling and some singing course tracks that can be ignored. Most of the tracks will indicate if its a collab or just me playing and singing on the odd occasion.

and here

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2wcjHmnrFuQyom6tqUtdrQ/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=0&view_as=subscriber

My "live" performance come under the Madman banner, it follows the title of a forum post, when I lost the 100 FX on my Mustang III amp and went through the painful process of rebuilding it. As the factory FX were of questionable quality and use, I had spent the best part of 4 years replacing them all only to lose the lot and all the saved nuances I had applied to them......they were backed up offline though !! So I spent a week to 10 days seeking advice and council under the heading of the Madman's Diary as I was tearing my hair out, which included losing everything for a second time and then finding the original fault was down to a school boy error and nothing was ever lost, so the two rebuilds could have been avoided at the literal push of a button. Sitting was very help at this time. Anyway the label stuck and now indicates a little audio diary of social banter before I get to the actual "live" performances.

Interaction with these two mediums is purely voluntary but there should you wish.

Anyway that's about where I am at and short term where I am going but great to see so many other musicians here sharing there stories (can I say other ?)

Sat and about to play.

Its taking me a while to go through all the wonderful posts here.

Things very hard on the health front in my neck of the woods but listening to your music lifted my spirits today Seishin. I not only like your music you are a natural comic and the intros to the you tube
recordings made me smile ear to ear

The White Rabbit Cover gave me goosebumps as the gravelly tone in your singing voice reminded me of Johnny Cash - trust in your voice - I hear an old soul in it.

Would love to hear you play/sing a cover from New Model Army - any chance of the track Winter?




Jinyo

[Seishin]

Its taking me a while to go through all the wonderful posts here.

Things very hard on the health front in my neck of the woods but listening to your music lifted my spirits today Seishin. I not only like your music you are a natural comic and the intros to the you tube
recordings made me smile ear to ear

The White Rabbit Cover gave me goosebumps as the gravelly tone in your singing voice reminded me of Johnny Cash - trust in your voice - I hear an old soul in it.

Would love to hear you play/sing a cover from New Model Army - any chance of the track Winter?




Jinyo

Ah Jinyo your words brightened my day. I see you must have stepped into the rabbit hole of my Madman's Diaries. After nearly a year of covid that started as a bit of fun to bring a little cheer to our guitar forum and now its become an expectation from the members. Folks have said those intro's are just like my posts and I just say what you see is what you get, bit like The Jam. I am glad you liked White Rabbit it was a challenge playing the lead line and the vocals but has given me lots of confidence. Others have mentioned Cash. As you can see with the video diaries I have only just started making more of Youtube. Most of the videos were rideouts in Yorkshire and Cumbria and some more over here in France. But there's an early rhythm only cover of Another Man's Cause (must do more Levellers) that I cringe when looking back and Ascension Day (WWWIII proto punk from around 71) which I put up there performance wise with White Rabbit (vocals and rhythm on that one). I am trying to keep a catalogue on Soundcloud of all my recordings, so when I think I have not made the progress I would have liked, go back to some of the early stuff and see how far I have come.

I'll look into that NMA track further, just played it while typing and really enjoyed it. Think an acoustic versions is possible oh another one on the list ! Didn't know they were still going !! Some good stuff back in the day and always great energy.

Well if I have brought some joy, job done.

Deep bows for taking time to listen to an old man trying to recapture his youth.

Gassho

Seishin

Sat and played but not at the same time.

[Jinyo]

Hi Seishin,

well if you are an old man trying to recapture his youth not sure what that makes me

I think you'll enjoy this documentary on NMA - they're still going strong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5KWzPnImtI

Will be following you on Soundcloud !


Gassho

Jinyo

sat today

[Tairin]

Hi Seishin

I love your version of White Rabbit. That’s a song I’ve always enjoyed.

I listened to most of what you posted to SoundCloud, it sounds like you are having fun exploring music in your retirement.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Gareth]

One of my favourite songs is the Animals version of “The House of the Rising Sun”. I have had a go

https://vimeo.com/513567565

https://vimeo.com/513568227

Gassho,
Gareth

Sat today