Help me make it through the night

[enjfb]

Hi Everyone,
Here is my version of this classic song

Help me make it through the night
https://app.box.com/s/anolbe21wdf84mon01zx

I use only a guitar for the backing. I have acoustics Guitar on my Mac which is a software guitar made form many gigabytes of samples and I played it from T5. You play chords with left hand and control the strums with right hand. For this song I used a very simple strum pattern. Bass note on first beat, down and up strum on 2nd beat, 5th of chord on 3rd beat and down and up strum on 4th beat. It is the first pattern I learned when learning guitar. You can control the number of strings which are strummed. I used 6 strings for down strums most of the time and just top few strings for up strums but I did vary this as I played. Also I varied the position on the guitar the chord was played.

I did do this live playing the guitar and singing which made it difficult so the result is a bit like a novice guitar player hahahah. You can play more sophisticated patterns with hammer ons etc but I need more practice for this.

Hope some of you enjoy it.

Best Regards
Jim

[Ron]

Not a bad vocal Jim and well done for the technical guitar playing which will no doubt improve with more practice. I often wish that I had been given a singing voice

Regards,

Ron

[jackoj]

Hi Jim,
Very well done performance, strum`s! that guitar work was great, vocals are in fine fettle and that is very entertaining piece mate, lovely to have you back performing for us. TFS ATB.

[Pamela]

Nice one Jim. good style used for this one... Pam

[enjfb]

Hi Ron,
Thanks for listening and for your very nice comments. I think the guitar does sound very authentic. The advantage of the software is that you get the correct guitar voicing - meaning the position of the notes on the guitar - when playing a chord. How the chord is played is determined by the player with lots of control.

Best Regards
Jim

[enjfb]

Hi Jacko,
Thank you for your very nice comments my friend - always appreciated.

Yes, I hope to be here more often and look forward to hearing the various contributions here.

Best Regards
Jim

[enjfb]

Hi Pam,
Thank you for listening and for your very nice comments - much appreciated.

No style used for this one. Just me playing guitar.

Hope you are keeping well Pam
Jim

[Brian007]

Hi Jim,

That sure sounded good to me, guitar and vocals,
well played and song. Brian

[Mike Bracchi]

Hiya Jim,

Not often we hear you covering a pop song Nicely done with the guitar strumming. I enjoyed listening Jim, well done

I look forward to hearing more from you soon

All the best ....

Mike

[Ray2]

Very nice performance Jim, vocals spot on. Glad you are back, cheers, Ray.

[enjfb]

Hi Brian,
Thank you for listening and for your very nice comments - much appreciated.

Best Regards
Jim

[enjfb]

Hi Mike,
I am pleased you enjoyed it and thanks for your very nice comments - always appreciated.

I used to play this song when learning guitar so I thought it was a good choice to give the keyboard guitar strumming a go.
I hope to be here more often from now on.

Best Regards
Jim

[enjfb]

Hi Ray,
Thanks for your welcome back and for your very nice comments about the song. Pleased you enjoyed it.

Best Regards
Jim