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Day 60 of The 100 Day Project
Hurray! 60% Done! If I wasn’t so tenacious (that’s just a nice term for stubborn as heck), I’d throw in the towel right now. This is a really tough time for me – work-wise. So everything I do during the weekdays has to be quick and easy to learn. Thank goodness I stumbled upon this little tune – Midnight Special. Used alternate tuning D G C F A D, and it was so low, I had to capo to be able to sing. As usual, thanks for watching! Having a tough time with the new site and connection speed, so I apologize for not sending thanks in the Forum. Will get to it soon…
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Terrific Michelle!
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Thanks @Alfred ! I’m in the can’t-wait-for-this-to-be-over stage!😊
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Oh, but the rest of us are all cheering you on, and incredibly impressed!
Tell you what. You manage to do this and I will join you next January if you do it again. No promises on memorization though, I would loose my head if it weren’t bolted on tight.
I think I can record something every day though.
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Great song @Michelle_in_PSL . Huzzah got tenaciousness.
I used the same tuning to play “Jim Jones at Botany Bay” from the movie Hateful Eight.
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Thanks @Mike56 ! Haven’t seen the movie or heard of the song. Gotta investigate!
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👏👍
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Thank you @Daniel_Morin !
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great job
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Thanks @Donny_71!
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👏👏👏Very nice!
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Thank you @Christopher_H
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Hey Michelle that was great. Hang in there
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Your songs are one of the things I look forward to each day so thanks.!!
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Thank you @Dirk_R . Supporters like you keep me going!
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hurray for stuborness @Michelle_in_PSL
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Thanks @ErikBog
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What a project, Being tenacious works and this was another check mark for a song well done.
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Thank you @dustyoldchips !
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Great job, as usual, Michelle 👏
One great advantage of this project:
It is dead easy to figure out the completion percentage 😂Question to the alternate tuning:
As far as I can see, you have tuned all strings down a whole step from the normal tuning, and then capoed up 1½ step.
Which explains how you could just use normal chord shapes.
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Oh my goodness, @Niels , I wish I had an answer for you. I was just following the guitar tab on the tuning. And then couldn’t sing in that key. So I capo’d to be able to sing it. I don’t know if the song arranger wanted a bassy or more twangy sound.
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Another great job with a classic tune…thanks again Michelle. I appreciate your tenacity (as a fellow stubborn person).
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Did you say you were a native New Yorker, @SoCal_Ian ? Well, I was born in the Bronx, and grew up hard-headed.😁 And thank you for your kind words!
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Nice job. Been off TAC for a while so I missed the first 60 but wow … ambitious goal!!!
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Thank you @JKraus1971 ! It’s been tough at times, but I’m muddling through,,,🙂
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