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  • Offend in Every Way

    Posted by DavidScoggins on July 26, 2021 at 1:56 am

    This is a song which I learned by ear, oh, many years ago. Apart from recording it for my collaboration with Daniel Morin in spring 2020 on The Fast and the Hairy #TFATH, I haven’t played it much recently. I had some new picks arrive this morning and tried out a few flat picking licks with them including the main riff to this song. A bit of practice later and having a quick stab at the vocals I then did a few takes and came up with this. Flat picking and singing, this is definitely not my usual output. Anyway, hopefully you’ll enjoy it.

    https://youtu.be/Pgj23cRqHEI

    Gear:

    Furch Yellow GC-SR

    iPhone & Shure MV51

    Garage Band & iMovie

    Alisa replied 3 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Alisa

    Member
    July 26, 2021 at 7:26 am

    🔥 I love how you accentuate the beats both in the flatpicking parts and the strumming parts, it makes it sound so true to the white stripes style! And then the slowing down at the end…. you killed it in interpretation! I’m also impressed by how natural and smooth you transition between the flatpicking to the strumming, the sound levels on both are identical, I always have troubles with that. Those bar chords look insane btw. Thank you for sharing!

  • Bill_Brown

    Member
    July 26, 2021 at 8:02 am

    I don’t think I ever heard that tune before @DavidScoggins 🤔, but I really liked your performance👏👏 As @Alisa mentioned, your transitions from flat picking to strumming were very nice and smooth🤩 And I see improvement in your singing, based on the very few times I’ve heard your voice(lol)😎

  • Fly

    Member
    July 26, 2021 at 11:11 am

    Spot on David pretty impressive you learnt that by ear👏

  • DavidScoggins

    Member
    July 26, 2021 at 5:14 pm

    Thank you very much @Alisa @Bill_Brown and @Fly , glad you enjoyed it.

    For the transitions between strumming and picking as the tempo is pretty slow, it’s not so bad. For getting a balance in volume using thicker pick than I usually do, e.g. 1mm rather than 0.73mm helps, as does strumming the chords quite lightly.

    • Alisa

      Member
      July 26, 2021 at 5:19 pm

      Good to know, thanks for the tip!

  • DavidScoggins

    Member
    July 26, 2021 at 5:34 pm

    @Alisa barre chords like many things which are difficult at first often get a bad rap. My advice for them, and this certainly worked for me, is to do the following to build up strength and technique in your index finger:

    1. Practice barring the highest three strings (G, B and high E) only and pick each of those strings making sure you get a clean tone from each. Then strum the 3 strings in unison. Do this on the 5th fret where tension is lower than at frets 1-3.

    2. Release the pressure and then move up to the 6th fret and repeat. Repeat on frets 7 and 8.

    3. Do this whole exercise for a couple of minutes at most, and be sure to release the pressure each time you move to a new fret, this will help prevent your finger cramping.

    4. Once you’re (more) comfortable with doing this on the 3 highest strings, repeat the process by barring the 4 highest strings (high D, G, B and high E). Rinse and repeat with barring 5 strings and then all six.

    5. Make sure you watch Tony’s video lesson on barre chords as well. https://tonypolecastro.com/courses/better-barre-chords/#learndash-course-content 🙂

    Better Barre Chords

    • Alisa

      Member
      July 26, 2021 at 6:03 pm

      Thanks @DavidScoggins 🙂 I’m plowing away at the “F chord” exercise in the “your next six chords” and it sounds similar to what you’re describing, making the bar chord, releasing, moving up the neck. There is slow but steady progress. I actually brought my guitar in for a setup last week and they lowered the action by quite a bit, so suddenly I’m getting much better sound out of the F chord (not so much the Fm yet). I definitely have the “better bar chords” course on my wishlist, I’ve read good things about it in the forums, but it might be too early for me. I probably should graduate from the F and Bm first. I’m starting to incorporate songs into my routine that have an
      occasional F or Bm.

      What I’m finding extra tough is those chords where you also use the ring finger to bar a couple of strings. I saw you make them in the song and that’s what triggered my comment about it 🙂

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