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Topic: Critique a piece of playing.

I am pretty new-ish to the guitar but have learn most of the basic first position chords and bought a capo and at the moment I kind of play in my comfort zone (which I really need to push myself harder out of).

I apologize if this is the wrong section of the forum but would anyone on here mind critiquing a small piece I put together? I really want to know what some people think who wont just say stuff to please me (i.e friends, family etc etc... after a neutral point of view)

Thanks in advance.

Piece can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFCWkj3BcWM

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Re: Critique a piece of playing.

Hi jbsoccerbrit
Welcome to Chordie.
The stumming is not bad for a newbie rhythm and timing seem to be ok but It's difficult to hear as the recording is somewhat weak.
You've got a good foundation there it's just a matter of practice as you probally know.
Keep it up.
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  • Registered: 2008-08-14
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Re: Critique a piece of playing.

Yeah it was recorded off of my iphone so it kinda bad recording, thank you for the info smile

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Re: Critique a piece of playing.

Sounds pretty. What chords are you playing?

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Re: Critique a piece of playing.

It sounds good to me.

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Re: Critique a piece of playing.

Hi jb,I could not hear it to well,but it sounded good for a person who has not played to long. You made a few mistakes but that is not unusual.

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7 Reply by jbsoccerbrit (edited by jbsoccerbrit 2010-11-14 01:52:20)

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Re: Critique a piece of playing.

@Nevets17 - It capo'd at the 4th and its Am, C, G, D shapes as its capo'd I know those chords have tech changed. It has a few hammer on's throws in.

@Dino48, yeah its a horrible recording... I had to put my phone right up to my guitar and I have to turn up the volume on my pc myself to really kind of hear it. It has a few mistakes for sure as I was trying to strum loud enough for the phone and ended up ringing out the high E a couple of times heavy handedly.

@bensonp (pete), thank you... Any feed back I can get is great.