Cover of "Imagine" by John Lennon

I triedand could only hear alittle,but what I did hear was good. (I have trouble with the soundclick. I could not hear mkm when she had camping trip on there. ( It's a dino problem) Not your's.

Thanks Pete and Dino!  It always interests me as to why sometimes when somebody posts something they get alot of feedback and at other times hardly any feedback at all.  I am not just fishing for pats on the back.  At pushing sixty years old, I am a big boy and if somebody doesn't like something, I wish they would say.  When no feedback is given, am I too take it that others didn't like it?  I truly am still just trying to learn these things and want someone, anyone who has any ideas to let me know so I can then know what corrections, improvements etc I need to work on.  Thanks you two for taking the time to comment.  It is appreciated.

I feel the same as you sometimes.  It is nice to have some kind of recognition, good or bad.  I, like you, don't mind being told I need to do this or that.  Of, course, we do like people to say nice things, but we can take the critics as well.  It does feel good when people do acknowledge our music and many on here are very good at doing that.  I could list the people I know are going to say something each time.  It'ws not a long list.  Anyway, keep up your end and I'll keep up mine and togethr we'll make it.  We are members of the mutual admiration society, after all.

@ Zurf soundcloud also has some free options. Second your comment number 1. Ability to zone on a key and stay there without screwing up is huge.

Big Jim: For my part, I sincerely apologize for taking so long to reply. I've been getting a lot of good feedback from the forum and I should've reciprocated more promptly. FWIW I don't normally give folks suggestions unless they explicitly ask for 'em, so here we go:

Listen to your song from :18 to :21 and then again from 2:04 to 2:06. Tempo changed, right? You accelerated a bit throughout the tune. This isn't something that most listeners would notice, but hey you asked areas for correction so I'll give you one.

I think what happened is this: Your strumming pattern was kind of swing feel...your upstrokes were on the "uh" of the beat instead of the "and" of the beat. That sounds very cool and relaxed (kind of "Moon River," which BTW is a sound I love) but lots of times players will anticipate the next down beat (your bass notes) and that pulls the song forward in tempo.  The other possibility is that you are concentrating on the vocal phrasing, which is throwing your strumming pattern for a loop. (This is happening to me right now on a song and it's driving me frickin' crazy.)

Like I said above, this is pretty nitpicky. Very few listeners will be aware of an accelerando in a piece, so long as it's gradual (which yours was).

Solution is to plug in ye old metronome and work the song through with that. 

I hope you found this useful - keep up the good work!

-Joe

You picked a particularly tough strumming pattern bro - rhythms that are on top of the beat tend to push and behind the beat they tend to drag.

You're being a bit hard on yourself Jim.  I liked the guitar work quite nicely.  BGD must have a metronome for ears, because I didn't pick up on the speed thing.  After being a bassman responsible (in part) for keeping tempo for as long as I was and not picking up on a tempo change, well let me say I wasn't at all put off by your performance and am very impressed by BGD's ear!  Metronome is the key.  I hate mine with a visceral passion, but would hate to be without it.