Accompanying a beautiful singer/songwriter

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- November 15, 2019 at 4:39 pm #150504
  Canada Moose
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  My first guitar was my small Epiphone Cortez which was designed for accompaniment. Here is my beloved little Epi doing what it was made for, adding some little touches to an already beautiful song.
  For me, this is the ultimate highlight of playing guitar, sitting in like this, asking what key you’re in, and then just keeping it simple.
  
  Here is my friend Joanne Does doing her original song Follow Your Light live at London Music Club. I think this is the recording i’m most proud of.
  I gotta say, music brings so much joy into my life.
- November 15, 2019 at 7:18 pm #150513
  Anonymous
  Pretty song indeed Roger. You did a great job accompanying your friend’s vocals. You should be proud.
  👍
- November 15, 2019 at 9:11 pm #150519
  sunburst
  Blocked
  Yes it is a cool duet and yes Melodic story lyrics soothing strings tunes it’s a peaceful listen
- November 15, 2019 at 9:23 pm #150520
  John B
  Participant
  Very very nice.. What a pretty voice.
- November 15, 2019 at 10:48 pm #150524
  Dave K
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  This was certainly a beautiful song, Moose. Your friend is a talented singer song writer and you did an excellent job accompanying her. Bravo! Sounded like a great night of music!
- November 15, 2019 at 10:56 pm #150526
  6stringer Pete
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  Very beautiful. Musical spirits of ones soul is shining in her voice.
  
  The melody of the notes is what expresses the art of music . 🙂 6stringerPete
  
  It really is all about ”melody”. The melody comes from a language from our heart. Our heart is the muscle in music harmony. The melody is the sweetness that it pumps into our musical thoughts on the fretboard. 🙂 6 stringer Pete
  
  Pete
  Active Melody
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- November 16, 2019 at 12:52 am #150529
  Laurel C
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  Wonderful duet. Congratulations to you both. Thanks for sharing this achievement.
- November 16, 2019 at 3:38 am #150539
  Richard G
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  Nice job Roger, a beautiful song, you’re so right when you say that playing with others is the ‘ultimate highlight.’ The buzz you get is indescribable when compared to other activities.
  
  Richard
- November 16, 2019 at 5:27 am #150543
  John H
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  Wonderful song, singer, songwriter Moose. Great job accompanying her. This is a real treat.
- November 16, 2019 at 9:16 am #150553
  Lights
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  She’s really great singer sings very beautiful song. Nice duo and wonderful music.
  Lights.
- November 16, 2019 at 9:40 am #150558
  Sal
  Participant
  What a nice surprise on Saturday morning to find this great duet on the forum! Roger,that was nice playing to Joanne’s beautiful singing!!
- November 16, 2019 at 5:04 pm #150585
  Clarke
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  Congrats to both of you – tasteful playing and wonderful vocal.
- November 18, 2019 at 12:16 pm #150695
  Sal
  Participant
  Joanne kind of reminds me of Kate Wolf!!Beautiful voice!!
- November 18, 2019 at 3:00 pm #150704
  WBlues
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  I see it just like you; listen, identify the note key and then properly follow it. I do it as an exercise by opening something on YouTube and then accompanying it; it helps me a lot. Anyway, Roger, I’m following your style of play well. Everything you play has one, in my view, considered and harmonious foundation; it like it very much. This track shows it especially; very emotional additions from you.
  
  Play guitar just like you live; don't get bogged down in theory, it's just a tool without feeling.
  
  Wilfried
- November 18, 2019 at 5:38 pm #150713
  Canada Moose
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  WBlues wrote:
  
  I see it just like you; listen, identify the note key and then properly follow it. I do it as an exercise by opening something on YouTube and then accompanying it; it helps me a lot. Anyway, Roger, I’m following your style of play well. Everything you play has one, in my view, considered and harmonious foundation; it like it very much. This track shows it especially; very emotional additions from you.
  
  thanks Wilf, very kind words.
  
  I get called on a lot to accompany local singers and i think it’s because of a few rules that I follow:
  
  1. Listen hard
  2. Keep it simple
  2. Repeat little melodic phrases that echo the main melody
  3. Use double stops
  
  A good teaching example for anyone interested in accompaniment for singers is the little fill from 3:05 to 3:30; I just repeated the main melody using double stops, did a little walk around the major scale, then repeated that little walk using double stops.
- November 18, 2019 at 11:16 pm #150732
  Billy
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  It’s 05:00 here on a cold frosty Tuesday Morning and I can’t for the life of me think of listening to anything better to start a day off, wonderful song which your guitar work blends so seamlessly in to.
  A well deserved round of applause Roger.
  
  ..Billy..
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