Short on You Crazy Diamond

Since I'd been learning Part I to Shine on You Crazy Diamond, and since it is a public holiday here in Western Australia, and since I seem to have come down with a cold from my kids, and since I have been practising it on an electric, and I am getting better at Reaper DAW, and I have a decent interface, and two web cams, and people seem to like shorts...that was a long list...anyway, I recorded a video.

My play through was okay - this was the second full take I did. I punched in - looks like 8 bits from the picture below - that I didn't like. The tone was the electric with neck pickup only, tone knob at 3, with a lot of treble added in Reaper, and Magic 7 reverb set to Chambers - Small & Dark, wet at 20%. Sounded okay to me, but I'm no tone guru...I spend most of my time playing classical guitars.

I set the two web cameras on top of each other which is a trick I saw my mate JS do.  Since I'm sitting under a staircase at a desk at home with only a fluorescent light and the glow of the monitor, so the video is kinda gross. It would be good if it didn't reflect so much light off my bald forehead and show up my too-much-good-living belly...not to mention how old I'm looking these days!  My call however is that we are in the last days of any videos ever being real - so enjoy some reality.  (He says having edited out the audio bits that he didn't like).

One day I will have a nice place to record!  Won't be getting any younger, but maybe I'll be using an AI skin by then :-)

So this arrangement is heavily inspired by Yoni Schlesinger, who has been playing variations of it for at least 10 years, he reposts it every few years. These days he sings with it as well, very nice. But I didn't grab his tab, and I didn't really study what he did, I just took a lot of direction from his videos. I actually played more of the studio recording, and my arpeggios come out differently to his. "But JAW, isn't this something you could write down in tabs?" No. I'm only really concentrating on the lead notes. What my fingers are doing in the other places is up to them, I'm not really controlling them. They are just doing their own thing. Which is good, because I already have enough to think about!

I have only played with Part I so far, and the very start of Part II.  So this is going to upset a lot of people who were just getting into it.  I kept it shorter than 3 minutes so it would be a YouTube Short. I did acutally play on for an extra 30 seconds, which you can find here

In deciding to do this I thought of my mate Steve who loves this song and at work I have inflicted my practice/learning on once per week for maybe two months now...and I know my olde internet buddy Ryan G will be happy with this...and sorry Yoni if this takes views away from you, I'm not expecting it to, you play it much better than me. Thanks for the inspiration!