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Through the clouds
With a circus mind
That's running wild
Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams
And fairy tales
That's all she ever thinks about
Riding with the wind
When I'm sad
She comes to me
With a thousand smiles
She gives to me free
It's alright, she says, it's alright
Take anything you want from me, anything
Anything
Fly on, little wing
but needs to be repeated
theres hendrix, and then everyone else
I'm wondering if Jimi can get a better photo. That listless black and white image of one of the great American musicians performing next to a -- potted plant -- somehow does not conjure a grand legacy of enthralling sound. Are photos from Rainbow Bridge or Woodstock, for example, not feasible here
artist infos are taken from wikipedia. you can change yourself
not bad for a guy playing the guitar upside down
I get that a lot. Just some folk's sense of humour, apparently.
This is a perfect 10, written when Jimi was in Monterey CA about a wonderful girl he met at Lover's Point in the summer of 1967(?) ... where I use to live and take my children to play...while teaching at the US Naval Postgraduate School.
Yes , the guitar is out of tune i think flat..but IF you have Linix like Ubuntu and use Audacity to rip it and then reset the play back rate to + 25 to +50 cents to sharpen playback 1/4 to 1/2 tone., or conversely if it was original recorded sharp, use Audacity to change the playback rate -25 to -50 cents to flatten the guitar tuning 1.4 to 1/2 tone. Problem gone. Season to taste... Enjoy!
This also works for the Jefferson Airplane Coming Back to Me which I found was impossible to play along with by ear. Until...duh ... I realized the obvious. Grace Slick used a Baroque recorder in this song. Baroque recorders were tuned to A415, not A 440, so the band rtuned to Grace and her recorder. Now since 440/415 = 1.06024... and 2^(1/12) = 1.059463094 or 6% Coming back to me requires sharpening by 6% or one whole tone. A 100 cent sharpening of the playback rate in Audacity will shift " Coming back to Me" perfectly into perfect A440 tuning on a guitar without having to use a kapousing a kapo.
vola....problem gone.
Works like a charm. Now anyone can play along with chords by ear without a kapo in the key of A440. :-)
You can use many other shifts for a G or B tuning whatever ... Season to taste but watch out for auto-tune effects if the shift is substantial.
Your assignment for tomorrow, try and verify. But you will likely need a real operating system like Ubuntu (20.04 alpha, or soon the beta version), RedHat, Debian, Arch Linux to find Audacity in the repositories, easily.
Any decent recording engineer should agree with the above discussion since that is their "cup of tea" and we aren't even using auto-tune. ... We are simply rolling our own.
Don W
W9DKI
Prof Physics, US Naval Postgraduate School (ret)
Don Walters, you are a magnificently erudite dude (and, I assume, a PhD). Please tell me, what post-graduate level physics courses does the USN offer in their grad school?
not bad for a guy playing the guitar upside down
Too Funny!
As an atheist, I can comfortably say: 'No' :-)
dlwalters wrote
This is a perfect 10, written when Jimi was in Monterey CA about a wonderful girl he met at Lover's Point in the summer of 1967(?) ... where I use to live and take my children to play...while teaching at the US Naval Postgraduate School.
Yes , the guitar is out of tune i think flat..but IF you have Linix like Ubuntu and use Audacity to rip it and then reset the play back rate to + 25 to +50 cents to sharpen playback 1/4 to 1/2 tone., or conversely if it was original recorded sharp, use Audacity to change the playback rate -25 to -50 cents to flatten the guitar tuning 1.4 to 1/2 tone. Problem gone. Season to taste... Enjoy!
This also works for the Jefferson Airplane Coming Back to Me which I found was impossible to play along with by ear. Until...duh ... I realized the obvious. Grace Slick used a Baroque recorder in this song. Baroque recorders were tuned to A415, not A 440, so the band rtuned to Grace and her recorder. Now since 440/415 = 1.06024... and 2^(1/12) = 1.059463094 or 6% Coming back to me requires sharpening by 6% or one whole tone. A 100 cent sharpening of the playback rate in Audacity will shift " Coming back to Me" perfectly into perfect A440 tuning on a guitar without having to use a kapousing a kapo.
vola....problem gone.
Works like a charm. Now anyone can play along with chords by ear without a kapo in the key of A440. :-)
You can use many other shifts for a G or B tuning whatever ... Season to taste but watch out for auto-tune effects if the shift is substantial.
Your assignment for tomorrow, try and verify. But you will likely need a real operating system like Ubuntu (20.04 alpha, or soon the beta version), RedHat, Debian, Arch Linux to find Audacity in the repositories, easily.
Any decent recording engineer should agree with the above discussion since that is their "cup of tea" and we aren't even using auto-tune. ... We are simply rolling our own.
Don W
W9DKI
Prof Physics, US Naval Postgraduate School (ret)
sfyi2001:
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Your assignment for tomorrow, try and verify. But you will likely need a real operating system like Ubuntu (20.04 alpha, or soon the beta version), RedHat, Debian, Arch Linux to find Audacity in the repositories, easily.
Since Audacity is available for Windows and MacOS, just about anyone can do this. Thankfully we have choices in OS to run, just like we have choices in music to listen to ;)
Steve
Yes , the guitar is out of tune i think flat..but IF you have Linix like Ubuntu and use Audacity to rip it and then reset the play back rate to + 25 to +50 cents to sharpen playback 1/4 to 1/2 tone., or conversely if it was original recorded sharp, use Audacity to change the playback rate -25 to -50 cents to flatten the guitar tuning 1.4 to 1/2 tone. Problem gone. Season to taste... Enjoy!
This also works for the Jefferson Airplane Coming Back to Me which I found was impossible to play along with by ear. Until...duh ... I realized the obvious. Grace Slick used a Baroque recorder in this song. Baroque recorders were tuned to A415, not A 440, so the band rtuned to Grace and her recorder. Now since 440/415 = 1.06024... and 2^(1/12) = 1.059463094 or 6% Coming back to me requires sharpening by 6% or one whole tone. A 100 cent sharpening of the playback rate in Audacity will shift " Coming back to Me" perfectly into perfect A440 tuning on a guitar without having to use a kapousing a kapo.
vola....problem gone.
Works like a charm. Now anyone can play along with chords by ear without a kapo in the key of A440. :-)
You can use many other shifts for a G or B tuning whatever ... Season to taste but watch out for auto-tune effects if the shift is substantial.
Your assignment for tomorrow, try and verify. But you will likely need a real operating system like Ubuntu (20.04 alpha, or soon the beta version), RedHat, Debian, Arch Linux to find Audacity in the repositories, easily.
Any decent recording engineer should agree with the above discussion since that is their "cup of tea" and we aren't even using auto-tune. ... We are simply rolling our own.
Don W
W9DKI
Prof Physics, US Naval Postgraduate School (ret)
However...can we get the Derek and Dominoes paint peeling drum thunder Clapton power chords version, please oh please?
have another couple beers and it'll sound PERFECT
Personally, I'll take Jimi's artistic choices over your perception of what's "out of tune".
Yeah, this guy's pretty good.
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We all have to start somewhere and as it turns out the Isley Brothers were just a short step on Jimi's career ladder before going solo.
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Wow! I think I like this even better than the studio version!?! Would have liked to have be in the audience the night this was recorded, it sounds as if he really had his act together.
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(every version, every cover)
Mine too my friend! Although I noodle on the guitar a bit, I don't think I'll ever try this since my hacking might damage any neurons involved in my enjoyment of this classic.
Might be sacrilege, but I have to admit that SRV's live version is my fav. But both artists are sorely missed ...
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(every version, every cover)
Interesting. I didn't know that. I'll have to check out my CD of HITW now.
This is my favorite version. A lot of nice covers out there (especially SRV's) but this has always been the standard.
SRV's version is quite good and should be up there. He deserves much respect for even attempting to finish a great song and doing it with good taste. I'm surprised it isn't a RP classic at all, and I looked it up and saw you there. The song only has 26 votes and no plays. LETS CHANGE THAT PEOPLE AND GIVE IT THE RATING VOTES IT NEEDS. -look it up,listen to it and vote please (Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing/Third Stone From The Sun. That's the version on RP.... I wish there was just one for "little wing" on here from SRV, and not the other cover of jimi's song, but that's ok)
Jeeaysus, what a prick !
I'm with you. Every song in the key of E. (E flat).
Couldn't agree more. Didn't realise there was an ever purer version of my all-time favourite track. Sublime!
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Nice to hear him playing well.
I had the Polydor West German print of the CD and it was there.
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It's almost never the equipment! A Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Stevie Ray...can work magic with any axe they pick up. IMHO.
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not bad for a guy playing the guitar upside down
he did it easily, by standing on his head