This is rough sounding but trying to get it down by tuesday.  Playing around with timing and feel 4 times through.  starting out straight up how its written and just as much on the beat as i can.  each time through im trying to change something.  thinking the third time is more along the lines. or closer to the feel.  maybe too much of a dotted feel ..idk.  i do know i dont like the rolls in the 4th time.  they dont fit well the way im doing.  

also know from this the transition to the c is a weak point..one of the weak points.

i hate to talk about tempo but this one normally blazes so if you know take it easy..im trying 🙂

@Mark thank you.  Todqy I searched for a version i liked.  i mean theres a few but found a lunasa version and when i slowed it down to around 59% 😁  and listened for a while i came home and played this.  changed the time to cut. maybe made a feel difference for me and just went the beat on 1 & 2.  basically a metronome click but drums instead.  recorded 2 fiddle tracks and 2nd time played to the 1st one and drum plus drone backing.

Hoepfully with as many times that ive played in the last 3 days this will stick and ill be able to play later.  as of 9:59 2/26/2024 im ok with this.   🙄  improvement i think.  

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thanks @elcbk.   this will fly.  I like the tempo i played tonight though..its comfortable.

appreciate it @mouse!

Mouse Mark and Elcbk thank you!

Worked on this one today.  

thanks @elcbk

I have that book.  bought back in october..november sometime.  I think if you are disciplined and follow step by step itll cover everything.  The problem i had was the first half is blender and I didnt have the patience for it yet.  Just wanted to make some scenes...not the 3D stuff in them.  I would like to eventually.

I would watch youtube videos as i got stuck on specific things.  I used that process mainly to get to where I was making things. THIS channel is especially good along with others ive shared above.  

musically its two fiddle takes using a pair of small condenser mics above me pointed down at an angle like he is foing HERE .  

Used1 guitar tuned in dadgad.  on guitar i have a mic atound 12th fret and one at the bridge.  after the big drum hit theres a small pluckey banjo part over a D chord.

between the opening where theres a break between the guitar playing.. i strummed a D chord and reversed the audio to get the build sound to a drum hit.   the high string orchestra sound that plays at the same time is a vst.

The big drum hit is one of the ezdrummer kits Action! and think its the orchesrtal kick or tom or kettle..

on the main output- eq.  cut at idk..100hz and below.  and a cut around 3800hz.. shelf boosts above that around 3 to 6db maybe..  and then after theres a multiband compressor adjusted to what i liked.. then a limiter adjusted so everything around -17 to 14db ..ish

probably should be just doing multiband OR eq.. but idk.. seemed to work.

exported as a wav file into davinci.   in davinci i imported the individual unreal .mov's and added the glow, vignette, light rays affects.

i know im off a little at the beginning.  the tune is in Dmix or Dmaj depending on how and when you play C's or C#'s

i went for Dmixobluelydian 😉🙂

thank you @elcbk. its nothing special. basically I just play the tune and record it to get a base track to build on.   improv some chords down.  Thats alot of playing the first track on loop.  this works..that doesnt..kinda thing.  and all what i like and can play...not whats best.   id love to do dennis cahill playing on guitar but ..yeah.  gotta go with what i can do.  Sometimes ill work in reverse and record a chord track and play to that.  almost always have some type of drum track or metronome going.  

Then ill listen to where i think it needs something else.  maybe something more bass end maybe something more high.  i usually always record the fiddle again to fix the mess ups i hear then.  I dont think id ever finsih one if i fixed everything i hear.i try to at that moment but the next day theres always more.

. i know should strive for perfection but it is what it is.  good enough for a saturday night practice/play session. i guess.

theres nothing i think that could be notated that already hasnt.   its like all these tunes..get a base version and work on it.  for this one i had some music from a couple years ago from a class i refreshed with on the B part.. but i mixed and matched things as i played and didnt stick to one thing.  This is pretty much it though.  EDIT.. i know i was intentionally playing C's and C#'s.  its how i initially learned it.  THIS is actually closer to what I was playing minus slur notation and ornaments

Thats whats so fun about doing the recordings.. can play around and experiment for good or bad.