O Shenandoah

[Daniel]

Tossed this off this morning in a moment of quiet while Claudine was taking the kids to aikido.
The men’s choir of Laon has a concert this afternoon at 4pm (before most of you are awake), and we’ll  be doing this song with me out front and the guys adding choral support.  For a change I will be playing the Best Guitar in the World® insead of my usual octave mandolin.

Happy Sunday!

Daniel

[indexless]

Wonderful Daniel.  Take the lead

[Daniel]

Well of course it.

So I nailed the solo in the video.  Which made me confident for the concert.

Then I got to the church (tiny little thing, almost taller inside than it is long) and I started getting nervous.

[I never get nervous before gigs, for good or ill.  That’s because one mistake doesn’t kill the gig.  but with these choir concerts I get one shot.  So I get a little edgy.]

I took my guitar outside to practice and get several reps in between the guys who like to talk to musicians who are practicing.

After the concert started the nerves would not go away.  Kind of distracting really.  But when it came time I went and got my guitar.   I took a deep breath and kicked off the song.

Got to the solo… It started well, nailed the first double stop section, then landed on the high D in time and on target… yay.

Second run and the second double stop section went well and I thought I was in the clear.  double yay.

But no.  I thought.  And that was the problem.  On the return to the theme where I play a figure on the e string between index and pinky mostly, I landed on a c natural instead of a C sharp, and then spent the rest of the bar plus a second trying to find a way back to D major.  Finished on a G instead of  D.   grr.

🙂  Probably sounded less bad in real time than it does in my head right now on the morning after.

But the choir director’s wife did tell me she prefers the octave mandolin to the guitar…

[indexless]

Things happen

[LukeF]

It happens to the best of us.  If it will make you feel better, I truly enjoyed your playing and singing.  You have a great voice.

[Daniel]

Thank you Luke, that’s kind of you to say.
Being in the choir has allowed me to work on things like breath control and not letting notes slide around.

I noticed after posting, that the opening few notes there are wobbly because I had to push the record button, start playing, etc.  Something else to work on.  😉

 

[indexless]

Lots of good free video editors out there, let it play u til your settled, 0”’s and 1’s are cheap😎

[Daniel]

excellent point.  🙂

[indexless]

loss the stress, the opportunities to share our music are almost boundless.

As a photographer I remember making 5 copies of my “Book” and then sending them all Fed-Ex overnight to impress, so glad those days are past

[Matt Hayden]

Probably sounded great – I’ve listened to you enough that you can cover mistakes.

[Author]

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