Acoustic Covers – Completely Changing Up A Song
June 30, 2010
Most people have a soft sport for acoustic covers in one way or another. Songs that are otherwise awful can be turned into something all new by being played with an acoustic guitar.
Just about any genre can be covered in acoustics. Metal, punk, and even hip hop have all had some sort of acoustic cover at some point.
For many new guitarists, playing acoustic can be a great way to get your name known. Playing local clubs and bars with a play list of recent chart toppers in acoustic forms can be a real crowd pleaser. Always be sure to mix it up genre-wise so that no one feels excluded by the tunes you are playing. Not everyone will enjoy hearing an hour of rap gone acoustic. Hone your skills and cater to as many people’s tastes as possible to get your name out there.
Making a mix tape or compilation CD of your favorite acoustic covers can also strike a chord in the one you love. Throw together a few acoustic cover songs that have sweet and mellow lyrics and keep it on hand to play during your most romantic moments with him or her to show them that you care. Mix tapes or CDs have always been popular for this use, and they always make that someone special feel like they are truly special, without you having to spend too much.
You can find hundreds of CDs, tapes, and MP3s with which you can simply listen and imitate or create a CD for someone you care about. It doesn’t matter if you are a rap, rock or 80s hair metal fan you are guaranteed to be able to find enough acoustic guitar cover songs to fill your musical library faster than you could imagine possible.
Don’t be shocked when you hear an acoustic cover of a song you didn’t like before and actually like it. Acoustics have the power to even turn the worst into the best.
Everyone has a favorite genre of music, but acoustic guitar covers seem to go past genre and entrance people with their unique and pure sound.
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Listen to Music Online
December 19, 2009
Many asked me to write a post about the Music Pages I’ve got in my websites, so you can easily Listen to Music Online :)
Ok, let’s start then. The first page is the Music Demos page here at ManuelMarino.com.
You can find it also in the top bar, title is of course Listen to Music Online.
In this page I’ve collected the latest tracks I’ve produced in 2009, mainly orchestral and film music, but there is also Astronauts and Funk Music whis is a mix of different styles, from choral to jazz, pop and funk.
You can access also to my Free Mp3 Player.
This Mp3 Player contains mixes from old tracks, mainly 1999 produced tracks, and later years.
These tracks come from my old archive of my CD’s published on Mp3.com in those years but there are also independent demos made just for fun and to show my talent as composer and producer.
After Mp3.com experience, I focused on games soundtracks and you can listen to some of them through my MarinoSounds.com Studio page.
Just check the pages of the multimedia projects listed in the homepage.
Last but not least, MarinoSounds.com has been totally renewed, new graphics and new design. There is also a new logo saying Blasting your mind with unique sounds.
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American Music and Vintage Guitars
July 28, 2008
Mark Weakley is an impressive artist; sculptor, painter, musician. He plays guitar, banjo and harmonica, and has recently recorded a CD of his original compositions. In this exclusive article he talks about himself, about his passions, about his father, about traditional american music, about vintage guitars and banjoes, and much more.
American Music and Vintage Guitars
My father was a gunsmith and fastidious in his craft. As a boy I once watched him raise a dent in an antique rifle stock. He had dampened a soft white cloth, folded it over a few times and placed on that blemish in the wood while applying the low heat of an iron. He did this patiently for hours, for days it seemed. Why didn’t he just fill it and do some sanding? I know the answer now. That random few moments when I was the youthful observer may have been the most precious thing he left me. It was really the seed of true craftsmanship and it grew within me despite my natural inclinations. It was not an overnight revelation. Not only did I see a glimpse of patience when the word had no meaning to me I also saw that it was the only way to do it right. Anything less is just that.
Around this time, 1960 or so, I was captured forever by the sound of Traditional American Music and struggling to learn the guitar when guitar players were scarce indeed for an Army brat in Munich, Germany. I thought the Kingston Trio were great until an older mentor loaned me his copy of the Harry Smith Anthology Vol. One. He suggested that I might find it interesting.
Interesting? My life simply changed forever and for the better. A door to another most wonderful world slammed open and has not closed for the last forty- eight years. Yes, interesting. It was a strange and mysterious world that opened like the fabled parallel universe. I truly felt, and still feel, that I found of part of me that had been missing. I loved the wonderful names, Blind Willie Johnson, Buell Kazee, The Masked Marvel, Furry Lewis and all the others. I had to know what they were saying and how they said and played. Griel Marcus calls it the “Old, Weird America”. I know it certainly called me to a lost world. These people were making music because they had no choice. It was in them as deep as breathing and money was not the object. At least, not then.
My passion has grown and my playing has improved but I am still drawn to the archaic in all arts. I have learned tunes note for note from these and countless other old recordings. In my later years I have seen that these same tunes are no longer played rote but that I have brought something of my own expression to them. I fear imitation for its’ own sake. Still, I must admit that guitar buddies of mine and I have spent untold hours dissecting each quavering semi-tone of “Dark Was the Night and Cold Was the Ground” by the magnificent Blind Willie Johnson. We do it with love and full knowledge that we will never succeed and rejoice that someone recorded it. To me it’s the most important recording ever made.
My love of vintage guitars and banjoes grew accordingly. ‘Neath beds and in closets they lurk. I am a lover of Martin guitars particularly and was thrilled and honored to illustrate a portrait of Perry Bechtal to used in advertising and as a label inside the guitar itself. Oddly enough it is executed in scratchboard – a technique I learned as a Medical Illustrator.
There came a point when I was hearing my own songs and found the courage to record and release them on my own CD entitled “Farewell to Pony Bob”. We did it in a back room of my house without fear.
I was truly surprised to hear that it is available on PodSafeAudio.com. With thanks to Steve James and Michael Martin bless their souls. Look ‘em up. The visitor to my website, will see that my recent paintings of dogs have included a musical influence. Great care was taken to render the banjo and guitar with accuracy. Those pups deserve the best.
There are times I have been painting or drawing, rendering detail that will read as I want it to, when I happen to notice the time. And it is hours past where I thought it might be. I confess those are moments of pure joy. Time and space went somewhere else for a while. Or maybe I am finally learning to see in the fullest sense of the word. Looking at something becomes not quite enough.
My father knew and I thank him for the lesson.
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